Tuesday, January 6, 2026 at 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica
**Intersection with Elena Herrmann** Tuesday, January 6th | 5PM - 7PM 18th Street Arts Center 1639 18th Street. Santa Monica, CA 90404 **Free + Open to the Public** These gatherings are dedicated to gathering our community around good food, conversation, and art. Please stop by for a bite and chat with our community and spotlight artist [Elena Herrmann](https://18thstreet.org/artists/elena-herrmannjanuary-march-2026/). For the first Intersection of the year Villa Aurora fellow and 18th Street Art Center resident Elena Herrmann will perform her one-woman-show We do not allow fallen maidens here (WT) and talk about the film project that she is going to work on throughout her three month long residency. She is happy to get to know friends and neighbours of 18th Street Art Center and will be thankful to receive thoughts and ideas on her projects. Artist bio: Artist portrait. Photo by Megan Auer. Courtesy of Elena Herrmann. Elena Herrmann (Germany) is multimedia artist based in Berlin whose practice includes performance, film and music. In her work she explores physical, emotional, linguistic, and spiritual potentials in cyclical processes of destruction and creation, always on the lookout for wonder and hope. Herrmann is a Villa Aurora fellow and will spend her residency at 18th Street Art Center. During the three months of her stay she will work on a site- specific episode film in which Villa Aurora is a place of an ever-rising sun which is one day haunted by the first night. By taking on the roles of various Aurorians who express their thoughts and feelings about this unprecedented phenomenon, she examines notions of and reactions to an assumed crisis. This residency is generously sponsored by a partnership between 18th Street Arts Center and [Villa Aurora](https://www.vatmh.org/en/artists-residence.html).