nicole gervacio

"clear mountain" is one of my poems that was published in Mahalaya.

you can also read here on page 10 with another poem called "the giver": https://issuu.com/mahalayasf/docs/march2023

clear mountain — Mahalaya my grandmother rises a mountain.

Free PaIestine. End the occupation. End the genocide. Ceasefire now. We are not free until Palestine is free.

We are interconnected. For those in the U.S. we are connected & living under the systems that are committing the horrific onslaught of violence we are seeing in Gaza, we have power to speak up, make change here that make change around the world. Now is not the time to look away...none of us are not free until Palestine is free.

Bay Area folks, follow the leadership of
AROC: Arab Resource & Organizing Center
Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM)- حركة الشباب الفلسطيني

Engage with decolonial education with Liberation Spring LLC.

Here are episodes on the We Rise podcast created with folks from Palestinian Youth Movement that we offer to support our learning & unlearning, accountability and solidarity with Palestine.

🦋 : The SFO Muslim Ban Protest...One Year Later, Ep. 10
🦋 : The Movement to Free Palestine, Ep. 12
🦋 Days of Resistance, No to Annexation, Ep. 31
🦋 Free Palestine! Nakba Day 2021, Chinook Land, Pt. 1
🦋 Free Palestine! Nakba Day 2021, Chinook Land, Pt. 2
🦋 Free Palestine! Voices From Yelamu Ohlone Land, Pt. 3
🦋 Rising for Our Motherlands: From the Shellmounds to Sheikh Jarrah, Ep. 33
🦋 Nakba 74: Resistance Until Liberation & Return, Ep. 40

Listen to these episodes on Spotify, Spreaker, or Apple iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/we-rise/id1438581667
If you're on IG there are some accounts linked in this post that you can follow to continue to be informed & updated... https://www.instagram.com/p/CyZh1yspzFL/

Rise up for PaIestine ✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿✊🏻✊🏼. End the occupation. End the genocide. Free PaIestine. San Francisco All Out for PaIestine

so excited to for this next iteration of Somos Semillas, We Are Seeds: Consciousness Rooting & Storytelling Circles with Sanadora Práctica Creativa!

We Rise first hosted consciousness rooting circles in 2019, and it makes sense to offer this with the dialogues from the Somos Semillas, We Are Seeds podcast series. amidst all the reflections, learnings, unlearnings, there's so much to get into...hope you'll join!

more info / apply by Oct 16✨: https://www.weriseproduction.com/consciousness-rooting-circles

Join me for delicious movement this September, 1st session is tomorrow on the 6th!

every Wednesday 6PM - 7PM PST on Zoom
bare feet welcome • no equipment required • open to all levels

Each session offers a different invitation for focus and will build through the month. This series includes:

– juicy warmups with breath work and opening movements to invite your body to be fully present.

– prompts to guide you through exploring movement and your body.

– confidence in listening to yourself and honoring your body.

– inspiration and agency that you can take off the dancefloor & integrate into your life.

– practice and experiences that support moving & living embodied.

Sign up now: https://www.heatheralaine.com/offers/29fF6e3z/checkout

embodied dance this september Join me for delicious movement this September Wednesdays 6PM - 7PM PST on Zoom - sign up now! bare feet welcome • no equipment required • open to all levels Each session offers a different invitation for focus and will build through the month. Our 1st session Wednesday September 6th we'll explor...

stewarding these seedlings for years now, and they are blossoming!
listen to Somos Semillas, We Are Seeds podcast...

Listen now on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7DJk6Gb505JBih4E9kTsnu?si=452700489d024c27

building out the playlist for MakibekiNYC 3 Dance Fundraiser!

got a mix of slow delicious and hard and upbeat, some sharpness & softness mixed with intentional breaks to keep our breathing steady. this is a masked dance class, let's keep each other safe!

7pm at In The Groove Studios 580 14th St, Oakland
Donation: $10-$25 ~ larger or smaller donations welcome
RSVP / more info: https://bit.ly/MNYC3-Dance

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The MakibekiNYC3 are three q***r, trans and femme activists who faced police brutality at the hands of the New York Police Department (NYPD) and Diplomatic Security Service (DSS). They were among the hundreds of activists who boldly protested the U.S. visit of Ferdinand Marcos Jr., a corrupt and fascist criminal whose family stole $10 billion from the Filipino people and committed gross human rights violations, including extrajudicial killings, disappearances, torture and r**e.

The MakibekiNYC3 were detained, and slapped with trumped up charges. While they have since been released and are seeking for the charges to be dropped, they will need ongoing support to cover legal fees, medical expenses and any loss of income. Proceeds will go to the MakibekiNYC3 Legal Fund under BAYAN USA.

Read STAND WITH THE MAKIBEKINYC3 statement: bit.ly/MakibekiNYC3-statement

More event info: https://www.nicolegervacio.com/single-post/makibekinyc-3-dance-fundraiser

MakibekiNYC 3 Dance Fundraiser Fundraiser for ongoing support of the MakibekiNYC3! The MakibekiNYC3 are three q***r, trans and femme activists who faced police brutality at the hands of the New York Police Department (NYPD) and Diplomatic Security Service (DSS). They were among the hundreds of activists who boldly protested the U...

