KULARTS

A big and heartfelt THANK YOU to our community, artists, and volunteers for your continued engagement and support! Our programs and projects provide a connection to our history, cultural pride, and give our community visual presence. As we approach the new year, please consider making your year-end tax-deductible donation to KULARTS and help us continue our commitment to providing culturally responsive programs led by professional Pilipinx and Philippine-based artists. We ...look forward to sharing our upcoming projects and engaging with you in 2022! LINK IN THE BIO Image features artists Kali Diwa (@brutefemme), jose e abad (@ori.diwata), and Andrea ‘Poko’ Devis. PC : Wilfred Galila (@wilfredgalila) See more

Come through this Friday to Manilatown Heritage Foundation to catch a reading of Musalaya’s Gift by author Conrad Jaminola Benedicto and many more!!

Alleluia Panis talks with KULARTS dance artist, Jonathan M. Mercado, about becoming a dancer, getting involved with KULARTS, and his transformative experience of going to the Philippines while learning and dancing sagayan.

MAN@NG IS FOREVER What an amazing weekend. Our hearts are exploding with love and gratitude for OUR community and artists. THANK YOU to Manai Alleluia (@alleluiasfprojects) for her brilliant mind, leadership, storytelling and carving out space for generations of Pilipinx/Pilipinx Americans. THANK YOU to our funders, board of directors, cast & crew, artistic & production team, and our Dance Artists. 3+ years in the making 2019 workshop production at @bindlestiff_sf, the pa...ndemic, the rescheduling, the shifting/modifying, the filming, the patience.a long journey it has been. We have so much more to share and offer! What we got going on now and upcoming projects: MUSALAYA’S GIFT, a YA fantasy novel by Conrad J. Benedicto (@conradjbenedicto). Now available at Arkipelago Books (@arkipelagobooks). NURSING THESE WOUNDS, a large-scale, immersive dance performance investigating the impact of colonization on Pilipinx health and caregiving through the lens of Pilipinx nurses’ history. We are currently collecting stories through story circle, next one is this week Dec 9. Sign up today! ANTING-ANTING SOUL DANCE, a site-responsive, multidisciplinary ritual performance at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco in conjunction with the Carlos Villas retrospective. THEATER SPACE in SOMA Pilipinas (@somapilipinas) in partnership with the Filipino-American Development Foundation and Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center (@apicc_sf). Follow us and sign up for our email list stay up to date . See more

Diwata is calling Tickets still available for the matinee show today, Sunday Dec 5. Last day to see MAN@NG IS DEITY live! Ticket link in the bio. #manongisforever

Beautiful moments from last night Thank you to friends and pamilya for coming out! It truly has been a long journey and we are overjoyed to share this with you. Day 2 come through! See you all tonight link in the bio

Tomorrow! Join us for opening night. Come see our friends of Stockton Multi-Style Escrima (_@stocktonfma_) featured in Man@ng is Deity dance film. #BTS with Gregory Balubar (@gregorybalubar) and Terry Joven (@terryjoven) from our Lodi shoot in May at San Joaquin County Historical Museum. Ticket link in our bio

Opening night is almost here! Join us in taking over ODC theater this weekend. A little #bts from tonight’s rehearsal. Ticket link available in our bio #manongisforever

This Saturday and Sunday at Yerba Buena Gardens ! VENUE CHANGE: Saturday, May 1st event has been move from Jessie Square to Yerba Buena Gardens. Register Now!

Thank you to our recent donors! We have officially reached our initial goal of $7,000 So honored with the support and love for Musalaya's Gift by Conrad Jaminola Benedicto We are stretching our goal to $7,500! Help us get there TO MAKE A DONATION, PLEASE VISIT: www.kularts-sf.org/musalayas-gift

Tonight folks! Join moderator, Joyce Lu, PhD, and panelists, Jason Magabo Perez, PhD, Jenifer K Wofford, and Alleluia Panis for tonights discussion. You can join us via Zoom or come back here at 5:00pm PST / 8:00pm EST to catch it on FB live!

Come experience an immersive event focused on the illuminating and healing element of fire/light with live mural painting, DJ and live music, parol lantern demonstration, and a living dance prayer performance with spirit boats against a backdrop of video projections. Mark you calendars May 1st and 2nd for Lakbai Diwa, Diasporic Spirit Cultural Ceremony!

Register for the upcoming panel! An online panel of interdisciplinary Pilipinx American artists engaged in the poetics and politics of care and migration.