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reclaiming + celebrating women's initiations
RITUAL HOUSES
To date, there have been 2 large-scale Rites of Passage houses
each of which took place in the former
"Women of Club of the Berkshires" in Pittsfield, Massachusetts:
The first live incarnation
of Rites of Passage
took place JUNE 7-10, 2013
co-created with 60 local artists,
and was made up of 20 rooms.
The second live incarnation
took place AUGUST 13-17, 2021
co-created with 65 Women of Color artists from around the US,
and was made up of 27 rooms.
GIRLHOOD
ADOLESCENCE
MAIDENHOOD
MOTHERHOOD
THE ELDER ROOM
MENOPAUSE
DEATH
SUSTENANCE
NO LONGER SILENT
MIGRATION/ DIASPORA
THE RE-BIRTH CANAL
SOUL KITCHEN
THE LIVING WOMB
THE GRIEF ROOM
FORGIVENESS
QUEER ORIGINS
THE BODY ROOM
LOSS
WOMBMAN HEAL THYSELF
ANIMUS
HYSTERIA
THE WISE WOUND
CYCLES
RE-MATRIATION
V IS FOR VICTORY
LEGACY
We met only to create this project. But we walked into a familiarness, knowing one another across tribal timezones, ancient & foreign to this calendar's ability to record. We made a new village, one of caring for one another, from knowing the path we each traveled to arrive in the house of Rites of Passage.”
– Sokhna Heathyre Mabin
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Artwork Credits:
RITES OF PASSAGE 2013: Gabrielle Senza, Hysteria
RITES OF PASSAGE: 20/20 VISION: Anais L'Amor in Wombman Heal Thyself
Cynthia Alberto in V is for Victory
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