a series of embodied offerings + artistic works celebrating the vastness and depth of our ancestral inheritance

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Overview
11:30am Registration Opens
12-4pm Embodied Offerings at The Sanctuary w. Danielle Galvez, Reese Fernandez, and SAMMAY
4-6pm NET Individual Sessions w. Dr. Rosemarie Caigoy of Itono Chiropractic
8-10pm Performances + Film Screenings ft. the work of AstraLogik + Jayna Benito, ET IV, Lauren Andrei Garcia, Reese Fernandez, and Samad Raheem Guerra

Vendors
ASTIG Sound
Malaya Tuyay x Liyang Network

This event is presented in collaboration with ASTIG Sound and made possible with support from the California Arts Council.

Offerings

11:30am Registration Opens

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Mindful Movement w. Danielle Galvez

Ground your senses into shared space and time with breathwork, gentle movement, and stretching to begin the day. We honor the various places we come from and the journeying it has required of us to be here, now. May this be an opportunity for us to more fully arrive - emptying out the vessel so that we can truly be in a place to give and receive.

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Sacred Waters: A Dance Workshop for Revitalization w. SAMMAY

Get into it. Fluidity is the name of the game and we come here to enact play as a strategy for thrivation. Participants will be guided through somatic exercises, juicy movement, and improvisation - inviting us to coalesce our internal experiences into an embodied experience within the collective. How can we dive deeper into pleasure as praxis for the long haul work?

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Currents of Memory: A Writing Workshop on the Flow of Time w. Reese Fernandez

In this workshop we’ll use the symbolism of water — its fluidity, depth, and ability to reflect — as a guide to explore personal memories and future dreams. Drawing from the prior movement workshop, we’ll connect physical fluidity to creative expression through writing prompts. We’ll dive into the still waters and depths of the past, and flow toward the future with writing that envisions the unknown, using water’s movement to shape our stories.

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Individual Neuro Emotional Technique Sessions done by Dr. Rosemarie Caigoy

Neuro Emotional Technique (NET) is a mind-body modality that uses muscle testing to find unresolved stress that is stuck in your body. When we experience a traumatic experience, our body remembers everything about the event - our posture, our thoughts, our feelings. Afterward, it is important we reflect on these experiences so that unresolved stress doesn't stay stored in our bodies. This can look like tight or loose muscles, digestive problems, or skin issues, or test anxiety and they can stop us from doing what we really want to do in life. NET identifies and clears these unresolved stress so that your body can heal and grow, not stay stagnant and stuck in the past.

(Break)

7:30pm Doors Open / Reception + Vendors in Lobby

8:00 PM - 10:00 PM

SALTWATER: Performances + Film Screenings

AstraLogik: A Music Documentary by Jayna Benito
Film

From discovering their identity, navigating their personal life, and trying to break the societal norms in the music industry, Astralogik is a duo who aspires to lift their community through their songs. As their recognition continues to grow, Astralogik ensures to pay recognition to their humble beginnings while taking pride of their Filipino background.

Resistance & Struggle Are Sisters [revisted] by ET IV
Film

(Description Forthcoming)

Gram of Hope by Samad Raheem Guerra
Performance

In a non-linear format, Gram of Hope weaves together personal and historical life events in a sequence dictated by emotional significance and associative connections.

Seeing Lily by Reese Fernandez
Live Reading

The animated short Seeing Lily is currently in post-production, but in the meantime the writers are excited to present a live reading of the film. Seeing Lily is an intergenerational coming out story from the perspective of a Filipinx-American drag queen. Learning from their shameless tita before them, Alex discovers that they're not an island.

Kilig Girl: A Prologue by Lauren Andrei Garcia
Film

Kilig Girl: A Prologue is a contemporary examination + perspective of the relationship between love, idealism, and the Asian American identity. Following the stream-of-consciousness of a 20-something living in the San Francisco Bay Area, a woman reimagines her experience of domestic violence in order to rework her traumatic memory. It is lyrical, mythical, and at times, horrific.

TW: This performance portrays domestic abuse and horror elements. If you feel triggered at all during this performance, we invite you to take care of yourself in the way that makes sense for you.

Artist + Facilitator Bios

Danielle Galvez (she/they) is a dance artist based in the Bay Area of the Ilokano and Pangasinan diaspora, Dani seeks ancestral healing through creative works and connection building. She received her Bachelors of Arts in Dance at San Jose State University, and has woven herself into the Bay Area dance community through contemporary, choreography, and street style dance forms. Dani founded Archive Dance Collective, a space where artists and educators foster self discovery through dance education. She is a somatic student under mentor Holly Johnston and Responsive Body™, a body-based approach to creative expression, relationship building, and social action.

