FRIDAY JUNE 12
CREATIVE WĀNANGA
with JACK GRAY
3-4PM PT / 6-7PM ET / SAT. 10-11 NZST
CLOSING CEREMONY
with SABOKAHAN UNITY OF LUMAN WOMEN, LIYANG NETWORK, WE ARE THE ONES, and SAMMAY
7:30-9:30PM PT / 10:30PM-12:30AM ET / SAT. 2:30-4:30PM NZST
CREATIVE WĀNANGA
JACK GRAY
Jack Gray is a Māori contemporary dancer, choreographer, teacher, facilitator and writer from Aotearoa, New Zealand. He is a founding member and Artistic Director of Atamira Dance Company. Jack has worked on several projects with Sammay Dizon, including Berkeley Dance Project, Cultural Informance Lab, Transformance Lab, I Moving Lab, Indigenous Dance Forum and more. His independent arts practice spans two decades and has taken him all over the world where he engages with Indigenous audiences & community centred spaces of learning, being and activation. Jack creatively explores and devises restorative approaches towards living cultural relationships to the Earth Mother, Papatuanuku and Skyfather, Ranginui. Another ongoing platform is Movement for Joy, a class that is inclusive to all, which looks at joy and authentic embodiment as an opportunity to dynamically connect more productively with the self and others.
CLOSING CEREMONY & CELEBRATION
SABOKAHAN UNITY OF LUMAD WOMEN + LIYANG NETWORK
Rurelyn Bay-ao is a 19 year old Manobo-Lumad youth leader and land defender. She is native to Talaingod in Pantaron Mountain Range, home to one of the largest old growth forests left in Mindanao, Philippines. As the Youth Coordinator of Sabokahan Unity of Lumad Women, Philippines’ Focal Person on the Executive Council for Asia Indigenous Youth Platform (AIYP) and a spokesperson of Save Our Schools (SOS) Network, she is devoted to connecting and mobilizing indigenous youth locally, nationally, and globally in the fight for self-determination and defense of ancestral lands. Rurelyn is the grandniece of Bai Bibyaon Ligkayan Bigkay, the first Manobo woman to be named tribal chieftain who is recognized for having played an integral role in organizing a victorious tribal war against Alcantara and Sons logging company in the 1990s.
WE ARE THE ONES
ADONAI & GUERRILLA PUMP
We Are The Ones is a collective of community-based artists creating at the margins for cultural r/evolution. Through our underground events, bi-monthly radio broadcast, and creative support services, we work to empower the community through Creative Resistance - using art, music, and come-unity engagement as transformative tools for social change.
We Are The Ones works to liberate the creative spirits of The People, and amplify the impacts of genuine self expression rooted in authenticity, love and liberation. We co-create to build people power and promote cultural equity, reclaiming and radicalizing resources lost to poverty, racism, and sociocultural marginalization.
SAMMAY
SAMMAY (she/they/siya) is the daughter of Yolanda Peñaflor Dizon; granddaughter of Salvacion Orencillo Peñaflor and Carolina Agdeppa Dizon. Born from a collective dream where the ancestors danced, drummed, and sang around ceremonial fire in the mountain tops of the arkipelago - she is a healer, interdisciplinary artist, cultural producer, and performance maker of Bikol, Kapampangan, and Ilokano descent who celebrates “urban-indigenous futurism” as a pathway to collectively realize the potentialities through the intersection of our indigenous traditions and urban contemporary landscapes. To follow her journey through the diaspora: www.sammaydizon.com.