Descripción general
Ritual4Return (R4R) is a 14-week program utilizing theater, improvisation, mindfulness exercises, chant, mask-making and storytelling to help returning citizens address and overcome the shame, stigma and trauma of incarceration.
On May 4, participants will enact the theatrical rite of passage they created together to formally mark the transition from prison back to their communities and into a new chapter of their lives.
1PM Pre-event audience workshop and dialogue
3PM Homecoming ritual
5PM Dinner and celebration
To learn more, visit ritual4return.org. For more information, contact Kevin Bott, Executive Director of Ritual4Return, at kevin@ritual4return.org.
Ritual4 Return is made possible by support from:
- The Alexander-Stewart Fund
- Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University
- New Jersey Council for the Humanities
- Ritual4Return
- Returning Citizens Support Group
- NJ-STEP, Scholarship and Transformation Education in Prison
- NJPAC Arts & Well-Being
- Rutgers University – Newark
- Communities in Cooperation, Inc.
Arts & Well-Being at NJPAC is made possible through foundational support from RWJBarnabas Health, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, and Women@NJPAC with additional support from Merck Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, The Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey, Celia Lipton Farris and Victor W. Farris Foundation Home Community Fund, M&T Bank, Gilead Sciences, JPMorgan Chase and DoorDash