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Listen in as Kilusan Bautista, the creator & performer of Transcend, discusses his transplant status, why his show mixes media & how it’s a conversation, the benefits of social media, creating a democracy with post-show discussions, and making art out of struggle.
Spoken word artist Kilusan Bautista said corruption in Philippine politics is “no different” from that in the United States and other governments around the globe.
That night, he rapped and recited poetry about his family’s immigrant experience wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with sun-rays from the Philippine flag. The vibe was positive, educational, and the audience bobbed their heads in recognition.
Transcend follows Bautista's struggles to find a new apartment when he is priced out of and removed from the Brooklyn sublet that he shares with his girlfriend, a frustrating search that he must undertake while working and attending graduate school full time.
In the morning of November 27th, Kilusan Bautista was en route to India to perform at the annual Sahabhaga theater festival. Several days later, reports of a New Delhi woman being gang-raped gripped the country, casting his travel into a communal reflection about the society’s values on gender, masculinity and respect for personal space.
The very talented, Kilusan Bautista, as he performed an outstanding 3 day run of his one man play "Universal Filipino" at the legendary, the historic, Nuyorican Poets Cafe
Bautista considers himself an indie and theatre artist, and travels the world performing his one-man show with the help of other artists and directors; primarily performing in theatres located in the lower east side of Manhattan.
The Filipino New Yorker who gave a wildly-applauded performance (“I got a standing ovation”) found himself thrown from exhilaration to reserved calm as Indian society undergoes a wrenching period of self-introspection.
The Men of Bataan, a one-man show based on stories of Bataan veterans written by
Gaerlan and performed by New York and San Francisco artist Kilusan Bautista.
A mesmerizing act of poems, animation, martial arts and break dancing tied together the autobiography of an American-born Filipino growing up in a poor side of San Francisco in the 1990s. Kilusan Bautista performed “Universal Self” on May 11 at the Visual and Performing arts center.
Park introduced his students to Kilusan Bautista, who is a hip-hop theater actor. Bautista also uses theater to advocate for racial unity. Bautista was raised in San Francisco and moved to New York to promote his one-man theater act. He is currently promoting his act throughout California college campuses.