A week ago – exactly one year after their first arrival – they started with a month-long, Second Invasion of Korea, this time with a serious intent of „pinking it“ from the North to the South. First they subdued the Musical festival in Uijengbou, few kilometers north of Seoul, and now they teleported themselves to the far south of the country, to Yeosu, which is hosting world exhibition EXPO 2012, where they will present their new technological achievements, based mainly on enthusiastic interaction with the Earthlings.

There will be no time to rest after Korea, though. In June the Aliens are expected on Greenwich & Docklands festival in London, which they will use as a preparation ground for Olympics 2012 – the first Olympics in history featuring Alien participants! Their efforts will be focused on – typically alien – disciplines: speed kissing, interactive triathlon and synchronized commotion.

Under the watchful eye of our veteran members Ljud’s youth section has attended the international theater festival and youth forum “M-art.kontakt “ in Mogilev.

In collaboration with Belarus group “Moustache” (which was formed after Ljud’s last year’s visit to Minsk) they carried out an interactive theater performance which stirred up the citizens of Mogilev and raised a few eyebrows of local police officers. In White Russia, sadly, a street theater still falls into a “Disturbance of public peace and order” category and is sanctioned with a fine of 20€… and two weeks in jail!

A short video by Belarus TV can be found here.

Together with Moustache group, the Ljuds were also called to re-animate once popular youth club “Cuba café”” in Mogilev. We are doing our best to ensure that cooperation with “Moustache people” will continue on this year’s Ana Desetnica – street theater festival in Ljubljana.

We are very grateful for the sponsorship by Slovenian hi-tech company Comita which surpassed all our expectations by helping us yet again. This collaboration project was also supported by Ljubljana’s Youth Bureau. Thanks!

We are very grateful to Adrian for allowing us to record the workshops and to share them with the enthusiastic people of Belarus and with other people who are interested in these methods but did not have a chance to experience them in person yet!

The workshops were organized by the also excellent crew of CIRKUSFERA.

Click HERE to watch the videos and get ready to conquer the public space!

We are announcing three main experiements:

- Catching free radicals in the body by submitting it to mild excercises in physical theater

- Examination of human reactions to direct contact with Pink Invaders (video only!) – with additional commentary by Ljud’s experts on Close encounters of the Pink Kind

- Synthesis of mulled vine and “in vivo” testing of results

We welcome everyone who still hasn’t lost faith in the science of interactive theater and its effects on the growth of “personallity cells”…

Entrance fee: 0,000467€.

To book please call 031 341 889 (no english)

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Hope to see you there!

The INVASION for this year is over.

The Aliens invaded 23 cities in 17 countries. They caused chaos and havoc on the streets of Stockholm, Glasgow, Malmo, Amsterdam, Bergamo , Eke, Imatra, Fossano, Porsgrunn, Viladecans, Sassari, Maribor, Lienz, Jelenia Gora, Vordingborg, Amersfoort, Ourense, Yavne and many others.

They made old people cry in Seoul, they made the KGB worried in Minsk, they climbed the sacred monuments of WW2 in Arkhangelsk and almost got attacked by police dogs, and they made a random guy on a street in Berlin say: “I LOVE this city!”

They were photographed about a million times and as if this wasn’t enough they became the main characters of a comic book.

They PINKED the kids, their mothers, florists and garbage men alike, retired people, immigrants, even civil servants and especially innocent by-standers.  They spread amazement, excitement and the Pink virus all over this green-blue planet.

Not all of them survived this season unharmed. There were broken limbs and sprayed joints, thorns in their feet and bruises on their bodies. There were wild allegations and police inquiries, hospital maltreatments and lousy hotel rooms, but they managed to emerge even stronger, crazier and pinker than ever.

Some of them where even bought and taken home to continue their lives as alien pets! Everything goes when the Pink virus takes over…

They thank you all for being with them in those moments.

Now they will retreat to the vast coldness of outer space, not to rest, oh no, but to prepare for the next season of The INVASION…

… and until they return…

…may the Pink be with you!

We received the girls from Latvia, Denmark and Israel with great expectations which they have already begun to fulfill with their youthful enthusiasm and hard work …

We would like to take this opportunity to also thank :

MOVIT NA Mladina (Slovenian National Agency of Youth in Action)

‘This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication [communication] reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.’

Our top secret sources predict with 98% certainty that “the pinks” will be invading the following locations in the coming weeks and months:

Arkhangelsk International Street Festival (Russia) – 20. – 22.6.

PIT Festival (Porsgrunn, Norway) – 24. – 26.6.

International Street Theater Festival Villadecans (Spain) – 1. – 2.7.

Lent Festival (Maribor, Slovenia) – 5. – 6.7.

Merchant City (Glasgow, Scotland) – 23. – 24.7.

Olala Festival (Lienz, Austria) – 27. – 28.7.

Jelenia Gora International Street Theater Festival (Poland) - 6. – 7.8.

Berlin Lacht! Festival (Germany) – 9. – 11.8.

Stockholm Culture Festival (Sweden) – 16. – 20.8.

The Waves Festival (Vordingborg, Denmark) – 22. – 24.8.

Malmo Culture Festival (Sweden) – 25. – 26.8.

SPOFFIN Festival (Amersfoort, Netherlands) – 27. – 28.8.

Brouwsels op Straat Festival (Ghent, Belgium) – 3. – 4.9.

With the pink virus spreading to so many different places there is no excuse not to meet your favorite extraterrestrials and get a bit “infected” this summer!

Also check out this “photo-animation” made from the thousands of pictures the Koreans took of the pink aliens during the Invasion of Seoul…