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Short and Sweet this week, as so much Good News around this event is happening, over 150 people are working on it, mostly volunteers.  You can Volunteer as well. 212-647-1212

We still need donations to pay for all we are creating for this World’s largest Peace and Climate Week Concert in Times Square. We thank our partner, Manhattan Borough President, Mark Levine and our co-producers OMMM. So many more to thank, so please go to www.pausetheworldforpeace.org to see the latest and greatest, heha!

We LOVE YOU, in the name of Peace and Mother Earth…let’s celebrate on September 21, 2024 and every moment after noon should be PEACEFUL.  www.peacedayparty.org is our dream, the whole world having a PEACEFUL PARTY….

WE WILL DO IT WITH YOUR PARTICIPATION. THANK YOU.

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8:00 PM EST – Virtual Gala | 9:00 PM EST – Online Post-Gala VIP Reception

Join in China – Thursday, February 18, 2021

9:00 AM – Virtual Gala | 10:00 AM – Online Post-Gala VIP Reception

Join us as we present the Blue Cloud Award to our 2021 honorees whose

outstanding achievements embody China Institute’s mission.

Online Post-Gala VIP Reception and Gala Tickets: $500, access to the premiere broadcast and an exclusive online reception immediately following the Gala featuring honorees, distinguished representatives, and special guests.

General Admission Gala Ticket: FREE, and includes access to the premiere broadcast on February 17 at 8:00 pm EST
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About 2021 Blue Cloud Gala

Since 1984, China Institute has presented the Blue Cloud Award to notable and dynamic individuals and organizations who champion our mission. The 2021 event will also include exciting performances and programming celebrating the Lunar New Year.

About China Institute

Founded in 1926 by Chinese educators Hu Shi and K.P. Wen and American scholars John Dewey and Paul Monroe, China Institute is the oldest bicultural, independent, non-profit organization in America to focus exclusively on China. More: www.chinainstitute.org

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Imagine waking up each morning to drum and dance in one of the world’s primary cradles of rhythm, amongst the world’s prime practitioners of Body Music. Then translating traditional rhythms to the conspicuous sounds of palms, fingers, legs, feet, torso, voice – exploring the confluence of Ghanaian and Body Music traditions in an uncharted cross-cultural language. Throw in market days, village excursions, intercultural exchange, and the 10th International Body Music Festival (IBMF) in Dzodze, Ghana – 6-16 July 2018 will be your unforgettable Body Music Adventure.

Body Music – clapping, snapping, stepping and vocalizing – is an amalgam of composition and choreography, music you can see, dance you can hear. Humans basically have the same instrument, yet they express music on it so differently culture to culture. There is an intimacy, a primacy, of the connection people have when you use your body as the sole instrument. It’s both personal and universal.

While Ghana is “a hotbed of percussive innovation and world rhythm,” IBMF founder and Artistic Director Keith Terry explains, “historically, there has been very little Body Music in their music traditions. There is a potential for the rhythmic language that is everywhere in Western Africa – not, as yet, translated into Body Music – to be explored and articulated in new ways, and the interchange is very exciting. Our partner, Dr. Kofi Gbolonyo, an ethnomusicology professor and Dzodze native, invited the IBMF to his village for this reason.”

Co-produced by Crosspulse and Dr. Kofi Gbolonyo and the Nunya Music Academy, the 10th IBMF consists of TEN days of concerts, workshops and cultural exchange with some of the world’s finest contemporary and traditional Body Musicians, plus intensive workshops in Ghanaian drumming and dance. No prior experience in either art form required, but rampant curiosity expected.

This year’s IBMF will feature Ghanaian artists, plus international Body Music artists from the US, Brazil, France, Israel, Columbia, Austria and South Africa — in concerts, workshops, cross-cultural collaborations, jam sessions, and more. The IBMF offers a unique musical and cultural immersion opportunity for international participants to experience and engage with Ghana while embodying its rhythms in diverse ways.

“This is not a luxury vacation, but rather a deep cultural, Body Music adventure,” says Terry. “Participants will be based in a Ghanaian village for most of it, then in Accra, interacting with cultural and musical institutions there through exchanges, workshops, and nightlife. Mornings will be spent studying music and dance, and in the afternoons, students will learn to translate that learning into Body Music. Trips to other villages to see ceremonies, workshops, and performances will provide the international participants with additional opportunities to experience the roots of Ghanaian culture.”

The International Body Music Festival is both a culmination of Crosspulse’s 40 years developing Body Music as a communicative performance art and educational model; and a jumping off place for a powerful forum of cross-cultural rhythmic performance and community development.

