mica rose

Among fucked-up times; this time lately been fucked-up-ier… 4 years ago i started getting more serious organizing with @liyangwesternmass after Chad, Jurain, and 3 other community were massacred in New Bataan for their strength in organizing peasant farmers. I had only met Chad on zoom and loved videos of Jurain singing… Now: dozens of kasamas are grieving people they’ve met, known, learned from, loved, lived & organized with—after the latest massacre by the 🇺🇸-backed Armed Forced of the Philippines. We can carry on these martyrs’ legacy by moving in steadfast solidarity with the people of Negros Island, all Philippines, and all oppressed peoples of the world!! I am gratefully getting what i need to mourn and transform grief into action—shoutout my people❤️‍🔥 so if you feel spurred to act: read up on what happened via @anakbayanusa + please follow Liyang’s work and consider contributing~ imperialism tangibly means $20 in the U.S. is worth about $80 in the Philippines, so one lunch out here could pay a yearlong scholarship for an activist’s child over there (coordinated by our education campaign). You can also support by making art for us to sell, or bringing us to your institution to give a talk or workshop about the situation of land defenders in the Philippines ~ just email [email protected] At the same time in my artist world: i returned to theatre after seven years…with my directorial debut?! I wanna devote a future post to this incredible opportunity ~ but quickly - thank you @dianawalksearth , @chuangstage , @freshinktheatre , cast & creative team for trusting me to guide this beautiful work. It is a joy to create art as cultural propaganda. Come see what we mean: this Wednesday thru Sunday with livestream on Saturday evening! Link in me profile 💐

📖📚We wrote a book! On the collective action processes of our co-director model, the @culturalequityincubator , and the CELC. THANK YOU to all our collaborators past, present, and future. We have been seeding pockets of liberation for 5 years now, and are eager to share with you some of our learnings, poems, photos, art, exercises, and more ✨ 20% on the link in our bio through April 30th!

Rehearsals have begun for the next stage of Mary Magdalene, Daughter, Boatperson! Do you have your tickets yet?! 1973. Two sisters are torn apart after one makes the decision to leave; and the one who remains must learn to fight. 2004. Three siblings are avoiding the question of where to scatter their mother’s ashes. One finds refuge in gambling sessions with the neighborhood aunties. One falls in love. And one learns from a goblin that her mother is trapped in the underworld. She follows her down, and time collapses. Mary Magdalene, Daughter, Boatperson follows the women of a Vietnamese family across two generations, unraveling the imperialist legacy of partition during the Vietnam War. This show is written by Diana Khổng and directed mica rose. ☔️ Mary Magdalene, Daughter, Boatperson ☀️May 1 – May 10 📍 Boston Center for the Arts, Black Box 🎟️ Tickets are Pay-As-You-Are because access matters. Mary Magdalene, Daughter, Boatperson is presented by @chuangstage and @freshinktheatre , BCA LaunchPad theatre residency at @boscenterforarts Tickets are at the link /ticket/#/events/a0SPk00000DOtQTMA1

Blessings… I received an email on Friday from curator @jasper_a_sanchez that a producer for the program Chronicle WCVB Channel 5 in Boston reached out to the Triennial. He is producing a piece for TV about one of the Mass Humanities 250 Grants that support forums to tell the story of Mark, Phillis, and Phebe. He came across my project The Resurrection of Mark, Phillis, and Phebe created for Lot Lab and the documentary of me speaking and the processional, and asked @thetriennial for some of that footage and audio to include as an inspiring end to the segment. This Chronicle feature will air Tuesday February 24th at 7:30 pm on Chronicle (WCVB5) TOMORROW PLEASE tune in! I am so grateful to the ancestors Mark, Phillis and Phebe for allowing me to share their story with the beautiful installation created just for them. I’m grateful to everyone who visited the sculpture, who took part in the processional and other rituals we held for these ancestors. I am honored and proud that my work will be recognized as part of this Chronicle segment that will continue to bring their story to life. Mark, Phillis and Phebe were human beings enslaved by John Codman. Their story is one of great heartbreak. The installation created for them was an opening of a portal for healing for their souls. Mark, Phillis, and Phebe have communicated with me through folks with special abilities that they are very happy with the sculpture, very happy with the time we all spent with them. May their names, their stories, their history live on forever. Say their names. Mark. Phillis. And Phebe. Ase’ and Amen. Thank you @marleneboyette for assisting with the channel 5 logo. Images by: @ife_franklin_slave_narrative @rdz_mimi @cbzperspective @lboogie1617 @micaxrose

maybe the real Christmas is the Christ we amass year round? 🎄🤶 posting some people who got me in the holy spirit + two invitations to commune 🫡 i’m teaching a @middaymovementseries Intro to Activism workshop! BIPOC centered; All are welcome—On Zoom this Sunday 1-3pm! Sharing practices like saltwater cleanse, pangalay, kalis ~ alongside Criticism Self-Criticism, project assessment, and leadership models from democratic centralism to nonprofit codirectorship 💪 🏋️ let’s flex our movement muscles and apply our artistry to activism! then: HUMANITY AS A PRAXIS ~ i can’t believe this will be the 11th show i’ve supported in some way @culturalequityincubator . Come experience our last gallery opening in residence @midwayartiststudios *NEW DATE FROM IMAGE: thurs FEB 5 at 5-8:30pm

