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Paradigm Shifts: Music, Opera & Film Festival

Encompass New Opera Theatre will produce Paradigm Shifts, Music, Opera & Film Festival in mid-May-June, celebrating true stories of courageous change-makers preserving our Planet, Oceans, and Wildlife. Told through soul-stirring films from around the world, and paired with vocalists, musicians, and dancers performing a variety of music from jazz and gospel, to African, Tibetan, Native American, and new chamber music, Paradigm Shifts features talk-backs with the artists and filmmakers. A centerpiece of the Festival will be a staged reading of The Theory of Everything, a new opera tracing the journey of a Brazilian quantum physicist exploring connections between science and ancient Peruvian cosmology. Dramatic events catapult a metaphysical and scientific search into other dimensions and alternate universes. Music by John David Earnest, libretto by Nancy Rhodes.

Union Theological Seminary

James Chapel
3041 Broadway
(at 121st Street)
New York, NY 10027

Wednesday, June 14 will open with an Outdoor Musical Ceremony in Union’s magnificent Courtyard, followed by the film: AWAKE, A DREAM FROM STANDING ROCK.
Thursday, June 15 Global Water Dancers will perform in Union’s Courtyard, followed by Haitian singers/musicians and the inspiring film about Haiti’s hero, FATHER JOSEPH.
Friday, June 16 will feature African music/dancers and two films: TAKING ROOT: THE VISION OF WANGARI MAATHAI, African heroine and Winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize, and SEMBENE, about the extraordinary Father of African stories and film.
Saturday, June 17 will feature programs for children in the afternoon, a matinee film: SUSTAINABLE; the evening film, HIJA DE LA LAGUNA, DAUGHTER OF THE LAKE, is the powerful true story of a young indigenous woman who fought for clean water in Peru.











When: Tue., Jun. 13, 2017 - Sat., Jun. 17, 2017 at 7:00 pm

Encompass New Opera Theatre will produce Paradigm Shifts, Music, Opera & Film Festival in mid-May-June, celebrating true stories of courageous change-makers preserving our Planet, Oceans, and Wildlife. Told through soul-stirring films from around the world, and paired with vocalists, musicians, and dancers performing a variety of music from jazz and gospel, to African, Tibetan, Native American, and new chamber music, Paradigm Shifts features talk-backs with the artists and filmmakers. A centerpiece of the Festival will be a staged reading of The Theory of Everything, a new opera tracing the journey of a Brazilian quantum physicist exploring connections between science and ancient Peruvian cosmology. Dramatic events catapult a metaphysical and scientific search into other dimensions and alternate universes. Music by John David Earnest, libretto by Nancy Rhodes.

Union Theological Seminary

James Chapel
3041 Broadway
(at 121st Street)
New York, NY 10027

Wednesday, June 14 will open with an Outdoor Musical Ceremony in Union’s magnificent Courtyard, followed by the film: AWAKE, A DREAM FROM STANDING ROCK.
Thursday, June 15 Global Water Dancers will perform in Union’s Courtyard, followed by Haitian singers/musicians and the inspiring film about Haiti’s hero, FATHER JOSEPH.
Friday, June 16 will feature African music/dancers and two films: TAKING ROOT: THE VISION OF WANGARI MAATHAI, African heroine and Winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize, and SEMBENE, about the extraordinary Father of African stories and film.
Saturday, June 17 will feature programs for children in the afternoon, a matinee film: SUSTAINABLE; the evening film, HIJA DE LA LAGUNA, DAUGHTER OF THE LAKE, is the powerful true story of a young indigenous woman who fought for clean water in Peru.

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