Bindlestiff Studio is bringing back the love to its black box theater in the SoMa Pilipinas Cultural Heritage District with its most celebrated short play series The Love Edition: Falling Hard, running from Valentine’s Day February 14 - March 2, 2019. Community Preview, Thursday, Feb 14th. Opening Reception Friday, Feb 15th. Saturday Matinee, Feb 23rd at 3pm.

 

Exploring the emotional twists and turns of love and relationships, The Love Edition (TLE) is a short play festival that captures the complex nuances of love stories. Through comedy, drama, and mixed media, The Love Edition: Falling Hard brings to life a theatrical world that delves deep into the human experience and spectacle of romantic love. Falling Hard is the sixth iteration of TLE, originally produced by the theater’s resident artists Chuck Lacson and Raf Lim in 2006. TLE showcases the vibrant arts and culture of Bindlestiff Studio’s community while fostering the emerging talents of the San Francisco Bay Area.

 

For tickets and more information, please visit: 

https://www.bindlestiffstudio.org/tle2019

 

 

Register for Daluyan:

Embodied Storytelling Intensive

facilitated by Sammay Dizon

 

DALUYAN: Embodied Storytelling Intensive is an in-depth weekly workshop process that investigates the ancestral memory that lives within our corporeal being through movement, writing, and performance ritual - facilitated by Sammay Dizon. How do we cultivate a relationship of healing to our personal and intergenerational traumas in order to realize our most whole Self? How can we thereby access the inherent joy and ancestral resilience that already lives inside of us? From mid-February to early May 2019, participants will gather 2x/week (mostly Fridays at 6-9pm and Sundays at 2-5pm) to explore how one can interweave these forms in service to our healing of Self, Lineage, and Community. This intensive process is intended for both the artist and the non-artist identifying and will culminate in a public performance at Bindlestiff Studio. Participants will also be invited to be a part of a process-oriented documentary by Solitaire Miguel that will follow Dizon's methodologies and the cultivation of the collective knowledge body through this work.

 

DALUYAN is a Filipino word that translates into "vessel."
 

This intensive is focused on BIPOC womxn and non-binary identifying folks; those of Pilipinx descent are especially encouraged to participate.

 

Start: Friday, February 15, 2019 @ 6-9pm
Final Schedule will be sent out to confirmed participants.

Tech Week and Performances: April 29 - May 5, 2019

 

Registration: $250-$500 sliding scale (11 weeks)
Scholarships are available for those with financial need. Spots are also available for SOMA residents/cultural workers. Please e-mail info@bindlestiffstudio.org for more information.

 

Last Day to Register: Friday, February 8, 2019 @ 11:59pm

 

To register or for more information, please visit: 

https://www.bindlestiffstudio.org/daluyan/​

 

Sponsored in part by the California Arts Council.

 

 

SOMALAKAS: The Strength of SOMA 

CLOSES JAN. 30!

 

 

Don't miss your chance to experience the new photo exhibit by Joe Ramos, SOMALAKAS: The Strength of SOMA. See some of the faces and characters that help make SOMA Pilipinas a place to call home!

 

Bindlestiff Studio at 185 6th Street, thru Jan. 30. Weds - Sat from 1-5 PM.

 

 

Welcome, New Board Members!

 

Bindlestiff Studio is thrilled to announce the addition of four new board members: TJ Basa, Julie Kuwabara, Chuck Lacson, and Ryan Morales. They each bring to the table impressive professional experience, passion for the arts, and deep connections to Bindlestiff - attributes that will undoubtedly serve them well as they help to guide and propel us forward. 

 

TJ Basa is a nonprofit administrator and community organizer with 15 years of experience working with small-to-mid-sized organizations and grassroots groups. She served as program manager for Kearny Street Workshop from 2012–2014, and executive director from 2014–2016. Currently, she is the Fund Development and Communications Coordinator for the South of Market Community Action Network. She has been a fan of Bindlestiff since 2003, and a resident artist and volunteer since 2006. She is a founding member of Brownout Shadowplay Collective, and a member of the Tagalog progressive folk band, ALPAS.

