Lotus Music & Dance will host a benefit event on Monday, October 27th at the Ailey Studios located at 405 W 55th Street in NYC. This benefit is to raise funds for the World Dance Festival performance on December 7th.

This year many organizations did not receive the NEA grant and Lotus was one of them. This grant was imperative to the funding and success of the World Dance Festival.

For more tickets, more information and to put a bid on an item: 32auctions.com/2025SilentAuctionWDF (2025 Silent Auction Bidding)

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In honor of Filipino History Month -

Kinding Sindaw: The Story of the Magical Butterfly "Paruparo"  

QPL Woodside Branch - New Americans Program presents Kinding Sindaw: The Story of the Magical Butterfly "Paruparo"  

RSVP:

https://KSopenhouse25.eventbrite.com

*RSVP required

*Free and open to the public

*Tax-free donations are welcomed

Program: Showcase of various dances of Indigenous People of Mindanao and brief overview of Kinding Sindaw

Join us for our Fall 2025 Open House and dive into the rich cultures and traditions of Mindanao’s indigenous groups. Kinding Sindaw’s artists will showcase various royal court and ritualistic dances, from the graceful Silong sa Ganding of the Maguindanao, to the earthy Madal Tanum of the Tboli, and the powerful Naga of the Maranao. Potri Ranka Manis, Founder of Kinding Sindaw, will also give a brief overview of the organization’s history and evolution throughout its 33 years of existence. This Open House is your chance to deepen your understanding of pre-colonial Philippine culture and history while getting physically active and making new connections in the community. Sign up today!

Purchase tickets today:

https://www.lamama.org/pagbabalik-ng-musikero/

Project Overview

This concert-performance celebrates the artistic legacy of Dr. Nonilon V. Queano, PhD, retired professor from the University of the Philippines College of Arts and Letters, Comparative Literature. A multi-awarded playwright, poet, and musician, Dr. Queano’s body of work bridges literature, music, and performance.

The evening will feature compositions, poetry, and excerpts from his award-winning plays, performed by Dr. Nonilon V. Queano, PhD, singers, musicians, and performers from New York City, the Philippines, and Canada. The concert highlights Queano’s lifelong dedication to the arts, both in the Philippines and in the diaspora.

Artist Background

• Dr. Nonilon V. Queano, PhD
  

• Retired professor, Comparative Literature, University of the Philippines.

• Multi-awarded playwright (Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, Cultural Center of the Philippines).

• Published poet and playwright.

• Album release: Pagbabalik ng Musikero (2014).

• Fellow: USIC (United States Information Agency) Writers & Scholars Exchange Program, USA, 1988, representing the Philippines.

• Composer of 115 original Pilipino (Tagalog) songs after retirement.

• Kulintang musician with Kinding Sindaw since 1992.
  

Project Significance

This concert serves as both a tribute and transmission of knowledge:

• Literary Excellence – showcasing excerpts from Queano’s award-winning plays and published poetry.

• Musical Heritage – highlighting his compositions that fuse traditional Filipino sensibilities with contemporary artistry.

• Cultural Continuity – performed by intergenerational artists from the Philippines and diaspora, carrying forward living traditions.

• Community Engagement – connecting New York audiences with the richness of Filipino literature and music.
  

Join the Pilipino Tagalog class and Dr. Nonilon Queano “Pagbabalik ng Musikero” 

• Original Songs by Dr. Nonilon Queano (performed by NYC and Philippine vocalists).

• Poetry Readings (English and Tagalog).

• Excerpts from Award-Winning Plays (dramatic readings with live music).

• Kulintang and Indigenous Music Performances featuring Kinding Sindaw musicians.

• Collaborations with Guest Performers from Canada, Philippines, and NYC.

• Sign up for classes: https://KStagalog25.eventbrite.com

Cultural Dance performance for Filipino American History Month

October is Filipino American History Month so come celebrate with us, Apicha Community Health Center, and other organizations!

📅 October 18, 2025 12-4PM

📍 Apicha Community Health Center - 82-11 37th Avenue, Lower Level, Jackson Heights, NY 11372

✨ Highlights: performances, community reflection, food, traditional games, karaoke, and more!

🎟️ RSVP: tinyurl.com/FAHM25

*free and open to the public, but please RSVP so we know you’ll be attending!

🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭We are celebrating and honoring Filipino American HISTORY Month with music and dance across generations with @sunnysideshines and @queensborodancefestival !

