CULTURAL EXCHANGES
THURSDAY / JUNE 4
SPULU x Snowflake Towers
6-8PM PT / 9-11PM ET / FRI. 1-3PM NZST
A HYPHY Altar
by SPULU
This will be no ordinary dance or movement piece, this will be a body activation. Live installation of an Altar created in this sacred space (Ohlone Land) by SPULU. This celebrates our children, future, past, ancestors, black lives, trans lives, and fems with a creative affirmation, prayer, and rituals that will bring grounding and hella Hyphy-ness. You will get a Tongan Bay Area collection of fashion, music, film, and dance in a Thizz experience! Ashe'.
Seeds and Sequins
by Snowflake Towers
Growing up on occupied Turtle Island as an indigenous first generation American has created complex struggles, from carrying ancient cultures and knowledge to learning to express Two Spirit identity with a post-colonial twist. This piece is based off of the true story of Snowflake’s life at a glance.
SATURDAY / JUNE 6
MOVEMENT AS MEDICINE
Rulan Tangen
12-1:15PM PT / 3-4:15PM ET / SUN. 7-8:15AM NZST
For community of UxI: Inviting our Indigenous Futurities into embodiment, we honor the body as a carrier of knowledge, ancient and futuristic. Through our feet we ground ourselves to the land we are on, finding our deep roots follow waters back to original source. We bringing intention and reciprocity through breath and sound, and allow the flowing motions to heal areas of stagnancy and dis-ease of colonial oppressions. With joy and gratitude we become fully present by activating the multi sensory and multi dimensional. With intuition and imagination we ignite our superpowers, to be the change we wish to see in the world. Connecting with layers of time, and place, qualities and elements, humanity and the more than human beings, we stand together in a circle of transformative contemporary ritual, our movements and sounds invoking the cyber world as a realm of liberation, to dream into being a futurity of more justice, truth, equity, freedom, compassion, gratitude, joy, and love ...
GUMA’ MATAO
Dakota Camacho
4-6PM PT / 7-9PM ET / SUN. 11-1PM NZST
Enter Guma' Matao - a house of embodied knowledge - to experience the Matao worldview. By engaging embodied, sonic, and spiritual practices, we work together to craft a home for collective liberation where all of us belong. Camacho will share personal, family, and cultural history, that allows participants to imagine the world through a Matao/CHamoru framework where creativity can be an empowering process of indigenizing, and a method for indigenizing one's creative practice. We will get personal, spiritual, metaphorical, loud and sweaty.
LALAGA
Le Moana
6:30-8:30PM PT / 9:30PM ET / SUN. 1:30-3:30PM NZST
Weaving Sub-Urban-Pacific-Futurism. Our Artists create works that are a representation of their physical surroundings. This work is a commitment to traditional navigation and trusting the ancestral imagination that lives within us. Born out of Contemporary Pasifika in Aotearoa, LALAGA is an introduction to a new wave of Pacific Islands Choreographers weaving past, present and future.
WEDNESDAY / JUNE 10
HERE WE ARE: ECO-WALKS DURING MS. RONA
Javier Stell-Fresquez & Gabe Christian
5-7PM PT / 8-10PM ET / THUR. 12-1PM NZST
This discussion & Eco-walk is your chance to be in digital connect and ecological awareness, and to get out of isolation in whatever way feels possible and safe (out the bed; the door; the building; the block). All are invited! Ideally join for the whole session, or for as much as you can.
To Prepare for it:
> Start thinking of a place you can walk in / walk to in your neighborhood. Porch, backyard, close empty park.
> Please have a bottle of water, comfy shoes, a blanket and headphones and what you need for your safety and comfort.
USAP USAPANG SINING
champoy, Nicanor and Diyan
7:30-9PM PT / 10:30-12AM ET / THUR. 2:30-4PM NZST
What does it mean to embody Urban x Indigenous Futurism in one's creative practice? champoy, Nicanor and Diyan will share about their process of creation and collaboration, their respective practices, and their connections to the "Sining." Most of the work that will be shared for this talk will primarily be their work with installation, video and performance - seeded from a more ethnoautobiographic perspective. They will host a community discussion centered in rituals, practices, and cultural appropriations to close.
THURSDAY / JUNE 11
TOUCH THE EARTH
Keisha Turner / Earthchild
3-4PM PT / 6-7PM ET / FRI. 10-11AM NZST
"Touch the Earth" is a public ritual designed for us to move/breathe/meditate/laugh in reverence to Life. Our ancestors knew and our elders know that Life is not a human-only affair, but encompasses all our plant, animal and mineral kin- from the tiniest, single-celled organisms to the largest creatures in Nature. They also knew that we need not look further than our own bodies to find Nature- each of the elements reflected in us, as us. Touch the Earth will unfold as an embodied process of enlivening both the elements and the ancestral wisdom in our cells, dancing them to the surface, and sharing them in our virtual circle and beyond to remember our connection and responsibility to one another. Participants are encouraged to bring objects that capture the spirit of Earth, Water, Air and/or Fire.
HOZHO IN MOTION
Natalie Benally
5-6PM PT / 8-9PM ET / FRI. 12-1PM NZST
"Hozho" is the Diné philosophy of life. It means balance and harmony in all aspects of life. The class will be centered around finding hozho in our bodies, our minds, our hearts and our spirits.
For those of us who work with and for communities, taking time to release stress, rebuild our energy and rejuvenate our minds and bodies is essential. Some of us give a lot of ourselves to our work and the time and space to be home can be used to give ourselves a bit of love and attention. We will work with movement to undo and release any stress in the body and utilize breath and sound to give intention and healing to our whole selves and to each other. This class is for all ages.
*** DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES, NATALIE IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE TO TEACH DURING THE FESTIVAL. WE SEND LOVE + PRAYERS TO HER FAMILY AT THIS TIME.
THE SAME REGISTRATION PAGE WILL REGISTER YOU FOR TREY VISION’S “AFRO-SOMATIC” OFFERING.
THANK YOU FOR UNDERSTANDING!