Dr. Rosemarie Caigoy is a Fil-Am body enthusiast, born and raised  in El Paso Texas. Her love for the human body has been a long journey: an athletic trainer in high school,  a physical therapy technician during her undergraduate program at UTEP in Kinesiology, and for the last 7 years she has served her community as a chiropractor and owner of Itono Chiropractic in Oakland, California.  Itono's focus is addressing all layers of health, physical, chemical (nutrition), and mental/emotional. itonochiropractic.com

Eduardo Daza Taylor IV - known as ET IV - is an interdisciplinary artist born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area with ancestral roots in the Philippines. A DJ, historian, and educator - Eduardo’s work is informed by Bay Area social movements and Ethnic Studies translated through his lens of hip hop culture. He is the founder of ASTIG Sound, an independent label & brand that curates events and releases celebrating classic and future OPM+ diasporic sounds. When not digging for loops or visuals to sample, he can be found behind the turntables DJing for Ruby Ibarra & the Balikbayans or rocking dance floors fertile for the cipher. et-iv.space

Jayna Benito is a first generation college student who majored in Broadcast Journalism & Documentary. Jayna’s goal as a filmmaker is to uplift AAPI voices to influence positive change within the community. However, she believes the film is not complete when the credits roll but continuing the relationship with her subjects and bringing discussions and actions for what the film advocates. jaynabenito.com

Lauren Andrei Garcia is a queer, mixed, multihyphy’d artist based in the Bay.  She was most recently seen on stage in Man of God, Getting There, and Dirty White Teslas Make Me Sad. Her visual work was last seen at El Comalito Collective’s Ser Muxer Exhibit. Her last co-written work The Act of Care was seen on stage at SF Playground. Her latest published work can be found at your local comic book store: The Hilot of 1910 for BOOM! Stay tuned: laurenandrei.com @lasandrei for her upcoming work as an actor at Shotgun Player’s premiere of Thirty-Six in the Fall of 2024 and for the next iteration of her staged solo work Kilig Girl.

Malaya Tuyay (she/they) is a multidisciplinary artist and an organizer born in Chumash land (Carpinteria, CA) and now based in Ohlone land (Oakland, CA). She believes art is a tool to connect with the darker parts of ourselves that are not easy to face - in order to heal ourselves and our communities. They also believe art is a practice that can allow us to imagine liberated futures for ourselves and generations to come. She has been organizing with Liyang Network in support of calls for international support from communities in the Philippines.

Reese Fernandez is a writer, dancer, and drag deity on Tongva and Kizh land in Long Beach, CA. As a gender-fluid, and genre-fluid Pilipinx-American artist, they explore themes of identity in the diaspora, intergenerational healing, and embodiment. Their work focuses on re-indigenization in the spirit of kapwa and a deeper understanding of their roots to heal intergenerational trauma. As a movement teacher and artist, they aim to help others tell their stories and feel good in their bodies. Reese has professional experience in grant writing and management and studied Geography at the University of California, Berkeley. They currently work as a Development Communications Manager at BAYCAT, supporting the organization in its mission to diversify the filmmaking and media industry through the education and employment of young BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and women artists from historically oppressed communities. reese-fernandez.com

Samad Raheem Guerra is a director, multidisciplinary performing artist and arts educator based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He received his BA in World Arts and Cultures/Dance from UCLA in 2014. Since graduating, he has worked as a teaching artist, program coordinator at a residential facility for unhoused youth in Oakland and toured internationally with CONTRA-TIEMPO ACTIVIST DANCE THEATER. He has also performed at the Hollywood Bowl, Ford Amphitheater with Viver Brasil and Sergio Mendes, and co-produced his own work at the LACMA, Main Museum in downtown Los Angeles, Hamburger Bahnhof and daadgalerie in Berlin, Germany. Currently, Guerra directs the World Dance Department at Ruth Asawa School of the Arts, an audition-based performing arts high school in San Francisco. When Guerra is not teaching or working on art projects, he enjoys spending time in the wilderness. A big part of his healing practice also includes the ancient practice of sweating, which involves prayer and meditation. It has helped him stay grounded and connect to his higher purpose in life. Aho Mitákuye Oyás’iŋ (To All My Relations) Às̩e̩ (So, Will It Be).

SAMMAY Peñaflor Dizon (she/they) is a choreographer, interdisciplinary artist, and cultural producer of Bikol, Kapampangan, and Ilokano descent. Dizon’s practice is informed by her upbringing as a child of immigrants in the City of Carson - raised on the inevitability of duality. Committed to decoloniality and embodying a politic of refusal shaped by The Bay, Dizon makes dances to say the things that are often left unsaid. She seeks to unearth stories of her lineage that require unabashed truth and believes dance can ultimately bring all peoples into deeper and more intimate relation with the land and each other. Dizon’s work has received support from the California Arts Council, Rainin Foundation, and Zellerbach Family Foundation among others. She has received commissions from ODC Theater, Dance Mission Theater, and Yerba Buena Gardens Festival among others. In 2020, they received an Izzie Award for Special Achievement in Dance through their work with Dancing Around Race. Recently, they were an Associate Artist-in-Residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts with NY-based performance maker Okwui Okpokwasili. Dizon holds an MFA in Choreographic Inquiry from UCLA and a BA in Media Studies and Sociology from UC Berkeley.