Kommunity Kultura presents: Beginning Music Workshop with Bernard Ellorin

868 Kearny Street,San Francisco CA 94108

07 January, 2022

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Ethnomusicologist Dr. Bernard Ellorin presents a Beginning Hands-on Workshop on the Music of the Sulu Archipelago Kommunity Kultura  is back at Manilatown with a weekend-long hands-on intensive on the music and dance of the Sulu Archipelago! Kommunity Kultura is our traditional Philippine music, movement and cultural education program taking place at San Francisco’s International Hotel Manilatown Center. Each of our family-friendly workshops focus on a new topic, are oftentimes hands-on, and are accessible to all ages and levels of ability. On Friday, January 7th at 6pm we are thrilled to be presenting Ethnomusicologist Dr. Bernard Ellorin as he leads an an introductory workshop on tagunggu' (gong-chime ensemble) music from the Sulu archipelago, Philippines. This is a hands-on intensive with the basic timekeeping and rhythmic patterns for the larger gong and drum instruments. Exposure to fieldwork footage will provide context to the musical repertoire taught throughout the larger 2-day beginner intensive. IMPORTANT NOTE: Prior to entering the International Hotel Manilatown Center all attendees will have to show proof of full vaccinationPlease join us for this enlightening community event by registering here at EventBrite! Bernard Ellorin, PhD is an adjunct faculty of music at Miramar College and MiraCosta College in San Diego County, California. He received his PhD in Ethnomusicology from the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa in 2015. Ellorin’s academic and community work spans over 28 years of educating Filipino American and non-Filipino American communities on Filipino diasporic performing arts. From 2012-2013, Ellorin was a research fellow with the Fulbright Research and Study Abroad Program conducting a comparative study on the contemporary musics of the Sama-Bajau in Semporna District, Sabah Malaysia and Batangas City, Philippines. Kommunity Kultura has been made possible in part by a grant from the Alliance for California Traditional Arts, in partnership with the Walter and Elise Haas Fund, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Grants for the Arts and The California Endowment. Funding for this program has also been provided by California Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) as part of the American Rescue Plan of 2021. And for more information about Kommunity Kultura or the Manilatown Heritage Foundation please email us at [email protected].