
Informemotion created the
BLEEDING ART - BLEEDING HEART project,
which presented...
THE RED TEPEE
- A Woman's Community Arts Project
BLEEDING ART - BLEEDING HEART project,
which presented...
THE RED TEPEE
- A Woman's Community Arts Project
The Red Tepee at Seven Sisters Festival –
March 28 at 3:00pm until March 30 at 6:00pm
The Red Tepee will be returning home to where her visions are supported and where she was conceived... and I will bring her to visit many of the artists who are presenters & participants at the festival. I am honoured to have the artist's see their pieces sewn together in the Universal Womb as one woman, the many stories of woman - many facets of the feminine experience.
The Red Tepee will be opening her door for women to sit and experience the artwork of 89 women... creating 91 depictions of their Relationship to their WOMB.
The art work can be absorbed by immersion.
There will also be the opportunity to paint a flag of your Relationship to the Womb or process anything that has come up in your womb visioning through after experiencing the many workshops. It will be an amazing way to integrate some of the 'stirrings' that the workshop may awaken for attention.
I am also proud to announce that A Red Bleeding Tipi, The Pink Tepee retreat for women, The Red Tepee Womb Art Exhibition, and the White counselling Tipi - will be creating a the TIPI VILLAGE at Seven Sisters to truly hold women in their Womb spaces.
http://www.sevensistersfestival.com/
March 28 at 3:00pm until March 30 at 6:00pm
The Red Tepee will be returning home to where her visions are supported and where she was conceived... and I will bring her to visit many of the artists who are presenters & participants at the festival. I am honoured to have the artist's see their pieces sewn together in the Universal Womb as one woman, the many stories of woman - many facets of the feminine experience.
The Red Tepee will be opening her door for women to sit and experience the artwork of 89 women... creating 91 depictions of their Relationship to their WOMB.
The art work can be absorbed by immersion.
There will also be the opportunity to paint a flag of your Relationship to the Womb or process anything that has come up in your womb visioning through after experiencing the many workshops. It will be an amazing way to integrate some of the 'stirrings' that the workshop may awaken for attention.
I am also proud to announce that A Red Bleeding Tipi, The Pink Tepee retreat for women, The Red Tepee Womb Art Exhibition, and the White counselling Tipi - will be creating a the TIPI VILLAGE at Seven Sisters to truly hold women in their Womb spaces.
http://www.sevensistersfestival.com/
Looking into the feminine self...
the Inner Sanctum...
THE WOMB

