Kumukutikutitap
Flickering
by aureen almario
december 11, 2020
In a socially distanced world, two children find solace through each other under the flickering light of a parol.
Bindlestiff Artistic Director, shadowgrapher and puppeteer, Aureen Almario creates a special shadow play on video for this year’s Parol Lantern Festival.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Aureen Almario in her shadowplay Sigaw (Scream, Shout, Cry) and as a superhero character in the comic book Isugid Pinoy!
Aureen has been a resident artist at Bindlestiff, having performed in productions such as A Pinoy Midsummer, directed by Lorna Velasco; A. Rey Pamatmat’s Thunder Above, Deeps Below, and staged readings for Lysley Tenorio’s Monstress directed by Sean San Jose and Jeannie Barroga’s Aurora. She co-founded Pinays Maintaining Sisterhood Through Art (P.M.S.T.A) and Granny Cart Gangstas, an all womxn Asian American sketch comedy group. a member of Brownout Shadowplay Collective, she is also a national touring performer with ShadowLight Productions for the show Feathers of Fire created by Hamid Rahmanian in collaboration with Larry Reed, which has been performed at Fort Mason Center, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Harvard University, UCLA, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Aureen holds a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies and a Masters of Arts in Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University. She is an adjunct professor in the Ethnic Studies department at Laney College, where she teaches Asian American Studies.