 

 

Julie Kuwabara has over 20 years of digital advertising experience consulting with some of the largest US Brands (Coca Cola, McDonald's and Nestle). Currently, she is a Brand Specialist at Google focusing on YouTube digital advertising. She has been a performer and volunteer of Bindlestif since 2006. She is a member Granny Cart Gangstas an all female Asian American comedy sketch group and continues to perform throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. ​

 

 

Chuck Lacson has been a marketer in the Toy and Video Game industry for 20 years.  Currently a manager in Brand Marketing for Sony Interactive Entertainment (aka PlayStation), he's helped manage some of the company's biggest video game franchises.  His love for Bindlestiff started in the early 2000's in Natoma alley as a Stories High student.  Since then, he has been a resident artist for over a decade, acting directing, and writing for multiple productions.  He is the original producer and co-creator of The Love Edition.​

 

Ryan Morales is an 18-year marketing professional in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has spent the last decade working for Google, serving in several capacities across business-to-business, business-to-consumer, Partner, Innovation, Country, and Regional Marketing. Notably, Ryan was the Head of Consumer Marketing for Google Southeast Asia region, and was Google Philippines' first Head of Marketing. Currently, he holds the position of Head of International Marketing for Google’s Education products, working out of San Francisco.

Prior to Google, Ryan worked in marketing and market research for online properties such as CNET Games & Entertainment (now CBS Interactive), and in the biotech industry for companies such as Novartis and IMS.

In the non-profit world, Ryan has been a resident artist at Bindlestiff Studio since 1999. He has participated in over a dozen productions, moonlighting as a producer, director, writer, acting facilitator, founder of the FOB Show troupe, and volunteer for the theater. He has also performed with Teatro ng Tanan, AATC, Brava, New Conservatory, Calaveras Repertory, Theater Rice, and Jeproks Productions, participating in numerous stage and film productions from industrials to plays to short and feature films.

Ryan also has a bachelor's degree in Political Science and Dramatic Art from the University of California Berkeley, and an EdM in International Education Policy from Harvard University.

 

CASTING CALL

 

Short film – “NANAY’S LULLABY” - Previously performed on the Bindlestiff Stage

 

“Nanay’s Lullaby” is the story of Arnel, a gay Filipino-American man who must reunite with his moralistic family when his mother is diagnosed with a serious illness. But their morals are turned upside down when Arnel realizes that his mother has HIV. This story spotlights the growing number of HIV cases in older folks and illustrates the stigma they can face. How does that stigma change when it’s your own mother?

 

• CRISELDA (mother): Filipina, 50-60 years old. Speaks in Tagalog and heavily-accented English. Has a few singing lines (but could be dubbed)
• ARNEL (son): Filipino-American, 23-ish, speaks English only

 

All-volunteer film project (non-union, non-paid)
 

Shoot Dates: April 13, 20, 27 and 28 in the San Francisco Bay Area
 

Produced & Directed by Drew & Mano Stephens of RDM Studios (RDMstudios.com) in cooperation with Scary Cow Productions (ScaryCow.com)

 

Auditions are in San Francisco on Sunday January 27, 2019

By appointment only

CASTING: backstage.com/casting/nanays-lullaby-270155/
PRODUCTION: Drew Stephens – drew@rdmstudios.com

 

 

AROUND THE BARANGAY

 

January 22 - March 2, 2019: King of the Yees at SF Playhouse. Featuring Bindlestiffies: Krystle Piamonte and Rinabeth Apostol

January 28th, 6 - 8 PM: SOMA Pilipinas History and Heritage Committee OPEN HOUSE at Bayanihan Community Center. Help keep our Hxstory Alive!

February 5, 2019 - 7PM​: Young Jean Lee in conversation with Mina Morita at JCCSF. 50% off with Promo code: YJLEE50

February 10, 2019: Applications due for FREE 10-WEEK STORYTELLING WORKSHOP WITH RESILIENCE ARCHIVES