BUTTERFLY KICKS: A WEEKEND OF WORKS IN PROGRESS
Fri, October 3, 2008 – Sun, October 5, 2008
Advance: $10
Sliding Scale at the Door: $12-15
Bayanihan Community Center
1010 Mission St. (at 6th St.)
San Francisco
Tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/42658
Featuring compelling works-in-development by poet Joel Tan, composer Dwayne Calizo, composer Florante Aguilar, writers Marianne Villanueva, Josef Anolin and Allan Manalo. Engage in the process as artists (re)create a Pilipino American universe through song and text blurring lines of mythology, history and reality to examine our own humanity.
MARCELINA
by Poet JOEL TAN & Composer DWAYNE CALIZO
8pm Fri, October 3, 2008
Perfumed, barefoot with painted toenails, eyes blackened with kohl, big and beautiful, the conjurer, the Pantheon’s Big FABULOUS Queer Deity offers a feast of poetic incantations, karaoke songs, adobo & rice to the ghost of Marcelina Navarro, a young, expectant Pilipina tortured and buried alive for alleged infidelity by the female members of her Masonic lodge in the late 30’s. Moderators: Lucy San Pablo Burns, PhD. and Christine Bacareza Balance.
“the ghost of her
drifts around this lonely town
that has known nothing else since
but secrets
she will pull you
down deep far
under & smother you
with a blanket of dirt.”