Friday, May 11, 2007 - Sunday, May 13, 2007, 2007
Pinay Stories 2007
DON'T MISS the innovation and imagination of
PINAY STORIES
8pm. Friday. May 11 - Preview $7
8pm. Saturday. May 12 $13
3pm. Sunday. May 13 $13
Tickets: brownpapertickets.com
More Information: 415.239.0249
myspace.com/kularts
SomArts Cultural Center
934 Brannan St. @ 8th St. SF 94103
Pinay Stories 2007
Friday, May 11 *Preview
SAT & SUN May 12 & 13
SomArts Cultural Center
Join these young valorous Pinay writers as they depart from the volumes of the traditional memoir and become migrants of space and time . . .
In the year 2080, as an eight year old child is destined to become a slave to the virtual empire, witness a mother's heart-wrenching act of love and survival while the struggle of cultural memory and self identification is heightened in an exploitative digitized underworld.
"Are you ready for your warrior mark, anak? Where you do you want it?"
A butch manang uses her aged body to tell the complex story about the magic and healing in duality. Her life, an anthology of confrontation with convention and constraint, beget a mantra of healing that is passed down to us all.
" . . .my silence screams
quit whispering my name
echoes of memory burn hot my ears
my body's freedom a hope"
The next tribe of Pintadas (painted ones) of the year 3010, claims freedom from the millennia of neo-colonial rule that has displaced ALL their people into the universal diaspora. A unique quantum entanglement, two Pinays of the same bloodline but different time periods, call each other home.
" . . .the cellular and celestial as our coordinates to the way back . . .and forward. I looked for you everywhere, hope."
Pinay Stories is a fiery presentation of these Pilipina American seers' new fables of sexuality, maternity, resiliency and selfhood. A must-see spirited collage of dance and theatre fashioned with symbolic and poetic extensity that will leave you in wonder! Featuring a GUEST APPEARANCE- An excerpt from Aimee Suzara's Pagbabalik (Sat Show only) and Master Guitarist Florante Aguilar.
Directed by Alleluia Panis, a community celebration of the rising of Pinay writer/performers: Irene Faye Duller, Lolan Sevilla, and Tina Bartolome, with music by Charity Ramillo. In collaboration with APDT dancers: Fides Enriquez, Laurie Buenafe Krsmanovic, Stephanie Sampang, and Alberto Vajrabukka. Pinay Stories is a Kularts' Page-To-Stage Project a four month artistic mentorship & training program led by a team of master artists in literature, performance, and dance.
ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES
Irene Faye Duller is a performance poet and writer. She is a founding member of Bay Area based Pilipina/o spoken word collective 8th Wonder. Duller also co-founded The Rhapsodistas, an all female hip hop group that has performed sold out shows throughout San Francisco at venues such as Milk, Elbo Room, and Club Six. As a soloist, she has featured at Thursday Night Alive at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Word on the Street at Bindlestiff Studio, Poetry Mission at Dalva, Mango Mic at Pusod, and Nommo at Los Angeles. Irene holds a Masters degree in Asian American Studies in critical artistry and cultural theory. She is a proud single mother and organizes with babae, around local and global Pinay issues.
Lolan Sevilla is the author of Translating New Brown, a collection of short stories and poetry, which won the Philippine American Writers & Artists (PAWA) 2005 Calatagan Award and she is also a co-founder of Kreatibo, a queer Pinay artist collective, which was given the 2005 Lesbian Theatre Award from Curve Magazine. Sevilla serves as a member of AnakBayan in the East Bay and she volunteers with Asian Women's Shelter.
Tina Bartolome is a San Francisco native and daughter of immigrants from the Philippines and Switzerland. She has performed to sold-out audiences at Bindlestiff, Somarts, the Queer Cultural Center. Her film shorts cover topics such as queer girl graffiti writers (Mila's Will), mixed race identity (I Was Born Here), a pilgrimage to the Philippines (Balikbayan Confessions), and haiku bus rides of survival (What Gets Me Here), which have screened at San Francisco Int'l Asian American Film Festival, SF Int'l Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, and the Washington DC APA Film Festival. She currently works as the Program Coordinator at Oasis for Girls, consults on various youth projects in the Bay Area and is part of the Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project.
