reclaiming + celebrating women's initiations
Welcome to the House of Belonging
1 House. 27 Rooms.
A House of Ancestral Healing, Resilience & Belonging
Celebrating the Lives of Women of Color
I’m speechless.
I took the journey you offered me...
I cried and laughed and received so much.
I want to be there again and again, and for all my friends to experience this...
which is impossible to describe...
Power. Love. Intention. Magic. Women.
Bravo.”
- 20/20 Vision audience member
CLEAR SIGHT
Rites of Passage: 20/20 Vision was a multimedia "ritual house" honoring the lives & visionary futures
of Black, Indigenous & Immigrant Women of Color in America (BIWOC),
set inside a historic former Women's Club in Western Massachusetts.
Throughout its 27 "Rooms of Cure", 20/20 Vision reclaimed women's experiences of initiation
using ritual theatre & multimedia art
shared over 10 live performances from August 13-17, 2021.
20/20 Vision was created in collaboration with 60 Women of Color artists ages 3 to 75,
and was witnessed by nearly 1000 audience members.
Together we created a living village of belonging and healing,
and embodied the liberated future we dream of.
The abundance, voluptuous spirit of healing, self-hood, sisterhood- so generous, healed + healing OUR FUTURE + OUR PAST + OUR PRESENT.
Thank you each deeply for your Love.”
I am grateful for the privilege of witnessing & participating in this ritual. For feeling both the pain of history and the balms of sisterhood & creativity. My heart is open My body flashes hot. Brava to you all. Us all. To life.”
I am honored to be reborn tonight.”
Taking in all the many rites in the house – I feel expanded + opened to so many other experiences + like the world is fuller + filled with breath, song, rhythm + color.”
All of these things are our rites; all of these things- we already know;
all of these hold power and allow us to flow effortlessly through the unknown.”
Being held by the rich soils of women of color.
May a life of honoring them be born.”