The Red Tepee –
www.theredtepee.org
Art,
from artists all over Australia and overseas will come together in a patchwork
liner within the walls of a Red Tepee to create intimate expressions of a
woman’s relationship to her womb
The majestic and earthly form of an 18 foot flame red tepee is an experiential art installation
and retreat space celebrating menstruation.
It will be lined with a patchwork of art work from 90 women to represent the Universal womb.
Lined with 91 depictions (painted and sewn on canvas pieces) it reflects the many faces of a woman’s relationship to her womb.
The Inner lining will offer the viewer an authentic visual experiences of insightful
understandings that ‘sisters’ share as ‘one’ creation - woman.
The womb is a creative centre of which women can share a connection beyond the mind,
so art offers a great medium to give it expression.
www.theredtepee.org
Art,
from artists all over Australia and overseas will come together in a patchwork
liner within the walls of a Red Tepee to create intimate expressions of a
woman’s relationship to her womb
The majestic and earthly form of an 18 foot flame red tepee is an experiential art installation
and retreat space celebrating menstruation.
It will be lined with a patchwork of art work from 90 women to represent the Universal womb.
Lined with 91 depictions (painted and sewn on canvas pieces) it reflects the many faces of a woman’s relationship to her womb.
The Inner lining will offer the viewer an authentic visual experiences of insightful
understandings that ‘sisters’ share as ‘one’ creation - woman.
The womb is a creative centre of which women can share a connection beyond the mind,
so art offers a great medium to give it expression.
View the individual panels here...
The Red Tepee is a Community Arts Project that empowers women to express their relationship with Bleeding.
The Red Tepee harnesses the sacred lore of the tribe through the use of art and storytelling.
The Red Tepee will create the same simple power of personal understanding and in this simple form of exchange.
The Red Tepee harnesses the sacred lore of the tribe through the use of art and storytelling.
The Red Tepee will create the same simple power of personal understanding and in this simple form of exchange.
The Red tepee is reclaiming the tradition of the ‘Red Tent’ as a retreat space for women while bleeding.
Celebrating women’s cycle, fertility, and feminine nature, empower women to be equal, as a woman, rather than by a
masculine paradigm of ‘power’ thus humanity regains natural order and balance between the sexes.
It also celebrates the innate relationship women have with the earth and moon in their physical relationship with creation.
A woman bleeds with the 28.5 day cycle with the moon, and is able to create new life from within their body.
InformEmotion initiated the project Bleeding Art - Bleeding Heart,
which utilises the modality of art therapy to explore the process of menstruation, from which the Red Tepee Project was born.
The vision is to offer a safe and powerful forum for girls approaching menache, their first bleed, to
be initiated into experience the intimate and venerable reflections of women in a deeply authentic way within a ‘woman’s circle’.
which utilises the modality of art therapy to explore the process of menstruation, from which the Red Tepee Project was born.
The vision is to offer a safe and powerful forum for girls approaching menache, their first bleed, to
be initiated into experience the intimate and venerable reflections of women in a deeply authentic way within a ‘woman’s circle’.
Art work is a wonderful language to offer other women and girls an understanding of what it means to be woman.
The red tepee will generate a network of support based on connectedness,
promoting togetherness rather than separation and competitiveness.
It symbolises ‘one-woman’, that is all women being one, as we are
reflections and parts of a whole united ‘she’; the feminine energy manifest on
earth.
The liner will consist of individually created ‘patches’ sewn together.
It echoes the modern tradition of quilt making that has been used as a political, cultural and personal statement for other highly emotive topics.
These include;
The Safe Motherhood Quilt – co-ordinated by Inna May Gaskin - http://rememberthemothers.org/
and The Birth Rites Quilt – co-ordinated by Seneka Cohen- http://birthquilt.com/
as well as The AIDS Quilt - http://www.aidsquilt.org/.
This art form has brought media attention and sparked social debate which enables impactful personal exchange.
The red tepee will generate a network of support based on connectedness,
promoting togetherness rather than separation and competitiveness.
It symbolises ‘one-woman’, that is all women being one, as we are
reflections and parts of a whole united ‘she’; the feminine energy manifest on
earth.
The liner will consist of individually created ‘patches’ sewn together.
It echoes the modern tradition of quilt making that has been used as a political, cultural and personal statement for other highly emotive topics.
These include;
The Safe Motherhood Quilt – co-ordinated by Inna May Gaskin - http://rememberthemothers.org/
and The Birth Rites Quilt – co-ordinated by Seneka Cohen- http://birthquilt.com/
as well as The AIDS Quilt - http://www.aidsquilt.org/.
This art form has brought media attention and sparked social debate which enables impactful personal exchange.
The first part of the project involved creating the funds through the pozible.com crowd funding to,
invite the artists and distribute canvas pieces and to raise money to purchase a Red Tepee.
The artists are currently creating their visions of their ‘womb story’ onto their canvas pieces……

She is up...
Introducing The Red Tepee
Introducing The Red Tepee

A special thanks to Birthing the Mother
And the founder & Director Janelle De Silva
For the tireless fundraising, motivational & practical support, as we have both birthed work encouraging women to explore the depth of their raw feminine experience using art therapy as tools for process and expression using different modalities.
To see more of the Sacred Arts Collective Events & About the work... See
http://www.birthingthemother.org/
And the founder & Director Janelle De Silva
For the tireless fundraising, motivational & practical support, as we have both birthed work encouraging women to explore the depth of their raw feminine experience using art therapy as tools for process and expression using different modalities.
To see more of the Sacred Arts Collective Events & About the work... See
http://www.birthingthemother.org/

Sue and Don from ‘Gentle Earth Walking’ tipi’ in Daylesford,
Victoria is helping make this vision a living reality
by supporting us to make the tepee that will house the art work.
http://www.gentleearthwalking.com.au/tipidon/tipidon.html
Victoria is helping make this vision a living reality
by supporting us to make the tepee that will house the art work.
http://www.gentleearthwalking.com.au/tipidon/tipidon.html

