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Isugid Pinoy! Stories in Pictures & Words - 2017-18 (visual arts, comic book) -  Isugid Pinoy! (ee-soo-ghid), is tell it Pilipino in the Philippine Bisayan language. Under Kularts Making Visible Program, the 2017-2019 Isugid Pinoy! is a multi-faceted participatory art project led by visual artists Don Aguillo and Raf Salazar, in partnership with the members of our South of Market (SOMA) family. It explores the diverse stories of five anchor organizations of the state and city-wide recognized SOMA Pilipinas – Filipino Cultural Heritage District and reimagines them as graphic storytelling comic superheroes. Project consists of an exhibition of new works exhibited at UNDISCOVERED SF Creative Night Market and City College of San Francisco Library. The first issue published (April, 2018) was inspired by Bindlestiff Studio and Arkipelago Books. 

 
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Pinoys Here & Now Workshop Sampler, January 2017 - March 2018 (multidisciplinary) - As part of Kularts' Making Visible initiative, for one Saturday each month, a roster of 3-4 Bay Area Pilipino artists lead introductory courses on diverse artistic offerings from traditional Pilipino arts including baybayin, rondalla, kali and eskrima to contemporary styles such as graphic storytelling, hip-hop, improv and shadow play. 

 
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1st & 2nd Annual Dialogue on Philippine Arts (previously Dance) and Culture in the Diaspora, May 2016-17 (panel, live performances, workshops) - Hosted by Kularts, American Center of Philippine Arts, and Parangal Dance Company in partnership with USF Performing Arts and Social Justice (2016), panel of over twenty multidisciplinary artists delve deeply into what it means to be the new generation of practicing artists in North America who create works rooted in the Philippines arts. Issues pertaining to creative process, breaking cultural appropriation, economics of the arts and credits, copyrights & ownership. Programming also includes a legacy dinner honoring creative, cultural trailblazers, as well as workshops by Master Philippine artists. 

 
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Workshop Performance of INCARCERATED 6x9, May 20-21, 2017 (dance, theater) - Exploring the hopes, delusions and the ultimate will to survive in the loneliest, most bitter place on the planet, INCARCERATED 6x9 is inspired by the real-life accounts of young Pinoy and Asian Americans incarcerated between 1966 and 2008. The immersive 60-minute dance-media performance is the latest work by Alleluia Panis, who was named the first ever San Francisco Legacy Artist by the San Francisco Arts Commission 2017-18. Collaborating with Panis is composer Rachel Lastimosa of the indie-soul and R&B duo, Dirty Boots, and media artist and filmmaker, Wilfred Galila. 

 
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Immersive Mindanaoan Arts Programming, September 22-29, 2017 (workshops, live performances)In this one-of-a-kind workshop, twelve indigenous Mindanaoan artists will demo and instruct in the art of music, dance, and weaving practices of their respective Philippine tribal groups including: Mandaya, Maranao, T'boli, and Maguindanao; as well as Bay Area-based Master Weaver of Kalingafornia Laga, Jenny Bawer Young. 

 
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12th - 15th Annual Parol Lantern Festival & Parade, December 2014 - 2017 (festival) - Each year the South of Market community showcases the parol lantern - the quintessential Filipino symbol of hope, blessings, luck, peace, and light during the holiday season - and brightens the Jessie Square, Yerba Buena Lane and Mission Street between 3rd and 4th Street.  by With over 7,000 attendees, the holiday festivities include a parade comprised of hundreds of local community members, live performances and presentations from Bay Area artists, and parol lantern sculpture commissions by 3D, visual artists. 

 
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World Premiere of Ba-e Makiling, September 9-18, 2016 (dance, theater) - A collaboration with Bay Area Pilipino master artists, Philippine dance choreographer Jay Loyola, composer Florante Aguilar of the award winning documentary Harana, and Kularts Artistic Director Alleluia Panis, presented by Kularts, Ba-e Makiling is inspired by Philippine myths and native spirituality, with an empowering message to re-discover and reclaim the indigenous self denied by centuries of colonization.

 
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Kwentóhan: Pinoy Stories in Pictures & Words, 2014-16 (visual arts, exhibitions) - giving visual presence to the San Francisco Pilipino community and contextualizes the Pilipino American narrative through graphic illustrations, including cinematic photography and comics workshops, online story submissions and in-person interviews, and exhibitions at I-Hotel Manilatown Center, Bayanihan Community Center and Bindlestiff Studio.

