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“RAIN IS FROZEN WATER, TOUCHING MOTHER EARTH.” -Reverend Paul Sladkus, All Faiths & Spiritual.  Join us www.pausetheworldforpeace.org for Earth Day in Times Square, April 22, 2026.

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We are delighted to invite you YESTERDAY to the FIRST US EDITION OF “FESTIVAL OF THE FIVE COLORS” FOR KIDS AND FAMILIES

A SPORTS DAY AT CENTRAL PARK! YESTERDAY, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16 10 AM – 3 PM A FUN-FILLED DAY OF SPORTS, WELLNESS, AND OUTDOOR FUN FOR CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES. RSVP NOW VIA THE BUTTON BELOW RSVP NOVEMBER 16TH  Event Details  Sunday, November 16, 2025  10:00 AM – 3:00 PM  Naumburg Bandshell, Central Park (Entrance from 5th Avenue and 72nd Street)  Participation is free, but registration is required. Comfortable clothing and a packed lunch are recommended. A full day of family sports competitions, dance, music, and discovery — because the colors of well-being belong to everyone. RSVP NOVEMBER 16TH  FESTIVAL OF THE FIVE COLORS The First U.S. Edition Lands in New York — A Celebration of Sport, Family, and Well-Being promoted by The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affair, The Italian Consulate in New York, and the Ministry of Sport. Sunday, November 16|Central Park – Naumburg Bandshell| 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM New York, November 2025 — After its success in Italy, the Festival of the Five Colors makes its U.S. debut with a day entirely dedicated to sport, outdoor fun, and the joy of healthy living. On Sunday, November 16, Central Park’s Naumburg Bandshell will come alive with the colors of well-being — White, Orange, Red, Purple, and Green — representing the key elements of a balanced and vibrant lifestyle. promoted by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Italian Consulate in New York, and the Ministry of Sport: the First U.S.A. Edition of the Family Sport & Wellness Day, Families, children, and athletes are invited to join this first American edition, a public event designed to bring together community, movement, and education through play and creativity. THE PROGRAM

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Two of the most dynamic forces behind the groundbreaking creative platform FENIX360—Allan Klepfitsz and Andrew Eborn—were featured on the acclaimed Good News Broadcast with host Paul Sladkus, engaging in a forward-looking conversation about technology, empowerment, and the next chapter of content creation.

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Paul Sladkus, a longtime television executive and producer with a career spanning CBS, PBS, and beyond, is known for highlighting stories that uplift, educate, and inspire. Through Good News Broadcast, Sladkus shines a light on individuals and innovations that bring positive change to the world. His guests on this episode, Allan Klepfitsz and Andrew Eborn, fit that mission perfectly.

Paul Sladkus, founder of Good News Broadcast, is the visionary behind the global initiative “Pause for Peace,” created in honor of International Peace Day on September 21. The movement invites people around the world to take one minute at noon—wherever they are—to pause, reflect, and focus on peace. With decades of experience in uplifting media, Sladkus uses this powerful moment of unity to promote global harmony and encourage people of all backgrounds to join together in a simple yet impactful act of collective consciousness.

Allan Klepfitsz, global CEO of FENIX360, spoke about the company’s revolutionary approach to reshaping how artists and content creators control, distribute, and monetize their work. Under his leadership, FENIX360 has developed into a robust platform that gives creatives the power to manage their careers without relying on outdated gatekeeping systems. The platform is rooted in transparency and built to serve independent artists of every discipline.

Andrew Eborn, a media strategist, futurist, and recently appointed global advisor to FENIX360, joined the conversation to share his vision for expanding the company’s global footprint and enhancing its technological framework. Known for his ability to bridge creativity with business innovation, Eborn emphasized the need for platforms that place ownership back into the hands of creators while opening up new pathways for global engagement.

Together, Klepfitsz and Eborn offered insight into how FENIX360 is not only disrupting traditional industry models but doing so in a way that empowers artists and fans alike. Their appearance on Good News Broadcast marked an important moment for the company as it continues to grow its reach and influence within the entertainment and tech landscapes.

