Balay Kreative presents:
All Souls Day: An Afterlife Celebration
Sunday, October 30th 1p-6p @ Kapwa Gardens
967 Mission St In SOMA Pilipinas
Free | All Ages
All Souls Day is a holiday honoring the dead widely celebrated in the Philippines. It is a public acknowledgment and an opportunity to celebrate those that came before and those that have transitioned on.
The “Ancestor Altars” installation art project at Kapwa Gardens will be a healing space for the San Francisco Filipinx & BIPOC community. This All Souls Day brings the opportunity to heal through art and community with the intention to celebrate our ancestors, share the stories we learned from them, and show gratitude with love and respect. Join us this October for an afterlife celebration as we listen to live musical performances, reflect together as a community and remember our loved ones.
Interested in volunteering for this event? Sign ups are open until 10/28.
Thank you to CAC for providing us the Impact Grant for the production of this event.
Create Your Own Ancestor Altar at Home
Dambana Teachings from Ifugao/Ilokano Traditions
Compiled by Jana Lynne Umipig with guidance from Mamerto “Lagitan” Tindongan and Nena Caldetera
Meet The Artists
Cece Carpio
Cece Carpio tells stories of immigration, ancestry, resistance, and resilience using acrylic, ink, aerosol, and installations. She documents evolving traditions by combining folkloric forms, bold portraits, and natural elements with urban art techniques.
Her interactions with people and places have shaped her work as an artist. Cece paints to communicate the dignity and power of everyday people.
TITTY BOY
TITTY’s work lies mainly with painting canvases and creating drawings but has some experience with a spray can in his younger years. Although art school is not in his background, his biggest inspirations such as Salvador Dali, Keith Haring, Toshio Saeki, and Mike Giant, has persuaded him to teach himself techniques with a pencil, pen, paint, and digital illustrations.
TITTY’s work can sometimes bring psychedelic colors to graphic realities but all his pieces of work and installations never lack an abundance of intriguing details. He can always be trusted to find beauty in the grim.
Land Acknowledgment by
Ras K' Dee
Dry Creek Rancheria of Pomo Indians
Ras K'dee is a DJ, renowned lyricist, producer, and lead vocalist/keyboardist for Audiopharmacy, founder of The NEST Community Arts Center, (Forestville CA), an Indigenous Led, sustainably built hub for all artists, and the editor/producer of SNAG Magazine, a Native owned arts and culture magazine.
Emceed By
love/speak
love/speak (she/they) is a decolonizing, visionary Pinay creative activated by unconditional love and collective liberation. Using her skills as a producer, educator, organizer, Earth Warrior and cultural community artists, she produces and co-creates heARTful, community-minded projects to cultivate Kapwa (interconnectedness), decolonize mind, body and spirit, and nurture healing balance on our planet.
Performances By
Kulintang Dialect
Kulintang Dialect is a traditional five instrument kulintang band that performs kulintang classics mostly from the Kalanduyan line as well as Conrad Benedicto’s original compositions. Kulintang Dialect has released five EP’s available on all platforms beginning in 2021, and is scheduled to release five more in the next two years through the label Gongs Away Music.
When a kulintang player’s loved one passes, there is a tradition that the player refrains from playing kulintang for seven days. But after this period is over, music can be played again with spirit and joy, in memory of the departed. Please join us in spirit and remembrance as we play for you during the Undas/All Souls Day at Kapwa Gardens. Meditate, remember, or move to kulintang music as you walk through the various shrines or ofrendas in the space.
NIKBO
Nikbo (she/they/siya) is a Filipinx and Third Culture artist who makes music for deep-feelers and collective freedom-seekers. Blending elements of art pop and neo-soul with sounds from their childhood living in Morocco, Malawi, and Kazakstan, Nikbo shares stories from the diaspora and provides a sonic refuge to process the highs and lows of living in these times. You can support Nikbo directly by visiting their website at www.nikbomusic.com
ASTRALOGIK
AstraLogik is a Queer Pinay musical from the Bay Area, California. Their chill-folk-electronic-soul music is shaped by their story of redefining what “success” and “happiness” means, especially through their lens as Filipino-American, a Queer Couple, Healers, survivors of violence and homelessness.
Amihan
Amihan is a poet, musician & community organizer born & raised in the city, reppin the Excelsior. Amihan means east wind in tagalog, signaling harvest time in the countryside. Rooted in the element of air thru the breathwork that is rapping & singing, her music fuses hip hop & r&b flows with chants of the people.
Presentation from Balay Kreative’s Artist in Residence
Cristine Blanco
Cristine Blanco is an interdisciplinary artist who works in painting, sculpture and installation. Her works take environmental justices, the precarity of resources, and lineage as her starting point. Blanco's labor intensive practice combines material and weight to explore tension and care.
Learn more about her project, Embedded Bricks, at balaykreative.com/event-calendar/embedded-bricks.
About Ancestor Altars
From the community submissions we received, our program advisory board have selected FIVE ancestors that have passed away in the last THREE years to be honored by a portrait painted by Cece Carpio. Those not selected have been printed out and added to the “Ancestor Altars” and/or added to our online gallery.
The Ancestor Altars will be open to the public from Oct. 26th to 30th @ Kapwa Gardens so that community members can continue to add offerings, pictures and flowers.
“Ancestor Altars” was generously funded by The California Arts Council Impact Grant, the SOMA SCC Art Grant, the Mayor’s Office of Housing + Community Development, and Success Centers: Empowerment through Education, Employment & Art. It is a collaboration between Kultivate Labs, Balay Kreative, Cece Carpio (Lead Artist), TITTY (Installation Artist) and Ciriaco Sayoc (Carpenter), and the Filipinx community.
Visit our virtual ancestor altars: https://balaykreative.com/virtual-ancestor-altars
