Portals of Knowing
World Description · Lore · Purpose
A Living Archive Guided by Memory, Ritual, and Play.
Portals of Knowing is an immersive story-world and living cultural archive created by Asé Theatre Project. It exists as both a theatrical universe and a real-world practice—one that gathers, protects, and translates community memory through ritual, play, and embodied storytelling.
Asé Theatre Project Experiences
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The world of Portals of Knowing is built on the belief that knowledge does not only live in books or institutions. It lives in bodies, in family stories, in songs remembered half-right, in nicknames, in street corners, in what elders warned us about and what children intuitively know.
This world asks:
What do we know because we survived it?
What do we carry because someone carried us?
And what must be remembered so we can imagine differently? -
Created summer 2024, Spoken Over Me, is a ceremonial piece welcoming attendees to remember and reclaim their name and identity.
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With only 6 sessions together this holiday love letter was created with Mary Bethune Elementary students Winter 2022 in partnership with YMCA of Cleveland.
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With generous support of Birthing Beautiful Community and the Cleveland Foundation we created this intergenerational visual in 2020. Created after exploring dialogue on being an emotionally wounded mothers and the impact of being raised by one.