The interview offered viewers a unique opportunity to hear from three thought leaders who share a common goal: building a future where technology, creativity, and purpose align. The synergy between Sladkus’s mission to spread optimism, Klepfitsz’s trailblazing leadership, and Eborn’s strategic foresight made for a compelling and hopeful conversation that resonated with artists, innovators, and audiences around the world.

The official website for FENIX360 may be found at https://www.fenix360.com

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PLEASE JOIN US:

June 26, 2025 6:30PM – Gala Opening Night

Friday, June 27, 2025 at 7PM

Saturday, June 28, 2025 at 4PM

Saturday, June 28, 2025 at 6PM

Sunday, June 29, 2025 at 4PM

Sunday, June 29, 2025 at 6PM – Grand Finale

Please RSVP to Michelle Tabnick: michelle@michelletabnickpr.com, 646-765-4773 to attend.

Brooklyn, NY – WHITE WAVE Dance proudly announces the 24th Anniversary Season of the DUMBO Dance Festival (DDF), a dynamic four-day event showcasing 45 cutting-edge dance companies from New York and around the world. The festival kicks off on Thursday, June 26, with a Gala Opening Night, setting the stage for an exhilarating weekend of contemporary dance at The Mark O’Donnell Theater.

Dedicated to pushing the boundaries of dance as an art form, WHITE WAVE scours the globe for today’s most innovative choreographers—emerging and established—bringing them together in Brooklyn for an immersive celebration of movement. Over the course of four days, audiences will experience a rich and diverse lineup of performances, highlighting the vibrancy and creative excellence of the New York dance scene and beyond.

“This is a festival about opportunities,” says Young Soon Kim, Artistic Director of White Wave Dance. “The DUMBO Dance Festival provides a platform for over 400 performing artists to showcase their work while offering New York audiences access to an extraordinary range of excellent and visionary choreography at an affordable price.”

GALA Opening Night: June 26 at 6:30PM

The 2025 DUMBO DANCE FESTIVAL will kick off with WHITE WAVE’s Opening Night GALA Celebration on Thursday, June 26^th at 6:30PM.

At our Gala, we will be honoring two remarkable individuals who have made significant contributions to WHITE WAVE DANCE and the greater dance community:

Wendy Perron, esteemed dance critic, writer, and advocate for the arts, whose insightful voice and decades of dedication have shaped and uplifted the field of contemporary dance.

Howard Schranz, former Chairman of WHITE WAVE’s Board of Directors, whose steadfast leadership, generosity, and unwavering support have been instrumental in sustaining and growing our organization’s mission. We are thrilled to celebrate their lasting impact on our company and the dance world at large!

Opening remarks will be followed by five stunning contemporary dance troupes: spoken movement (United Kingdom), Obremski/Works (NY), Motion Tribe (Korea), Bruce McCormick (CA), Katia Raj (NY), WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company.

After the performances, the audience can enjoy an open bar, food, and music to feed the soul, as well as a fabulous raffle including gourmet wine baskets, “Dinner for Two” at local DUMBO eateries, and much more!

Festival tickets: $30 in advance / $35 at door / $25 students & seniors.

GALA Tickets are $100 and $250 (VIP seating) per person; all proceeds raised will directly offset WHITE WAVE’s production costs for our 2025/26 Season.

GALA & Festival Tickets can be purchased at

https://whitewavedance.networkforgood.com/events/85248-2025-dumbo-dance-festival

Performance Schedule and more info at https://www.whitewavedance.org

Questions? Please contact WHITE WAVE at wwyskdc@gmail.com or call at 718-855-8822!

2025 DDF features 45 contemporary dance troupes combining over 400 artists who will present solo, chamber, and full-scale works. Dancers from across the United States, and internationally from France, United Kingdom, Germany, Mexico, Republic of Congo, and Korea will join the New York’s active dance community to offer the full range of new directions in dance in the 21^st century.

