Ritual4Return

05/13/2026

Ritual4Return’s 14-week homecoming rite for people returning from incarceration debuts in South Jersey May 9 at Collingswood’s Perkins Center for the Arts.

04/20/2026

If you're in either the NYC or Philadelphia area, please condider coming out to support a group of women (Newark) and/or a group of men (Collingswood) who are undertaking their homecoming rites of passage after serving years, and sometimes decades, behind bars. These are powerful events that invite the whole community to do what the State cannot—welcome them home and acknowledge the change they've undertaken within themselves while behind bars. Believe me when I tell you that these are powerful and healing event, for everyone. All events are free of charge and all are welcome. https://ritual4return.org/events/?fbclid=IwY2xjawRTZGZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeFDm7Nq5AzKp5WcOe4Kiou8tDJWW15Spkg5gn9VEh-0_HGwHy7N_bBh1W7uU_aem_3IcL7f6_YbtuRURT-xXnzw

EVENTS Home Events Events May 2, 2026Women's Rite of PassageNew Jersey Performing Arts CenterChase Room1 Center StreetNewark, NJ 0710212:30 pm Doors Open1:00pm Pre-ritual Audience Workshop3:00pm Ritual4Return5:00 Community DinnerTo RSVP, visit: bit.ly/njpacreturn May 9, 2026 Men's Rite of PassagePer...

04/03/2026

Proud to share that R4R executive director, Kevin Bott, recently had his co-edited book, Performing Emancipatory Rites of Passage, published by Routledge Press. R4R is featured prominently and includes 10 chapters highlighting how artists and scholars are adapting, rethinking, and fully inventing new rites of passage as vehicles for transformation, healing, and liberation in many different contexts, including the criminal punishment system. Routledge has just reduced the price on their website AND is offering an additional 20% off with this code: 26AFLY1. Thanks for your support!

Performing Emancipatory Rites of Passage illuminates an unexpected connection between ancient ritual structures and contemporary applied theater practices. The book’s interdisciplinary case studies, by contributors from Performance Studies, Music, Anthropology, Black Studies, Education, Psychology...