Photo by Vanessa Teran
UNFIX NYC 2023
This year, Unfix NYC will include a Social-ecological Action Project (SAP) and a Film Festival with an on-demand virtual screening! We invite you to contribute to and experience both the SAP and the Film Festival!
Recently members of our company participated in The Social-ecological Action Project. This newly established company project aims to bring art into the community and examine problems and relationships within those communities. Over the last couple of months Annie, Zak, and Miles have been using dance, meditation, and devising to further explore these relationships. On April 10th our company members danced and filmed in the Queens, Manhattan, and Brooklyn boroughs. Each member chose a specific location to which they had a personal connection to highlight something about that space. Through this project, we were able to explore, give joy to, bring awareness, contemplate, bless, and be held by the spaces that have so long held us up in our personal journeys. In a call to action, we asked artists associated with our company to participate as well. We are so excited to share an edited film of these Social-ecological Action Projects premiering at this year’s UNFIX NYC 2023 Film Festival on May 6th.
The Film Festival will include a virtual screening May 6-13! We are looking for movement/dance film submissions that reflect the ecological world or your view of the world right now. Some ideas of sub-themes include the Earth Elements, site-specific or place-based knowledge, social connection, social-ecological embeddedness, and resilience: devastation and renewal, but submissions are certainly not limited to those interpretations!
For more information about UNFIX NYC 2023 or to get involved, please email info@rengyosoh.com.
Recently members of our company participated in The Social-ecological Action Project. This newly established company project aims to bring art into the community and examine problems and relationships within those communities. Over the last couple of months Annie, Zak, and Miles have been using dance, meditation, and devising to further explore these relationships. On April 10th our company members danced and filmed in the Queens, Manhattan, and Brooklyn boroughs. Each member chose a specific location to which they had a personal connection to highlight something about that space. Through this project, we were able to explore, give joy to, bring awareness, contemplate, bless, and be held by the spaces that have so long held us up in our personal journeys. In a call to action, we asked artists associated with our company to participate as well. We are so excited to share an edited film of these Social-ecological Action Projects premiering at this year’s UNFIX NYC 2023 Film Festival on May 6th.
The Film Festival will include a virtual screening May 6-13! We are looking for movement/dance film submissions that reflect the ecological world or your view of the world right now. Some ideas of sub-themes include the Earth Elements, site-specific or place-based knowledge, social connection, social-ecological embeddedness, and resilience: devastation and renewal, but submissions are certainly not limited to those interpretations!
For more information about UNFIX NYC 2023 or to get involved, please email info@rengyosoh.com.
What is UNFIX NYC ?
UNFIX NYC is a collaboration between UNFIX and Ren Gyo Soh.
UNFIX NYC seeks to meet Ecological crisis and renewal through our Bodies, Minds & Souls: Dance, Theatre, Performance, music, film, visual arts, panel discussions, and any arts forms.
UNFIX is a festival for performance and ecological activism based in Scotland. Founded by artistic director Paul Michael Henry. 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 2016
UNFIX NYC seeks to meet Ecological crisis and renewal through our Bodies, Minds & Souls: Dance, Theatre, Performance, music, film, visual arts, panel discussions, and any arts forms.
UNFIX is a festival for performance and ecological activism based in Scotland. Founded by artistic director Paul Michael Henry. 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 2016
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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
Photo by Vanessa Teran
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Regarding to COVID-19 & Safety guideline
We will follow guidance and recommendations in accordance with CDC, New York State Department of Health and New York City Department of Education in order to protect the health and safety of our audiences, artists and staff. We will update the guidelines as we continue to monitor and follow the guidance and recommendations, and as circumstances change keeping safety in mind for everyone. (Feb. 2022)
We will follow guidance and recommendations in accordance with CDC, New York State Department of Health and New York City Department of Education in order to protect the health and safety of our audiences, artists and staff. We will update the guidelines as we continue to monitor and follow the guidance and recommendations, and as circumstances change keeping safety in mind for everyone. (Feb. 2022)
UNFIX NYC TEAM
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Producing Artistic Director: Yoshiko Usami, Co-Producing Artistic Director: Megan Cattau
Associate Producer: Paster Martin Hauser (Host of the event) Associate Producer: Jonah Piali (Music Director of Grace & St. Paul's Church) Program Director: Saki Kawamura Technical Director : Robin Dill Visual Arts Program cordinator: Brandon Perdomo Production Assistant: KrzySien Social Media: Zak Ma |
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