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This is Kultivating Kapwa, hosted by Jana Lynne Umipig and Olivia Sawi. In our FIRST series, we sit down and ask Auntie Leny questions about her life, her work, decolonization, academia, ethnoautobiography, her relationship to nature, the land, and all living beings, and her views of the future. In our SECOND series, we have conversations with members of the community and explore how decolonization has manifested itself in their work, and how they cultivate kapwa in their own lives. In our THIRD series, we discuss decolonizing parenthood. We explore how decolonization shows up at home and in family, relational to our collective children. We delve into the intergenerational healing that exists in parenting the next generation, that ripples into our relationships to our elders and ancestors, our community, and all parts of our lives.
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Sunday Feb 27, 2022
Sunday Feb 27, 2022
Kultivating Kapwa: Decolonizing Parenthood Episode 3.14
"Enriching a Life through Strengthened Channels of Relation"
In this episode, we are joined by Francis Estrada. We discuss how it takes a village to raise a person, his experiences raising an intercultural child, how he has integrated his experiences as a Guro in Pekiti Tirsia Kali as well as an educator into his parenting, and more.
Francis Estrada's family hails from Luzon– his mother from Pampanga and father from Pangasinan. He was born and raised in Metro Manila and currently resides in Lenapehoking or the "Land of the Lenape", also known as Brooklyn, NY. Francis is an artist and educator with a fine arts degree in painting and drawing, and has taught in a variety of studio, classroom, and museum settings to diverse audiences, including programs for adults with disabilities, cultural institutions, and out-of-school time programs. As an educator, he enjoys teaching about the amalgamation of art and culture through objects and movement. His artwork focuses on culture, history, and perception.
Through his artwork, he interrogates how visual cues found in historical photographs, mass media, political propaganda, and personal archives influence or inflect social or cultural narratives. He is also a martial arts instructor of Pekiti Tirsia Kali, a system indigenous to the Visayan region of the Philippines. Officially founded in 1897 by Grand Master Conrado Tortal, Pekiti-Tirsia was reserved as a family system of the Tortal family until it was introduced in New York City in 1972 by Grand Master Leo Tortal Gaje Jr. He is the co-founder of Pekiti Tirsia Kali Elite, and in the past few years has been able to travel with group members to the Philippines to see various cultures, subcultures, and locations in the archipelago to better understand the culture.
*Episode Notes: This episode contains brief instances of profanity.*
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Hosted by Jana Lynne Umipig//
Produced by Olivia Sawi//
Co-Produced by Annie Aarons-Sawi//
Music by AstraLogik
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