The responses to this show have been phenomenal! From positive reviews in the San Francisco Chronicle, a shout-out from KALW's Sights & Sounds, to glowing feedback from the audience, The Geek Show 2: BindleCon is truly a show you do not want to miss! But with only three shows left, April 26-28, Thursday-Saturday, 8pm, you'd better get your tickets now!

 

The Geek Show 2: BindleCon

April 26-28

Thurs - Sat, 8pm

$15 Student/Senior

$20 General

$25 Support-the-Artists

https://geekshow2.bpt.me

 

 

Kularts’ Isugid Pinoy! exhibition (ee-soo-ghid), meaning tell it Pilipino in the Philippine Bisayan language, explores the diverse stories of five anchor organizations of the state and city-wide recognized SOMA Pilipinas – Filipino Cultural Heritage District and reimagines them as graphic storytelling, comic collaborative artworks exhibited at Bindlestiff Studio, concurrently during the run of The Geek Show 2: Bindlecon.

 

From the characters traits, costumes, to their heroic storylines, illustrators Don Aguillo and Rafael Salazar’s Isugid is driven by the ideas and narratives of members of the SOMA based businesses and organizations: Arkipelago Books, Bayanihan Community Center, Bindlestiff Studio, South of Market Community Action Network, and West Bay Pilipino Multi-Service Center.

 

Isugid comic book available while supplies last at Arkipelago Books.

 

API Cultural Center's Annual

United States of Asian America Fest

Takes Over Bindlestiff!

May 4 - June 9

 

 

USAAF returns to Bindlestiff! This year’s theme, Regenerative Community, explores what the API community does in order to care for ourselves, our community, and our culture. The festival highlights our collective regenerative practices - how they have evolved and how they are vital to our sustainability, including historical traumas Asians and Pacific Islanders have faced and how they have shaped our history, our culture, and present. The theme also mines how we as a community address these traumas and work towards a future of healing and restorative justice. Most poignantly, our festival programs investigate how the API community renews and sustains its drive and passion to be artists, organizers, cultural workers, and community leaders in the face of oppression.

 

INCARCERATED 6x9 (May 4-13, Fridays & Saturday, 7:30pm. Sundays, 3:00pm. $20) is the latest work by Alleluia Panis, performed by 10 dancers to music by Rachel Lastimosa and filmmaker Wilfred Galila Fri-Sun May 4-13, 2018 at Bindlestiff Studio in SF's Filipino Cultural District. Exploring the hopes, delusions and the ultimate will to survive in the loneliest, most bitter place on the planet, 6x9 is inspired by the real-life accounts of incarcerated young Pinoy/Asian Americans. The bold, physically and emotionally layed work of fiction located in the year 2048, 150 years after the US pursuit of global power began.

 

 

Model Minorities Don't Cry (May 18-19, Friday & Saturday, 8pm. $12.00) is a stand-up comedy show featuring Bay Area comedians Irene Tu and Andrew Orolfo. In it, Irene and Andrew separately tell jokes about their childhoods and current lives. They explore what it means to grow up Asian in America, living up to expectations of model minorities, and past trauma. By sharing their stories, they hope to start a conversation and dispel the stereotype that Asians and Asian Americans aren't allowed to show or talk about their feelings.

 

 

Bad Trip (Friday May 25, 8pm; Saturday May 26, 4pm & 8pm; Sunday May 27, 4pm) is the debut shadow theater production of BROWNOUT COLLECTIVE.

 

Written by poet, storyteller, and punk vocalist Rupert Estanislao, based on a segment of his childhood spent in the gritty Tenderloin district of the 1980s, and adapted for the shadow screen by TJ Basa and Burd Quines, BAD TRIP tells the perverse coming-of-age story of Buboy, a Filipino immigrant boy, caught in between the escapades of his debaucherous dad, Lito, and the occasional letters, phone calls and visits of his long-suffering mom. It is a tale of domestic violence, immigration, trauma, and assimilation as experienced through the wide-eyed wonder of an innocent, prepubescent child. Set to a backdrop of dilapidated residential hotels, lonely diners, and seedy strip joints, Buboy's young world is populated by sun-deprived Satanists, aging prostitutes, and other lost souls trapped in a purgatory of society’s making. The original score is created by Lian Ladia, with visuals and puppetry by Aureen Almario (Feathers of Fire), England Hidalgo and Marcius Noceda, under the orchestration of veteran producer Judith Ferrer (Queer Fuckery). Additional cast and crew include: Duygu Gun, Jamie Mancini, Robert Marquez, Carlo Ricafort, and Lauren Wendell.

 

 

Memorya (June 9, 5pm & 8pm. $15-25 Sliding Scale) weaves voices of elders and emerging artists into narratives of collective strength and wisdom. Performances explore stories of working class Filipinos balancing tensions between blood and chosen family, displacement and belonging. While queer elders guide younger generations, music is a portal to the spirit world, and dance is a meditation on migration, love and gender identity. As we honor the healing journeys that take place within community, we make space for the present, the future and the past. Kreatibo has used video, movement and multimedia performance to center Queer Filipin@ diaspora since 2003.

 

 

Mark Your Calendars!

Stories High 18 Workshops Begin in May

 

 

Stories High returns for its 18th installment! Bindlestiff's longest-running production series once again nurtures work from the page to the stage, culminating in a fully-staged production, August 16-25. We are thrilled to have Christina Ying, Jed Parsario, Melvign Badiola and Li-leng Au return as workshop facilitators.

 

Acting Workshop: Begins May 21st, 630pm-930pm, Location TBD. Full calendar of sessions will be available soon.

 

Writing Workshop: Meets every Sunday, May 27 - July 8, 11am-2pm @ Bindlestiff Studio

 

Directing Workshop: TBD

 

Tuition for entire course: $100-$250, sliding scale/per discipline. (Limited number of tuition waivers available for those in need and residents/community workers of SOMA).

 

For more information and to sign-up please email storieshigh@bindlestiffstudio.org

 

Note: The size of the Writing Workshop is capped at 15 participants. Eligible participants can only miss one class. 

 

 

AROUND THE BARANGAY

April 26 & 29 "Diktador" by Molly Olis Krost, Directed by Conrad Panganiban

April 27-29  "Baybayin" by Kristian Kabuay @ STARTUP ART FAIR

May 16  "SHE, WHO CAN SEE" AT CAAMFEST 2018

May 19 SoMa Barrio Fiesta 2018, Gene Friend Rec Center, VOLUNTEERS NEEDED