A series of embodied offerings + artistic works celebrating the vastness and depth of our ancestral inheritance.
Saturday, September 28, 2024
Timeline:
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.
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
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.