Many Mouths One Stomach

MMOS provides space and opportunity for Arts to be at the center of public life,
whether in celebration or in mourning.
We have been at the heart of the arts and culture scene since the 1990s.
When we began, there was a great need in our community for meaningful responses to grief and loss and also markers that were relevant for celebration and rites of passage.
The lack of a coherent tradition left people feeling unanchored.
Many Mouths One Stomach referred to the collective need in our community to be fed and the recognition that what feeds one may feed all.
We use educational, hands-on models to gain skills in craft-making, make-up, performance and costuming that imbue the procession with personal meaning.
We use the act of walking together to help us entrain our movement and bond us together.
We enact a ceremony where everyone’s wishes and losses are placed together in a sacred container and transformed by fire.
We discovered our work by doing the work and now our mission is to nurture festal culture and community-created ceremony without branding or co-opting by large corporate pressures.