Special Performance Opportunities:

This year at the 2025 DUMBO Dance Festival, White Wave Dance is pleased to announce we will be selecting TWO outstanding companies to have the opportunity to perform at the 2026 New Dance Festival in South Korea, and the 2026 Detroit City Dance Festival. Both of these highly regarded festivals will provide companies with another fantastic opportunity for further exposure, promotion and performance. All companies participating in this year’s festival will be carefully considered and will be notified after the festival.

In this anniversary year, the roster of companies includes:

Bruce McCormick, Olivares Dance Company, Waeli Wang, Vitality [the company], Twigs + Co, Ericka Squire//The Dance Company, Giovanni Castellon, Compagnie La Torrefaction, Company KANE, Carlos Diaz, Chris Johnson Dance, Motion Tribe, KAIROS Dance Theater, Spero Dance, TheCo, Smutek Dance, June’s Creative Expressions, New Name Collective, moe-tion dance theater, Jayde Spiegel, Alison Cook Beatty Dance, Suzzanne Ponomarenko Dance, The Brooklyn Dance Ensemble, Julia Ciesielska, Obremski/Works, Amos Pinhasi, Sokolow Theatre/Dance Ensemble, E-Danza, BK Dance Project, Jaryd Farcon & Co., Sophia Perone, Rae Perry, Mark Bankin, Omnivore Dance, Lauren Mortimer, Nolan Dance Collective, Association Culturelle La Lumiere, Chapman Dance Houston, spoken movement UK, KWAM Collective, dance | Estrada, Fluxus Haus Inc.

In our commitment to presenting dance for all, the 24^th Annual DUMBO Dance Festival is proud to announce the following events in our exciting 2025 program:

Grand Finale: Sunday, June 29^th 6PM

For the Festival Grand Finale, eight companies will present works, including:

Alison Cook Beatty Dance, Ericka Squire//The Dance Company, Julia Ciesielska, New Name Collective, KAIROS Dance Theater, Twigs + Co, Suzzanne Ponomarenko Dance, WHITE WAVE Dance.

2025 DUMBO DANCE FESTIVAL Performance Schedule:

GALA Opening Night:

June 26 @ 6:30PM

• spoken movement, United Kingdom
• Obremski/Works, NY
• Motion Tribe, Korea
• Bruce McCormick, CA
• Katia Raj, NY
• WHITE WAVE Dance, NY

Friday, June 27 @ 7PM

• Rae Perry, NY
• Fluxus Haus Inc., VA
• Bruce McCormick, CA
• Giovanni Castellon, FL
• Spero Dance, MA
• Lauren Mortimer, PA
• Waeli Wang, CA
• Association Culturelle La Lumiere, Republic of Congo

Saturday, June 28 @ 4PM

• KWAM Collective, UK
• Omnivore Dance, OH
• Olivares Dance Company, CA
• Amos Pinhasi, NY
• Chris Johnson Dance, IL
• Sokolow Theatre/Dance Ensemble, NY
• Nolan Dance Collective, PA
• TheCo, Mexico

Saturday, June 28 @ 6PM

• Jayde Spiegel, NV
• Smutek Dance, MI
• The Brooklyn Dance Ensemble, NY
• June’s Creative Expressions, MI
• BK Dance Project, NY
• Chapman Dance Houston, TX
• moe-tion dance theater, NJ
• WHITE WAVE Dance, NY

Sunday, June 29 @ 4PM

• Estrada Dance, UT
• E-Danza, NY
• Jaryd Farcon & Co., NY
• Sophia Perone, NY
• Julia Ciesielska, NY
• Motion Tribe, Korea
• Mark Bankin, NY
• Vitality [the company], CO

GRAND FINALE

Sunday, June 29 @ 6PM

• Alison Cook Beatty Dance, NY
• Ericka Squire//The Dance Company, Fl
• New Name Collective, NJ
• KAIROS Dance Theater, MA
• Twigs + Co, CO
• Suzzanne Ponomarenko Dance, NY
• WHITE WAVE Dance, NY

For Artists BIO and more info, please visit www.whitewavedance.org.