Byron Bamboo has also supported the project with helping with
Bamboo Poles for the Project
http://www.byronbamboo.com.au/products/bamboo-poles/p/144
Bamboo Poles for the Project
http://www.byronbamboo.com.au/products/bamboo-poles/p/144

With Special thanks & Support to the
Surf Coast Shire for there Support for the Red Tepee
By Funding the Bamboo Tepee Poles for the Project
Surf Coast Shire for there Support for the Red Tepee
By Funding the Bamboo Tepee Poles for the Project
The second phase of the tepee will exhibit the art work so that it is acknowledged as an art piece in its own right.
It will travel festivals and markets.
These are some of the images that will adorn the lining of the Red Tepee that have been received thus far.
The third phase will use the Red Tepee as a Menstrual Retreat women to support one another to take time to retreat from the world into the red
tepee to honour their inner process and bleeding womb
– letting go physically and emotionally while letting their blood spill naturally back to the earth to regenerate the ‘great mother.’
This will imbue the space with the ritual of honouring self and the earth.
tepee to honour their inner process and bleeding womb
– letting go physically and emotionally while letting their blood spill naturally back to the earth to regenerate the ‘great mother.’
This will imbue the space with the ritual of honouring self and the earth.
The fourth phase of the project is to use the tepee for workshops.
The tepee will create a space for girls and women to explore their emotional selves and receive tools to help them understand the connection between their emotions and physical bodies.
At a time when girls are feeling self-conscious and often emotionally timid whilst undergoing social and
physical changes, art can offer a wordless’ exchange and a process for empowerment and understanding.
Images can offer powerful hooks in our memory when there is something we relate to within it.
This creates a safe environment to take on information gently, build new identity and also tools that can equip intrapersonal growth and ongoing wellness.
The tepee will create a space for girls and women to explore their emotional selves and receive tools to help them understand the connection between their emotions and physical bodies.
At a time when girls are feeling self-conscious and often emotionally timid whilst undergoing social and
physical changes, art can offer a wordless’ exchange and a process for empowerment and understanding.
Images can offer powerful hooks in our memory when there is something we relate to within it.
This creates a safe environment to take on information gently, build new identity and also tools that can equip intrapersonal growth and ongoing wellness.
I am Michelle Buggy, founder of InformEmotion and the Bleeding art Bleeding heart Project, birthing the Red Tepee Project.
I am an Artist (BA (Fine Arts), Art therapist (- MA (Research) Experiential and Creative Arts Therapy, Grad. Dip Experiential and Creative Arts
Therapy), trained birth attendant (with Rhea Dempsey Birthing Wisdom) and Trainer (Cert IV).
But primarily I am a mother of five beautiful children and a wife of a gorgeous supportive man.
I created daily journal drawings during my five pregnancies to reflect and embody my experience to honour and integrate my internal and external experience.
I believe in the importance of Rites of Passage that enable an integration of meaning that can validate and inform the human experience of change.
I have worked with women with art therapy as they journey their pregnancy and changing experience with motherhood.
I am passionate about joining women together to express the power of our creative bodies that will move women and girls to feel their connection to menstruation using art as a process.
I am an Artist (BA (Fine Arts), Art therapist (- MA (Research) Experiential and Creative Arts Therapy, Grad. Dip Experiential and Creative Arts
Therapy), trained birth attendant (with Rhea Dempsey Birthing Wisdom) and Trainer (Cert IV).
But primarily I am a mother of five beautiful children and a wife of a gorgeous supportive man.
I created daily journal drawings during my five pregnancies to reflect and embody my experience to honour and integrate my internal and external experience.
I believe in the importance of Rites of Passage that enable an integration of meaning that can validate and inform the human experience of change.
I have worked with women with art therapy as they journey their pregnancy and changing experience with motherhood.
I am passionate about joining women together to express the power of our creative bodies that will move women and girls to feel their connection to menstruation using art as a process.
A few details of the art work...

Thank you to Moon Diary Products for your support and Symbiotic relationship.
We honor your wonderful work dedicated to women understanding their Menstrual cycles and their relationship to the moon and earth cycles.
Moon Diary and Moon Charts are fantastic conscious tools for personal understanding.
We honor your wonderful work dedicated to women understanding their Menstrual cycles and their relationship to the moon and earth cycles.
Moon Diary and Moon Charts are fantastic conscious tools for personal understanding.
ALSO SEE www.theredtepee.com
Past workshops....
Past workshops....

