a movement to reclaim + celebrate women's initiations
CREATING ROOMS OF OUR OWN
FROM GIRLHOOD THROUGH ELDERHOOD
Rites of Passage is a House of belonging, resilience & remembrance, and a movement celebrating women's lives.
Each room in the house represents a stage or theme of initiation from birth to death, using ritual, performance + multimedia art.
Created as live events, our work continues to live on virtually - in film, and eventually in print in our Rites of Passage book.
Together, we are housing
the Collective Female Soul.
I Never truly acknowledged the fact that I was female until about the 2nd room, and realized maybe its not so bad as I thought."
-Anonymous audience member
Collaboratively created by women from diverse backgrounds and ethnicities,
Rites of Passage is a living, breathing invocation
for the healing of our lineages, the weaving of our many colors
and a fertile future for the generations to come.
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OUR COLLECTIVE FUTURE DEPENDS
ON THE STORY WE TELL
As women, we are on the forefront of change as storytellers
and weavers of Life, Death + new Life.
The first live performance
of Rites of Passage
took place in 2013
in Pittsfield, MA