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La MaMa Kids: Awaken The Rhythms Of Nature – October 18 -19

Oct 18 – 19, 2025

Community Arts Space
74 East 4th Street
New York, NY 10003

Tickets: $15

Saturday show:  2pm
Sunday show time: 12 pm

Running Time 45 min to 60 min

Ticket prices are inclusive of all fees.

Created by 

Potri Ranka Manis 

ABOUT

In celebration of Filipino-American month of October. This engaging hands-on workshop invites children to explore the foundational sounds of traditional percussion using natural instruments: the resonant gong, the earthy wood blocks, and the melodic bamboo tones. Participants will be introduced to the basic rhythmic patterns and musical rhymes rooted in indigenous traditions. Designed to activate sensory perception and visual imagination, this immersive experience awakens each child’s connection to southern Philippines sound, rhythm, and movement. Through guided play, storytelling, and interactive soundscapes, children will learn to listen, feel, and respond — preparing them for beginner classes in cultural music and dance.

CREDITS

Artist Facilitators: Potri Ranka Manis, Nonilon Queano, Frank Ortega, Diane Camino, Jerome Viloria, Ernesto Abe Pamolarco III, Malaika Queano.

BIOS

Kinding Sindaw is an NYC-based nonprofit dance theater company composed of indigenous tradition-bearers, Filipino American artists, and educators from all backgrounds founded in 1992 by Potri Ranka Manis. Kinding Sindaw exists to assert, preserve, reclaim, and re-create the traditions of dance, music, martial arts, storytelling, and orature of the indigenous peoples of Mindanao, Southern Philippines. Through the use of indigenous music, dance and cultural art forms, we serve as an important educational and cultural resource in New York City. We aim to promote the advocacy for indigenous peoples, as well as increase awareness of universal themes that are part of the human experience.

 

La MaMa Kids

La MaMa Program

La MaMa Kids 2025–2026 is supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Additional support provided by The William C. Bullitt Foundation, Con Edison, the Howard Gilman Foundation, The Jim Henson Foundation and The SQA Foundation.
 

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La Mama is a world-renowned New York cultural institution dedicated to the artist and all aspects of the theatre.