Sin-o, Kinsa, Hin-o Kita
Who we are
As a diaspora-based initiative supporting local roots, we support cultural educators based in the Visayas, Philippines, while serving a global community of learners & reconnecting islanders.
Meet Our Teachers
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Geli Arceño
Hiligaynon Language Teacher
Geli Arceño is an educator, art writer, and cultural worker in Bacolod City. She is currently the program supervisor of CINEMATHEQUE NEGROS in the FILM DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL OF THE PHILIPPINES.
She was a Creative Writing and 21st Century Literature professor to Senior High School students. She helps edit and develop poetry, screenplays, and other forms of writing.
She does freelance art writing and creative writing. She is involved in local theater and film productions as production manager, screenwriter, and talent.
Geli is also a visual artist, with her works exhibited in group shows, and effigies in local collective mass mobilizations as an activist for National Democracy.
Khokhoi (kk de la vida/mary alinney villacastin)
Baba Bisaya Co-Conjurer
KhoKhoi is a movement-based media artist and plant, body & cultural heartworker. Living between unceded Lenape / Munsee / Canarsie island of Mannahatta (NYC) & Bantayan island, Visayan Sea, Philippines. KK is a migrant proudly descended from healers, pearl divers, local leaders & boat builders within fisherfolk community of Bantayan island, in the heart center of the archipelago's seas.
KK holds a BA in Anthropology (Barnard College of Columbia University) & an MA in Media Studies (The New School of Public Engagement). In 2018-2019, KK received an Asian Cultural Council Fellowship in Dance to study local festivals & media cultures of the Visayan islands. KK's art practice is shared on rootsenroute.net/.
Alongside academic studies & artistic co-creations, KK traveled Mexico, India & Philippines, learning healing arts of plant medicine, Hilot/bodywork, Hatha Yoga, Ayurveda, Butoh dance, Movement Therapy, Kalaripayattu martial arts, & most recently, Freediving. KK channels these embodied practices through Kalami Spirit Arts @kalamispiritarts, offering bodywork, yoga, herbal elixirs, cultural handcrafts & curated gatherings. Follow Kalami to learn about upcoming Philippines retreats!
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KK dreams of present futures where communities move in tune with ancestral techno-ecologies.. Amidst massive climate changes on this planet, as more & more are displaced from 'home,' KK envisions & practices cultivating sanctuary in the body.
Raffy Bunal
Baba Bisaya Co-Conjurer
Raffy is a cultural worker across oceans, movement artist, theatermaker with a BA in Interdisciplinary Studies. They are also a bodyworker in training, ask about sessions or astrology readings!
They were in immersion with Parangal Dance Company @parangaldance to deepen dance, music, and ritual research with indigenous communities across Maguindanao: Cotabato, Zamboanga, Tawi-Tawi, Basilan, and in Luzon: Lubuagan, and Batangas, respectively.
They co-organize Ulirat Market @uliratmarket for diaspora through somatic explorations into Pilipino Consciousness, within its plurality and dynamic definitions, guided by Pilipina/Pilipinx artisans and cultural workers to cultivate space for weaving, food-making, handmade crafts, specialty goods, bodywork, and personal spiritual practices in centering compassionate curiosity and intersectional celebration.
Rooted in Buglas (Negros Island), Visayas, they are deepening community in Lenape-Munsee-Canarsie lands of New York City.
