robin milliken - confloptus oakland
robin is a fellow of whp. she will be in residence at confloptus for the month of april - this will be her open door offering.
red dot film series: greta snyder - whp vallejo
rsvp for this event
For this series, instead of a programmer or curator selecting an artist's works, filmmakers are invited to develop a program embedded in their own relationship to their work. Artists are encouraged to show lesser known or even unknown projects, especially ones foundational to their artistic growth. In addition to their own work, filmmakers are encouraged to select other artists' films (or media) which have impacted their creative development, or where a clear connection might not be apparent to those familiar with their work.
The title for the series is taken from a psychology test developed by Gordon Gallup Jr. which determines if an animal possesses the ability to self-recognize. For the experiment, an animal is marked with paint or a sticker and then given access to a mirror. If it touches or examines the mark, the behavior is interpreted as a confirmation that the animal sees its reflection as an image of itself, rather than that of another.
These events are rsvp only on a first come, first served basis - donation/sliding scale request at the door to support the artists/project. We can accommodate ~30 people max. Please RSVP if you would like to attend. Screenings run approximately one hour, with an hour for Q&A/discussion to follow. Light refreshment and food will be offered.
work tempo writing day - whp vallejo
abby crain & david buuck will have a movement/writing workshop onsite. spt will cohost. stay tuned….
emma doven - confloptus oakland
emma doven is a whp fellow - she will be in residence at confloptus for the month of may. this will be her open door. stay tuned for details….
bill basquin - confloptus oakland
bill is a fellow of whp and has invited abigail severance to participate in his residency at confloptus. this will be their open door.
meg bisineer - confloptus oakland
meghana bisineer is a fellow of whp - she will be in residence at confloptus for the month of july. this will be her open door. stay tuned for details….
fat window - confloptus oakland
fat window is the first cohort of fellows who were in residence together july 2025 at whp in vallejo to occupy confloptus together. kelli black, ann altstatt, bill basquin, tana quincy arcega & blanca bercial. this will be their open door.
red dot film series: scott stark - whp vallejo
This self-selection film series is a means through which filmmakers reflect back onto themselves and viewers by presenting lesser known or unseen personal works, as well as the work of other artists who have influenced or had major impact on their creative development.
red dot film series: william basquin - whp vallejo
This self-selection film series is a means through which filmmakers reflect back onto themselves and viewers by presenting lesser known or unseen personal works, as well as the work of other artists who have influenced or had major impact on their creative development.
red dot film series: mark wilson - whp vallejo
This self-selection film series is a means through which filmmakers reflect back onto themselves and viewers by presenting lesser known or unseen personal works, as well as the work of other artists who have influenced or had major impact on their creative development.
writing day - the discomfort of spring - whp vallejo
THEME: THE DISCOMFORT OF SPRING
All this new energy, this new growth, trying to find a place in rigid structures, in old routines. Use the day to stretch back into any project that has felt too big, too dreamy, too uncomfortable, maybe even too fun or too silly. Feel free to stick to the theme, or use the day however you need to. Spacing out and napping are always welcome!
j rivera pansa - confloptus oakland
j rivera pansa will be in residence at confloptus for the month of march - this will be their open door. stay tuned for details….
divination dinner - whp vallejo
Divination Dinner : Ostara
Venus Day March 27th from 3- 9pm
A revealing and esoteric vernal equinox feast and ritual.
arrive by 3pm to avoid traffic and settle in
perhaps bring a book or some other activity and find a place to relax
official doors at 5pm with dinner seating at 7pm
private divinations with mayhew (& others) can be scheduled
this will be a sliding scale event - $42 to $84
We ask you to register by Friday 20th March
at this link: https://framaforms.org/divination-dinner-ostara-1772334171
mayhew drewry, regina tsasis, katherine agard
creative radio club - whp vallejo
charlie macquarie hosts radioheads Steph Dukich & Matt Benjamin.
Terminal Wing is an experimental radio series that looks at the voice as a ‘vanishing mediator’ between internal and external states. Treating utterance as material, each episode assembles and archives different modes of mediation: chorality, the electroacoustic voice, public speaking/performance, UFO summonings...The mouth is an airport.
https://desirepathradio.com/archive/terminal-wing-chorality
reach out to charlie if you’d like to join us…
olivia ronan - confloptus oakland
olivia ronan will be in residence the month of february at confloptus - this will be her open door.
creative radio club - whp vallejo
charlie macquarie hosts radioheads - speakers tba.
please contact charlie if you’d like to join us..
nathan wheeler: three winslow pieces - whp vallejo
Three Winslow Pieces
Subtitled "A Glass of Water As Metaphor For Infinite Non-Duality; for chamber ensemble and electronics." Nathan Wheeler researched and began writing this music while in residence in 2023, returned in 2025, and will perform them in 2026. The work will be accompanied by a short piece by poet and installation artist Erika Hodges, who was also in residence in 2025.
nathan wheeler & erika hodges coming back for a second short residency & performance.
marc merza & emma palm - whp vallejo
7 Cups Echo is a quadrophonic participatory performance that explores sound and movement in the context of an intimate tea ceremony. As participants are invited to drink tea using an augmented tea set, their gestures contribute to an evolving landscape of environmental sounds inspired by Vallejo.
