Recorded session of Pláticas Poéticas.

Featured speakers: Gloria Sanchez and
Ciana Anita Kalokomaika’imaikalanimai Lee

Mauli ola= healing (Hawaiian) ; Tula’= poetry (Tagalog)

Through poetry, healing, conversation, ceremony, and ritual, We have cultivated an artistic collaboration to honor our diverse Latinidad, Pinay, and Korean-Hawaiian heritages. We will create space to delve into our personal bodies of work and examine how they intersect with our multidimensional identities. We invite you to reflect with us and find solace in creating sacred space together.

Celebrate Asian and Pacific Islander Latinx Festival at MOLAA as we explore the instances of cultural synthesis between Asian, Pacific Islander & Latinx Communities in the US and throughout Latin America. We examine these narratives throughout the month of May in partnership with the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) and the Pacific Island Ethnic Art Museum (PIEAM). 

Gloria Sánchez

Gloria is a Xicana-Filipina artist who works in painting, weaving, sculpture, and mixed media. Her use of everyday material invoked the Xicanx concept of ‘Rasquache,’ which signifies a resourceful, working class sensibility. Hair is a potent material for the artist, who describes its capacity to hold memories memories and trauma. Gloria makes art as a form of resilience and therapy to process painful experiences. Sanchez received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drawing and Painting from California State University Long Beach in 2014. She works, teaches, and resides in the harbor area of Los Angeles, CA.

Ciana Anita Kalokomaika’imaikalanimai Lee

Ciana thrives as a Xicane-Hawaiian-Korean educator, artist, performer and special events coordinator out of Puvuunga [Long Beach, California]. They hold a Bachelor’s degree in Arts Education and are currently enrolled in the WISC Waldorf Teacher Training program. Earning an Arts Education degree from California State University Long Beach supported them becoming trained in the many modalities and mediums of artistic process paired with a strong foundation in educational philosophy. As an educator, they are enlivened by the process of guiding others toward self-actualization through structured skill development, dynamic collaboration, resonant encouragement and personal catharsis. Ciana is an advocate of public, participatory and accessible art experience with affirmed diversity of representation. They have pursued facilitating art walks, installation of murals, exhibitions and shows through Tovaangar [Los Angeles] counties.