KATATAGAN-Endurance Filipino American Theater
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We will thank you now . . .
And we hope you will help us by funding our project, an amazing collection of Filipino American Theater Artists in the Bay Area entitled KATATAGAN which translates to Endurance, what drives these artists, Filipinos, both past and present.
I'm playwright Jeannie Barroga (WALLS, BUFFALO’ED, TALK-STORY, MAKA’AINANA) and offer this book with Golda Sargento of Arkipelago, Bookstore with its contemporary and historical Filipino American titles, and with Mallory Somera, our documentarian. Golda loves books and all Art, has been in my plays and is a trusted and candid friend. Rooted in theater through her mother, Mal helped me archive my life’s works housed at Stanford Green Library Special collection during which she has become a close friend, and has her MA in New Arts Journalism from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Both Golda and Mallory have helped me brainstorm and grab a hold of KATATAGAN's progress throughout 2019. In 2020, like everyone else, we had to come to a halt. Now, this window of time during COVID is our best chance to regain lost time.
In this book, we highlight not only those in the trenches of theater but also supporters, educators, those who work behind the scenes, with an added section for our ancestors in our era, In Memoriam. We cover the mid-1960s to the Millennium and the areas from San Francisco to Sacramento, and from Vallejo to San Juan Bautista.
Some context: the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965 allowed increased immigration stoking impassioned Filipino activists to support, in part through skits and music, key events in their America: SF State’s strike for Ethnic Studies, the I-Hotel eviction, etc. San Francisco theater roots were planted, one being Teatro ng Tanan and another, Bindlestiff Studio which had just celebrated its thirty-fifth anniversary. KATATAGAN pitches encouraged support from Governor Gavin Newsom’s office, Professor Theo Gonzalves’s Foreword, and Arkipelago’s commitment to publish.
We’ve collected a number of first-account interviews of key theater mavens, as well as Filipino elders, manangs and manongs, the pathfinders. These were the young Filipinos arriving from 1900 on and, despite anti-miscegenation, began families who have passed on artistic as well as social and spiritual values. We see more of their work onstage, weaving both their American influences imbued with their Filipino sensibilities. Such work nourishes ALL journeys. Endurance is what we’ve used; that, in essence, is KATATAGAN.
Please help...
By contributing to this project, you can benefit by digging into a unique segment of Bay Area history and gain knowledge of a culture that needs more visibility. With KATATAGAN in progress, we are still soliciting academics, editors, writers, graphic designers and illustrators to help us paint this vibrant picture.
Plus initial costs continue to be out of pocket. The three of us have taken extra love and care highlighting this rich, talented culture through interviews, near and far. We need recording equipment, office supplies, research fees, graphic costs, etc.
We are requesting $2,000 and, of course, extra dollars are totally welcome. With your generosity, we would accomplish so much more to shape KATATAGAN fully. We will connect with “Angels”, who donate $100 or more, for the last leg toward publication with a larger funding effort before the end of 2020.
Through this book, its anecdotes and legacies, we encourage more artists who take up the banner of the ones mentioned in KATATAGAN. They, too, in their time will be another hybrid mix of new performance legacies in theater. We deeply appreciate them and your support. Again, we thank you NOW for your donation. Further information: www.jeanniebarroga.com
pictured: Jeannie Barroga and Golda Sargento, Arkipelago Bookstore
Photo by Mallory Somera
gofundme.com/f/katataganendurance-filipino-american-theater
We will thank you now . . .And we hope you will help us by funding our project, an amazing collection of Filipino American Theater Artists in the Bay Area entitled KATATAGAN which translates to Endurance, what drives these artists, Filipinos, both past and present.
I'm playwright Jeannie Barroga (WALLS, BUFFALO’ED, TALK-STORY, MAKA’AINANA) and offer this book with Golda Sargento of Arkipelago, Bookstore with its contemporary and historical Filipino American titles, and with Mallory Somera, our documentarian. Golda loves books and all Art, has been in my plays and is a trusted and candid friend. Rooted in theater through her mother, Mal helped me archive my life’s works housed at Stanford Green Library Special collection during which she has become a close friend, and has her MA in New Arts Journalism from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Both Golda and Mallory have helped me brainstorm and grab a hold of KATATAGAN's progress throughout 2019. In 2020, like everyone else, we had to come to a halt. Now, this window of time during COVID is our best chance to regain lost time.
In this book, we highlight not only those in the trenches of theater but also supporters, educators, those who work behind the scenes, with an added section for our ancestors in our era, In Memoriam. We cover the mid-1960s to the Millennium and the areas from San Francisco to Sacramento, and from Vallejo to San Juan Bautista.
Some context: the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965 allowed increased immigration stoking impassioned Filipino activists to support, in part through skits and music, key events in their America: SF State’s strike for Ethnic Studies, the I-Hotel eviction, etc. San Francisco theater roots were planted, one being Teatro ng Tanan and another, Bindlestiff Studio which had just celebrated its thirty-fifth anniversary. KATATAGAN pitches encouraged support from Governor Gavin Newsom’s office, Professor Theo Gonzalves’s Foreword, and Arkipelago’s commitment to publish.
We’ve collected a number of first-account interviews of key theater mavens, as well as Filipino elders, manangs and manongs, the pathfinders. These were the young Filipinos arriving from 1900 on and, despite anti-miscegenation, began families who have passed on artistic as well as social and spiritual values. We see more of their work onstage, weaving both their American influences imbued with their Filipino sensibilities. Such work nourishes ALL journeys. Endurance is what we’ve used; that, in essence, is KATATAGAN.
Please help...
By contributing to this project, you can benefit by digging into a unique segment of Bay Area history and gain knowledge of a culture that needs more visibility. With KATATAGAN in progress, we are still soliciting academics, editors, writers, graphic designers and illustrators to help us paint this vibrant picture.
Plus initial costs continue to be out of pocket. The three of us have taken extra love and care highlighting this rich, talented culture through interviews, near and far. We need recording equipment, office supplies, research fees, graphic costs, etc.
We are requesting $2,000 and, of course, extra dollars are totally welcome. With your generosity, we would accomplish so much more to shape KATATAGAN fully. We will connect with “Angels”, who donate $100 or more, for the last leg toward publication with a larger funding effort before the end of 2020.
Through this book, its anecdotes and legacies, we encourage more artists who take up the banner of the ones mentioned in KATATAGAN. They, too, in their time will be another hybrid mix of new performance legacies in theater. We deeply appreciate them and your support. Again, we thank you NOW for your donation. Further information: www.jeanniebarroga.com
pictured: Jeannie Barroga and Golda Sargento, Arkipelago Bookstore
Photo by Mallory Somera
gofundme.com/f/katataganendurance-filipino-american-theater
Organizer
J Barroga
Organizer
Sausalito, CA