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Fundraising Launch Party - April 2 @ 8PM

3/26/2016

The Ume Group's 5-Year Anniversary fundraising campaign launches March 27 (Easter Sunday) on IndieGogo! To celebrate we're throwing a party on Saturday, April 2 for everyone who contributes during the first week of the campaign.

FREE admission AND drinks for those who contribute (in any amount) to our IndieGogo campaign by Saturday, April 2.

Doors open at 8pm. Secret location, TBA.

Featuring performances by...

THE UME GROUP
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LAUREN SKY & LEAH BELTRAN

FABIOS CLOWNS

PLUS dancing, games, tarot, the return of our signature "Sweet Dreams" cocktail and a chance to mix and mingle with members of The Ume Group Ensemble.

To contribute to our IndieGogo campaign and get FREE admission and drinks on Saturday, April 2, visit: https://igg.me/at/TheUmeGroupTurns5

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UNFIX NYC - A New Festival of Performance & Ecology (April 29 - May 1, 2016)

3/24/2016

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UNFIX NYC - A New Festival of Performance & Ecology

UNFIX NYC is a new festival of Performance and Ecology taking place at Grace & St. Paul Church on April 29-May 1 2016, presented by Ren Gyo Soh. UNFIX Festival started in Glasgow (Scotland) in 2015, created by performance artist and Butoh dancer Paul Michael Henry (www.unfixfestival.com), and Ren Gyo Soh is excited to bring it to New York as their 2nd anniversary celebration and fundraising event.

UNFIX is a multi-art form event fusing live performance, dance, installation, workshops and debate in a bid to unravel the knots in how we're living. Ecological crisis and renewal addressed through our bodies and physical sense of being alive.

This New York City version is the first collaboration between UNFIX and Ren Gyo Soh, which the two groups hope to make an annual event. We want to simultaneously celebrate and question our relationship to each other, to the planet on which we live, to our own imaginations and the structures that mould us in this time of ecological crisis.

This year Ren Gyo Soh, a Butoh-based theatre company in NYC celebrates its 2nd anniversary, and is using the opportunity to present UNFIX as a bridge between performance and ecology (or artists and the Earth on which they work). Our program will include live performances, installations, workshops, and yoga with live music.

*UNFIX NYC is presented by Ren Gyo Soh, sponsored by The Ume Group and Grace & St. Paul Church.

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Festival Schedule

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Day 1 - Friday, April 29th 6-9pm: Ren Gyo Soh Spring Workshop (Register here.)
Day 2 - Saturday, April 30th 7-10pm: Performance / Installation / Discussion (Buy tickets here.)
Day 3 - Sunday, May 1st, 2pm - 3:30pm: Yoga with Live music, meditation - sending a prayer to the planet (Register here.)

Detailed Festival Schedule

Day 1 PROGRAMME: Friday, April 29th 6-9pm: Ren Gyo Soh Spring Workshop
A butoh-based ritual movement workshop for all ages & abilities.

DAY 2 PROGRAMME: April 30, 7pm-10pm PERFORMANCE / INSTALLATION / DISCUSSION
Featuring...

Performances by:
- The Ume Group (Physical Theatre Company)
- Kevin Augustin (puppet)
- Leah Marie Beltran (Butoh/Contemporary Dance)
- Bob Lyness (Butoh)
- Jonathan Kopp (Butoh)
- Ren Gyo Soh (Butoh based performing arts company)

Jordan Rosin, Jorge Luna, Laura Aristovulos, Tatiana Galliher Jackson, Yokko

Installation work:
- Collaboration between Ren Gyo Soh & Vanessa Teran
- Art work by Vanessa Teran
Discussion on Butoh and Ecology

Guest Speakers: George Tsouris, Jordan Rosin, Paul Michael Henry

Day 3 PROGRAMME: Sunday, May 1st, 2pm - 3:30pm: Yoga with Live music & meditation - sending a prayer to the planet

Guest Musician: Timothy Rusterholz (cellist)

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More About UNFIX

-from Unfix Festival, Glasgow Scotland by Paul Michael Henry-

Why have a festival of Performance and Ecology?
The festival theme aims to identify an untapped resource for artists: Ecology is perhaps the grand theme of our times, uniting issues of climate change, sustainability, political independence / interdependence, and the various flows of ageing and death, economics, culture and emotion.

