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CREATING ROOMS OF OUR OWN

FROM GIRLHOOD THROUGH ELDERHOOD

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RITES OF PASSAGE

 

is...

A ritual art house,

A living museum,

A home of belonging, healing & remembrance,

celebrating women's lives and initiations

from birth through death.

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​​Each 'ROOM OF CURE' in the house represents

a rite of passage using ritual performance, installation and multimedia artwork. ​

​As one-time live, public events, our work continues to live on virtually, in film, and eventually in print in the RITES OF PASSAGE book.

 

Collaboratively created by women from diverse backgrounds, ages & 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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Together, we are housing

THE COLLECTIVE FEMALE SOUL

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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

RITUAL  HOUSES

The first live incarnation

of Rites of Passage

took place JUNE 7-10, 2013 

in the historic

"Women's Club of the Berkshires"

in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. 

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The second live incarnation
- 20/20 VISION -
took place in the same house
AUGUST 13-17, 2021
focused on the lives of
Women of Color.

Creativity is not a solitary movement. That is its power. Whatever is touched by it, whoever hears it, sees it, senses it, knows it, is fed. A single creative act has the potential to feed a continent. One creative act can cause a torrent to break through stone.”

-Clarissa Pinkola Estés

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Artwork Credits:
ROP 20/20 VISION collage: Pooja Prema
Video:
EveryStory Studio
Slider: Azaria Ulmer, Forgiveness / Tashi Colston & Mayari Carter in The Kitchen /  Pooja Prema, Sustenance / Devyn Harris in The Body Room /Sarah Varichon,
Legacy / ROPE, Adolescence /  Gabrielle Senza, Hysteria / The Elder Room (2013)
First Trio Strip (left to right): detail from A Womb of Her Own by Lorimer Burns / Sunder Ashni, Wombman Heal Thyself / Sarah Varichon, Legacy
Second Trio Strip (left to right: Elizabeth Blackshine in The Wise Wound / Cynthia Atwood, Menopause / Samantha Keyes in Adolescence
RITES OF PASSAGE 2013: Gabrielle Senza, Hysteria
RITES OF PASSAGE: 20/20 VISION: Desiree Mwalimu-Banks, Dissolution
RITES OF PASSAGE 2013 Trailer: Cindy Parrish
Cathy Fisch, The Web

Final Strip: Cynthia Alberto artwork detail in V is for Victory
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