Name: Tūngur | EXchanges Gathering with Mamerto Lagitan Tindongan
Start: 2024-05-25T12:00:00-07:00
Location: What Lab

$T\u016bngur | EXchanges Gathering with Mamerto Lagitan Tindongan$

Tūngur
Baki’s Philippines indigenous knowledge of sharing, exchanging and understanding with Mamerto Lagitan Tindongan (Mumbaki).
We celebrate Asian Heritage month of May 2024 and the 75th anniversary of the Philippines and Canada diplomatic relations.
Saturday, May 25, 2024 | 12:00 PM
What Lab (1814 Pandora St, Vancouver)
SUGGESTED DONATION: $25
Come enjoy Kamayan Filipino food!
Limited to 45 capacity-
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A public gathering, connecting and conversation of Philippines indigenous knowledges and way of life centered in the works and teaching of Mumbaki’s Mamerto Lagitan Tindongan.
Baki is Ifugao’s spirituality which is a way of relating with nature spirits, deities, and ancestors. We invite you to this intimate sharing of arts, dialogue, conversation, prayers and food to bring healing to oneself, the community and to the world.
With featured guest artists:
Theatrical commentator: Dennis Gupa
Music: Jeremiah Carag
Poetry and readings: Christopher Nazaire and Maria Karla Lenina Comanda
Dance: Alvin Erasga Tolentino
About Mamerto:
Mamerto Lagitan Tindongan is from the Ifugao tribe in the Cordillera region in northern Philippines. He is an eighth generation Mumbaki, He was initiated into the Baki Ifugao role by his father in 2011, though he grew up with the tradition since childhood. He was also initiated in the Earth Keeper Q’uero Peruvian tradition, as Laika, in 2005. And Paqo, 4th level Andean Priest, in 2007.
A shaman, healer, master carver and preserver of arts and culture in the life of the Ifugao Cordilleras, Lagitan has been known as “a remarkable individual who dedicates his life to teaching Indigenous wisdom, promoting simple living and spiritual enlightenment.”
More info about the Ifugao Centre for Living Culture: https://www.ifugaoclc.org/
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ACCESSIBILITY
What Lab is wheelchair accessible by a set of doors leading from the alley between Pandora St. And Franklin Ave. The front entrance has a flight of stairs.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thank you for your continued donation and support that helps Co.ERASGA’s annual arts programming and provides economic support to all participating artists.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the BC Arts council, The city of Vancouver, The BC Gaming commission, the donors and members of Co.ERASGA.
We humbly acknowledge that most of Co. ERASGA's work, including the EXchanges program, takes place on the traditional and unceded lands of the Coast Salish people including the Squamish (Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw), Tsleil-Waututh (səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ) and Musqueam (xʷməθkʷəy̓əm) Nations, the original stewards and caretakers of these lands.