Tributaries: A Wet Ritual for Witnessing

Tributaries: A Wet Ritual for Witnessing is a ritual about water, about time, about absence, about queer ancestors who have been lost and who we commit to remember. It is a ritual of blessing and complicity, of coming together, of mixing. The performance invites you to remember, reflect, and repeat this ritual, always concluding in tight embrace. It was conceived by Victoria Perrie, Jehan Roberson, Sophie Seita, and Naomi Woo for Sembrando Humedad hosted by Ruta del Castor, in Xochimilco, Mexico City, in April 2024. It has now been reconceived as a nomadic performance-workshop that incorporates post-ritual art therapy, offered by Dani Minuskin, as a space for intentional artmaking to reflect, process, and integrate as a group. In 2025, Tributaries toured in Winnipeg, New York, London, and continues to circulate through activations in locations chosen by anyone who needs this ritual. 

The ritual was conceived under the auspices of The Hildegard von Bingen Society for Gardening Companions, a project initiated in 2020 by Sophie Seita and Naomi Woo that transplants, reroots, and propagates a queer, feminist gardening society founded by 12th century mystic and musician Hildegard von Bingen.