Stories from the Asian Diasporas
May 12, 2021
Online Panel Discussion
Foothill College International Student Program & Kularts presents Stories from the Asian Diasporas featuring panelists:
Alleluia Panis
Director and Choreographer
Executive and Artistic Director, Kularts
Wilfred Galila
Multimedia Artist
Wednesday, May 12, 2021
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
About the Panelists
Alleluia Panis
Alleluia Panis, Artistic & Executive Director, is the driving force behind Kularts and respected elder artist in the US and the Philippines. One of the founding members of Kularts, Panis has served as the Director since 1985. She has created 20 full-length dance theater works since 1985. She received awards for her choreography from the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, SF Arts Commision, California Arts Council, New Langton Arts, and Creative Work Fund. She was a board member of Brava! For Women in the Arts, Bay Area Dance Coalition, artist’s committee member of National Performance Network, and juror for Ethnic Dance Festival. She received the Dancers Group’s Dancers Choice Award in 2009. She was a 2010 fellow at the James P. Shannon Leadership Institute & at Rockwood Leadership Institute in 2012. She was awarded the prestigious 2017 SFAC Artist Legacy, 2019-20 Gerbode Special Artist Award, 2019-2020 Dance USA Artist Fellow, and 2020 Hewlett 50 Arts Commission.
Wilfred Galila
Wilfred Galila makes use of various media for storytelling and art making. His films have been screened at the 23rd and 26th annual Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival and the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. His art installations have been exhibited at the San Francisco Public Library, Manilatown Heritage Center, A.C.T. Strand Theater, and the Luggage Store Gallery.
Galila has worked as cinematographer and editor on various film projects such as the The Power of Two (2011), an award winning documentary that tells the remarkable story of twin sisters and their lifelong battle with cystic fibrosis; Secrets of a Sister (2011), part of the award winning short film compilation, Still Around, about people from the SF Bay Area thriving and surviving with HIV; and Submerged Queer Spaces (2012), a documentary that examines San Francisco queer history through an approach of urban archeology.
As a media artist, he has collaborated with dance artist Alleluia Panis on the multimedia dance theater productions She, Who Can See (2015) and Incarcerated 6x9 (2018), for which he received an Isadora Duncan Dance Award nomination for Outstanding Achievement in Visual Design, as well as the dance film She, Who Can See (2017) that was screened at CAAMFest in 2018. Their most recent collaboration is In the Belly of the Eagle: Man@ng is Deity.