Philippine Master Artists in Residency

January 23 – February 25, 2024
San Francisco/Bay Area, SoCal, Hawaii, Michigan

KULARTS presents workshops, community interaction, lectures, and performances in Igal dance and indigenous cultural practices of Mindanaoan tribes with Philippine culture bearers Al-Raffy Alnado Harun and Carlo B. Ebeo.

Schedule of Programs

  • World Premiere of AntingAnting
    January 27-28, 2024
    2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
    Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
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    Igal Dance Workshop & Lecture
    February 16, 2024
    6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
    Studio Valencia, San Francisco
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    Igal Dance Workshop
    February 18, 2024
    2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
    Deep Root Center for Spiritual Studies, Oakland
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  • The Currents that Connect Us - WaiWai Collective
    February 2, 2024
    6:00 PM - 9:00 PM (HST)
    Wai Wai Collective - Ka Waiwai Ma MŌʻiLiʻiLi, Honolulu
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    The Currents that Connect Us - TAU Dance Theater
    February 3, 2024
    5:00 PM - 8:00 PM (HST)
    PAʻI Foundation, Honolulu
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    Co-Presented by House of Gongs

  • Igal Dance Workshop, Lecture, & Cultural Exchange
    February 9, 2024
    10:00 AM
    University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archeology, Ann Arbor
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    Sama Music, Dance & Culture Workshop
    February 10, 2024
    2:00 PM
    PACE-MI NEW Center, Ann Arbor
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    Igal Dance Workshop, Lecture, & Cultural Exchange
    February 11, 2024
    1:00 PM
    Philippine American Community Center of Michigan, Southfield
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    Igal Dance Workshop, Lecture, & Cultural Exchange
    February 12, 2024
    6:30 PM
    University of Michigan Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Ann Arbor
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    Co-Presented by Philippine Arts & Culture Ensemble of Michigan (PACE-MI)

  • Sama Sama
    Igal dance workshop, community interaction, lectures and dance showcase
    Tuesday, February 20, 2024
    6:00 PM - 10:00 PM
    UC San Diego, Dance Building
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    Co-Presented by PASACAT Philippine Performing Arts Company


    Igal Dance Workshop & Philippine Genealogy Lecture
    Saturday, February 24, 2024
    1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
    @Pilates, Granada Hills
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    Co-Presented by Malaya Filipino American Dance Arts

About the Residents

AL-RAFFY ALNADO HARUN

Al-Raffy Alnado Harun is a performing artist and Sama culture bearer born and raised in  Sitangkai, Province of Tawi-Tawi. A cultural worker and a performer, he was the Artistic Director of the Sining Parmata Performing Arts of Mindanao State University. He led Lepa Theatrical Troupe in Sitangkai Tawi-Tawi that aims to promote, preserve and protect our culture and tradition. Raffy won the Best talent in Malaysia for Mr. Culture Asia and was the Tawi-Tawi area coordinator for the Genetic Variation of Filipino People Project. Al-Raffy received his Bachelor of Arts from the Mindanao State University Tawi-Tawi College of Technology and Oceanography and has recently earned his Diploma in Linguistic, Anthropology, and Population Genetics at Uppsala University in Sweden. He is also a Legislative Staff Assistant for the Policy Research and Legal Services BTA-BARMM Cotabato City.

Read more on Sitangkai, Province of Tawi-Tawi: 
Memories of Mindanao Part 3 by Conrad J. Benedicto 

CARLO B. EBEO

Carlo B. Ebeo, a researcher,  producer, educator, and festival organizer, is a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Museum of the Philippines,  commissioner of  National Commission for Culture & the Arts and national coordinator for the National Book Development Board’s  Book Nook Project. He’s has produced and curated  numerous large arts projects including  Mga Durungawan Sa Kulturang Pilipino (Windows to Philippine Cultures) Hinugyaw Festival,  T'nalak Festival the Incheon Bilingual Theatre Festival, as well as exhibitions in various museums in Mindanao and at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3. He is a  member  of the research program of Uppsala University- Sweden,  a four-year research study on the Origins of the Filipino People and  led a group of Filipino researchers, scholars, scientists and cultural workers for a project called OCSEAN or Oceanic and South East Asian Navigators  trained in the areas of Austronesian languages, anthropology, archeology and genetics geared towards a study on probing the human past. The project is  funded by the European Commission’s Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research.

View the T’nalak Festival from 2019 and watch one of Carlo’s lectures!