Utopia Entertainment

06/08/2024

We’re officially into August, which means it’s event month! We cannot wait to see everyone there and have a blast!

Some reminders:
- This is a FREE event with no charge to get in but we will have vendors so be prepared for that
- It’s a picnic style event so you are welcome to bring your own food and drinks, we will have some things available but it will be limited
- We will have a few special performances taking place during the event
- Come prepared to dance and have fun!
- We have a big raffle with great prizes!

29/07/2024

UPDATED POSTER WITH ALL OF THE NEW CORRECT INFORMATION!

we will also be having some performances at the event so stay tuned for that announcement!

28/07/2024

Due to another set of unfortunate circumstances we have had to switch the location once again but now we have an official set location!

NEW NEW LOCATION: Cascade Recreational Park, 3810 Thornapple River Dr SE, Grand Rapids, MI, 49546

We will have a new poster with all the new details coming soon!

20/07/2024

VENDOR ANNOUNCEMENT!

We are so excited to be working with all of these talented creators! Come out to see all of them on August 24th!

Onceinamillion - Lightstick straps
Buttermyung - Fan art, keychains, stickers, bracelets, and more
Kahilln.it - Character cards and posters
Unique4U_Designs - Assorted jewelry, pens, lanyards, keychains, chain belts, photo card holders w/photos
BigHugStay - Buttons/pins, toploaders, bookmarks, binder pages, keychains, plushies, assorted album inclusions and posters, CDs, photocards
Kyeomshine - albums and photocards
Mae Bondy - albums and photocards

05/07/2024

🎆 Project nightlights is back on July 10th! Come hang out while we wave at the children staying in the hospital. As always please let us know if you have any questions. ✨

02/07/2024

NEW LOCATION: Due to conflicts with another scheduled event at the location we have to switch our events location. The new location will be at Riverside Park (only a few miles away from the previous location).
Address: 2001 Monroe Ave NE, Grand Rapids, MI 49505

UTOPIA ENTERTAINMENT AND D1AMOND DANCE CREW PRESENT: DAZZLING SUMMER!

Mark your calendars for August 24th and prepare for a day of dancing, food, and fun! This is a free event that we have prepared an over 100 song Random Dance Play with a wide variety of songs! We hope to see you there!

reminders: We are still looking for vendors and we have space for 5-7 vendors for this event! all you need to do is fill out this google form!

VENDOR APPLICATION: https://forms.gle/24VmrvLmLa21CZCZ6

EVENT LINK: https://www.facebook.com/share/gHSXvCsxs1z6beJw/?mibextid=9l3rBW

30/06/2024

UTOPIA ENTERTAINMENT AND D1AMOND DANCE CREW PRESENT: DAZZLING SUMMER!

Mark your calendars for August 24th and prepare for a day of dancing, food, and fun! This is a free event that we have prepared an over 100 song Random Dance Play with a wide variety of songs! We hope to see you there!

reminders: We are still looking for vendors and we have space for 5-7 vendors for this event! all you need to do is fill out this google form!

VENDOR APPLICATION: https://forms.gle/24VmrvLmLa21CZCZ6

EVENT LINK: https://www.facebook.com/share/gHSXvCsxs1z6beJw/?mibextid=9l3rBW

27/06/2024

VENDORS WANTED!
With news of our upcoming event being announced we are on the hunt for some vendors to sell their items at our event! All you need to do is fill out the form linked and we will contact you with more information! We have space for 5-7 vendors for this event, if you vended at our previous event keep an eye out on your email for information regarding this event!

VENDOR APPLICATION:

22/06/2024

UTOPIA ENTERTAINMENT AND D1AMOND PRESENT: DAZZLING SUMMER!!

Dazzling summer is a free Picnic and Random Dance Play that will be hosted in the Grand Rapids area! Bring your favorite snacks to enjoy and share and enjoy a day of fun and dancing!

The random dance list has been created and selected by our very own D1AMOND dance team with over 120 songs both new and iconic!

STAY TUNED FOR MORE INFORMATION!!

14/06/2024

Our dance group D1AMOND is looking to host some k-pop dance classes in the Grand Rapids area and we want to do an interest check! So if you’d be interested in attending a class please leave a comment below of a dance that you would want to learn!

02/06/2024

UTOPIA ENTERTAINMENT WILL BE AT JAFAX!
Jafax is an anime convention at The Devos Place June 21st-23rd. We are Scheduled to host two panels on Saturday of the con. We will first be hosting a K-pop fashion panel and fashion show, followed by a 120+ song Random Play Dance. This will be on the same day as Grand Rapids Pride so if you will be in town for that we hope you will stop by and participate! As always please feel free to ask any questions.
Ticket prices and more Information for Jafax can be found at https://www.jafax.org/

06/04/2024

April's Project Night Lights is coming up next Wednesday! The weather is going to be pretty nice so we hope you consider coming out to support the community. As always, if you have any questions please ask 😊 See you there!

