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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,

And, a community celebrating women's lives

& initiations from birth through death.

Each 'ROOM OF CURE' in the house represents a rite of passage using ritual performance, installation & multimedia artwork. 

Beginning as live, public events, our work continues to live on virtually, in film, & 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

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

OUR COLLECTIVE FUTURE IS WOVEN
BY THE STORIES WE TELL
... 

 

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