https://www.lamama.org/la-mama-kids-awaken-the-rhythms-of-nature/

Tickets: $15 * Ticket prices are inclusive of all fees.

Saturday show:  2pm

Sunday show time: 12 pm

Running Time 45 min to 60 min

ABOUT

To celebrate Filipino-American history month in October, this engaging hands-on workshop invites children to explore the foundational sounds of traditional percussion using natural instruments: the resonant gong, the earthy wood blocks, and the melodic bamboo tones. Participants will be introduced to the basic rhythmic patterns and musical rhymes rooted in indigenous traditions. Designed to activate sensory perception and visual imagination, this immersive experience awakens each child’s connection to southern Philippines sound, rhythm, and movement. Through guided play, storytelling, and interactive soundscapes, children will learn to listen, feel, and respond — preparing them for beginner classes in cultural music and dance.

CREDITS

Artist Facilitators: Potri Ranka Manis, Nonilon Queano, Frank Ortega, Diane Camino, Jerome Viloria, Ernesto Abe Pamolarco III, Malaika Queano

BIOS

Kinding Sindaw is an NYC-based nonprofit dance theater company composed of indigenous tradition-bearers, Filipino American artists, and educators from all backgrounds founded in 1992 by Potri Ranka Manis. 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 Mindanao, Southern Philippines. Through the use of indigenous music, dance and cultural art forms, we serve as an important educational and cultural resource in New York City. We aim to promote the advocacy for indigenous peoples, as well as increase awareness of universal themes that are part of the human experience.