BOOM BOOM BARNS is an all-ages, leave no trace sonic farm stroll to be held 

on Saturday, Nov 14 from 4-8pm at Warren Wilson College’s farm and garden. 

Saturday, November 14 2026 | 4-8pm 

Warren Wilson College | Swannanoa, NC 

free & for all ages

Swannatopia Presents: BOOM BOOM BARNS is a free, all ages, ambient farm stroll and multimedia light show to be held on November 14, 2026 at Warren Wilson College. Organized in collaboration with WWC Art & Craft Department and The Center for Working Lands, BOOM BOOM BARNS will activate 5 acres of beautiful and historic barnscape as stages, projection surfaces, and installation spaces. This event will showcase many projects created by our arts, music, and farming community here in the Swannanoa River Valley and beyond. 

Together we will look, listen, move, taste, and feel, as we participate in a temporal study of the landscape

Parking will open at 3pm and the day will kick off with a performance by the WWC Gamelan orchestra at 4pm, and live sets by Superflower & and Sally Anne Morgan Quartet, followed by the premiere of Swannatopia’s The Sweetest Sweet Potato Ballet-  inspired by a true tale of time traveling tubers!

This event is made possible by Warren Wilson College, ArtsAVL Community Builds Grant and The Windgate Foundation. 

BOOM BOOM BARNS draws inspiration from: 

tractor square dances, the dawn chorus, corn, Cornbread, tree dialects, spider webs, circular drift, geologic time, straw bales, boom boxes, chill hours, sweet potatoes, cows, mycelial music, vernacular architecture, plant growth, animal health, seasonal shifts, agri-CULTURAL practices, invisible circuses, turf mazes, the climate of sight, time streams, honeybee communication, spectral geographies, resonant frequencies, vibrational tendencies, bird’s eye views, bat ecosystems and this ever-changing landscape.

“Boom Boom Barns is a unique opportunity to witness creativity bloom. The interdisciplinary and time-based nature of the work being presented challenges the line between life, land, and art/craft. Interactive art asks participants to be part of the installations’ becoming, only growing richer with each engagement.” -Warren Wilson College Ceramics Professor Jenn Kaplan 

Details

• Saturday, November 14  4-8pm. Gates open at 3!

• Location: Warren Wilson College | Swannanoa, NC

• Admission: Free, all-ages, and open to the public

• Accessibility: There will be accessible portajohns and accessible parking as well as a golf cart for people transport. Service animals welcome, please leave pets at home!  

• Please bring warm clothes, a sketchbook, a flashlight, a water bottle and sturdy, closed- toed farm shoes to stroll!

• The weather is always your collaborator. Rain plan!?

• Hot tea, food and beverages available for purchase from El Diabolito, Leveller Brewing Co.  and more! 

• WWC Farm General Store will be open to shop for meat and other agricultural products produced on campus!

Event Highlights

• WWC Student & professor Projects : Gamelan Ensemble, Bank’s music video class, Kathryn Cellerini Moore’s installation class, new works by Jenn Kaplan, and Jonathan Durham, community projects from Mapping Home exhibition;

• A birthday party for the White Barn, who turns 100 this year! 

• Sound & light installations by: Make Noise Music, Impractical Instruments, Madeleine Sis, Abby Portner, Zoie Reamer, XOR, Tin Can Citadel, Field Patterns, Audrey Doh, Jiyou Park, Rachel Shin, Amelia Yang,, Inverse Golf, Gator In The Atmosphere, Alisha McCurdy Holzman, Rob Wing and more! 

• A plein-air landscape painting and drawing scavenger hunt led by Callia Alandete 

• Silent films captured circa 1951-52 by Hazel Larsen Archer and students at Black Mountain College (~5 miles from WWC) 

• Trip To Planet Paperclip - a satellite of Kira Houston & MJ Gamelin’s November residency at LamplightAVL feat. DJ Gwyn Entrpy

• Cassette release for RAW MILK - farm fresh field recordings by Adam Void 

• Crankies by Jessica White & Primrose Coke 

• Chris Hamilton & Steve Pescatore will attempt a new world record for longest tape loop!

• Pulsating Portals by Emma Scott, Krissy Wechsler, Shea Peters, Erin Ideker

• A durational greenhouse DRONE-A-THON IN THE GARDEN with Drones In The Garden featuring sets by: Aporrhais, Sleep Number, Nic Jenkins, Allie Morris, Jed Willis, Kewpie, Farewell Phoenix, and DJ Forest Floor. 

• Ambient sounds and A/V splendor from near and far on the SHEEP STAGE with sets by: Spectral Habitat, Bellyful of Stars, Slowblink, Angela Winter, Paw Of Zing, and LeaLea 

• World Premiere of Swannatopia’s Sweetest Sweet Potato Ballet IN THE GARDEN, scored by the Swannanoa Ambient Ensemble and featuring LuAnna Nesbitt, Crow, many sweet potatoes dressed like ballerinas, and ballerinas dressed like sweet potatoes and a tasting of murasaki sweet potatoes grown by WWC Garden Crew

• Daytime live performances at the FORESTRY CABIN by Sally Anne Morgan Quartet, Superflower, and more to be announced

• Dance party at the FREESTORE GARAGE with NOW TIME Hexagon Dance featuring special guests STREET CREATURE PUPPETS, a live performance by EAR PWR, and DJ sets from Baby Cousin Tay Tay b2b DJ Roselle and Daveybake, all in high fidelity sound powered by Black Cat SoundSystem 

BOOM BOOM BARNS is by and for our arts, music, and farming community here in the Swannanoa River Valley and beyond. This merging of an agricultural landscape with multimedia installations will nurture intra-disciplinary cross pollination between sound artists, students, and seed stewards, cartographers, and choreographers, and we cannot wait to be together. 

We, of Swannatopia, are an art and music collective headquartered in Swannanoa, NC. Swannatopia is also home to our Experimental Art Club, a multigenerational playgroup and wide circle of friends who “make stuff for fun!”  Our past productions include: Ant Float Dream Boat, Ribbon Time, Oasis of the Juicy Fruits,  DEER FREAKS…and decoys., Fountain of You, Bee City Of Now, Time Is Fake, Blue Goose Caboose, Seed Circus, Color Theory Guard, Marigold Daze, and How Do We Mark The Flood. 

We, of Swannatopia, also invite you to join us on January 2 at LamplightAVL for our 5th annual razzle dazzle residency/ holidaze eggstravaganza! 

For more information you can join our mailing list at Swannatopia.com or find us online at @swannatopia 

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