📅 Thursday October 16, 6-8pm

📍 Lowery Plaza, under the 7 train at 40th Street/Queens Blvd

🎉🎉 Tinikling with @thephysicalplant, Performances by @kindingsindaw, 🎶🎼University of the Philippines Alumni Rondallistas 🪕, line dancing with Mr. PINOY LINEDANCE @noelgamboa717 💃🏽🕺🏽 . 🧁Snacks and treats @littlecheflittlecafe @purpledoughs, 🎨 art activities @_badstudent @littlemanilaqueens . 🫶🏽 Resource tabling @naffaa.ny, flu shot clinic @northwellhealth 💝

Free and open to the public!

Kinding Sindaw Heritage Foundation in partnership with Dancers Unlimited

Date & Venue:

October 5, 2025 • 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM • Colonels Row • Governors Island, New York

*Open to the public, free of charge

*Ferries run between 7:00 AM - 7:00 PM

Project Overview

In celebration of Filipino American History Month, Kinding Sindaw brings the legendary Rinayung, the magical boat of Bantogen from the epic Darangen, to symbolically sail the Hudson River and dock at Governors Island. The daylong event highlights living traditions of the Philippines through performance, craft, ritual, and storytelling, featuring master artists, tradition-bearers, and diaspora voices, grounding ourselves in the tradition of Filipino strength and heritage.

A panel and workshop featuring Filipino American historians, organizers and community workers will discuss and reflect on our history of resilience, coalition-building and organizing, and what we face as a community looking to the future. 

This immersive gathering weaves indigenous knowledge, artistic practices, and community dialogue — making visible the cultural resilience that has withstood displacement and colonization, as inspiration moving forward as a community.

Program Components (11 AM – 5 PM)

Ritual: 

● Opening Ritual & Invocation (11:00 AM)

● Kulintang & Ritual Dances (11:30 AM) – Kinding Sindaw ensemble

Talk Backs, Workshops and Panel:

● Talk-Back Session: Indigenous Voices in Diaspora (12:30 PM)

● Panel: Lakas na Loob - A History of FilAm Organizing and Community Reflection (12:30)

● Herbal Knowledge & Healing Practices (1:00 PM)

● Edible Kitchen Stories (Tasting & Narratives) (2:00 PM)

Performances: 

● Gangsa of the Cordillera & Dance (2:30 PM)

● Dance Storytelling: The Darangen & Bantogen (3:00 PM)

● Poetry Reading & Filipino Language Overview (3:30 PM)

● Community Healing & Reflection Circle (4:00 PM)

● Kulintang Closing Ensemble (4:30 PM)

All Day:

● Bead-Making Workshop (Mangyan Tradition) (All Day)

● Visual Arts & Baybayin Exhibit (All Day)

"Alagaan ang Salaysay," which highlights stories from Filipino nurses, which includes our Founder and Artistic Director, Potri Ranka Manis.

Flux Factory is pleased to present A l a g a a n a n g S a l a y s á y, a solo exhibition by Maureen Catbagan.

The exhibition runs from October 4 - November 2, 2025 with an opening reception on Saturday, October 4, 6:00 - 9:00 pm, accompanied by performances from Cordillera Cultural Ensemble (CCE) and Kinding Sindaw.

In A l a gaan an g S al a ysá y (Take Care of the Story), artist Maureen Catbagan reimagines monuments through the living voices and personal stories of Filipino nurses. Catbagan began with conversations within the community, where familial words tita (aunt), ate (sister), and kuya (brother) are terms of care, respect, and nurturing regardless of blood relation. The stories became shorthand for the cultural and emotional infrastructure that nurses have built, one patient at a time.

The work’s historical backdrop is equally vital. The 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, which abolished the national origins quota system, opened the door for skilled workers from the Philippines. By the 1970s, faced with severe staffing shortages, American hospitals were actively recruiting nurses from Manila and beyond. Many settled near the New York City area, creating communities where nursing was not only an occupation but also a family legacy.

This legacy was tested—and in many ways revealed—during the COVID-19 pandemic, when Filipino nurses found themselves on the frontlines of an unprecedented public health crisis. They faced grueling hours, emotional and physical exhaustion, and a constant risk to their own lives.Their work was courageous but also under-recognized, a fact that motivates Catbagan’s desire to “take care of the story.”

At Flux IV , visitors are invited to sit, listen, and read the nurses’ stories vocally. It’s an act of deep listening and verbal exchange that transforms storytelling into a kind of collective sculpture—monuments made of breath, attention, and memory. In this space, the distance between storyteller, listener, and subject collapses.

The stories themselves are as varied as the nurses who tell them: moments of homesickness, of humor, of loss and triumph. Together, they create a portrait of caregiving as a form of cultural endurance—an inheritance passed down not only through bloodlines but also through acts of service, compassion, and care. By turning the reading of these accounts into the artwork itself, Catbagan flips the usual relationship between monument and viewer. Here, the monument speaks—and the visitor becomes part of the structure simply by listening.

