A night of independent Bisayan Art House Cinema, live performances & underground Pin@y DJs at a secret DT Oakland location in partnership with Baranggay Oakland and The Film Caravan. This was a celebration of Bisayan culture & identity projected on multiple screens and spotlighting overlooked narratives in our diverse cultural tapestry, with funds from the event directly supporting independent Bisayan filmmakers from the Islands.

Episode No. 01 (PILOT) of a series by BISDAK (Born Bisaya), a Bay Area-based creative collective of local & international independent filmmakers, culture bearers, and community-based artists working to disrupt the mono-culturalization of Filipino identity & tradition by amplifying Bisayan representation & creativity thru advocacy, grassroots cross-cultural organizing, & immersive underground events.

Flyer design by Guerrilla Pump.
Photos by Ian Castro.

Celebrating Filipino American History Month with an Oakland First Fridays Hella Pinay takeover of Pump Paradise at Thee Stork Club! Underground rave bangers/booty bass/ballroom/freestyle/jersey club/techno/original tracks.

DJs:
Guerrilla Pump
deep th0ts
Saya
Kimosabe

Flyer design by Guerrilla Pump.
Photos by Ian Castro.

Super fun brunch party series that I’d wanted to throw since pre-pandemic times, the name THOTSILOG being a portmanteau of silog, Filipino breakfast combo dishes with garlic fried rice and egg + ….a word that very much encapsulated the vibe. I brought up acclaimed Santa Cruz-based chef Alex Suniga of PARÉ for his very first Oakland pop-ups and got Hella Pinay’s OG resident DJs back together at the brand new Nectar Social Club in DT Oakland. We had specialty cocktails, some legendary bagoong wings, and open format bangers from R&B to freestyle, house and jersey club.

Flyer by Guerrilla Pump.

A special performance by Hella Pinay’s Issue 02 cover star Ruby Ibarra + tunes by DJ Bitesize in internationally acclaimed artist Hueman's incredible 20,000 square foot immersive art installation where art meets tech like never before through painting, augmented reality and projection mapping. CIEL Creative Space, Berkeley, CA.

A livestream party celebrating Hella Pinay’s first print magazine. We connected four different cities in one night with a packed lineup of live performances and DJ sets from King Marie (CHI), Kristina Alcordo (TO), Butta B (MNL) with Hella L, Guerrilla Pump, Bellspins, and our host Nic Feliciano holding it down at Stablished Studios in Oakland, CA.

Flyer designs by Vi Viray.

My first club event series in the Bay, SALBAHE was inspired by the iconic K Rizz song and centered WOC performers, DJs, artists and vendors. Intended to reclaim the term SALBAHE – which means naughty but also comes from the Spanish word for savage i.e. barbaric and uncivilized, and often used as a term of contempt – I wanted to create a safe space for women and femmes to get free, as well as bring together small WOC-owned businesses, tarot readers, nail artists, etc. I curated the outdoor space for 7th West’s grand opening, brought King Marie out for her first Bay Area gig at the Ruby Ibarra UNDSCVRD afterparty, and partnered with Boogie Events on their monthly SHINE party at 111 Minna.

Flyer designs by Jordan Yee.

Designed and developed merchandise for UNDSCVRD SF, a curated monthly night market of emerging artists and merchants as part of a multi-prong non-profit strategy designed to jump-start economic activity and build a thriving new commercial corridor in the SOMA Pilipinas cultural district. For the 2018 season I executed merch strategy, designed and built the merch booth, and managed PD/production, e-commerce and social media. For the 2019 season, I curated and managed a Hella Pinay tent that was all WOC artists and retailers, as well as brought out one of my favorite East Coast DJs and threw the official Jocelyn Enriquez afterparty in partnership with San Miguel.