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The Red Tepee is a Community Arts Project that empowers women to express their relationship with Bleeding.
The Red Tepee harnesses the sacred lore of the tribe through the use of art and storytelling.
The Red Tepee creates the same simple power of personal understanding and in this simple form of exchange.
The Red Tepee harnesses the sacred lore of the tribe through the use of art and storytelling.
The Red Tepee creates the same simple power of personal understanding and in this simple form of exchange.
The Red tepee reclaims the tradition of the ‘Red Tent’ as a retreat space for women while bleeding.
Celebrating women’s cycle, fertility, and feminine nature, empower women to be equal, as a woman, rather than by a
masculine paradigm of ‘power’ thus humanity regains natural order and balance between the sexes.
It also celebrates the innate relationship women have with the earth and moon in their physical relationship with creation.
A woman bleeds with the 28.5 day cycle with the moon, and is able to create new life from within their body.
Celebrating women’s cycle, fertility, and feminine nature, empower women to be equal, as a woman, rather than by a
masculine paradigm of ‘power’ thus humanity regains natural order and balance between the sexes.
It also celebrates the innate relationship women have with the earth and moon in their physical relationship with creation.
A woman bleeds with the 28.5 day cycle with the moon, and is able to create new life from within their body.
InformEmotion initiated the project Bleeding Art - Bleeding Heart,
which utilises the modality of art therapy to explore the process of menstruation, from which the Red Tepee Project was born.
The vision offers a safe and powerful forum for girls approaching menache, their first bleed, to
be initiated into experience the intimate and venerable reflections of women in a deeply authentic way within a ‘woman’s circle’.
which utilises the modality of art therapy to explore the process of menstruation, from which the Red Tepee Project was born.
The vision offers a safe and powerful forum for girls approaching menache, their first bleed, to
be initiated into experience the intimate and venerable reflections of women in a deeply authentic way within a ‘woman’s circle’.
Art work is a wonderful language to offer other women and girls an understanding of what it means to be woman.
The red tepee generates a network of support based on connectedness,
promoting togetherness rather than separation and competitiveness.
It symbolises ‘one-woman’, that is all women being one, as we are
reflections and parts of a whole united ‘she’; the feminine energy manifest on
earth.
The red tepee generates a network of support based on connectedness,
promoting togetherness rather than separation and competitiveness.
It symbolises ‘one-woman’, that is all women being one, as we are
reflections and parts of a whole united ‘she’; the feminine energy manifest on
earth.
The liner consists of individually created ‘patches’ sewn together.
It echoes the modern tradition of quilt making that has been used as a political, cultural and personal statement for other highly emotive topics.
These include;
The Safe Motherhood Quilt – co-ordinated by Inna May Gaskin - http://rememberthemothers.org/
and The Birth Rites Quilt – co-ordinated by Seneka Cohen- http://birthquilt.com/
as well as The AIDS Quilt - http://www.aidsquilt.org/.
This art form has brought media attention and sparked social debate which enables impactful personal exchange.
It echoes the modern tradition of quilt making that has been used as a political, cultural and personal statement for other highly emotive topics.
These include;
The Safe Motherhood Quilt – co-ordinated by Inna May Gaskin - http://rememberthemothers.org/
and The Birth Rites Quilt – co-ordinated by Seneka Cohen- http://birthquilt.com/
as well as The AIDS Quilt - http://www.aidsquilt.org/.
This art form has brought media attention and sparked social debate which enables impactful personal exchange.
The first part of the project involved creating the funds through the pozible.com crowd funding to,
invite the artists and distribute canvas pieces and to raise money to purchase a Red Tepee.
The artists created their visions of their ‘womb story’ onto their canvas pieces……
invite the artists and distribute canvas pieces and to raise money to purchase a Red Tepee.
The artists created their visions of their ‘womb story’ onto their canvas pieces……
The second phase of the tepee is now underway as the Red Tepee exhibits the art work .
