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Community Workshops at Horner Park with with Kiam Marcelo Junio and Crystle Diño

  • Horner Park 2741 West Montrose Avenue Chicago, IL, 60618 United States (map)

Community Workshops at Horner Park with with Kiam Marcelo Junio and Crystle Diño

These workshops are a part of the KO-MISSION: Event Series curated by HL Doruelo.

Creative Mythmaking with Kiam Marcelo Junio (2-3PM)

Many people think of creativity only in the arts but each person is the author, composer, dancer, and director of their own story. In this workshop, Kiam will share different creation myths within the Philippine diaspora and guide us in connecting to our innate creativity and intuition to explore our unique personal narratives.

Freedom Movement Alignment with Crystle Diño (3-5PM)

FMA (Freedom. Movemeant. Alignment.) is a holistically integrated public program of empowerment self-defense, Filipino Martial Arts, and body-based awareness exercises practiced within a trauma-informed and healing engagement community. In this training session with Crystle, we will nurture trust in our own power through mindfulness movement and self-defense practices.

Merienda and Tsika-tsika (Snacks & Chat with Community) (5-5:30)

Horner Park, 2741 W Montrose Ave, Chicago, IL 60618

  • Meet up south of the Mini-Pitch courts just beyond (east) of the parking lot, off California Ave in between Cullom Ave and Berteau Ave. 

FEATURED ARTISTS

Kiam Marcelo Junio (they/them)

Kiam was born in the Philippines and is a US Navy Veteran, with 7 years of service as a medical assistant and respiratory therapist. They earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Master of Science in Health and Human Performance from Pacific College of Health and Science. Kiam holds certifications as a Holistic Health Coach (ICF-ACC), Yoga Instructor, Massage Therapist, and Personal Trainer. They are a lifelong learner, passionate about integrating biological sciences (body) with positive psychology (mind) and contemplative practices (spirit). Kiam has performed and exhibited their work throughout Chicago, New York, Mexico City, Vancouver, London, and Cádiz. Kiam leads breathwork and mindfulness workshops, teaching how to access embodied wisdom, heal the Inner Child, and create powerful choices that radically change one's inner and outer worlds. You can follow them on Instagram @iamkiam | https://kiam.online

Crystle Diño (she/they)

Crystle Diño is a Pinay Chicago native guided by her passions in the visual, performance, and healing arts rooted in community and her cultural upbringings. She unearths herstory and investigates time, place, and relation by incorporating elements of the body, participation, and memory and by creating movement using repetition in patterns immersed in personal stories, collective experiences, and folklore. She practices as a folk art therapist, performance and visual artist, mover & dancer, cultural worker, and youth development worker. She embodies her freedom by training in Filipino Martial Arts and dance and utilizes the concepts of Chicago House culture of freedom, love, and empowerment, as well as the Babaylan consciousness as foundation and impetus for her practices. Visit freedommovemeantalignment.com for more about her work.

Curated by HL Doruelo

part of Links Hall’s Co-MISSION Curatorial Residency program

The KO-MISSION event series grounds in the truth that grief is deeply political and aims to understand its nuances and wisdom as we work together to transform harm. Each of the featured artists explore their relationship to grief, healing, care work, and their experiences as Filipinx/a/o people in diaspora rooted in Chicago. While we experience individual grief in uniquely felt ways, we recognize that we share grief that is both generational and systemic. We see grief work not only as a strategy of survival, but as a necessary part of our movements for collective liberation. KO-MISSION responds to our need for communal space to move through individual and collective grief. We invite you to join us as we dream of a kinder world and struggle towards genuine solidarity, together. Maraming salamat to the artists and AFIRE Chicago for collaborating with me and to Links HALL's CO-MISSION Curator-in-Residence Program for supporting our vision. With love, HL Doruelo

KO-MISSION Events schedule:

Friday, May 5 | 7-9:30PM - Performances at Links Hall

Shaping Grief: Letters To My Lola by Christian Aldana

Musings from Pisces Urges by Czaerra Galicinao Ucol

The Phantom Is Present by Ashley Dequilla

Saturday, May 6 | 7-9PM - Performances at Links Hall

Re-Member Carefully by Crystle Diño

Sacred Skin: Synthesis by Kiam Marcelo Junio

Saturday, May 27 | 2-4PM - Community Workshop on Zoom

Zine-Making with Sky Cubacub & Rebirth Garments

Virtual on Zoom (zoom link with RSVP)

Sunday, May 28 | 2-5PM - Community Workshops at Horner Park

Creative Mythmaking with Kiam Marcelo Junio

Freedom Movement Alignment with Crystle Diño

Merienda and Tsika-tsika (Snacks & Chat with Community)

Horner Park, 2741 W Montrose Ave, Chicago, IL 60618

HL Doruelo (they/them/siya)

is a Filipinx organizer, scholar, artist and curator whose work is deeply invested in intergenerational kinship and queer practices of care. Gathering community through food, story, and intentional movement, their cultural work and interdisciplinary research seeks to cultivate meaningful reflection and relation. They expose asymmetries in the migrant care labor industry and use storytelling as a method for mutual witnessing, collectivizing care, processing grief, protesting, and transforming harm. They previously facilitated political education and arts-driven workshops as a youth & immigrant rights organizer with AFIRE Chicago (Alliance of Filipinos for Immigrant Rights and Empowerment). An NYU Sulo Philippine Research fellow, HL holds an M.A. in Performance Studies from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and a B.A. in Public Policy Analysis, Psychology, and French from Pomona College. 

Partner Organization:

Alliance of Filipinos for Immigrant Rights and Empowerment (AFIRE) Chicago

AFIRE Chicago is a grassroots community organization that works to build the capacity of Filipinx/a/os* to organize towards progressive change. As an organization founded by Filipino immigrants, we carry with us the legacy of People Power. We believe in supporting the leadership of people most affected by structural injustice and make space for them at the forefront of our movements. We seek to amplify the voices of those most silenced in our community: undocumented families, new immigrants and refugees, domestic workers, low-wage workers, seniors, and youth.

*We use Filipinx/a/o as shorthand for Filipinx/Filipina/Filipino to honor all gender identities.

Links Hall’s Co-MISSION Curatorial Residency program supports independent, Chicago dance curators, producers, and social practice artists in presenting new and existing performance by their communities, for their communities. In collaboration with Links Hall and a local organization in their own Chicago neighborhoods, the 2022-2023 resident curators will invite artists from their communities to present new or existing performance work at both Links Hall and a neighborhood location. Projects include engaging community events outside of the formal theater environment. Residency awards include artist fees for curators and participating artists; direct funding for neighborhood-based partner organizations; and administrative support, rehearsal space, marketing, and technical production services.

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