M a ur e e n C a t b a g a n : A l a g a a n a n g S a l a y s á y is presented as part of the artist’s 2025 NYSCA Fellowship.

Media & Visitor Contact

Meghana Karnik, Curator & Exhibitions Director, meghana@fluxfactory.org

About the Artist

Maureen Catbagan is a multi-media artist based in New York whose work engages social collectivity and explores the intersections of immigration, labor, and visibility. Collaborative projects include Abang-guard with artist Jevijoe Vitug, and the Yams Collective. Catbagan has exhibited in venues such as the Queens Museum, 601Artspace, PS 122 Gallery, The Center for Book Arts, Governors Island in New York, and The Contemporary Museum of Honolulu. They have performed in venues such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Abrons Art Center, DUMBO Art in New York, and Art Quarter Budapest. Fellowships and grants include the 2025 NYSCA-Support for Artists Grant, the 2025 NYFA-Queens Art Fund, and the 2024-25 Queens Museum-Jerome Foundation Fellowship for Emerging Artists amongst others. https://maureencatbagan.com

About Kinding Sindaw

Kinding Sindaw is a non for profit theater and dance theater established in 1992 and based in NYC that presents repertoire from living tradition and intangible cultural heritage of the Mindanao, Southern Philippines through performances, dance, storytelling, kulintang music ensemble and silat martial art. We are Honoring the Indigenous and Sultanate Bangsamoro and those in diaspora. Kinding Sindaw is non for profit, AAPI / BIPOC lead and membership. Founded by Artistic Director Potri Ranka Manis, a Meranao Bai Labi in diaspora in 1992.

www.kindingsindaw.org

About Cordillera Cultural Group (CCE)

The Cordillera Cultural Ensemble is an ethnic group representing the Igorot people of the Cordillera Administrative Region in the Northern Philippines, primarily based in New York and other states. Our mission is to preserve and promote our indigenous culture and history through traditional dances, songs, and other cultural performances celebrating friendship, courtship, andother ethnic festivities, in collaboration with government and non-government organizations.

https://about.me/cordilleraculturalensemble

About Flux IV

Flux IV is a new project space by arts nonprofit Flux Factory, where we host free and public exhibitions, gatherings, and artist projects. We are open on Saturdays from 12 - 6 pm and by appointment through December 2025.

Accessibility

Flux IV is located on the ground floor of 56-21 2nd Street, Long Island City, NY 11101 between the Queens Landing Boathouse & Environmental Center and Gotham Point apartments. The closest bus stop is 2 St/55 Ave on the Q101. The closest subway station is Vernon Blvd-Jackson Ave on the 7 line (purple) and 21st st G line (green). The closest ferry pier is Hunter’s Point South Ferry Landing. A Citibike station is located at Center Blvd & Hunters Point South Ferry Landing. iPark (paid parking) is available on 1-20 56th Ave, Long Island City, NY 11101. There is a public restroom left of our front door.

About Flux Factory

New York City-based and collectively led, Flux Factory’s mission is to support emerging artists through Artist-in-Residencies and Exhibitions, education and collaborative opportunities. For more information on our programs, visit www.fluxfactory.org or follow us on Instagram (@flux_factory).

Our final chapter of Pasifika Series 2025, with long-time collaborators Kinding Sindaw and a celebration of NY Climate Week.

REGISTER

https://www.incorpus.one/register/

*FREE, but registration required

ABOUT

The Maranao, or People of the Lake, of Mindanao (Southern Philippines), maintain relationship with their waters through embodied rituals; connecting, communicating, listening, and stewarding. This practice of oneness has allowed for the self-sustainability of the Maranao for generations.

Considering that “natural disasters are actually man-made,” and that the mistreatment of anything, including the environment, is destructive, in·corpus invites you to a workshop exploring the agency we have to orient towards climate repair through the embodied practices and encompassing worldview of an indigenous people.

WORKSHOP

Part history lesson, part dance class, this workshop will discuss the relationship between dance, ritual, and aquatic environments for the people of Mindanao, set against the backdrop of NY Climate Week and the Fall Equinox. Participants will learn the basic steps and movements used in ritual practices, focusing on the role of dance as an internal and external healing mechanism.

Dress for movement, malong (sarong) welcome. Open level, ages 7+.

⭐️LEADERSHIP SUMMIT 2025⭐️

💫You've got mail! 📧 What's up, D3? We are so happy to announce this year’s LEADERSHIP SUMMIT. the theme this year is “Taas Noo Kahit Kanino”, which translates to “Holding my Head High to Anyone”. Joined by @kindingsindaw, we hope that you all join us in this summit reflecting on our pride as Filipinos and all who came before us, especially in the face of struggle.

✨ Details!

