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The Ghostlight Project

  • Whidbey Island Center for the Arts 565 Camano Avenue Langley, WA, 98260 United States (map)

WICA is proud to participate in The Ghostlight Project.  With theatres all across the country, we will pledge ourselves to uphold the values of openness, inclusion, diversity, and compassion for everyone.

At precisely 5:30 p.m. in each time zone across the country, members of the theater community – from Broadway to regional theaters to high schools and colleges and community theaters – will come together to launch The Ghostlight Project.  Gathering outside of theaters on the eve of the Presidential Inauguration, people will join in a collective, simultaneous action, together creating “light” for times ahead.  Inspired by the tradition of leaving a “ghost light” on in a darkened theater, these artists and communities will make a pledge to stand for and protect the values of inclusion, participation, and compassion for everyone.

Everyone in the community is welcome to join in the event and bring their own light (i.e. flashlight, cellphone, etc.) to the project.  WICA’s event will include a performance by the Open Circle Singers and the lighting of a new outdoor ghostlight.  For more information, please visit www.theghostlightproject.com.

Earlier Event: January 18
Whidbey Island Arts Forum
Later Event: January 20
Northwest Film Center Filmmakers' Festival

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Whidbey Island Center for the Arts would like to begin by acknowledging that we gather on the ancestral homelands, originally known as Tscha-kole-chy (SHA-KOL-CHI) in Lushootseed (LU-SHOOT-SEED), of the Coastal Salish Peoples, on the lands of the lower Skagit, Tulalip (tuh·lay·luhp), Swinomish (SWIN-ə-mish), Snohomish (snō-hō-mish), Stillaguamish (still-uh-GWAH-mish), and Suquamish (soo-kwah-mish), who have lived in the Salish Sea basin since time immemorial and have hunted, fished, gathered, and taken care of these lands.

We respect their sovereignty, their right to self-determination, and we honor their sacred spiritual connection with the land and water.

Please join us in expressing our deepest respect and gratitude to the indigenous people of this territory and for their enduring care and protection of the land in which we currently occupy and share through the Treaty of Point Elliott signed by 82 tribes in Múckl-te-óh (Mukilteo) on January 22, 1855.