MARGARET JENKINS DANCE COMPANY
Celebrating 50 years of bringing dance to San Francisco and the world!
Anting Anting Project Convening
Celebrating Culture with Sensitivity:
Community Partner Conversation
With Alleluia Panis, AAM Curator Natasha Reichle, Deborah Clearwaters, and special guests.
March 25, 2023
12:00pm – 4:00pm
Koret Education Center, Asian Art Museum
San Francisco
FREE
Limited spots available - please contact kegan@mjdc.org for info
Anting Anting Project Convening is a partnership with KULARTS, Asian Art Museum’s Re-History Project, and Margaret Jenkins Dance Company’s Encounters Over 60
This convening is part of the Panis’ Anting Anting project, in part, a response to the current ethical discourse on museums' responsibility to repatriate objects acquired through colonization, war, or theft in an effort to correct history. In this discussion and community workshop, participants will learn about museum practices and share their opinions and emotions around artworks at the Asian Art Museum. Panis hopes for Bay Area Asian communities to share their thoughts and views on sacred and ritual items as museum exhibits of beauty and interest but stripped of their original intent. She will share aspects of her artistic process including a conversation with museum staff, curator Natasha Reichle and educator Deborah Clearwaters on our work together to examine and discuss the complexities of having objects of worship, ritual, and ceremonies in the museum. We'll also respond to the question of how a community artist can be a catalyst for change within a major San Francisco arts institution.
Participants will be invited to respond to specific questions and have an open discussion.
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How should the museum exhibit sacred and ritual items?
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How can we honor AAM’s collection of sacred and ritual objects?
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How can the museum correct the history of acquiring objects through colonization, war and theft?
The convening will inform the outcome of Panis’ commissioned work Anting Anting Project.
*Anting anting is the Tagalog word for sacred power/energies in objects, places or persons
About the Artist
Alleluia Panis
Alleluia Panis is a respected elder artist in the US and the Philippines and the driving force behind Kulintang Arts, Inc (KULARTS)-- the nation’s premiere presenter of contemporary and tribal Pilipino arts. She has created over twenty full-length dance theater works that have been presented on stages in the United States, Europe, and Asia. She has received numerous awards including Dance/USA Artists Fellowship, SFCA Legacy Award, Gerbode Foundation for Manong Is Deity inspired by the first wave of Pilipino worker to in the 1900’s as cheap labor US growing agricultural industry, Rainin Foundation Open Spaces for Lakbai Diwa Project a public ceremony of healing during COVID-19 pandemic, and Hewlett 50 Arts Commissions for Nursing These Wounds, a multi-sensory public work that investigates the impacts of colonization on diasporic Pilipinx health and caregiving, through the lens of Pilipinx nurses history. Her dance film She, Who Can See premiered at the 2018 CAAMFEST, formerly known as the Asian American International Film Festival. She served as a member of National Performance Network’s Artists Committee, and as a board member of API Cultural Center, Brava! For Women in the Arts, Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, and Dance Bay Area.