Take a restorative class! Join us for our Reproductive Rights Fest!
October 25, 2025 from 5-10pm
The festival's highlight will be the NYC premiere performance of The Pavement Kingdom: a clinic escort play, by acclaimed playwright Courtney Bailey. The production is being brought from Missouri to NYC as part of BECHDEL PROJECT’s Interstate Initiative, a powerful program aimed at amplifying women+ artist who are working in states where their rights are actively under attack.
The play follows "Charon," a clinic escort in the Midwest who helps patients safely navigate past protestors while using her solitary time in the "pavement kingdom" to work on her comedy routine. Written after more than three years of Bailey's own experience volunteering as a clinic escort at Planned Parenthood, the play offers a unique and vital perspective on the front lines of reproductive healthcare.
The production features the original team that created the piece, with direction by Rachel Tibbetts, Marcy Wiegert performing as "Charon," stage management by Celeste Genevieve Gardner, and production management by Jim Bernatowicz.
The event will kick off with Songs for Safe Access, a unique concert experience presenting original songs performed by singer-songwriters and musical theatre artists, including Grammy-nominated Rona Siddiqui, Abby Ahmad, Taiwo Aloba, Aya Aziz, Amanda & Lorenzo, Elizabeth Addison, Allison Krauss, and Emma Ashford.
The concert is curated by Magritte & Rosen (Alara Magritte and Daniel Rosen), a musical theatre writing team and creators of the award-winning musical Safe Hands, who are also co-producing the event.
The evening will conclude with a panel discussion featuring representatives from Planned Parenthood, NYC Department of Health, The Brigid Alliance, and writer and historian Rickie Solinger. They will provide valuable insights into the current landscape of reproductive rights and pathways for advocacy.
The tickets will be available on a sliding scale, and all proceeds will go to support The Brigid Alliance, a nonprofit dedicated to helping people across the country who must travel long distances to access safe abortion care.
My Body, My Voice is more than just an event; it's a testament to the power of collective action and artistic expression in the fight for bodily autonomy. In a time when reproductive rights are under attack, we aim to create a space for education, empowerment, and solidarity, reminding everyone that access to comprehensive reproductive healthcare is a fundamental human right.
Registration is now open for Ara McGlamery's +FALL COHORT+** - a monthly in-person, therapeutic performance workshop (Sept/Oct/Nov/Dec) that can promise to help you lift burdens and push through blocks that may be hindering your way forward. Making art that speaks to your experiences is a way to gently hold and reconsider who we are and who we might like to be. Together, in our small group, we will RE-STORY and REFRAME the rigid stories that bind us, we will RE-DIRECT and REVITALIZE stuck energy, clearing the blockage with movement, music, art, theater, performance, and joy. Whether your blockage is career, relationships, purpose, sense of self, or shedding old patterns that no longer serve, RESTORATIVE PERFORMANCE can RENEW your vision and RESTORE your passion.
What's the scoop?
Once monthly, Saturdays, 2 hours: 11-1pm EST in-person @BechdelProject, Brooklyn NY
Oct 18: Monologues and Parts Work with Ara and Ann - After improv, themes emerge, stories are revealed. Ann and Ara, using IFS parts work, will guide us in developing monologues based on our experiences and parts.
Nov 15: Scenework and Psychodrama with Ara and Alex - After monologues, comes scenework. After we work on ourselves, we work with others. Alex and Ara will guide us in psychodrama exercises that will continue to illuminate our journeys and explore our place in our own lives and those around us.
Dec 6: Performance & Party! Free with registration! - This free performance day is a culmination of the work that has been done both individually and as a group. Monologues and scenes, dance, movement, improvisation, art, photography, filmmaking, storytelling, any performance medium that you’d like to share, both original and interpreted work, solo or group, creating a memorable evening of performances that will resonate and restore.
**The +Fall Cohort+ is the chance to create future cohorts with other like-minded performers. Part of the mission of RESTORATIVE PERFORMANCE is build community networks of creative people who come together to share work and ideas and commune with others who want to learn and grow as artists and people.
Now more than ever, we need restorative practices that nourish our bodies, minds, and spirits. Please join us for 1 or all of the sessions and begin your creative explorations this Fall!
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