this winter, we return to our bodies and our spiritual lineages in ceremony. I'm deeply grateful to have worked with colleagues and friends @skimmilk.png @avatardevante and Elisa Peebles to bring this dream into life. Three full days of embodied spiritual gatherings @tuftstdps Aidekman Art Center 40 Talbot Avenue, Medford MA 02155 December 3: opening & workshops December 4, 7pm: performance ceremony with @micaxrose @doheepuriarts December 5, 6:30pm: closing festival with @avatardevante (and so much planning and dreaming along with Elisa Peebles) 🖤❄️🔥💜 RSVP: tinyurl.com/SpiritualDiasporas All are welcome ☯️🌊🌱

some visuals resonating with me for next week’s ritual with Dohee Lee… 1) street signs i can get behind by @debs.dreaming 🛑raising the rent🌀 2+10) flyer & details for next week’s SPIRITUAL DIASPORAS symposium @tuftstdps ~ salamat @innerchildsings for believing in me 🪔 3+7) my lola: at native crafts store, then folding suman 🌾 4,5,6) @kaolygocoo in brief portals together [ありがとうございます @kadontaiko ] inspires the life energy i’m tryna pulse more as i live. “When you play Your taiko, many people will gather”. I’m scared n excited to jam taiko on my own in this ceremony… (🥹 and i miss sipping amazake every evening to beautiful music in Ise’s taiko yagura) 8+9) @zzmzzc and i guide letter-writing to Filipino political prisoners for @yale.kasama , tracing world crises from 🇵🇭 to 🇵🇸 back to 🇺🇸 imp3rialism ~ and we modeled these hand-bleach-painted shirts for sale by @liyang_network (long live Bai Bibyaon Ligkayan Bigkay!) 11) Horsies 🐴🐎🦄

Salamat sa inyong panaghiusa ~ thank you for y’all’s solidarity at our #ReCloakingReCircling series’ second event: #DefendTheDefenders Artmaking Workshop ✍️💖✊ We made dozens of #linocut prints and handfuls of t-shirts and totebags to support @liyangwesternmass campaign providing moral, material, and psychosocial support to targeted activists in the #Philippines 🇵🇭 ReCloaking: ReCircling is supported by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ Public Art for Spatial Justice program, with funding from the Barr Foundation @barrfdn and the Fund for the Arts at NEFA @nefa_arts 🙏

happy halloween to all us youth who know Luffy & the straw hat pirates would fight for a free Fil astin, Phil ippines, Indo nesia, Ne pal, Mad agascar 🎃👻👊🏴‍☠️ a planet free from the corrupt “world government” 🕸️🔥

i’m excited to guide rituals Saturday October 4 from 3-4:30 at @bpleastboston ~ here’s the official deets… ❤️‍🔥salamat Tieanna and Dory for organizing this 📚 bayot, ang lugar mo’y sa pakikibaka : queer, your place is in the revolution — this is a phrase proudly shared by queer activists in the Philippines today. Blending oral histories and living traditions of batok, kalis, pangalay, and organizing for true sovereignty in the Philippines, mica rose invites us to play like we belong in the revolution. In this highly participatory event of ritual activities and stories, you are invited to breathe, stretch, swing bamboo swords, and dance like the water you are — then together we will draw maps to express kinship and imagine liberation. Please wear loose, breathable clothing that allows for movement :) my portrait by @fedaeid | flyer by me This workshop is part of ReCloaking : ReCircling — an event series re-indigenizing public spaces with traditional arts & ecological knowledge — rooted with cattail screens made by @elizabethjamesperry (who will be displaying alongside my workshop). ReCloaking: ReCircling is supported by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ Public Art for Spatial Justice program, with funding from the Barr Foundation and the Fund for the Arts at @nefa_arts . #FilipinoRituals #SaturdayAfternoon #PublicLibrary

Salamat @luxorcafee for adding our CULTIVATIONS poster to your window! 🫶 @artsconnectint codirectors Andrea & mica loved meeting this beautiful space and the amazing community who organize, operate, and connect here through traditional Halal foods like Cairo style hawawshi 🇪🇬 and delicious drinks like baklava latte☕️—all held by the big first floor & basement designed for hanging out, sitting for meal, coworking, and including a prayer room 🙏🥰 When will you go?? 1-2 hour metered street parking + free Sundays 🚗 or 4 minute walk from the 66 Bus stop Mt Auburn @ University Rd 🚏 or 10 minute walk from Red line Harvard stop 🚇 #collectivespace #aestheticjustice #bostonsmallbusiness #bostonhalal

party with cultural equity incubator for four years of arts & culture toward liberating collectivity 🥮 we wanna feed you 🍛, make art together, and perform with open mic 🎤🌈 thursday, October 2nd 5-8pm 📍15 Channel CENTER St suite 103, boston MA 02210 1) fourth CEI retreat closing circle in golden hour 🌅 2, 7, 11) incredible private chef-ing by @kuyascooking & partner Celia ~ ube tres leches, kamayan clambake, kalamansi-orange flan 😦 3) CULTIVATIONS flyer by Danna Toscano with photo from 2024 retreat 4, 6, 9) sky scenes in cape cod 5, 10, 12) prints from ReCloaking: ReCircling for Filipino Defenders with @liyangwesternmass ✊ 8) collage by me: silhouette from lola’s garden upon a boston sunset with wavy baybayin & english text of people power chant “makibaka huwag matakot” reaching the CEI’s logo: crescent moon cupping swirly planet 🌙