ABOUT WHITE WAVE

Formed in 1988, WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company (WHITE WAVE) strives to inspire audiences through multi-dimensional dance productions reflecting themes and philosophies both modern and timeless. Our mission is to be a potent stimulus for change and expansion of the dance/arts world through the production of dance concerts, classes, residencies, and education. Artistic Director Young Soon Kim’s vision is expansive, challenging the threshold of dance, music, theater and visual art, surging forward to create new possibilities. Ms. Kim creates works of vision and movement language in reverence and awe of novelty that challenge and broaden the boundaries of dance. We provide both emerging and established choreographers/companies with a NYC venue where they can congregate, create, rehearse and present new dance works through our festivals.

WHITE WAVE created DDF in 2001 in response to the dance community’s need for performance opportunities that would not only present, but also produce, the work of rising choreographers at minimal expense for the artist. The festival is now recognized as New York’s most prestigious gathering of pioneering choreography, encouraging experimentation, creativity, and originality.

To date, WHITE WAVE Dance has proudly presented over 3,800 choreographers/dance companies and over 26,500 performers to a total of more than 92K audience members.

More info at www.whitewavedance.org.

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Young Soon Kim, Artistic Director of WHITE WAVE Dance, is a recipient of the 2023 Bessies Angel Honoree Award, and is a nationally and internationally acclaimed choreographer, whose work has been hailed for its exhilarating, visually stunning, and emotionally rich phrases and textures.

In addition to her role as a performer and Artistic Director, Ms. Kim created a series of dance festivals soon after inaugurating the WHITE WAVE John Ryan Theater in DUMBO, Brooklyn, in 2001.

She has since become one of the most recognized producers/curators in New York City. Ms. Kim has also served as a juror for New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in 2006 and for the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in 2014.

After the World première at the 2017 La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival, WHITE WAVE Dance’s Canadian première of “iyouuswe” (read as I-You-Us-We-two) at the 2018 Vancouver International Dance Festival was a resounding success! WHITE WAVE presented “Eternal NOW” at our enormously successful 2019 tour to Korea and China. In Gwangju, Korea, we performed at a special event at the Asian Cultural Center, one of the

most prestigious arts complexes in all of Asia. There we participated at the Opening Celebration of the 2019 FINA World Championship Masters’ Games, a sporting event that rivals the Olympics. Following that, we flew

to China to perform at the Ningbo Cultural Plaza, as part of a China-US Cultural Exchange program. Dazzled sold-out audiences greeted us at every performance!

During the Summer/Fall 2021, Young Soon Kim continually created “iyouuswe II, A Dance Film” and a stage version of the production. iyouuswe II (I-You-Us-We-Two), A Dance Film was selected as finalist for the 2022 Cannes International Film Festival, Paris International Short Festival, Vancouver Independent Film Festival and an OFFICIAL SELECTION at the 2021 London International Short Film Festival, Espoo Digi-Dance International Film Festival (Finland) and Experimental, Dance, Music Film Festival (Canada).

“There are people who simply have a lot of energy, and the Korean-born choreographer Young Soon Kim is clearly one of them.” – Roslyn Sulcas, The New York Times

Please visit www.whitewavedance.org for more information about the

OPENING NIGHT GALA and DUMBO Dance Festival.

Click HERE to download photos of 2025 DUMBO Dance Festival

THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS

WHITE WAVE’s programs are supported, in part, by public funds from The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, New York State Council on the Arts, The New York Community Trust, Dance/NYC’s Coronavirus Dance Relief Fund, Howard Gilman Foundation, Harkness Foundation for Dance, New York City Artist Corps, Mosaic Network & Fund, Grace Charity Foundation Inc., Arnhold Foundation Inc., JOHN RYAN, and Individual Arts Supporters like you.

