ARTS UNITY MOVEMENT
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Mission Statement
The purpose for which this corporation is organized is to produce and cultivate expressive arts events and activities for public viewing and participation, in an effort to awaken and heal the individual and to activate global concern and vision.
About This Cause
Who We Are Arts Unity movement (AUM) is located in San Mateo CA, in northern Silicon Valley, south of San Francisco. AUM was founded to focus on the therapeutic use of the arts to connect communities and empower change. The core team is a unified force of practitioners dedicated to the mission of stress reduction and wellness through the arts to populations who might not otherwise have access or exposure to these modalities. AUM operates a professional dance company, NewGround Theatre Dance, under the direction of Coleen Lorenz, A.U.M. Founder, MA, BC-DMT, CGP, Reiki Master. NewGround provides storyline-message based performances, and collaborative, audience- interactive presentations. NewGround performances have been offered at low cost or by donation for widespread viewing and audience participation. It has been said that the NewGround performances “stir the soul to its core.” Our vision is to create a ripple effect of positive, healthy choices, each person influencing their own sphere. What We Do We develop storyline dance/multi-media performances and therapeutic workshops geared toward helping our targeted communities address issues of acceptance, compassion & transformation. AUM provides art therapy to incarcerated teens, mental health addiction professionals and their clients, at risk children, transition age youth, and ordinary people seeking to find meaning and purpose in their lives. AUM has a variety of unique programs that incorporate the Expressive Arts Therapies (dance/movement, art, drama, music), meditation & guided visualization techniques, insight-oriented improvisation approaches, discussion groups, and life coaching practices. Our vision is to create a ripple effect of positive, healthy choices, each person influencing their own sphere. Recently we have been doing work with the therapeutic community on strategies for incorporating racial trauma into treatment for mental health and addiction. This training included expressive arts approaches and a dance performance on the history of racism performed by a black man and a white woman. AUM appeals to a broad range of populations and age groups by focusing on the universal power of expression and the arts to transform lives. Why We Do It The AUM Center envisions a better world brought about through a critical mass of individuals who are awakened to their highest purpose and potential. To this end, our mission is to catalyze the individual to their greatest potential and expression through the power of the healing, expressive, performing, and social arts. By stimulating people to open up to their own potential we address the widespread alienation, stress and inner emptiness that result in addiction and the dominance of violence, racism and greed in our world. Some milestones in our organization’s history include: 2010-2021: Over 40 performances, Annual storyline performances around themes such as earth/environment, domestic violence, self-awareness, dance/art events, art shows and multiple workshop series. 2011: AUM incorporated as 501c3. NewGround performed the Terrain Project. Subsequent art workshops followed. 2012: New Ground performed AXIOM 2013: New Ground presented Catalyst, Choreographer Festival and Breaking New Ground, Discovering the Relationships between Art, Psychology and Recent Discoveries in Neuroscience. 2014: Opening of AUM Center, Started Offering Classes & Sessions: Open Art Studio, New concept of Empathic Art Exchange (EAX) was initiated Express Yourself! event was presented at AUM for the broader community. Three well-known artists presented their works and assisted community members in their own self-expression. NewGround commissioned to perform at Yerba Buena Gardens Festival in SF 2015: AUM invited to present the Opening Ceremony for the ‘Girls Conference’ in Human Trafficking. Black box theater opened. EAX event involved inviting community artists view new works in progress by the NewGround Company. Resulting work was an art show to accompany performance of Quantum Leap” Portals of awakening through art and dance. BHRS contract to provide art therapy to incarcerated teens. The Magic of Ghost Ranch Art show held at AUM Center. 2016: NewGround invited and commissioned to perform in touring production “Shanti - A Journey of Peace” NewGround Theatre Dance Company produced and performed Expressions of ONE along with presenting an art show created by participants in Empathetic Art Exchange. NewGround Invited and commissioned to perform in Mosaic America production. 2017: NewGround was Winner of Audience Choice Award for outstanding choreography. Title of piece: “The Only Constant Is Change” sjDANCEco – ChoreoProject. EAXs presented about “Our Earth and its resources- Letters From Earth. NewGround selected to perform in sjDANCEco festival as professional company performance.NG nominated for award at Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, state grant to provides art-based workshops to mental health and addiction professionals. 2018: NewGround invited & commissioned to perform at San Jose Museum of Art Presented by Mosaic Silicon Valley. NewGround performed Shekinah at AUM Center, Magic Theater in San Francisco and DeAnza Visual and Performing Arts Center Cupertino. 2019 NewGround selected to perform at Movement Arts Festival San Francisco Grace Cathedral, SF CA. NewGround performed Star Seed at Canada College with art show in lobby. Star Seed performed at Montalvo Arts Center presented by Mosaic Silicon Valley. NewGround Invited to present at sjDANCEco Annual Dance Festival. 2020: NewGround collaborated with Fuse Theater in a theatrical production. Art show at philanthropic center and theater festival planned, cancelled due to COVID. Shift to virtual programming, Virtual COVID art show opened on our website. 2021 Virtual art therapy classes continued. Hybrid EAX with livestream performance and zoom audience. More planned. Here is a link to a trailer that gives a snapshot of our work. https://youtu.be/-w2iAUjw1qU