Over the course of its nine previous incarnations, the International Body Music Festival has become a meeting ground for both students and teachers of the various styles of global Body Music. Since 2008, the IBMF has been hosted around the world, from Brazil to Turkey to Indonesia to Paris, though every few years it returns to its home base in the San Francisco Bay Area.

The Festival is a moving hub for performers who engage with humanity’s first instrument: the body itself. The shushing of palms, the snapping of fingers, the stomping of feet, and the seemingly infinite potential of the throat and mouth have inspired people worldwide to create moving music, audible dance. Tap, stepping, hambone, flamenco, beatbox, every style that forefronts the sounds of bodies in motion. It’s the oldest music on the planet, and it’s brand new.

Now, a full 40 years since he first coined the term “Body Music” back in 1978, Terry says this will be the final full-scale festival he will produce, preferring to concentrate on professional training and IBMF MiniFests after Ghana.

In honor of this decade-long benchmark, the Percuaction Global Percussion Network plans to honor Terry’s contributions to the field by presenting him with The Percuaction Lifetime Achievement Award during the time of the festival in Ghana, which adds a special value and significance to this year’s program

The Percuaction Lifetime Achievement Award is presented on an annual basis and is the organization’s highest recognition. Since 2012, the prize has acknowledged the life-time missions and achievements of percussive luminaries who have supported Percuaction’s vision of a global rhythm community.

But despite Terry’s impending departure from producing IBMF in upcoming years, he’s not at all worried about the future of the Body Music movement.

“The community will continue to grow, and there are so many places that are interested in hosting IBMF MiniFests in their communities,” he says, “Each new year, I marvel at the quality of the students and the state of the art form. You can see there are lots of embers sparking and we’re leaving Body Music in good hands with the younger generation…I can take a step back. As has happened in past IBMF locations like Bali, Brazil, Turkey, when the young generation experiences Body Music for the first time, then you go back a year later and see it everywhere. I’m really excited by this. It’s happening. It’s moving!”

Confirmed teachers/performers for IBMF 2018 (more announced weekly on our website):

Bryan Dyer, circle singing/beatbox (USA)
Dr. Kofi Gbolonyo, dance/sweat (Ghana)
Evie Ladin, MoToR/dance (USA)
Rémi Leclerc &Quelen Lamouroux, Humanophone (France)
Tupac Mantilla, body music (Columbia)
Molodi, stepping (USA)
Pedro Consorte & Zuza Gonçalves, Musica do Circulo (Brazil)
Max Pollak, RumbaTap (Austria/USA)
Charles Raszl, choreography (Brazil)
Lior Shoov, improvisation (Israel)
Keith Terry, body music (USA)
Vuyani King Gaba Gumboots Idadla Feni, gumboot (South Africa)

Please check out the details and read our full press release on our OPK here. And please let me know if you’d like to cover let me know if I can arrange an interview with IBMF Founder and Creative Director Keith Terry!

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About Mulan The Musical  –  Good News admirers  the show at the Peter Sharp Theater.  Show is there until January 13, 2013. 

The story of Mulan was happened 1600 years ago–Han dynasty. Mulan is the eldest child of the family. She likes practicing kongfu. At that time, each family is given a conscription notice, requiring one man from each family to join the Chinese army. When Mulan hears that her elderly father, the only man in their family and also ill, is forced to join the army, she decides to stand in his place, disguising herself as a young man. Her Father learns that Mulan has taken his place and prays to his family’s ancestors to protect her.

Mulan conceals her true identity and defends her country dressed as a man, when the war ended, the Khan would reward her, then her secret is revealed. Her loyalty to the Khan and parents is highly praised by the people and becomes a legend.  http://www.mulanthemusical.com/

About play

Based on traditional Chinese drum music and other innovated method, which combines with Chinese music, drum music, kongfu, dance and variety of art forms, Red Poppy Ladies’ Percussion creates the musical play “Mulan”.

Features of Mulan

1, Mulan is different from a traditional musical mainly presented by singing, dancing and dialogue. It is a Chinese music and drumming musical with a new music form to tell a movable story.
2, Presenting audiences a strong and particular impression on Chinese music, drumming language and rhythms;
3, All performers or artists in play are young women. They are professionally trained on percussion and Chinese drum technique. Red Poppy is an unique drumming team in the world.
4, The Mulan is created bass upon an ancient Chinese story 1600 years ago which was also used by Disney and gave a basic understanding to the world people.
5, Specially present the typical Chinese ancient instrument, Fou which was shown to the whole world in Opening Ceremony of 2008 Beijing Olympic;
6, One of important creative point is the combination of drumming and Chinese kongfu presentation which melts richer visual entertainment to the hearing of audiences.
7, Even though the story is from old time, it will specially remind young people something important to the life and need to be kept in any country and any time: loyalty and filial devotion.

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