Ritual Theatre for Changing Times
Art as offering. Ritual as remembrance. Creation as communion.
Animist Arts is a ritual theatre practice exploring the meeting place between art, personal transformation, collective myth-making and the more-than-human world.
Through online journeys, creative mentorship, land-based immersions and live performance, we create contemporary rites of passage for the thresholds we are living through — personally and collectively.
THE PRACTICE
The earth is speaking. Our practice is to remember how to listen.
We begin with what is alive — a question, transition, longing or threshold.
Through council, more-than-human relationship and artistic practice, we listen for what is asking to emerge.
What we receive becomes material for ritual theatre through visual art, movement, sound and prayer.
The art becomes a way of crossing the threshold.
Our Guiding Practices
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MORE-THAN-HUMAN COUNCIL
Listening beyond the human and entering relationship with land, place and more-than-human allies.
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RITES OF PASSAGE
Exploring the thresholds we are personally living and where they meet our collective experience.
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THE MUSE + CO-CREATION
Approaching creativity as relationship through intuition, play, experimentation and collaboration.
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LIVING MYTH + COLLECTIVE REHEARSAL
Giving form to the stories we are becoming — and rehearsing transformation through ritual theatre.
Ways to participate
— Artist Pathways —
You do not need to be a professional artist or performer.
Come with a question, a threshold or something asking to be made.
Online collective Ritual Theatre journey
6 weeks · Online · $450
Create a solo ritual theatre piece rooted in a transition, teaching or threshold you are personally moving through.
Sundays, 9AM-11AM PST
November 8 – December 13, 2026
& March 7 – April 11, 2027
“Animist Arts felt like an answered prayer. During the darkness of winter, I had been quietly calling in deeper creativity, community, spiritual connection, and a way to offer my gifts in service to something greater than myself. I didn't know what shape those prayers would take.
Then this thread appeared.
Something in me recognized it before I understood it. The weaving of ritual, theatre, nature, art, and devotion felt deeply familiar, and I trusted the pull to follow it. Looking back, I can see this experience as one of those mysterious moments when life responds, not necessarily in the form we imagined, but in a form more alive than we could have planned.”
— Alifia Kapasi
1:1 CREATIVE RITE OF PASSAGE
6 weeks · Private · $1,600
Move through the Animist Arts Method with Phoebe through an intimate process of personal transformation and artistic development.
Available online internationally.
“If you are guided to this work, I encourage you to trust that calling and say yes. There have been so many gifts that have come from this experience and more continue to be revealed.
Phoebe has a true gift for this work and is being guided by a team of light beings that are in service to life and the consciousness expansion of humans. These pieces are catalyst for change and transformation, that also bring beauty and showcase the depth of the human experience. It will take you to places outside this physical world, yet is deeply rooted here. We are bridging worlds and dreaming the life we want to be living in our hearts into reality.”
— Christine Sah
SACRED SITE — Ritual theatre IMMERSION
6 days · Full Details TBA
A women-only immersion in art, sisterhood, land and transformation.
Enter relationship with place and create individual and collective ritual theatre through movement, sound, visual art, prayer and ceremony.
“For me Animist Art’s Immersions are a moving piece of art, awake and live. A space where art meets prayer, community meet spirit, and myth meets ritual. We created a sanctuary for our tears, our longings, our hopes and our love to bloom into a garden that fed us, our community and the more-than-human world.
This body of work feels truly meaningful and necessary in these times. We need experiences that reconnect us to the deep roots of our existence. That help us feel what lives at the core of us, that reminds us of our profound interconnectedness and we need the waters of our grief to connect us to each other and all of life.
We need our rage to protect the sacred. We need to keep finding ways to pray, to feel together, to make beauty, to make meaning of our stories so we can create a future we want to live in.”
— Sarah Sataya
FESTIVAL CONVERGENCE
Launching in 2027
Bring your individual work into a larger ensemble and create a site-responsive ritual theatre performance culminating at a festival.
Prerequisite: completion of one of the pathways above.
“Being a part of Animist Arts was a extremely meaningful and beautiful. I got to see and feel the impact of this work within our community through many connective conversations after our event. Art has always been a change maker, a culture creator and to be a part of seeding a better future through art, I feel proud and grateful. The potency of ritual theatre's ability to include the audience in the prayer is something extremely special and unique. I look forward to seeing the ripples of this work within our community.
Our performance Regenesiis reminded me that art is not perfect. That it's actually in the wild mess that truth is found and it's from that imperfect place that meaning is born”
— Jassy Blue
RECENT WORKS
REGENESIIS, 2026
Created with an interdisciplinary ensemble and presented on Salt Spring Island and at Enliven Festival in British Columbia, REGENESIIS brought together movement, live sound, projection, scenography, storytelling and ceremony.
Centred around the presence of a Mother Tree, the work invited performers and audience through a collective rite of passage — moving through remembrance, dissolution, grief, rage, renewal, reciprocity and offering.
REGENESIIS became the first full-scale expression of the creative methodology now at the heart of Animist Arts.
