Olongapo Disco: Archiving Joy Across the Diaspora from 1950 to the Future

7445 Tooma Street,San Diego CA 92139

25 June, 2022

Description

Olongapo Disco: Archiving Joy Across the Diaspora from 1950 to the Future by Babay L. Angles (Angelica Janabajal Tolentino) An autoethnographic communal installation, sound archive, and visual portal of joy within the Pilipinix communities of Olongapo, Philippines and San Diego, CA. This work asks artists and community the following question: What are the joy technologies from Olongapo, Philippines and San Diego, CA that we need to remember and create to survive and thrive? Olongapo Disco is a place of freedom building. A place of remembering. The disco is where you let your worries go and you let yourself dream. You put on your best clothes and you know in that moment of a song, your body and your spirit is free and you are FLY. Covered in your ancestors FUNK, you are it. You’re on a soul train to freedom and there’s no stopping you. This work honors and remembers my dad, Ricardo Duero Tolentino, and his Joy. We honor and remember the joy of our ancestors who created spaces for us to dream today. They knew in their sacrifices and their dreams that, WE ARE FREE. We choose to honor our ancestors through this work when we love life, don’t take things too seriously, and generously just LIVE with community. Here to listen. Here to learn. And here to shake our booty. Here to embody that ancestral funk and to shake that intergenerational trauma funk offffffff. Gapo disco is that glitter seeping through them concrete cracks, crossing time, space, borders, realms, and galaxies to bring you that inexplicable Joy and ancestral remembrance! It’s spirit in your hips, in them pants, and in the ways you dance! (whistles/horns/all that) So, Halika Na, hop out and let’s go! June 25, 2022 3p - 7p Bay Terraces Community & Senior Center 7445 Tooma St, San Diego, CA 92139 Visionary: Babay L. Angles Artists/Archivists: Julie Choo Stacey Uy Jules De Guzman Angela C. Bajet Sierra Duarte Patty Miranda Performances by: House of Tastea New Style Hustle Time 2 Rock Sounds by: A-Mon Soundhenge T. Rexico Honoring: Ricardo Duero Tolentino Visual Header and Flyer designed by Stacey Uy