Walang Hiya NYC was a collective of multi-disciplinary artists, storytellers, warriors, and healers from the Pilipinx diaspora who heal ourselves and community through shamelessly creating art, ritual, and performance to transmute systemically inserted colonial shame into ancestral, communal and individual spiritual, mental, emotional, physical wellness and joy.  

They come from the magic, joy, and pain of over 500 years of Pilipinx resistance. They come from our grandmothers, mothers, and sisters who have loved, shamed, and helped us grow. In the name of: Consuelo Duero Tolentino, Diana Tolentino, Adoracion, Kamalayan Kollective, Pinay Speaks, Raised Pinay, Jana Lynne Umipig, Ebony Golden, BDAC PPA, Eusebia Gatchallian Piaña, Aurelia Curameng Estavillo, Florida Balanza Gonzalez, Hermenia and John Balanza, Clara and Rodrigo Frulla, Benjamin & Vilma Bio.  They come from Araw, Buwan, Tala, Langit, Mayari, Aswangs, Babaylans, Oshun, Duendes, the Virgin Mary, and the myths we create for our future.

How do we Actively Heal? How do we Purposefully Love? How do we Intentionally Be? How can we dig through the contradictions of our deeply embedded histories of pain and resilience to imagine futures and myths of haunting, scandalous, and erotic joy?

Walang Hiya NYC imagined a future of magic cross-cultural spiritual connections, searching for the bridges between Voudoun, Ifa, Santeria, precolonial Pilipinx practices, Catholicism, Hinduism and our intuitive diasporic Pilipinx practices in the kitchen, in the water, in the earth, at the karaoke machine, in the strip club, and at the Palenke—inspired by the ways in which colonized resilient peoples of the diaspora have utilized song, dance, ritual, and procession to keep our spirits alive throughout history.

How can we create a resistance that purges our internalized shame so we can uncover the layers of joy and magic inside us?  How do we reimagine how to live a good fucking shameless life?

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Throughout the course of one year, culminating in a series of public processions, rituals, and workshops for their community, Walang Hiya NYC explored answers to these questions together through movement, sound, prayer, art, and relationship-building.

November 2, 2019:
’Joy Luck Cluurb’ with Bubble-T
First Saturdays, Brooklyn Museum

September 20 – 22, 2019:
’Muling Pag-Uugat (Re-Rooting): 2019 Fourth International Babaylan Conference’
Center for Babaylan Studies and Kapwa Collective

Sept 13, 2019:
’Heartroots Gathering Ritual’ with Dreamproofx
The Web at metaDEN

July 20, 2019:
Walang Hiya 2019 Procession/Ritual
Start: Frank D o'Connor Playground, Elmhurst, Queens, NY
End: Unisphere, Flushing, NY