Saturday, June 13  3:00pm – 5:00pm
La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club
66 E 4th St, New York, New York 10003

Spend an intimate afternoon celebrating the work of Kinding Sindaw.

Kinding Sindaw exists to assert, preserve, reclaim, and re-create the traditions of dance, music, martial arts, storytelling, and orature of the indigenous peoples of the Philippines. The performing arts of the Philippines is a multi-layered complex resulting from a millennium of various cultural and religious influences, and colonization. The Philippine Archipelago lies at the end of a chain of Southeast Asian islands that share many traits of Malay culture and peoples. In the Philippines there are 62 recognized cultural and linguistic groups among these the Maranao tribe of the south from where Potri Ranka Manis hails. From the 4th to the 10th centuries the Hindu culture pervaded Malaysia, Indonesia, Burma, and extended to the Philippines, through the Indian Shri Vidyayah empire. Through trade, Islamic culture and religion entered the southern Philippines during the 14th Century, and along with significant remnants of Hindu Culture still thrives to this day despite Spanish colonization from the 16th century to the late 19th century, American colonization from 1898 to 1941, and the Japanese invasion during World War II
Curator:Michal Gamily | Moderator: Ellen Anisha Guro
For reservations and information visit: lamama.org/