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Volunteer to be grabbed during the show!

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Why do Rites of Passage Theatre?

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Rites of Passage is generously
sponsored
by:

Community partners:

* ArtsConnect

* Society for Community Development

* PoCoMo Youth Services

The Inlet Theatre's outdoor stage is just behind Port Moody's City Hall (photo: City of Port Moody)

RITES OF PASSAGE THEATRE PROJECT

Rites of Passage is a celebration of youth, a transition, a vision quest, an event, a party and a show all rolled into one!

Read the Tri-City News Article

Tell me about the show:
It's an outdoor spectacle-filled theatrical show! A community-professional collaboration. An actual coming-of-age ceremony for youth theatricalized with music and dance... Youth volunteers who have never rehearsed with us will be taken from the audience, and brought to the underworld, only to return...if they can! . what the show will be like...

When and where are performances?
August 9-19, 2007, 7pm. No show Monday; inside if raining. At the new Outdoor Stage at the Inlet Theatre, Port Moody get directions

Can I be involved?
At this point we need two or more youth to volunteer to get "grabbed" during the show.

What's a coming-of-age ceremony?
In ancient times, all around the world, societies used to hold ceremonies to mark the transition between childhood and adulthood.

Today's youth are given few means by which they can mark the exact moment when they are no longer children. So kids initiate themselves into adulthood: with drugs, violence, danger-seeking, gang membership and more.

This is a "social experiment" to see if today, we can follow in the shamanistic traditions of our forbears. And have a lot of fun at the same time!

Photo: Damon Jang.

Demons Jess, Aleisha & Klaus

Zombies Amanda & Sarah

Demons Joylyn, Aliana and Klaus capturing Pardis