Casting Ceremonies | The Vagina China Project

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Casting Ceremonies

We consider everyone who participates in the creation of the Vagina China project to be a member of The Women's Art League. Participating in the Vagina China project is open to anyone who identifies as a woman.

While we fully understand that this does not include all people that identify as female, male, or transgender, we believe that this project can be engaging for anyone that has felt shame or questioning about their own body and wants a safe place to engage in conversations that inform and transform.

Including women in the art making process is paramount to our endeavor. In order to do so, we host “Casting Ceremonies.”

Casting Ceremonies are a multi-sensory experience. Think soft lights, aromatics, hot tea, pulsating music, art materials of all fancy—and chocolate for inspiration. We create a relaxing, safe and sacred space with materials and instruction for encouraging our intrinsic creative voice and connecting to our primal source of creative inspiration. When we gather in circle, the magic begins—intentions are shared, fears are released, and deep connections and bonds are born.

The casting experience is private and anonymous. Everyone is solely in charge of their own cast. We offer a sliding scale for participating in the project. For more information, an attendee put together this helpful and humorous Q & A.

Join our private Facebook group (open to those who identify at female) or sign our mailing list to be notified of upcoming events. Ceremonies happen once a month at locations around the Boulder/ Denver area.

The following photos offer a glimpse of what happens at a Casting Ceremony. Thank you to Dona Laurita, Photography and Fine Art for so beautifully capturing our events.

We make an alter for each ceremony, adorned with candles, objects from nature and bronze and gold sculptural objects made by attendees from previous ceremonies.

Along with adoring our alters, these sacred objects, created by participants, will also play a role in our final exhibition.

Joy and Julie, the creatrixes of The Women's Art League and the Vagina China project.

Upon arrival, we invite attendees to paint and sculpt with clay as they get comfortable with the space and eachother—and we provide all of the materials.

Our creative direction is simply to play, to explore and to be spontaneous—this is creative playtime.

We created Vagina China to celebrate our creativity, by gathering women together to make art and connect with our primal source of inspiration.

Vagina China is all about building community, collaboration and celebrating creativity.

We cover the walls in giant sheets of paper and provide a plethora of paints for making communal art—and new friends.

Creativity is good for the soul and by engaging our creative spark, we are able to better tap into our heart's desires.

Sometimes there is nothing more satisfying or relaxing than smooshing up a ball of clay!

Making art helps us to feel grounded and centered.

When these treasures dry, they will be fired, glazed and added to our shrine—and later, to our exhibition.

Creative playtime is also an opportunity to explore the written word and share your experiences and stories of your vulvas, your vaginas, and your bodies with the world. We are collecting your (anonymous) stories for our exhibition.

Rant it, rave it, lavish it with praise, tell us a funny story, share a secret, and call it whatever you like—it's your vulva and it's your letter. The unsigned and anonymous letters will be featured in the Vagina China exhibition.

Creative and Sacred Space

As attendees arrive, we engage their senses with aromatics, tea, pulsating music, fresh fruit and chocolate for inspiration.

We want participants to feel inspired, empowered and nourished.

Nothing inspires like chocolate.

Joy's handmade treats are truly an orgasm for the mouth!

We offer a nourishing homemade tea blend brewed with ingredients specific to women's health and well being.

Casting Ceremonies are a celebration of sisterhood. We invite everyone who identifies as female to cast and to participate.

After making art, we gather in a circle together—and the magic begins. This is when intentions are shared, fears are released, and deep connections and bonds are made.

At this point in the ceremony, everyone is laughing in the shared fun of it all—kicking off their shoes and looking for the perfect shirt to cast in.

We provide long dress shirts for privacy and cozy socks for warmth (think Risky Business).

We have shirts of all size and shade of pink.

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