Rather than restricting ourselves to ‘environmental art’, UNFIX takes a broad definition of the term and includes ecologies of Imagination (the connections between the ideas, myths, dreams and archetypes we live by), Politics, Environment, Soul and Mental Health (the ecology of the individual psyche and questions of balance and happiness; ecologies of emotion and the forces of love, conflict, anger, shame).

This wide net is intended as an offer to artists to find methods of rethinking human inter-relationships and environmental approaches through our bodies and physical sense of living, both in daily life and the concentrated forums of performance and culture.

UNFIX is conceived as an act of love, a bear hug to the world, a prayer of sorts. As humans we don’t have to ‘work hard’ and ‘earn a living’; we already have one by virtue of being alive. The question is how to engage with it. How we can love each other more, and stop killing the planet?
We can no longer pretend to be separate from one another.

- From Ren Gyo Soh by Yokko, The Artistic Director -

I share deeply the point of view Unfix Festival is pushing. I believe we can do something about the direction our species is traveling in through arts. The world we see is a reflection of our mind.

"A long time ago, Nature and Human beings coexisted. We lived together on this planet, the earth. However, looking around, and back over recent history, its clear we have forgotten something. If we can start taking care of Nature, Mother nature will start taking care of itself. I believe we can stoke an awareness in ourselves as individuals and small communities, through our bodies and psyches. It might be a small step, but it can also become a ripple, and then a big wave. It is time for each one of us to think, feel and transform from our insides out, in resonance with the world. Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
- Mahatma Gandhi

For me, Butoh & ecology is quite natural connection. Here are two of my favorite quotes from founders...

"Butoh is a dance of life"
- Kazuo Ono

"My dance is expansion of human concept- letting a human body metamorphosis into anything including an animal, a plant, even an object which does not have a life, and the fundamental ideology of my butoh is finding the possibility."
-Tatsumi Hijikata

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Join our "Cyber Street Team" for TheUmeGroupTurns5 on IndieGogo

3/23/2016

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Are you a constant re-sharer of content? Are you a Instagram ninja? What about a Twitter-junkie? Facebook guru? If you are active on one or more social media platforms and passionate about The Ume Group and its unique brand of physical theatre, we want you for our volunteer Cyber Street Team!

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The cyber street team is a group of folks from as many different backgrounds as possible each with an active presence on one or more social media platforms. Their job will be to meaningfully promote The Ume Group's 5-Year Anniversary Fundraising Campaign on IndieGogo (launching Sunday, March 27 and running through April 30) by sharing, liking, commenting, and engaging with a variety of content which The Ume Group publishes during the course of the campaign. Detailed suggestions and instructions will be given each week for how to most impact-fully participate via a weekly digest e-mail.

If you are interested in participating, please e-mail info@theumegroup.org / subject: "Cyber Street Team", saying "count me in!"

By participating, you'd be agreeing to...

Receive and read weekly or bi-weekly digest e-mails from our Managing Director during the 5-week campaign.
Share and engage with the content featured in the digest e-mails as frequently as you think appropriate.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do I have to donate to the campaign myself?
Not at all! It would definitely help if, even for $1, you added your name to the total number of funders (a number to which people pay attention), but you are not obligated to contribute.

Do I have to re-share / like EVERYTHING in the bi-weekly digest e-mails?
No. Our job will be to provide as many different types of content on as many different social media platforms as we can. You pick and choose what resonates with you and to what you think your social network will respond. Are you more of an instagrammer? We'll attach photos for you to upload and hashtag suggestions galore.

Additional questions, feel free to ask!

Remember, if you're interested to please reply to info@theumegroup.org saying "count me in!"

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Fundraising Launch Party - April 2 @ 8PM

UNFIX NYC - A New Festival of Performance & Ecology (April 29 - May 1, 2016)

UNFIX NYC - A New Festival of Performance & Ecology

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Fundraising Launch Party - April 2 @ 8PM

UNFIX NYC - A New Festival of Performance & Ecology (April 29 - May 1, 2016)

UNFIX NYC - A New Festival of Performance & Ecology

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​Detailed Festival Schedule

More About UNFIX

Join our "Cyber Street Team" for TheUmeGroupTurns5 on IndieGogo﻿

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Join our "Cyber Street Team" for TheUmeGroupTurns5 on IndieGogo