Photo by Vanessa Teran
What is UNFIX NYC ?
UNFIX NYC is a collaboration between UNFIX and Ren Gyo Soh.
UNFIX is a festival for performance and ecological activism based in Scotland. Founded by an artistic director Michael Paul Henry. UNFIX seeks to meet Ecological crisis and renewal through our bodies and physical sense of living: Dance, performance, music, film, food, debate, politics & spirituality. UNFIX conceives human lives as a microcosm of the whole, and puts it to you: climate change & ecological transformation are happening inside your very body, RIGHT NOW. Yokko, the artistic director of Ren Gyo Soh, was inspired by these ideas to bring a version of the festival to New York City as Ren Gyo Soh's annual festival. The first UNFIX NYC was held at Grace & St. Paul's Church in April 26th.
UNFIX is a festival for performance and ecological activism based in Scotland. Founded by an artistic director Michael Paul Henry. UNFIX seeks to meet Ecological crisis and renewal through our bodies and physical sense of living: Dance, performance, music, film, food, debate, politics & spirituality. UNFIX conceives human lives as a microcosm of the whole, and puts it to you: climate change & ecological transformation are happening inside your very body, RIGHT NOW. Yokko, the artistic director of Ren Gyo Soh, was inspired by these ideas to bring a version of the festival to New York City as Ren Gyo Soh's annual festival. The first UNFIX NYC was held at Grace & St. Paul's Church in April 26th.
Regarding to COVID-19
We’ve had a year to mourn the ongoing losses of intimacy, the loneliness, the job losses (including devastation in the arts industry), as well as the health effects and deaths from the virus itself. We see the pandemic as a shocking illustration of our main themes at UNFIX: our social and biological interdependencies, the power of nature to overwhelm human plans, the inequalities in our socioeconomic systems, and the resilience of human passion and compassion through changing circumstances.
We’ve had a year to mourn the ongoing losses of intimacy, the loneliness, the job losses (including devastation in the arts industry), as well as the health effects and deaths from the virus itself. We see the pandemic as a shocking illustration of our main themes at UNFIX: our social and biological interdependencies, the power of nature to overwhelm human plans, the inequalities in our socioeconomic systems, and the resilience of human passion and compassion through changing circumstances.
This year, UNFIX festival is going to ONLINE, and hosting UNFIX NYC, UNFIX Bologna and UNFIX Tokyo!
Note from the artistic director of UNFIX NYC
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This festival aims to raise ecological awareness through arts. What is 'ecology'? Ecology is the relations between all living beings on this planet, and its study. How we can live without destroying, harming, and hurting each other. The world is not a 'fix'ed place. The world is continuously changing, we are changing, we are all living beings. I believe in the power of love, the power of art and in what art can do for all living beings, for the land we live in, and for future generations. We can be the change we want to see in the world. And I would love to collaborate with as many people as possible. I am honored to be the host of this festival, and blessed to work with UNFIX Festival (Paul Michael Henry).
-Yokko, The Artistic Director of Ren Gyo Soh
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Photo by Vanessa Teran
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UNFIX NYC TEAM
Producing Artistic Director: Yokko (Ren Gyo Soh)
Assistant Producer: Saki Kawamura
Technical Supervisor : Robin Dill
Production Assistant: KrzySien
Social Media: Zak Ma
Assistant Producer: Saki Kawamura
Technical Supervisor : Robin Dill
Production Assistant: KrzySien
Social Media: Zak Ma
