Tsismis Lectures
and
Public Engagement

A lecture on Filipino History and Dances. Here I talked about pre-colonial history, our complicated colonized history and battle guerilla moves hidden in dances.

Is gossip a form of oral storytelling? 

What does it mean to be an OTHER in a country designed with a system of categories and boxes? Where does an immigrant belong? Lipad o Langoy is an Experimental film by Anito Gavino exploring her struggles as a Filipino parent imparting a culture to a 1st generation Filipino-American, whose daily experience is far from Filipino-ness. This conversation was featured in Philly Asian Futures as an anchor to conversation.

A zoom recorded video, a virtual roundtable discourse amongst Filipinx-Americans regarding identity. This was curated in celebration of the Asian Pacific Islander Heritage month 2020.

Community-based performance as part of Lumikha Artist Showcase. How do we teach our Filipino-American first generation Filipino-American children?

This video became the instructional video for designing Tagong Yaman where we created parols as window display to the durational performance celebrating indigenous celebrations in the holiday season.