Read below for more information on our BOLD Red Tent guidelines.

  1. You can perform a BOLD Red Tent event any time throughout the year and without producing a BOLD performance of Birth.

  2. BOLD Red Tent events have two options. The first option is a women-only event where you invite women of all ages to gather under a "red tent" anytime throughout the year and ask the mothers to tell their birth stories. The second option is to spend 4 weeks with 5-10 mothers in your community (who represent the typical birth stories in your area) and ask them to write their birth stories.. After these 4 weeks the mothers will rehearse their stories so they can be presented as a fundraising performance to a local audience in an intimate "red tent" space (The actual women could perform their own stories or you could ask local actors to perform the stories for the performance).

  3. All BOLD Red Tent events must contribute to the BOLD Library of Truth. BOLD Red Tent organizers must commit to recording their event  or their community's birth stories either by video, the written word or visual art. Their artistic piece will become a part of the BOLD Library of Birth Truths.

  4. What do we mean by creating a "BOLD red tent?" Our intention is that each BOLD Red Tent event will be an intimate, safe space for mothers to support each other to share birth stories and after the event that each BOLD Red Tent will take action by recording their community's birth stories for the BOLD Library of Birth Truths. At BOLD we feel anyone can gather women to tell birth stories…our BOLD Red Tents take the extra step of artistically educating the world about how mothers are giving birth today – through their eyes.

  5. All BOLD Red Tent events are fundraisers. Not every BOLD Red Tent will charge money for their event, but for those that do all proceeds from BOLD Red Tent events must go to organizations or small groups who are working to make maternity care mother-friendly. (up to 25% of the profits may be used to repay the BOLD Red Tent organizer's expenses).

  6. BOLD is an online community. All of BOLD's correspondence is done online and therefore to participate you must be able to commit to checking your email frequently for communication updates from BOLD.

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