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Re:Birth and Co-Creation.
As we approach the 8th anniversary of the Sistahood Celebration, I have been thinking a lot about this years theme, Re:Birth and Co-Creation. When you enter into the act of co-creation you open yourself up to the vulnerable and at times terrifying act of peeling away your old perceptions to find new ones, and you open yourself to doing this in an intensely public way. Co-creation takes an enormous amount of humility and faith. Faith that you will find the path to a collective understanding and the humility to accept that the end result will not be anything that you alone could have imagined and that that is the ultimate point. To bring your work to a totally new place so that through the changes in your work you yourself become forever altered. Forever bound to that experience.
This has been an apt description of the process of changing my role with the festival. As I stated last year letting go is probably one of the greatest acts of love, and it was necessary for me to let go of Sistahood in order for her and I to grow independent of each other. This process has been an act of co-creation with Anna Hilliar, who has gracefully and passionately taken over for me as Festival Director and with the Working Arts Society Board of Directors, whom have maintained an unwavering dedication to Sistahood and all of the Working Arts Society activities during this significant time of transition. They have respected my need for time away, while I have let go enough for them to change and grow without me. Through which we have all been able to peel away our old perceptions to bring forward a Re:Birth. And this is indeed a blessing.
And speaking of birth!! Here we are, on the eve on the Re:Birth of our Co-creative efforts and it seems that co-creation and birth is a theme that everyone involved in Sistahood is totally committed to acting on! Already this year the Sistahood family welcomed it's newest addition and eagerly awaits another! At 4:19pm on January 22 our dear Lauren Burrows and her husband Gary welcomed Maxwell Sebastian Burrows Backhouse to the world! And the fabulously fabulous, Your Little Pony (Rebecca Christofferson ) and her husband Trevor are set to introduce their wee one in March! Co-creation in it's truest sense! Nice.
I couldn't be more proud and excited! Not only does every single event look beyond amazing but it is a such beautiful thing to watch all the people I adore grow and change as I have over my years of with Sistahood. Truly. Big love to all the blessings in my life and to all the new and coming blessings in their lives!
Join us February 28th to see Bahamadia launch the festival right and be sure to keep your schedule open in March...there are exciting things in store this year and do you really want to hear about how you missed out?! Didn't think so. See you at the shows!
Sincerely,
Rachel Flood
Founder- Working Arts Society and Sistahood Celebration
As we approach the 8th anniversary of the Sistahood Celebration, I have been thinking a lot about this years theme, Re:Birth and Co-Creation. When you enter into the act of co-creation you open yourself up to the vulnerable and at times terrifying act of peeling away your old perceptions to find new ones, and you open yourself to doing this in an intensely public way. Co-creation takes an enormous amount of humility and faith. Faith that you will find the path to a collective understanding and the humility to accept that the end result will not be anything that you alone could have imagined and that that is the ultimate point. To bring your work to a totally new place so that through the changes in your work you yourself become forever altered. Forever bound to that experience.
This has been an apt description of the process of changing my role with the festival. As I stated last year letting go is probably one of the greatest acts of love, and it was necessary for me to let go of Sistahood in order for her and I to grow independent of each other. This process has been an act of co-creation with Anna Hilliar, who has gracefully and passionately taken over for me as Festival Director and with the Working Arts Society Board of Directors, whom have maintained an unwavering dedication to Sistahood and all of the Working Arts Society activities during this significant time of transition. They have respected my need for time away, while I have let go enough for them to change and grow without me. Through which we have all been able to peel away our old perceptions to bring forward a Re:Birth. And this is indeed a blessing.
And speaking of birth!! Here we are, on the eve on the Re:Birth of our Co-creative efforts and it seems that co-creation and birth is a theme that everyone involved in Sistahood is totally committed to acting on! Already this year the Sistahood family welcomed it's newest addition and eagerly awaits another! At 4:19pm on January 22 our dear Lauren Burrows and her husband Gary welcomed Maxwell Sebastian Burrows Backhouse to the world! And the fabulously fabulous, Your Little Pony (Rebecca Christofferson ) and her husband Trevor are set to introduce their wee one in March! Co-creation in it's truest sense! Nice.
I couldn't be more proud and excited! Not only does every single event look beyond amazing but it is a such beautiful thing to watch all the people I adore grow and change as I have over my years of with Sistahood. Truly. Big love to all the blessings in my life and to all the new and coming blessings in their lives!
Join us February 28th to see Bahamadia launch the festival right and be sure to keep your schedule open in March...there are exciting things in store this year and do you really want to hear about how you missed out?! Didn't think so. See you at the shows!
Sincerely,
Rachel Flood
Founder- Working Arts Society and Sistahood Celebration
