COSMIC PIRATES

26.-27. September

Art Space in Exile, Berlin

Ritual Theater & Performance Art Workshop

Concept by Annette Assmy

The Archetype of the Pirates calls us to enter uncharted waters. When old structures collapse and familiar maps no longer guide us, there is a need to become explorers of new possibilities and become the mapmakers of the future.

Cosmic Pirates is a playful, immersive performance and Ritual Theater workshop about a crew of misfit cosmic-pirates navigating a fractured multiverse in search of the lost Soul Fragment of Humanity.

The Pirate Crew is formed in response to a reality that feels increasingly unstable: timelines overlap, realities collide, identities fragment, and meaning appears scattered. In this world, survival depends not on control, but on collaboration, adaptability, and radical cooperation across differences - echoing historical pirate communities who often formed egalitarian, self-governed societies beyond dominant systems of power.

Rooted in this mythic inspiration, the Cosmic Pirates are a diverse crew thrown together by circumstance, chaos, and necessity. Their ship becomes a floating micro-society where people from different origins, backgrounds, and belief systems must learn to navigate together - or risk collapse.

Performance Art & Ritual

Ritual Theatre is a transformative approach to performance that reconnects with the ancient roots of theatre, where ritual, storytelling, and embodied expression become pathways for authentic expression, connection, and transformation. Rooted in the teachings of my teachers Isis Indriya, the Academy of Oracle Arts, and Eve Bradford, through many years of Improvisation Theater and ImprovMusical, this practice explores ritual as a living creative process - a dialogue between the inner world, the body, imagination, nature, and the unseen realms.

This weekend workshop offers an experiential and exploratory approach to Ritual Theatre, inviting participants to discover performance as a process of listening, sensing, and creation rather than entertainment. Through movement, sound, singing, musical elements, ritual, improvisation, and storytelling, participants explore how to become vessels for a story, archetype, or myth to emerge through them - allowing creativity to unfold through presence, intuition, and embodied expression.

Core Practices

  • Ritual theater & embodied myth work 

  • Voice activation, song creation, and musical elements 

  • Storytelling & archetypal embodiment 

  • Dance, Movement & Ensemble Composition 

  •  Improvisation Theater & Acting 

  • performative Rituals

  • Group coherence training (trust, listening, swarm intelligence) 

  • “Pirate Codex” creation (collective rules / ethics of the crew)

What is Ritual Theater?

Ritual Theater is a form of performance that blends the spiritual and artistic, using theatrical elements to enact symbolic, sacred, or transformative experiences. Rooted in ancient traditions, it involves storytelling, music, dance, and ceremony to evoke a connection to deeper truths, collective archetypes, or universal myths. Unlike conventional theater, its goal extends beyond entertainment, aiming to inspire reflection, healing, and a sense of communal or cosmic unity.

‚…Ritual theatre quite simply is the enactment of a myth or archetypal story with the intention of bringing about healing– usually to resolve an issue, to deal with a difficult life experience, to restore depleted energies or to ease a transition. This is potent facilitating the healing of psyche and soul and much closer to the kind of ritual healing ceremonies that took place in ancient times and in tribal societies…’Claire Schrader 

What is the benefit of your participation?

Participating in or experiencing a Ritual Theater piece offers profound benefits, as it engages both the psyche and the spirit:

  1. Self-Discovery and Healing
    Ritual Theater delves into universal archetypes and personal narratives, offering participants a safe space to explore your inner world. It can bring buried emotions to the surface, fostering healing and self-awareness.

  2. Connection and Community
    It creates a shared sacred space, helping you to feel connected to a larger whole—whether that be our community, or the universal human experience.

  3. Transformation and Empowerment
    By enacting symbolic acts or embodying roles, you can transform limiting beliefs or traumas, gaining a sense of empowerment and renewed perspective.

  4. Creative Expression
    Ritual Theater allows you to tap into your creativity in a meaningful way, merging artistic expression with spiritual intention.

  5. Sense of Sacredness
    Engaging in ritualistic performance imbues everyday life with meaning, encouraging mindfulness and a deeper appreciation of the sacred in the ordinary.

  6. Alignment with Archetypal Energies
    Through mythic storytelling and symbolic gestures, you align with archetypal energies that can provide insight, inspiration, and guidance for your personal journey.

It is a transformative experience that bridges art, healing, and spirituality.

COSMIC PIRATES

26.-27. September

Art Space in Exile, Berlin

Elsenstrasse 87   12435 Berlin 

Saturday 26. September - 10 am - 5 pm

Sunday 27. September - 11 am - 7 pm

On Sunday at 6 pm, we will gather for a communal sharing with family and friends. This is not a traditional performance, but an opportunity to offer a glimpse into the creative journey we have explored together during the workshop. We will share songs, stories, scenes, and movements that have emerged from our process.

Cost:

sliding scale between 140 € - 220 €

IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT PIRATES:

Historically, pirates were far more complex than the popular cultural stereotype suggests. Research in maritime history shows that many pirate communities in the 17th and 18th centuries operated as highly organized, often surprisingly democratic societies at sea. Crews commonly elected their captains, shared loot according to agreed rules, and created systems of mutual care, compensation, and accountability that stood in contrast to the rigid hierarchies of naval or colonial powers.

Importantly, pirate ships also became rare spaces where rigid social hierarchies were sometimes disrupted. Historical records show that escaped enslaved Africans were among those who joined pirate crews in the Caribbean and Atlantic world, and in certain cases piracy offered a form of temporary refuge from slavery and colonial systems of forced labor. While not universal or idealized, these environments occasionally created more fluid social structures based on skill, trust, and survival rather than birth or status.

Central to pirate life were the so-called “Pirate Codes” or “Articles of Agreement.” These were written or orally agreed-upon rules established by each crew to maintain order and fairness. 

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Testimonial

‘…Each other bound to meet again and again navigating through the myth of Auset and Ausar. 

The one month ritual theatre workshop hold by Annette and Storm provides deep insights. From the laws of power leading to betrayal from a brother , killing his own blood. Crafting disruption, fragments, dismantling the body of the beloved.

Embodying what it takes to become harassed. Within our subtle very safe space we created a container to hold visceral blockages to unfold. We kept rehearsing within these realms our return, regenerating the practice of mourning beyond ourselves, within each other. As did Auset we raised into the calling of the being which only would return after this quest. Ausar hold by the ancient waters, on the boat, our weekly retreat lead us to the forest recovering whom we name into being. The magic of resurrection. I sensed and perceived that all texts we worked with came from a depth of resonance. Within ourselves unwinding the calling memories of having met these cycles before, written these same words, here they expand move into a collective shift.

Annette and Storm are profound and truthful devoted shapeshifters. I learnt so much more about Egypt and just know that I would only return to their projects and proposals, and keep an ongoing research about what opened here, a progressive state of becoming a feathered being…’ Ana, Berlin