Building Ritual

Our season launch will start with a creative workshop on building ritual led by Kimmothy Cole. Cole is a multi-disciplinary storyteller focused on decentralizing power in performance and creating experiences that reinforce new narratives and subvert old systems. Cole is the Founding Artistic Director of TAPROOT, a performance collective operating in Austin and Charlotte. For this workshop, participants will engage with ritual aesthetics, readings and video clips in the process of creating and sharing rituals. Activities and discussions will revolve around the cultural and individual need for ritual as a practice, the intentions and aesthetics of ritual performance and dress, and the capacity for all people to create meaningful rituals for themselves and their communities.

Cole on how activism and ritual are linked:

"Ritual is all about the work of facilitated transformation of the individual or the collective. The work of developing rituals as communities around healing or communion or…