About this Event
Come celebrate the premiere of House of Kilig’s inaugural film i was never the siren (2024).
This film is the first installment of the overarching audio-visual performance work, Harana for the Aswang. Harana is a Filipinx serenade form rooted in courtship and grief rituals. The project reimagines and centralizes the narratives of Aswang—an umbrella term for various shapeshifting, mythological, animist, folkloric, “evil” spirits and creatures in Filipino folklore—through the lens of their queer and trans descendants.
This excerpt in particular challenges and re-myths the Siren archetype, creating a polyphonic experience of voice, aspects of harana, poetic-intimacy, wrath, and states of kilig.
This film is in honor of the sacred transsexuality and queerness through all timelines, a place for us to be swooned. To be seen in the defiant (im)possibilities of love and all that died in order for it to exist.
We're inviting folks to attend in their harana-giving, harana-receiving, oceanic, siren looks. Blues, sea greens, abalone, black pearls, deep ocean reds, etc! No matter what, we'd love to see you in your euphoria.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
2601 1st Ave, 2601 1st Avenue, Seattle, United States
USD 0.00 to USD 111.00