Photo by Vanessa Teran
UNFIX NYC 2023
This year, Unfix NYC will include a Social-ecological Action Project (SAP) with a live performance and filming 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!
RGS company member Annie McCoy will be leading a place-based, community-driven Social-ecological Action Project (SAP). The theme of this year's Social Action Project is addressing problems within your local community. The work will be planned and developed in NYC throughout Feb-April. There will be an in-person performance and filming on April 1 (rain date April 8). We would love to include participants via video submission in the SAP. To be a part of this via video submission, we are asking for movement pieces (remember even breathing can be movement) no longer than 2 minutes that are filmed in public, locally. The piece can either address the issue facing your community or it can be a dance of prayer for the people in your community that are the most impacted from this issue. These video submissions and documentation of the in-person performance will be combined and featured on the UNFIX NYC 2023 Film Festival website. The goal of this project is to not only bring awareness to issues but also to share your artistic response with others in order to bring healing within the community you thrive in. Submissions can be sent to Annie@mccoy.net or shared via google drive or YouTube private link until Apri 14, 2023.
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 subthemes 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! We are accepting submissions that vary in length from microshorts (under 3 minutes) to longform (up to 20 minutes), as well as performance documentation / hybrid films. Submissions (including links to the final films) will be accepted via this form until Friday, April 14, 2023. More details are in the form. We will announce a winner from each category and an audience choice winner on May 14!
For more information about UNFIX NYC 2023 or to get involved, please email info@rengyosoh.com. For more information about the SAP or to get involved, please email annie@mccoy.net. We look forward to hearing about your work and learning about your thoughts & passion!
RGS company member Annie McCoy will be leading a place-based, community-driven Social-ecological Action Project (SAP). The theme of this year's Social Action Project is addressing problems within your local community. The work will be planned and developed in NYC throughout Feb-April. There will be an in-person performance and filming on April 1 (rain date April 8). We would love to include participants via video submission in the SAP. To be a part of this via video submission, we are asking for movement pieces (remember even breathing can be movement) no longer than 2 minutes that are filmed in public, locally. The piece can either address the issue facing your community or it can be a dance of prayer for the people in your community that are the most impacted from this issue. These video submissions and documentation of the in-person performance will be combined and featured on the UNFIX NYC 2023 Film Festival website. The goal of this project is to not only bring awareness to issues but also to share your artistic response with others in order to bring healing within the community you thrive in. Submissions can be sent to Annie@mccoy.net or shared via google drive or YouTube private link until Apri 14, 2023.
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 subthemes 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! We are accepting submissions that vary in length from microshorts (under 3 minutes) to longform (up to 20 minutes), as well as performance documentation / hybrid films. Submissions (including links to the final films) will be accepted via this form until Friday, April 14, 2023. More details are in the form. We will announce a winner from each category and an audience choice winner on May 14!
For more information about UNFIX NYC 2023 or to get involved, please email info@rengyosoh.com. For more information about the SAP or to get involved, please email annie@mccoy.net. We look forward to hearing about your work and learning about your thoughts & passion!
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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