Date: Saturday September 27th, 2025

Time: 12:45PM-6:00PM

Location: Pace University, 15 Beekman St. , New York, NY 10038

Room: Bianco Room, Third Floor

💫 FIND District lll’s 2025 Leadership Summit theme of “Taas Noo Kahit Kanino” seeks to address the disconnect that can arise between culture and club, as well as finding out why you, community leaders in D3, chose to serve in your position. “Taas Noo Kahit Kanino“ translates to “Holding my Head High to Anyone,“ serving as a reminder to acknowledge the culture we come from and to not only celebrate it, but take pride in it, openly and unapologetically.

💫 Filipinos are proud people, contributing to breaking the chains of both centuries of colonization and overcoming a stifling dictatorship. The Philippines has always fought for what’s best for their people, and continued to spread the culture despite numerous attempts by foreign influences to try and oppress it or control it. Even now, most of D3 are children of / are direct immigrants from the Philippines. A culture from across the world is somehow still continued and perpetuated here and it’s our doing, as well as our parents, and those that came before them. Though times are much different from when our predecessors fought through physical hardships, how will you continue that fight in the modern day, and be proud of your role as a leader?

Wrap up the Queensboro Dance Festival 2025 season with us and many other performing arts group at the finale!

Tickets: https://queenstheatre.org/spektrix/ChooseSeats?EventInstanceId=50401ARMBCNTPHTPBVLQSVDRCMHSBBNBM (use discount code QDFKIN)

Multimedia Teach-In + Community Gathering ; Connecting Freedom Struggles from Southeast Asia to Palestine

We need this movement building.

We need this community connecting.

Join us!

Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/solidarity-everywhere-freedom-struggles-from-southeast-asia-to-palestine-tickets

💚Sunday Sep 7 4-9pm💚

Teach-in

@r.ouaaa

@chhayachhoum

@sabri

@asians4palestinenyc

Art & Ritual

@takingrootdocumentary

@bebep.babykitchen

@kindingsindaw

DJ Sets

@palestineforever.nyc

@themusicofomar

Food

@thejoyoffeasting

@johnny_hummus

Thank you @kimberchou @wedefine___ for being such loving stewards of this work and these precious people.

Thank you @adamnguyen_ @honeysbrooklyn for always making space for us 💫

Our office, together with our community partners, is hosting our annual Back to School Giveaway in Assembly District 30. 🎒📚

📆 Saturday, August 23, 2025

⏰ 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

📍 Location shared upon RSVP (Maspeth, Queens)

Backpacks and supplies will be available on a limited basis for registered constituents only.

To register, please call (718) 651-3185 from Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM. 📞

At Apicha Community Health Center’s 2nd annual Community Celebration & Health Fair we will be offering FREE screenings and enrollment assistance:

✅Blood Pressure

✅Body Mass Index (BMI)

✅Dental

✅Health Insurance

✅Food Assistance (SNAP)

✅Medicaid

As well as providing FREE backpacks and books for kids!

Join Kinding Sindaw, Bantawan Productions, Philippine Heritage Center, Inc., NY Disaster Relief and Rehabilitation Fund, and many more at this ”A Benefit Concert for The Streets of Dreams Project for the Arts Philippines.”

The Street of Dreams Project for The Arts Philippines provides educational and creative programs to our children from different backgrounds in the Philippines and the USA. It is committed to transform the lives of the underprivileged youth and struggling artists in fulfilling their passion to become better artists and citizens in the world through the expressive arts. 

No. of tickets : ______
(Prepaid payment Zelle / cash / check payable to Hanz LLC, Zelle to  JeanHSuarez@gmail.com, Cash to Aileen Reyes, Hannah Parks)

Name of the ticket owner___________
Address to mail ___________________
(you can also pick up tickets at 5-6pm that the Philippine consulate reception Hall on August 8, 2025. We can also send it via electronics . Thank you )

For further inquiries, details and donation options for a 501 C 3 EIN 

Please call Hannah @212.500.0591

🩺✨ FREE Health Fair for the NYC Filipino Community! ✨🩺

Mark your calendars:
Saturday, July 26 | 10am-4pm
📍 Apicha Jackson Heights Clinic

🆓 What's included:
✅ Blood pressure & sugar screenings
✅ Stroke & exercise assessments
✅ Dental checkups
✅ Insurance enrollment help
✅ Educational health talks
✅ Cultural performances
✅ Free food & community vendors

Your health matters! Join us for a day of wellness, community, and celebration. Bring your family and friends! 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

RSVP: tiny.cc/NYCFHF25 or (929) 265-2857

Hosted by AFSA & CYFAM with incredible community partners 🤝

Stay tuned as we also share more opportunities to get involved, hear about each of our community partners, and flashback to last year's inaugural NYC Filipino Health Fair.