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Welcome to the House of Belonging

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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 legacies
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.
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I am honored to be reborn tonight.”

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.”

Taking in all the many rites in the house – I feel expanded + opened, 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.”

WE ARE THE ONCE & FUTURE
VISION OF OUR ANCESTORS

Each room in 20/20 Vision 
embodies a rite of passage theme
in the lives of
 Black, Indigenous + Immigrant
Women of Color in America
Yet ultimately, it was
a living, breathing ritual
of Remembrance + healing justice
on behalf of all our lineages,
and all our many colors
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WE ARE

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THE

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ONCE

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&

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FUTURE

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VISION

 ...that visibility which makes us most vulnerable is
that which also is the source of our greatest strength.”                                                            

  Audre Lorde





  REIMAGINE INITIATION...


 
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LINEAGE. SEEDS. SOVEREIGNTY. FERTILITY. SUSTENANCE.

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 MEDICINE. WATER. WOMB. FLOWER. VICTORY.

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DIASPORA. STORY. WEAVE. LEGACY.

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SOIL. ANCESTRAL SOUL. HEALING JUSTICE. REMEMBRANCE.

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ROOMS of CURE
  • Soul Kitchen rediscovering inter-generational community and nourishment
  • Wombman Heal Thyself—  on the healing of women's bodies + water bodies
  • The Living Wombrevisioning pregnancy and birthing 
  • The Nothinga walk-in-closet about abortion, miscarriage and stillbirth
  • Migration/ Diasporahonoring the immigrant experience
  • Legacyhealing inter-generational trauma, reconnecting with the earth
  • The Grief Rooma memorial for global diasporic lineages and the inter-generational grief of colonization and displacement

  • Loss/ A Pausea closet honoring loss

  • Dissolutiona room about spiritual breakdown, breakthrough and rebirth
  • Forgivenesson forgiving ourselves, our ancestors, our oppressors
  • Re-Matriationre-matriating land, ecology and the sacred
  • V is for Victoryan altar-room to fertility and creative sovereignty  
  • Sustenanceon rest and returning home to nature
  • The Sustenance Pantry an heirloom seed bank + pantry of ancestral foods 
  • The Apothecary a room of plantcestor medicine, and a reclamation of healing
  • The Library an inter-sectional multicultural feminist library
  • Queer Originschildhood and the queer experience
  • Adolescencecure-ated by a group of local youth from the R.O.P.E. program
  • The Body Rooma bathroom celebrating female and femme bodies of all kinds
  • Hair: The Crown Templea bathroom honoring hair
  • No Longer Silent #metoo + beyond: healing sexual trauma
  • Divorce on the end of marriage/partnership
  • Re-membering My Fatherabout women’s complex relationships to their fathers
  • Age as Powercelebrating the power of growing older and wiser
  • The Elder Roomhonoring the wisdom of radically embodied elderhood
  • Death: A Stairway to an Invisible Exithonoring the mystery of death+ dying
  • The Re-Birth Canal a stairway celebrating the life-death-life cycle
THANK YOU TO OUR GENEROUS
20/20 VISION SUPPORTERS!
INTERDEPENDENCE
20% of proceeds from the RITES OF PASSAGE: 20/20 ticket donations supported
the revolutionary work of Women & People of Color through:

Local Youth Empowerment
Healthy Birth for Black Mothers
Water Protection
Indigenous Seed Sovereignty
Immigration Justice at the Border


 
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ROPE

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RAICES



  and 5 Black-Run Farms
 
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Mumbet's Freedom
Farm

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Harmony Homestead
&
Wellness Center

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Sistah Seeds

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Kiblio
(Refuge)
Community
& Farm 

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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Header Graphic: Justine Kelley
Video: EveryStory Studio
20/20 VISION collage: Pooja Prema

20/20 VISION Eye Chart: Anna Wexler & Pooja Prema
Slider: Desiree Mwalimu-Banks, Dissolution / Juliet Olivier, No Longer Silent / Pooja Prema, Sustenance / Sarah Varichon, Legacy / Devyn Harris in The Body Room, Brenda Salgado in Re-Matriation / Amber Chand, The Elder Room / Cheryl R. Riley, Soul Kitchen / Nicole Combeau, Migration/Diaspora
Eggshell Strip: Gabrielle Senza, Hysteria

Room Vignettes circle: Manon Bogerd Wada, Loss/ A Pause
Montage: Marie Tattiana Aqeel detail, The Sustenance Pantry /Anais L'amor in Wombman Heal Thyself / Pooja Prema artwork detail V is for Victory / Cynthia Alberto artwork detail in V is for Victory / Nicole Combeau, Migration/Diaspora / Sarah Varichon, Legacy
"Life-Death-Life": Cynthia Atwood
Final Strip: "Glyphs" by Cheryl R. Riley in Soul Kitchen

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