The Ties That Connect Us
Enlaces
Saturday February 20, 2010
$15 adv. $18 dr. - 8pm
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A series highlighting the Spanish, Arab, African, and Indigenous influences in the music and dance in the Americas. Curated by Gabriela Shiroma of De Rompe y Raja. This evening, the series (the first in this 5 part series) begins with “Mantón de Manila” (shawl) and how it is woven into Latin American culture from the Philippines to Spain, Mexico, & Peru. Presented in partnership with the SF Community Music Center. (Series made possible in part by support from the N.E.A).
During the Spanish occupation of the Philippines (16th-18th century), Filipinos tasted for the first time Mexican chili and corn while Mexicans tasted tamarind, and the Manila mango. A total of 110 Manila galleons set sail in 250 years of this trade leaving an important Filipino cultural legacy in the Spanish colonies.
This program will highlight the Philippines as part of the Hispanic culture. With the embroidered silk shawl (manton de Manila) of the Philippines and through story, music, and dance this program will explore in 4 vignettes the cultural links that developed in colonial times of Peru, Mexico, Spain, and the Philippines.
Manton de Manila
