The body holds memories, and words are powerful archives of those memories.
We welcome home the mother-daughter theater duo, Ani and Malaya, for another performance. Malaya is fresh off the National Youth Poet Laureate competition, where she was named first runner-up.
Malaya will share the piece she wrote for the National Youth Poet Laureate commencement ceremony. Ani and Malaya will also share some excerpts from their new work.
Join the mother-daughter duo for a community gathering of memory-sharing through music, dance, and choreopoetics.
About Anito and Malaya
AniMalayaworks is a collaboration between Filipinx multidisciplinary mother Anito Gavino and Philadelphia Youth Poet Laureate (2024-25) and filmmaker daughter Malaya Ulan. Together they actively create anti-colonial performance art as a portal to connecting to ancestral land, spirit, and community. Through collaboration, the mother-daughter duo invites artists from where they perform the work to partake in the performance, allowing the stories to morph into a more dynamic and ever-morphing storytelling practice. Their practice involves a domesticated practice of cooking, tsismising (conversations), field and historical research. The duo empowers the nuanced Filipino-born immigrant and Filipino-American voices by merging contemporary and folk dance, poetry, and film.
Know more about their works on their website.
Register to the open mic below.