02/04/2024

*TEAM INTRODUCTIONS*
This is long overdue… Introducing our new team member Amanda!
Amanda is 28 and became a kpop stan in the end of 2017! Her favorite groups/soloists include Bts, Jackson Wang, Eric Nam, snd shes recently been getting into Stray kids, BTOB, and Ateez! Her ult biases are RM, J-hope, Suga, Jackson Wang, Eric Nam, and Peneil! She joined our team with a focus in advertising and when asked why she wanted to join the team she replied “I love the idea of more K-pop events in this area 💜🫶🏾 [and] Icould help set up/tear down events and spread the word in multiple Facebook groups/to my friends who are vendors!”
Join us in *offically* welcoming Amanda to the team!

02/04/2024

NEW DANCE GROUP ANNOUNCEMENT‼️
In addition to D1AMOND we would like to introduce our subgroup ZONEOUT! This group will be composed of members aged 12-15 as we’ve seen an interest from those around that age! No experience is necessary to join the team! The audition process is very similarly structured to D1AMOND. And just like the other one all information is posted on our instagram account but below we have included the DROPBOX link of the audition material, and the GOOGLE FORM for audition submissions!

DROPBOX: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/h3gg4b1abxq64v1zu97pg/h?rlkey=t5mom4iltfp32uzju6haov13t&dl=0

GOOGLE FORM: https://forms.gle/hpaP5nQrmvAyxsEdA

01/04/2024

AUDITION ALERT‼️
D1AMOND is back with a new audition process! If you’ve already submitted your audition with the old audition process and we’ve already sent your information out no need to audition again! All information is posted on our instagram account but for those of you who don’t have instagram or haven’t already seen it in the DROPBOX link below is the songs we will be using for the audition process so we are eliminating our 2 round process. Also attached is our GOOGLE FORM link for audition submissions!

DROPBOX: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/ujb9a36bj58c3ktsz5gal/h?rlkey=g3jk2901ty6hdusy38ciombgx&dl=0

GOOGLE FORM: https://forms.gle/hpaP5nQrmvAyxsEdA

24/03/2024

Hi everyone! We want to thank all of you who came to our event yesterday we hope you all had a great time and we can’t wait for our future events! But with that being said we have created a survey for you. So if you were at the event yesterday please consider filling it out so we can get your input on how to make our events better, what you liked, and what you want to see in the future! And it is all anonymous.
Thank you all in advance!

SURVEY:

Thank you so much for attending Utopia Entertainments Dance into Spring event! If you're filling out this form I'm very appreciative that you attended our event, we worked very hard on it. That being said we want to make sure that we are hosting the best events possible so with your help we'd love t...

23/03/2024

Thank you so much to everyone who came out today! We had so much fun dancing and meeting everyone! we will be uploading some clips from the RDP soon!

16/03/2024

Online ticket sales have officially ended! If you missed out on the chance no worries we will have tickets on sale at the door for $5 (same price as online)! We can’t wait to see all of you there!

09/03/2024

Happy Saturday everyone! I just wanted to remind everyone in Grand Rapids that this coming Wednesday (3/13) is project night lights at Helen Devos children's hospital. This will be our 3rd time gathering as kpop fans and I hope you will consider coming. Right now it says Wednesday will have a high of 61° so hopefully the weather will be relatively nice so bring your favorite kpop lightstick and come wave at the children in the hospital with us! Parking is available in ramp 6 in front of the hospital and if you have any questions please reach out I'd love to help. Please share if you want to 😁

21/02/2024

Don’t forget to get your tickets to Dance Into Spring! We’re a month away from our very first event and we can’t wait to see everyone there!
(we will have tickets at the door as well!)

TICKET LINK: https://www.simpletix.com/e/dance-into-spring-tickets-160601?fbclid=IwAR2g79XDptAgMpQJ6dceyRnfDsZ905CpWozVvnPIohrl3JZSFx_3OsP1PvQ_aem_AYtG3D-eYBeIycTI51VDqIoWV8NHSBgtwhLhGsXh7SyTmo8P3Byoowe3HsVGHU8XksE

18/02/2024

VENDOR ANNOUNCMENTS:
Our next vendor is BigHugStay!
You can find her on Etsy at BigHugStay.etsy.com
She will be selling handcrafted plushies, bookmarks, and photocards!

18/02/2024

VENDOR ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Our first vendor who will be selling at our event is Du Jamae!
you can find her on instagram
she will be selling handmade kpop boxes, cards, vinyl decals, bracelets, customized tic tacs, and more!

16/02/2024

Decorate a top loader for our business cards with Guen! She made it look so cute! Follow us on tiktok and Instagram for more videos like this!!

13/02/2024

Come join us for the second Project night lights of the year! We'll be waving at the kids in the children's hospital this Valentines day, so if you're free please join us. We'll be meeting on the side walk in front of the children's hospital and parking is available in parking ramp 6 off of Coit ave.
Hope to see you Wednesday!