It will travel festivals and markets.
These are some of the images that adorn the lining of the Red Tepee
It will travel festivals and markets.
These are some of the images that adorn the lining of the Red Tepee
The third phase is using the Red Tepee as a Menstrual Retreat women to support one another to take time to retreat from the world into the red
tepee to honour their inner process and bleeding womb
– letting go physically and emotionally while letting their blood spill naturally back to the earth to regenerate the ‘great mother.’
This will imbue the space with the ritual of honoring self and the earth.
tepee to honour their inner process and bleeding womb
– letting go physically and emotionally while letting their blood spill naturally back to the earth to regenerate the ‘great mother.’
This will imbue the space with the ritual of honoring self and the earth.
The fourth phase of the project is using the tepee for workshops.
The tepee will create a space for girls and women to explore their emotional selves and receive tools to help them understand the connection between their emotions and physical bodies.
At a time when girls are feeling self-conscious and often emotionally timid whilst undergoing social and
physical changes, art can offer a wordless’ exchange and a process for empowerment and understanding.
Images can offer powerful hooks in our memory when there is something we relate to within it.
This creates a safe environment to take on information gently, build new identity and also tools that can equip intrapersonal growth and ongoing wellness.
The tepee will create a space for girls and women to explore their emotional selves and receive tools to help them understand the connection between their emotions and physical bodies.
At a time when girls are feeling self-conscious and often emotionally timid whilst undergoing social and
physical changes, art can offer a wordless’ exchange and a process for empowerment and understanding.
Images can offer powerful hooks in our memory when there is something we relate to within it.
This creates a safe environment to take on information gently, build new identity and also tools that can equip intrapersonal growth and ongoing wellness.
I am Michelle Buggy, founder of InformEmotion and the Bleeding art Bleeding heart Project, birthing the Red Tepee Project.
I am an Artist (BA (Fine Arts), Art therapist (- MA (Research) Experiential and Creative Arts Therapy, Grad. Dip Experiential and Creative Arts
Therapy), trained birth attendant (with Rhea Dempsey Birthing Wisdom) and Trainer (Cert IV).
But primarily I am a mother of five beautiful children and a wife of a gorgeous supportive man.
I created daily journal drawings during my five pregnancies to reflect and embody my experience to honour and integrate my internal and external experience.
I believe in the importance of Rites of Passage that enable an integration of meaning that can validate and inform the human experience of change.
I have worked with women with art therapy as they journey their pregnancy and changing experience with motherhood.
I am passionate about joining women together to express the power of our creative bodies that will move women and girls to feel their connection to menstruation using art as a process.
I am an Artist (BA (Fine Arts), Art therapist (- MA (Research) Experiential and Creative Arts Therapy, Grad. Dip Experiential and Creative Arts
Therapy), trained birth attendant (with Rhea Dempsey Birthing Wisdom) and Trainer (Cert IV).
But primarily I am a mother of five beautiful children and a wife of a gorgeous supportive man.
I created daily journal drawings during my five pregnancies to reflect and embody my experience to honour and integrate my internal and external experience.
I believe in the importance of Rites of Passage that enable an integration of meaning that can validate and inform the human experience of change.
I have worked with women with art therapy as they journey their pregnancy and changing experience with motherhood.
I am passionate about joining women together to express the power of our creative bodies that will move women and girls to feel their connection to menstruation using art as a process.
Please contact me if you wish to support the project further or host it in your community.
Michelle Buggy , InformEmotion
email; [email protected]
http://www.birthingartbirthingheart.com/bleeding-heart-bleeding-art.html
https://www.facebook.com/Bleedingartbleedingheart.com/
http://pozible.com/bleedingartbleedingheart
Michelle Buggy , InformEmotion
email; [email protected]
http://www.birthingartbirthingheart.com/bleeding-heart-bleeding-art.html
https://www.facebook.com/Bleedingartbleedingheart.com/
http://pozible.com/bleedingartbleedingheart
