“…You can sit if YOU want to, but we will stand and sing up a new sun…”
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Watch This Beautiful New Sand Animation from The Forgotten Kingdom
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Watch the premiere of a sand story and a live reading from The Forgotten Kingdom on ALL TOGETHER NOW
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The National Endowment for the Arts doubles its funding support for The Forgotten Kingdom – Sand Stories for its artistry, cultural preservation and the strengthening of communities through the arts
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How does sand artist Kseniya Simonova manage to coax so much emotion out of…sand??
Watch this video from the finals of America’s Got Talent: The Champions to learn more about how she casts her spell
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Watch sand artist Kseniya Simonova on NBC’s America’s Got Talent Champions
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We are honoured to have The Forgotten Kingdom — Sand Stories selected as one of 18 featured presentations at UP NEXT! at the Association of Performing Arts Professionals in New York.
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A presentation about The Forgotten Kingdom — Sand Stories is featured at the 17th Annual Idea Swap, hosted by the New England Foundation for the Arts.
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The Boston Foundation recently awarded the Guy Mendilow Ensemble a Live Arts Boston grant to support the continuation of the international collaboration between GME and Ukrainian sand animator Kseniya Simonova towards the show The Forgotten Kingdom.
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A video in support of the student leaders making a difference in this country, and participating in a legacy which has transformed this country time and again.
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The National Endowment for the Arts premieres a new sand animation from Guy Mendilow Ensemble and Kseniya Simonova, along with an episode of its Art Works podcast with Guy Mendilow
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To us, looking back with our historical hindsight, it seems almost inevitable... But to those living through this transition of ages, the course must've been anything but a foregone conclusion, a too-terrible future that few would've dared dream. I wanted to explore what it was like to see the breakdown of empires, the glimmers of hope that then evaporate. What is it like to be caught on the wrong side, in that kind of nightmare?
In what ways are we also already straddling two worlds without even knowing it? If we, or my son's generation, are destined to know two very different eras, the wake up call won't come in the form of a storm of steel like in WWI. It'll come in a modern guise...
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