LIVE: August 2021
Rites of Passage 20/20 Vision
is a House of Belonging, Resilience, & Hope.
A House of the Collective Feminine Soul.
1 House
23 Rooms
8 Performances
75 Women + Femmes
CLEAR SIGHT
Rites of Passage 20/20 Vision seeks to Dream, Envision & Embody the world anew
with fresh perspectives for a more fertile, resilient & equitable future for all.
Each room in 20/20 Vision
embodies a rite of passage theme
in the lives of
women + femmes of color
Yet ultimately, it is
a living, breathing invocation
for remembrance + healing justice
on behalf of all our lineages,
and all our many colors.
At this unprecedented time in our history, Rites of Passage 20/20 Vision offers
women + femmes of color a unique invitation to TAKE UP SPACE.
In doing so, we heal, re-member and transform ourselves + our lineages,
and inspire + enable others to do the same.
Join the Vision...
LINEAGE. SEEDS. SOVEREIGNTY. FERTILITY. SUSTENANCE.
MEDICINE. WATER. WOMB. FLOWER. VICTORY.
DIASPORA. STORY. WEAVE. LEGACY.
SOIL. ANCESTRAL SOUL. HEALING JUSTICE. REMEMBRANCE.
New "ROOMS of CURE" in 2021:
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Migration/ Diaspora— about the immigrant experience and border issues
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No Longer Secret— on #metoo and healing sexual trauma
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Legacy— honoring lineage-based wisdom and sovereignty
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The Grief Room— a memorial for diasporic lineages oppressed through colonization and displacement
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Woman Heal Thyself— about healing through chronic and reproductive diseases.
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Asylum— on mental health and healing
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The Living Womb— re-visioning birth, and addressing the lack of adequate natal care for BIPOC
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Taboo— a walk-in-closet about abortion and miscarriage
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Queer Luv— about the queer experience
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Trans-cendant— on the trans experience and gender fluidity
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Re-membering My Father— about women’s complex relationships to men and masculinity
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Girlhood— reclaiming childhood from gendered stereotypes
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Adolescence— cure-ated by a group of local youth from the R.O.P.E. program
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Mama's Always On Stage— a kitchen critiquing the isolation of modern motherhood, and visioning a motherhood in community
- Age as Power— in praise of menopause and aging
- The Elder Room— honoring the wisdom of radically embodied elderhood
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Dissolution— a room about spiritual breakdown, breakthrough and rebirth
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The Body Room— a bathroom celebrating female and femme bodies of all kinds
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V is for Victory— an altar-room to fertility and creative sovereignty
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Sustenance— on reclaiming women's relationships to Nature estranged through displacement + migration
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The Sustenance Pantry— an heirloom seed bank + pantry of ancestral foods of sustenance
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The Library— an inter-sectional multicultural feminist library
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The Death & Re-Birth Canal— embracing the life-death-life cycle
A portion of proceeds from the Rites of Passage 20/20 production will support
the revolutionary work of women of color around:
Reproductive Rights and Healthy Birth for BIWOC
Seed Saving + Ecological Stewardship
Medicine for the People + Clean Water
Immigration Justice
....
As well as towards completing the
Rites of Passage Book
INTERDEPENDENCE
Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness – and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe.
The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling – their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability.
Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them.”
Arundhati Roy
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