Date: February 15th, 12-5pm
Event Details: Guests are welcome to join this intimate tea ceremony anytime between 12-5pm. Tea will be served to 2 participants at a time.
STRATA: open house - WHP vallejo
bed cover, horse cloth, pavement.
to throw down, lay prostrate, spread out.
the singular layer, stratum, is a quantity of a substance or material spread over a nearly horizontal surface to a more or less uniform thickness; a layer or a coat, esp. one of two or more parallel layers or coats superposed one upon the other.
writing day: continue(unfinished) - whp vallejo
THEME: CONTINUE unfinished
In the New Year we are prompted to consider new beginnings and starting over. But what if we just gave ourself permission to keep going and continue what we have already started? If you wish, use this Writing Day to add to projects that are unfinished, half-completed, or in need of edits or just some extras.
open fretwork: paige davis - confloptus oakland
paige raina davis is a fellow of whp in residence at confloptus in oakland for the month of december. we will host her open door on the 28th from 4-7pm. join us…
from paige:
“Intrigued by the phrase “body of work”, I’ve been considering my work as a means to sit beside, physically as well as energetically, my family’s artistic practices and their collective vision.
Just down the street from Confloptus sits the church my grandparents were married in, its wrought-iron, screened moongate serving as a mascot for my time here.
The month of December will be spent synthesizing texts and images from books of Doaist talismanic calligraphy, Chinese garden architectural motifs, and ancient jewelry pieces.
I am offering a form of meditation and mediation that connects the self to the many who came before and those who will come after, while at the same time proposing a body of time that sees no difference, no “before” and no “after”. How might ancient texts and practices, how might ever-present forms/concepts like shadow and translucence, aid in our collective vision and action of today, how might they lead us to open up new avenues of possibility, new sights/sites of truth?”
dronestice: radiodinner - whp vallejo
http://winslowradio.ddns.net:8000/winslowradio
if you cannot drone with us in person, dronestice will stream live on the whp internet radio… here
this link above is best used on a computer - if you’d like to stream on phone look at image from a text with brian bartz - one of the whp radio creators!
This annual RadioDinner event that contemplates the winter solstice from the point of view of drone, thanks to the radioGuests assembled for all-day tablecore edibles of all kinds from the dining room of Winslow House Project.
From the beginning of Civil Twilight at 6:52am to its end at 5:22pm Pacific Standard on this shortest day, tune in to hear the quartet of Suki O’Kane, Michael Zelner, Michael Wertz, and Andy Cowitt.
We will be amplifying the light we hold and see.
friends & fellows union - whp vallejo
this is a gathering for friends & fellows of whp - there will be a fire and an open mic - bring a nostalgic item from home and tell us a story about it - sing a song - recite a poem - potluck instructions: bring what you love to make. this is an invitational year end event for the whp community - invites via email & face/face words - a congregation for folks who have contributed to whp. please rsvp as always.
the emma spertus adventure: open studio & potluck - whp vallejo
emma spertus has brought four other artists along for her fellowship residency - december 1-8, 2025. they will be having an open studio & potluck on sunday december 7th from 10-2. bring food, see work. staying at whp alongside her are ian dolton thorton, pablo manga, christian nagler, & josh moreno. come see what they have been up to… bring something to share & rsvp please
helen shewolfe tseng: open studio - confloptus oakland
from 11-12 helen will be meeting with her bathers library cohort. starting at 1pm the door will be open to the public for a studio visit - helen will be onsite to talk about what she has been up to during her month at confloptus. join us.
writing day: index - whp vallejo
THEME: INDEX
The theme for the final Writing Day of 2025, INDEX, was suggested by frequent Writing Day participant Amy Berkowitz: Asked how to write a movie, David Lynch replied: “You get yourself a pack of 3x5 cards, you write a scene on each card, and when you have 70 scenes, you have a feature film.” Is it really that simple? Are index cards really that powerful! Yes! We think so! Getting your thoughts down on cards, moving them around, and finding connections is a simple and effective way to set the foundation for whatever you’re writing, whether it’s a book, an essay, a script, or something else. We’ll give you a pack of 3x5 cards, and you can spend the day using them to bring your ideas to life. (And if index cards don’t inspire you, you can spend the day journaling, doodling, napping, or writing your own way!)
