Babay L. Angles aka Bomba Brown / Ifadoja Oyajokun /Angelica Janabajal Tolentino is a San Diego, CA-based, Pilipinx interdisciplinary performance artist, DJ, joy and rest practitioner, educator, and community organizer from San Diego, CA, Okinawa, Japan, and Olongapo, Philippines.  She holds a B.A. in Ethnic Studies from UC San Diego and a Masters of Arts in Urban Education and Social Justice with a Single Subject Teaching Credential in Social Studies. She has over 15 years of experience as an educator, mental health worker, and grassroots organizer in South East San Diego and Oakland, CA. She also has over 15 years experience battling/cyphering throughout the West Coast of the United States in the styles of Breaking and Rocking with Time II Rock Crew and Soul Heavy Crew and 7 years of studying modern/contemporary movement. 
 
Babay L. Angles practices deep listening and channels movements to express the inherited resilience and violence of the Pilipinx psyche. She fuses intuitive movements inspired by funk, bass, Philippine Percussion, environmental sound, breath, and site specific location.  Weaving connections between the strength of Pilipinx of the diaspora, people of color, womxn, queer and trans communities, indigenous peoples and those at the margins, she builds community through shared creation of holistic artistic resistance and wellness.

Babay is the creative director of Olongapo Disco, a project fiscally sponsored by the Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation.  They have been awarded by the National Endowment of Humanities, California Arts Council and Arts and Culture Commission of San Diego.  Babay has also been a fellow for Betty's Daughter Public Performance and Action Fellowship in 2017 and 2018 and has performed in a choreopractic ritual performance titled, "125th and Freedom."  She has been a Work Up 4.0 resident artist for Gibney Dance.  She was a cofounder of Walang Hiya NYC, a collective of Pilipinx shapeshifters generating intergenerational healing through performance and education.  Their work "Walang Hiya 2019" a public procession/ritual/pageant sought to transmute ancestral shame into collective wellness was shown in Jackson Heights, Queens. 

Babay L Angles has also been an Impact Fellow for Betty's Daughter Arts Collaborative in 2021.  Babay collaborated with a group of artists and cultural workers to strengthen and advance BDAC’s impact measurement and evaluation praxis. They Investigated the viability, efficacy, and transformative power of community-based arts interventions.  Here they evaluated a national portfolio of LatinX arts and culture projects in partnership with the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture (NALAC) and its Catalyst for Change Award program.

Babay's current interests are joy, rest, disco, funk, bass and intergenerational healing.  Their most recent work  Olongapo Disco 3: Dreaming Joy Across the Diaspora will be shared on Public Impact Day at the World Design Capital San Diego Tijuana 2024.