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Thanks Commisionaire Howard and team…GREAT EVENT FULL OF SPECIAL TALENT…AND PROFESSIONALLY PRODUCED

Thanks, Pastor Monrose, Executive Director for Faith-Based NYC, and the ADAMS Administration for supporting this important outreach for our youth.

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The Making of a Peace Activation – Rulers of the New Earth

Nyack, NY – [March 27, 2025] – The highly anticipated documentary POP NATION: Portal of Peace – The Making of a Peace Activation: Rulers of the New Earth will be showcased at the upcoming Nyack International Film Festival.

Seven nights of fun, thought-provoking and intriguing films.
The 12th Annual Nyack International Film Festival (NIFF) is a gold rated festival and biggest 7 day event in Rockland County. NIFF prides itself on bringing the village of Nyack one of the most eclectic collections of films ever seen in the area.
Produced by: Richard Quinn.

POP NATION
Nyack Int Film Featival
March 31, 2025
8:30 pm
HOTEL NYACK
Nyack NY!

This groundbreaking film, directed by Christine Marie, explores the power of peace activism through music, dance, and spiritual transformation, capturing the journey of global changemakers uniting to ignite a movement for peace and higher consciousness.

A Cinematic Journey of Transformation

Produced by Lakshmi Foundation (a 501(c)(3) under We, The World), in association with United World Pictures, POP NATION is an experiential documentary that immerses audiences in a high-vibrational activation process—blending music, dance, healing modalities, and storytelling to inspire collective transformation.

The film features an ensemble of visionary leaders, artists, and healers, including Paul Sladkus (Good News Broadcast), Rick Ulfik (We, The World), Andrew Kaen (ReAwakennd), Solo’s Beat, Yoco Yoshikawa, Priestess El Pelligrino(Age of New Beginnings), and many more. A highlight of the film is the performance of Rulers of the New Earth, a powerful anthem featuring Solo’s Beat, Christine Marie, Fantuzzi, and renowned tango dancers Karina Romero & Jorge Carmina. Dancers,  Priestess El Pellegrino, Diva Yoko Yoshikawa, Heidi McClure (aka Aza Prem Charu) and on Bongos the legendary FANTUZZI Luis.

Bringing Global Peace Activation to the Big Screen

With cinematography by Christine Marie, Andrew Kaen, Victor Thomas, and Olu Smith, and  Hubcast and narration by Christine Marie, the documentary transports viewers across filming locations in New York City, Long Island (Windows on the Lake), Orlando, Florida, Sierra Leone, and Brooklyn—each playing a vital role in the unfolding activation.

The film was made possible through the generous contributions of our friends and  sponsor / donations , including Terry and Margaret Russell + Family, Nyack Smoke Shop, WBAI & Kathryn Davis, Cafecito Break with Rosangel Perez, Fusion Salon, Valley Pizza, Beach Club Estate, Windows on the Lake, Age of New Beginnings, Anthony’s Live, and fiscal sponsor We, The World.

Nyack Film Festival Premiere & Media Opportunities

The film will be showcased at the Nyack International Film Festival as part of its mission to highlight visionary storytelling that uplifts humanity. Press, media, and community members are invited to attend and experience the powerful message of POP NATION.

For media inquiries, interviews, and press passes, please contact:
Christine Marie
Email:cm.0969@proton.me
Phone: 8457670571

About the Filmmakers

POP NATION: Portal of Peace is written and directed by Christine Marie and produced by Lakshmi Foundation in association with United World Pictures. Executive Producers include Christine Marie, William Augustoni, Terence Russell, and Kelly Wells Russell, with additional contributions from Planet Heart, We, The World, and Good News Broadcast.

Join the Movement

This is more than a film—it’s an activation. Join us at the Nyack Film Festival and become part of the movement to co-create a new paradigm of peace, love, and unity.

Nyack Int Film Featival
March 31, 2025
8:30 pm
HOTEL NYACK
Nyack NY!

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