creative radio club: show & tell - whp vallejo
charlie macquarie hosts radioheads - speakers tba.
shelflife: leaflet & mo - confloptus Oakland
this is a whp fellowship occupation of confloptus.
luca mcgrath is a whp fellow & arlo johnson is his collaborator - they are leaflet & mo - mo & leaflet.
join us.
mo & leaflet will be in residence for the lovely month of october.
october open house: χαχα هاهها - whp vallejo
χαχα هاها
material other than light
{or a fairy between two hahas}
project wonderland - whp vallejo
Project Wonderland is an immersive musical about artist communities, cults, folk music, and surviving climate catastrophe. Led by queer artists Jax Blaska and Gabi Orion and devised by the ensemble, it plays at Winslow House Project in Vallejo, CA for two shows only, September 27 and 28, 2025. Winslow House and the surrounding grounds will transform into “the Canyon,” and audience members will wander freely through the story, fully intertwined as members themselves of the Canyon crew.
Project Wonderland takes place in a dystopian America about 100 years in the future, where cities have been abandoned and water is desperately scarce. Our protagonists, running out of hope, find “the Canyon,” where music flows as freely as the spring-fed stream that is, inexplicably, still running. When they think they’ve found somewhere safe at the end of the world, things begin to unravel due to old wounds, intertwined family histories, utopian naivety, and the desperation of survival. Featuring original music styled after 1960s/70s folk rock, the Project Wonderland asks: what happens when people seclude themselves from society in order to create something better than what they left behind? How might human life & creativity go on in the face of climate catastrophe and the collapse of infrastructure? How do we create community in the face of life-or-death odds?
two shows - one saturday and one sunday.
For tickets, please contact projectwonderland.musical@gmail.com
+/- 3.919 grids: quinn keck - confloptus oakland
a whp fellowship occupation of confloptus.
+/- 3.919 grids
is 111101001111
in binary
with a hamming weight of 9
in ternary:12101011
in octal: 7517
in duodecimal: 2327
in hexadecimal:f4f
in base 36: 30v
in base 62: 11D
in all bases a twin prime
a site-specific installation by Quinn R. Keck
4-9 pm at confloptus - whp auxiliary space
not on maps, reach out for address
performances starting at 5 pm by
Badri Valian, Helen Shewolfe Tseng, Tasya Abbot
with microscopes by Nate Dube
* you are invited to bring something you want to examine closely
* potluck style food ~ bring something to share that tethers you
& you are also welcome to ignore both prompts and come as you are
quinn has been in residence for the month of september
creative radio club: torreya cummings - whp vallejo
charlie macquarie hosts readioheads - torreya cummings presents.
writing day: dirt - whp vallejo
The summer ends, and everything is dry. The dirt waits for rain to turn the dead plants into night and then new life. Get dirty, get dusty, get crumbly, get muddy with your writing. Make it gross and messy and matter of fact.
aine nakamura & ava koohbor - whp vallejo
aine & ava will be in residence at whp for one week - this open door will be their offering - a week in collaboration - an unknown - an unfolding - full of distortion & disproportion.
at the lab in sf - june 13 2025
body shop: silas snyder - confloptus oakland
a whp fellowship occupation of confloptus.
keywords: is existential dread a rational response to the polycrises, incels do you ever think that maybe the blackpill is wrong, best blue shoes for running, social media as an unconscious desire to immortalize oneself, the men wear grey and the faggots wear all the other colors, repressed death anxiety, even before the genocide most packages to gaza were intercepted, top job interview tips for success, how race was constructed in the US, can AI read your thoughts, is kink a mental illness or sexual orientation, can we survive in a multipolar collapsing world, what’s the best mascara that won’t smudge during a sweaty activity, are trans rights human rights debate explained, may this cruelty end and you are free, may this cruelty end and you are free, may all delusion dawn as clarity, may all delusion dawn as clarity, may all delusion dawn as clarity.
silas has been in residence at confloptus for the month of august.
creative radio club: kelley o’leary & brian bartz - whp vallejo
A meeting of creative and curious people who are interested in using radio in their creative work. Speaking at this meeting will be Kelley O'Leary & Brian Bartz. sign up with charlie!
regurgitation nation: the vicks - confloptus oakland
an occupation of the auxiliary to the auxiliary of whp.
the vicks are friends of whp. marlowe blantz & ava bolton.