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We're throwing a Valentine's Party and You're Invited!

When? 
Saturday, February 15th, 7:30-10:30pm

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Where? 
145 W 46th St, 3rd Fl, between 6th & 7th Aves, NYC

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What?
Artist speed dating. An open bar. Big announcements. Food galore. An auction. A dance floor. Actual valentines!

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Why?
To gather, to spread the love, and to raise some money towards our Turning 25 in '25 fundraising goal while we do it!

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Dress Code
Whatever makes you feel groovy... 

Help Blessed Unrest turn 25 in '25!

As Blessed Unrest approaches our 25th anniversary, we urgently need your support to ensure we can continue to thrive for the next 25 years. Independent theater plays a crucial role in nurturing emerging artists and enriching our cultural landscape.

 

Our goal is to raise $50,000 in order to expand our Ensemble Training Program, to implement the necessary changes to Blessed Unrest’s organizational structure, and to mount our spring production.​

We are one of the last, if not the last, remaining theatre companies in NYC offering free, ongoing ensemble training in physical theatre techniques. Accessibility to the arts should not be a luxury, and Blessed Unrest keeps the arts accessible to audiences and artists alike.

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Thank you for considering a gift to Blessed Unrest. Your support fuels our mission, provides free training to our Ensemble, and helps us continue our work. Together, we can make a lasting impact and bring arts and community to those who need it most.

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Blessed Unrest is a subversive physical theater ensemble that transforms new and classic plays into channels for unexpected alchemy, energetic discomfort, and complex articulation. Through a dedicated and diverse ensemble, international collaborations, and a rigorous training and devising process, we are fueled by the innate human desire to collaborate, the thrill of the impossible challenge, and the instinctual need to rebel. We teach our methods of physical theatre and devising to university students across the country and internationally through workshops and residencies.

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We have performed at New York Theatre Workshop Next Door, Public Theater, P.S. 122, New Ohio Theatre, Baruch Performing Arts Center, Interart Theatre, NYU’s Loewe Theatre, Columbia University, Manhattan School of Music, San Francisco’s Exit Theatre, Emelin Theatre in Westchester, the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival and on international tours in Western Europe and the Balkans. We have staged thirty-two full productions in New York (nineteen world premieres), including original devised plays, adaptations of classics, and stagings of established scripts. See our past productions here.

Recently
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Yale Innovation Summit

Artistic Director, Jessica Burr was honored to be a part of the Arts & Innovation: Centering Creators in the Creative Economy panel at the annual Yale Innovation Summit which, for the very first time ever included an Arts Track, helmed by the Midnight Oil Collective. Watch excerpts from the panel below.

“What happens is that the surrounding structures get valued more than the art itself, more than the process. We are supposed to make something from nothing in about three weeks' time. If we are going to be allowed to do our job in society: to see your heart, to heal your soul, to understand the inside of the human condition, we need to be allowed process. We need time, we need resources.”  

watch the full Arts Panel here:
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CONTACT US

info@blessedunrest.org

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Jessica Burr

347-651-6139

Jennifer Allen

804-514-2122

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167 Allen St., Suite 5A
New York, NY 10002

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Blessed Unrest’s work is made possible by New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; SHS Foundation; Ruth and Hal Launders Charitable Trust; A.R.T./New York Creative Space Grants, supported by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; and the generosity of individual donors. Blessed Unrest is a member of the Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York, and the Network of Ensemble Theatres.

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