OLONGAPO DISCO: Archiving Grandmother medicine Diaspora (2023)

Olongapo Disco 2: Archiving Grandmother Medicine Across the Diaspora June 25, 2023, San Diego, CA
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Work in progress, "Batya't Palu-Palo," an autoethnographic performance ritual and sound archive of Grandmother Medicine within diasporic BIPOC communities of Kumeyaay Territory. Through series of workshops: We asked artists to create work answering the following question: What are the ancestral joy and resilience technologies that we need to remember and create to survive and thrive? This work honors and remembers our grandmothers, chosen, biological, and the land. We utilized somatic exercises and ritual to listen to herbs, flowers, water, and recreated the act of public washing of garments to conjure our grandmother’s movements, songs, tears, laughter, gossip, and wisdom.

Visionary: Babay L. Angles

Artists/Ritualists: Allizé Jimenez, Kara Nepomuceno, Haven Rittershofer-Ongoco, Jules De Guzman, Angela C. Bajet
Sounds by: Woostalila, Rogelle Zamoro
Visual Flyer designed by Miko Aguilar @we.the.studio
Videography: IN SAGE PRODUCTION
Honoring: Eduvigis Pangan Janabajal and Consuelo Duero Tolentino.