Oct 1: sii agua sí

Kanyon Sayers-Roods belongs to the Ohlone-Mutsun and Chumash Tribes; she also goes by her given Native name, “Coyote Woman”. She is the CEO of Kanyon Konsulting LLC a consultation firm dedicated to bridging the gap between indigenous and contemporary value systems. Coyote Woman is an Artist, Poet, Published Author, Activist, Student and Teacher. The daughter of Ann-Marie Sayers, she was raised in Indian Canyon trust land of her family, which currently is one of the few spaces in Central California available for the Indigenous community for ceremony. Kanyon’s art has been featured at the De Young Museum, The Somarts Gallery, Gathering Tribes, Snag Magazine, and numerous Powwows and Indigenous Gatherings. She is a recent graduate of the Art Institute of California, Sunnyvale, obtaining her Associate and Bachelor of Science degrees in Web Design and Interactive Media.

Red Lightning Woman Power (RLWP) began in 2018 bringing Native women together to sing, share, and provide a safe place for connection and advocacy. The Women of Red Lightning Woman Power group are from the San Francisco and Oakland Bay Area, they meet bi-monthly online, coming together to find support and healing. RLWP group has transformed into leadership and advocacy around important issues such as Missing Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW), indigneous women’s rights and visibility, climate and environmental issues, and many local Bay Area Native matters. They sing and share their stories throughout the Bay Area at Native community events and organizations as well as online through different platforms. RLWP share their stories through empowering one another and others, as well as De-colonizing and Re-claiming indigeneity. They sing environmental songs to heal the water, the earth, women, and the people. The facilitators of RLWP, Aurora Mamea, Nizhoni Ellenwood, and April Marshall also began Red Lightning Power-Young Women’s Group to give a meeting space for young women up to the age of 17, to learn songs and share in a safe environment with other fellow youth.

Liz Duran Boubion, MFA, RSMT is a second generation Chicana and queer choreographer. She is the lead curator of sii agua sí, the artistic director of the Piñata Dance Collective founded in 2011 and founding director of Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers(FLACC) since 2014. FLACC is working to build community and professional relationships among the choreographers with year-round programming, master classes, artist-to artist symposia and audience discourse. Ms. Boubion has held 7 choreographers residencies in the US, Mexico and Germany and is an associate teacher of the Tamalpa Institute. She completed her BA in Dance from CSU Long Beach in 2000 and her MFA in Creative Inquiry from California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco in 2011. Boubion has been published in InDance Magazine, Stance on Dance, Conscious Dancer Magazine, Life as a Modern Dancer and is registered with the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association (ISMETA).

Violeta Luna (SF)(Actress / Performance Artist / Activist): Born in Mexico City, Luna obtained her graduate degree in Acting from the Centro Universitario de Teatro (CUT – UNAM), and La Casa del Teatro. Her work activates the relationship between theatre, performance art and community engagement. Working within a multidimensional space that allows for the crossing of aesthetic and conceptual borders, Luna uses her body as a territory to question and comment on social and political phenomena. She has performed and taught workshops throughout Latin America and Europe, as well as in Rwanda, Egypt, New Zealand, Japan, Canada and USA. While primarily working as a solo performer, she is also an associate artist of the San Francisco-based performance collectives La Pocha Nostra and Secos & Mojados.

Xochipilli Dance Company founded by Héctor-Jaime Rodriguez, is based in the Bay Area representing the Queer and Latinx communitty to spark curiosity for dance, creativity, art, history, and culture. Our mission is to showcase how important dance is to our past, present, and future of shared history. We want to inspire everyone to explore
movement and recognize that we are all dancers. We like to focus on relating on a personal, physical,
spiritual, and philosophical level. We desire to facilitate a space for inner and outer reflection. We want to
use the language of movement to construct an environment that showcases how we are intertwined with
each other.

Cunamacué was founded in 2010 by Carmen Román in Oakland, California with the purpose of bringing visibility to the presence and cultural knowledge of the African descendant population in Peru. The company promotes the continuity of Afro-Peruvian culture, representing it not as a point in time, but as a living, vibrant and evolving form whose music and dance can be used as a means of contemporary expression.
The name Cunamacué is a reminder that the work we do is based on ancestral roots, one to be left to future generations.  The word Macué is representative of the ancestors; it is a stream in Mozambique, one of the places from which Africans were uprooted and taken to Perú. Cuna is the Spanish word for crib, representing future generations.​

Pancho Pescador was born in Santiago de Chile in 1972. Pancho is a self-taught visual artist, muralist, music lover and a visual activist. He combines these disciplines to stir things up and to activate critical and imaginative thinking. Life brought him to Oakland, CA where he lives, creates and shows his visual guerrillas. Pancho Pescador belongs to a collective of muralists and street art called Community Rejuvenation Project (CRP) based in Oakland.