RED TEPEE WORKSHOPS - For Bookings...
Please contact Michelle Buggy on; 0417 168 070
For Bookings...
Red Tepee Workshops – Celebrating International Women’s Day
Saturday, March 8, 2014 – International Women’s Day
The workshops will be at Zeally & Cliff - Creative Workshops, 5 Zeally Bay Road, Torquay
10- 12 noon – YOUR DAUGHTER; YOURSELF
This is a gentle art therapy based workshop facilitated to be bonding & non-confrontational for daughters aged b/w 8 – 13 to share with their mothers & one another in a fun expressive day to indulge in connected communication without many words. Women without daughters can come too, & connect to their mother or the daughter inside of themselves!
1pm - 3pm – YOUR WOMB; YOUR ROOM
This workshop is for Women to reconnect with their feminine selves through a gentle meditation & journey into how one feels with their own inner world as a woman, using art therapy as a tool to explore one’s own process.
The workshops will be $15 con / $20 individual or daughter & mother (art materials provided)
For bookings Please call Michelle Buggy - 0417 168 070
The workshops will involve a gentle art therapy process for women and girls to celebrate and inquire into their relationship with their body with wonderfully soft exploration & expression lead with storytelling and personal expression, using art.
Please contact Michelle Buggy on; 0417 168 070
For Bookings...
Red Tepee Workshops – Celebrating International Women’s Day
Saturday, March 8, 2014 – International Women’s Day
The workshops will be at Zeally & Cliff - Creative Workshops, 5 Zeally Bay Road, Torquay
10- 12 noon – YOUR DAUGHTER; YOURSELF
This is a gentle art therapy based workshop facilitated to be bonding & non-confrontational for daughters aged b/w 8 – 13 to share with their mothers & one another in a fun expressive day to indulge in connected communication without many words. Women without daughters can come too, & connect to their mother or the daughter inside of themselves!
1pm - 3pm – YOUR WOMB; YOUR ROOM
This workshop is for Women to reconnect with their feminine selves through a gentle meditation & journey into how one feels with their own inner world as a woman, using art therapy as a tool to explore one’s own process.
The workshops will be $15 con / $20 individual or daughter & mother (art materials provided)
For bookings Please call Michelle Buggy - 0417 168 070
The workshops will involve a gentle art therapy process for women and girls to celebrate and inquire into their relationship with their body with wonderfully soft exploration & expression lead with storytelling and personal expression, using art.

Exhibition of the Red Tepee in Torquay – Cowie Market – The Esplanade
Sunday, March 16, 2014
10:00am until 3:00pm
Cowie Market, Torquay Esplanade
The Red Tepee will be at the Torquay Cowie Market to unveil her Inner Sanctum...
The Red Tepee will be featuring the art of 91 women's depictions of their 'Relationship to their Womb' in art work sewn together to create the Inner Lining.
People are welcome to come and sit inside the Red Tepee and absorb the variety of images sharing many different experiences and expressions of the feminine centre and intimate relationship these artists have offered as gentle reflections to other women.
See you at the Cowie Market on Sunday the 16th of March 2014
With a Celebrating the Space with an Initiation into Puberty Ritual Dance / ceremony with Jacqui Dreessen from Wild Moves
To see more please see...
www.theredtepee.com
https://www.facebook.com/groups/theredtepee/
or
https://www.facebook.com/Bleedingartbleedingheart
Sunday, March 16, 2014
10:00am until 3:00pm
Cowie Market, Torquay Esplanade
The Red Tepee will be at the Torquay Cowie Market to unveil her Inner Sanctum...
The Red Tepee will be featuring the art of 91 women's depictions of their 'Relationship to their Womb' in art work sewn together to create the Inner Lining.
People are welcome to come and sit inside the Red Tepee and absorb the variety of images sharing many different experiences and expressions of the feminine centre and intimate relationship these artists have offered as gentle reflections to other women.
See you at the Cowie Market on Sunday the 16th of March 2014
With a Celebrating the Space with an Initiation into Puberty Ritual Dance / ceremony with Jacqui Dreessen from Wild Moves
To see more please see...
www.theredtepee.com
https://www.facebook.com/groups/theredtepee/
or
https://www.facebook.com/Bleedingartbleedingheart