I’ll be back at the Asian Art Museum in SF 3/5 & 3/6 for a large scale#baybayin performance with my kulintang friends (Kulintronica & Titania Buchholdt) playing while I write. I’ll also have art on display and short talk. This is a collaboration with international Japanese calligraphy artist Aoi Yamaguchiwho’ll have taiko drumming. You won’t want to miss this!
https://www.facebook.com/events/1128208747219633/
Had a successful day with Lane Wilcken at the Asia Art Museum for Filipino American History day. Activities included talks, art performance and a showing of my personal library of books on prePhilippine scripts and old items. Be sure to check out the Hinabi Project on display. Look out for our next event, unKonference on November 14, 2015 at Fort Mason.
FALL IN LOVE WITH ART AGAIN.
Please join us @ U.N. Plaza to celebrate the ARTS in San Francisco. Thursdays 5-9PM: Sept. 17, Oct. 1, Oct.22
Here are some events I took part of the past couple months.
May 16 – Asian Heritage Street Festival @ SF
May 23 – Secret Garden of Eden @ SF
May 30 – Kularts Art Fair @ SF
June 6 – Pista sa Ngyon @ Vallejo
June 21 – Sangdiwa @ SF
June 27 – Kalayaan @ SF
Over the past 2 years, I’ve been slowing down doing Filipino events due to the following:
– Lack of quality of the Filipino festivals
– Increased cost of booths at festivals
– Less attendance
– A change in consumer behavior
– Less interest possibly due to our efforts of getting knowledge of Baybayin to the public has been working
So what’s this mean? It means that I’ve got to change things up by either changing my products or targeting non-Filipinos. It also means that next year, I’ll be focusing on my online school, documentary and producing events. The next one will be on November 14, 2015 at Fort Mason. See unKonference.org for more information.
I’ll be doing large scale #baybayin this Saturday 5/30 in SOMA at 2:30pm. Also check out Sammay, Tony, and Florante! https://www.facebook.com/events/1468262430132609/
Come join us for Sisiklab (to spark) a celebration of activating our light through preFilipino tattoos, art, healing and music on 1/31 5-10pm at Ensoma 352 6th Street San Francisco, CA 94103 .
Activities include:
– Traditional tattooing by Lane Wilcken
– Baybayin jewelry by Ray Haguisan
– Baybayin art by Kristian Kabuay
– Healing by Jasmine Therese Esguerra
– Music by Ron Quesada
More info on the FB event
Come to a FREE event celebrating Filipino food at Justin Herman Plaza in San Francisco, California August 30. I’ll be doing a live art performance at 12:30PM at the Street Stage. See SavorFilipino.com for more info
It’s that time of the year again! Pistahan at Yerba Buena Gardens 8/9-10 in downtown San Francisco. Along with Baybayin, we’ll have a balikbayan box and masskara art show. Details on Pistahan.net
This is a weird one…..Bill Murray X Baybayin! I’m taking part of The Murray Affair: A Bill Murray art show in San Francisco 8/8/14. When I first heard of the show, I thought it would be interesting to see how Bill Murray would look like in Baybayin. “Western” names can be challenging to write. I tried it using the modern method using the vowel killers but it looked too “busy”. I decided to do it traditionally as Bi (Bill) Mu-Re (Murray). I could’ve also done it Me-Re as well but artistically, the composition looked better with the kudlit at the bottom for the Ma character. In the pict, the red marks are the kudlits.
Based on what I’ve seen, most of the art will be portraits. It will be interesting how this pre-Filipino piece goes with the rest of the artwork. To see pix of the event this Friday (San Francisco, US time), follow me on FB/Baybayin.
The Public Works SF
161 Erie St, SF, 94103
Kristian Kabuay 