Manilatown Ancestral presents: Beginning Kulintang with Bernard Ellorin

Manilatown Ancestral  is back at the I-Hotel with a special hands-on intensive on the music of the Sulu Archipelago!

Manilatown Ancestral is the Manilatown Heritage Foundation's pre-colonial Philippine music, movement and cultural education program taking place at San Francisco’s International Hotel Manilatown Center. Each of our family-friendly workshops focus on a new topic, are oftentimes hands-on, and are accessible to all ages and levels of ability.

On Saturday, March 11th we are thrilled to have back guest teacher Ethnomusicologist Dr. Bernard Ellorin as he leads an introductory workshop on tagunggu' (gong-chime ensemble) music from the Sulu archipelago, Philippines. This is a hands-on intensive with the basic timekeeping and rhythmic patterns for the larger gong and drum instruments. Exposure to fieldwork footage will provide context to the musical repertoire.

Bernard Ellorin, PhD is an adjunct faculty of music at Miramar College and MiraCosta College in San Diego County, California. He received his PhD in Ethnomusicology from the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa in 2015. Ellorin’s academic and community work spans over 28 years of educating Filipino American and non-Filipino American communities on Filipino diasporic performing arts. From 2012-2013, Ellorin was a research fellow with the Fulbright Research and Study Abroad Program conducting a comparative study on the contemporary musics of the Sama-Bajau in Semporna District, Sabah Malaysia and Batangas City, Philippines.

Manilatown Ancestral is Sponsored by the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center and supported in part by the California Arts Council, a state agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Learn more at http://www.arts.ca.gov and http://www.arts.gov.

Manilatown Ancestral has also been made possible in part by a grant from the Alliance for California Traditional Arts, in partnership with the Walter & Elise Hass Fund, and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

Manilatown Ancestral has also been made possible in part by a grant from the City of San Francisco's Office of Economic and Workforce Development.

For more information about Manilatown Ancestral or the Manilatown Heritage Foundation please email us at [email protected].

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