UXI 2021: BETWEEN WORLDS
MAY 7 - 15
Urban x Indigenous 2021: Between Worlds - a SAMMAY Production - is an intercultural arts festival. This community-centered exchange explores the liminal space between our worlds: past and present, physical and digital, material and spiritual.
How do we ensure our social movements are not just inclusive but also fluid? How do we heal through collective grief through traditional, contemporary, and holistic practices? How do we restructure old systems and re-imagine new futures?
Artists, scholars, organizers, and community members will engage with these ideas through performances, dialogues, and workshops designed to inspire coalition building, collective healing, and re-indigenization.
Register and learn more about our offerings below. Note that you must register for each offering individually. One registration does not cover all events in the festival.
FRIDAY, MAY 7
OPENING CEREMONY
6 - 8pm PT via Zoom
We begin our journey Between Worlds by honoring the medicine within us, recognizing the collective grief of our community and the invaluable lessons we carry forward. Led by Kanyon Sayers-Roods, Rose Hammock, Kumu Kau`i Peralto, Leny Strobel, Andreina Maldonado with a special appearance from Mamerto Tindongan.
SATURDAY, MAY 8
11am - 12:30pm PT via Zoom
Interdisciplinary artist Chibueze Crouch leads us in an offering for our ancestors and living kin, in a workshop using song, writing, and movement.
4pm - 5:30pm PT via Zoom
Ilokano healer and medicine-maker Jamie Cardenas will lead a demo and discussion on the indigo plant, its sacred uses, and diasporic threads.
7 - 9pm PT via Zoom
Screen an excerpt of Embodiment Project’s new hip-hop documentary theater production that interweaves street dance forms, song, and poetry in a work that seeks healing from sexual trauma and gender-based violence.
MONDAY, MAY 10
12 - 2 pm PT via Zoom
Dr. Fuifuilupe Niumeitolu, Jack Gray, Kumu Kau`i Peralto, and Dr. Leny Strobel gather in an embodied dialogue rooted in ancestral wisdom, radical hope, and dreaming into the past/present/future.
Respected leaders and changemakers in their respective communities - this intersection of paths, cultures, ideas, stories, and visions will be medicine for generations to come.
TUESDAY, MAY 11
6 - 8pm PT via Zoom
What does making performance and making plant medicine have in common? Join us for an exciting exchange between Andreina Maldonado and Jamie Cardenas of Magpie Alchemy – two diasporic creators honoring the Divine Feminine in their respective Earth-based practices.
This gathering will interweave performance, dialogue, and plant medicine-making demo. Learn how to make your own breath balm to incorporate in your daily grounding practice and get an introduction to various medicinal properties of plants.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 12
6 - 8 pm PT via Zoom
How do we return to Source? What does it mean to conjure AfroFutures in this world, the previous, and the next? Dive into the complexities of cultural identity and return to Source.
Join us for the abundance of embodied medicine that both Chibueze Crouch and jose e. abad offer through their performance and social practice in Yelamu aka San Francisco.
THURSDAY, MAY 13
6:30 - 9pm PT via Zoom
For this virtual sacred cypher, Audiopharmacy x The NEST offer their creative soul medicine to help decolonize minds and cultivate love + commitment towards the global work of collective liberation.
This session includes native land acknowledgment, an intro to Audiopharmacy Prescriptions - who we are, what we do, and how to plug in, opportunities for cross-cultural exchange, a solidarity-building exercise, a guide meditation + illustration, and Q +A session.
SATURDAY, MAY 15
12 - 5pm PT
@ Kapwa Gardens
967 Mission St., SOMA Pilipinas
San Francisco, CA
BANGON NA! Filipinx Healing Summit is the culminating gathering for UxI 2021: Between Worlds*. Join us as we close out the 6th installment of UxI with kapwa-centered ceremony, embodiment, and healing!
The event will feature an embodied storytelling workshop led by interdisciplinary artist and healer SAMMAY and sound healing bath led by queer Pinay duo Astralogik.
Vendors include Magpie Alchemy and Divine Coloring Book (great for the kids!) We will also be hosting a Seed-Story Swap led by Día Alvites. Participants are encouraged to bring seeds for exchange, stories for sharing, and visions for a more diverse and resilient local food network.