PINAY STORIES
8pm. Friday. May 11 - Preview $7
8pm. Saturday. May 12 $13
3pm. Sunday. May 13 $13
Tickets: brownpapertickets.com
More Information: 415.239.0249
myspace.com/kularts
SomArts Cultural Center
934 Brannan St. @ 8th St. SF 94103
Pinay Stories 2007
Friday, May 11 *Preview
SAT & SUN May 12 & 13
SomArts Cultural Center
Join these young valorous Pinay writers as they depart from the volumes of the traditional memoir and become migrants of space and time . . .
In the year 2080, as an eight year old child is destined to become a slave to the virtual empire, witness a mother's heart-wrenching act of love and survival while the struggle of cultural memory and self identification is heightened in an exploitative digitized underworld.
"Are you ready for your warrior mark, anak? Where you do you want it?"
A butch manang uses her aged body to tell the complex story about the magic and healing in duality. Her life, an anthology of confrontation with convention and constraint, beget a mantra of healing that is passed down to us all.
" . . .my silence screams
quit whispering my name
echoes of memory burn hot my ears
my body's freedom a hope"
The next tribe of Pintadas (painted ones) of the year 3010, claims freedom from the millennia of neo-colonial rule that has displaced ALL their people into the universal diaspora. A unique quantum entanglement, two Pinays of the same bloodline but different time periods, call each other home.
" . . .the cellular and celestial as our coordinates to the way back . . .and forward. I looked for you everywhere, hope."
Pinay Stories is a fiery presentation of these Pilipina American seers' new fables of sexuality, maternity, resiliency and selfhood. A must-see spirited collage of dance and theatre fashioned with symbolic and poetic extensity that will leave you in wonder! Featuring a GUEST APPEARANCE- An excerpt from Aimee Suzara's Pagbabalik (Sat Show only) and Master Guitarist Florante Aguilar.
Directed by Alleluia Panis, a community celebration of the rising of Pinay writer/performers: Irene Faye Duller, Lolan Sevilla, and Tina Bartolome, with music by Charity Ramillo. In collaboration with APDT dancers: Fides Enriquez, Laurie Buenafe Krsmanovic, Stephanie Sampang, and Alberto Vajrabukka. Pinay Stories is a Kularts' Page-To-Stage Project a four month artistic mentorship & training program led by a team of master artists in literature, performance, and dance.
ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES
Irene Faye Duller is a performance poet and writer. She is a founding member of Bay Area based Pilipina/o spoken word collective 8th Wonder. Duller also co-founded The Rhapsodistas, an all female hip hop group that has performed sold out shows throughout San Francisco at venues such as Milk, Elbo Room, and Club Six. As a soloist, she has featured at Thursday Night Alive at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Word on the Street at Bindlestiff Studio, Poetry Mission at Dalva, Mango Mic at Pusod, and Nommo at Los Angeles. Irene holds a Masters degree in Asian American Studies in critical artistry and cultural theory. She is a proud single mother and organizes with babae, around local and global Pinay issues.
Lolan Sevilla is the author of Translating New Brown, a collection of short stories and poetry, which won the Philippine American Writers & Artists (PAWA) 2005 Calatagan Award and she is also a co-founder of Kreatibo, a queer Pinay artist collective, which was given the 2005 Lesbian Theatre Award from Curve Magazine. Sevilla serves as a member of AnakBayan in the East Bay and she volunteers with Asian Women's Shelter.
Tina Bartolome is a San Francisco native and daughter of immigrants from the Philippines and Switzerland. She has performed to sold-out audiences at Bindlestiff, Somarts, the Queer Cultural Center. Her film shorts cover topics such as queer girl graffiti writers (Mila's Will), mixed race identity (I Was Born Here), a pilgrimage to the Philippines (Balikbayan Confessions), and haiku bus rides of survival (What Gets Me Here), which have screened at San Francisco Int'l Asian American Film Festival, SF Int'l Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, and the Washington DC APA Film Festival. She currently works as the Program Coordinator at Oasis for Girls, consults on various youth projects in the Bay Area and is part of the Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project.
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