 
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Clan of Saints Bay, February, 2016 (visual arts, comic book) - In 2015, with a small grant from SOMA Community Action Grant, Kularts commissioned illustrator/concept designer Don Aguillo to create poster art and illustrator/designer Raf Salazar to create web comics. Aguillo and Salazar created 'Clan of Saints Bay' as part of Kularts latest exhibition Kwentóhan: Pinoy Stories in Pictures and Words, giving visual presence to the San Francisco Pilipino community and contextualizes the Pilipino American narrative through graphic illustrations. In particular, the 'Clan of Saints Bay' comic book was inspired by our everyday SoMa Pilipinas superheroes! It highlights Pilipino narratives & lessons we learn and exemplify as a community. Clan of Saints Bay shown at Bindlestiff Studio, Gene Friend Recreation Center, and UNDISCOVERED SF Creative Night Market.

 

Ma'ARTes Pinoy Arts Festival, May 2015 (multidisciplinary arts) - [muh-ar-tes] is the first festival of its kind in the San Francisco Bay Area, celebrating the diverse music, theater, dance and visual arts of the Pilipino Diaspora, featuring fifty artists in six events located in San Francisco’s historically Filipino American neighborhoods. Presentations include live dance, theater performances, readings, exhibitions and a SOMA Pilipinas arts fair at Gene Friend Recreation Center with performances by musician Florante Aguilar; dancer, performer SAMMAY; electro-violinist Cry Wolffs, and indie, R&B duo Dirty Boots.

 
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World Premiere of She, Who Can See, May & September, 2015 (dance, theater) - Alleluia Panis' immersive dance work, She, Who Can See in collaboration with composer Florante Aguilar and filmmaker Wilfred Galila, tells the haunting story of Salima and Nico. When the powerful waves of Salima’s shamanic inheritance surge into the daily realities of their middle-class life, their refusal to succumb to conventional western medical diagnosis of mental illness, plunge them into the disorienting world of visions, dreams, and ancestral spirits. After initial sold-out run in May, 2015 it returned September, 2015 for eight shows, and was made into a dance film, 2017-18 that will be screened at CAAM, May 16, 2018.

 
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Kodakan: Pilipinos in the City Exhibition, May - December, 2015 (visual arts exhibition) - Inspired by images in the book Filipinos in San Francisco and from the San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection, Artists Wilfred Galila and Peggy Peralta, with assistance from Cece Carpio, have created a series of 600+ photographs and video images of the contemporary Pilipino community —both in posed and casual settings—to create a media project that explores changing expressions of Pilipino cultural identity over time. By juxtaposing images of “then and now,” we contextualize the Pilipino American narrative and examine perceptions of what/who is Pilipino. Originally exhibited at the San Francisco Main Library in 2013, Kodakan mades its return in 2015, exhibited at I-Hotel Manilatown Center, then at ACT's Strand Theater, during the run of "Monstress," adapted from Lysley Tenorio's book of short stories, followed by Bayanihan Community Center.

 
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Kwentóhan: Splendor Of Wound, 2014 (comic book) In 2014, Kularts commissioned cartoonist/poet Trinidad Escobar to create, Kwentóhan: Splendor of Wound, as part of, Kwentóhan: Pinoy Stories in Pictures and Words Project, which gives visual presence to the San Francisco Pilipino community and contextualizes the Pilipino American narrative through graphic illustrations. Throughout 2014-15, Kularts invited San Francisco residents and community members to tell us their unique Pilipino familial stories and experiences through online written submissions & participate in one-on-one interviews for a chance to inspire comic works. Through, Splendor of Wound, view San Francisco through a komik lens, the 52-page comic book weaves together stories inspired by five Pilipino Americans in San Francisco

 
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World Premiere of Maség Typhoon, November 14-15, 2014 (dance, theater) - Philippine dance choreographer Sydney Loyola, composer Florante Aguilar of the award-winning film Harana and Kularts’ Artistic Director Alleluia Panis, collaborate to create Maség (Typhoon) in the new genre of Philippine dance theater performance. Set in the Philippines circa 1400’s, Maség uses Shakespeare’s classic The Tempest as framework to investigate issues of immigration, indigenous spirituality, and subjugation of the weak. Activities included sneak preview at 4th Annual Yerba Buena Night, 10/11/14 and outdoor performance at Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, 5/23/15.