🤘less than a week left to make a donation, check out www.weriseproduction.com/ to see how far we've come, how to support us, and what projects this budget will support!

🥰 delights from the summer

I am so grateful for the incredible people I've met, learned with, collaborated with in the last 6 years through this work. We Rise continues to grow intuitively and we now have reached a point where we're ready to ask for support. Give your support - contribute any amount you have capacity to donate: https://www.weriseproduction.com/

Support can show up in other ways:

- learn about We Rise Production, our values, our work, the communities we collaborate with

- engage with our podcasts & culture production - reflect on the values of our community and our collaborators, spend time with the questions we share & ask your own questions, where do you see, experience, relate to topics - featured in our work - within your life, in your community?

- share your curiosities, share our work with friends or loved ones, share the experience of listening/engaging/discussing our productions

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honored to be part of this work...this collaboration came to a great gathering last night! many hearts, minds, and hands went into this project.

check out The Real Work podcast, we can all learn from this series. appreciate community members naming how they aim to integrate practices of transformative justice into spaces such as the birthworker relationships & hospitals, organizing communities, and theater communities where they live...
learn more: https://www.weriseproduction.com/therealwork

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Kapit-Bisig Created by the SF Progressive Filipinx Caucus, Kapit-Bisig is a zine in response to the rise in anti-Asian violence. Connecting the community to information, re

love Movement Generation's new podcast, and especially loved learning about Q***r Ecology in this episode...

for International Women's Day, join Rematriation and Indigenous Feminisms: Creative Visions from Oceania to Huchiun tonight at 6pm!

Rematriation and Indigenous Feminisms: Creative Visions Across Borders Intergenerational artists, scholars and poets from Huichin/Oakland, Hawai’i and Aotearoa/New Zealand in celebration of our survivance.

Telling Our Stories: Re-Envisioning The Future is a multimedia storytelling program will connect 20-30 youth from Louisville, Denver, the SF Bay Area & the Navajo Reservation to share their stories of climate resilience, resistance, regeneration and sovereignty.

We are handing the mic & tools to the youth because:
🌱creativity, storytelling & self-expression are valuable skills
🌱their voices matter
🌱it’s their future we are nourishing & fighting for!

This project is entirely grassroots funded. 📢 Donate now
to support youth voices & intentional cultural production: https://www.classy.org/.../telling-our-stories-re.../c310914

✨ one of the many collaborations we've got going on in 2021!

“it is difficult to be a rememberer – living in the heart of the empire – when the status quo has people suffering from a collective cultural amnesia that keeps many ungrounded and easily misguided, but remembering, knowing, and understanding the truths of the past strengthens our ability to navigate, vision, and to create futures.

when we gather, tell stories, remember together, we tap into an already existing network of roots and mycelium. they show us what has existed, what has been done, how things may play out. if we remember, we won't fall into the same patterns – an unnecessary cycle – that our ancestors worked through so we wouldn’t have to.” -excerpt from an upcoming zine titled •consciousness rooting•

radical imaginings that our future generations will know our histories, our truths, and discern the reality of our present, so we may navigate these unknown waters 🌊 that lay ahead of us.

We are living amidst widespread and in the settler colonial U.S. – which keeps many ungrounded and easily misguided. We must end the harmful cycles of and that requires us to reflect and remember as we take action.

tonight...

what memories & knowledge are within our bodies? how can we re-member the brilliance of our ancestors that was forced out of us in the the process of colonization? let's practice our traditions of storytelling, speak and re-call our truths with kapwa.

nicole gervacio will be leading the Pilipinx Consciousness Rooting circle to support her siblings of the diaspora. nicole is an interdisciplinary artist based on Ohlone territory called Huichin – what is commonly known as Oakland, California. Her roots originate from Luzon and the Visayan Islands across the Pacific. Her work is inspired by the body, memory, permanence versus impermanence, and is driven by the fear of forgetting.

Our Consciousness Rooting circles aim to inspire deep reflections, help us center through ongoing distractions & stresses, and support us as we face daily struggles & many frontlines.

Consciousness Raising is a practice that formally began in the freedom movements of the 1960s and 70s, with oppressed peoples circling up, sharing the conditions of their lives, drawing connections, and dedicating their precious time and energy to radical collective transformation. We look to these movement elders now. Their practices illuminate our path in these violent, deadly times. Join us to connect with others asking themselves these immense questions, as we collectively learn to navigate with dignity, humility, and solidarity.

More info on our Consciousness Rooting Circles:
https://www.weriseproduction.com/consciousness-rooting-circles?fbclid=IwAR38f4GxpIr0rhWX_D3nH1Ikw84o-F6ywCxkJvKenqQYJ1nR1aZyr58s8M0

there is still time to sign up, we start this coming week 🌱

Ep.22 | Decolonizing Strategies: Consciousness Rooting Gatherings with We Rise This is Part 1 of the We Rise Series- a series dedicated to showcasing soulful decolonizing strategies. This episode is for all of those who are wanting to move from theory to action. TO SIGN UP FO

i'll be joining Balay Kreative's Filipinx Artist Slide Slam as part of UNDSCVRD X: Culture Connected this saturday ✨

join this virtual event from where you are, get your free ticket here: https://www.undiscoveredsf.com/undscvrd-x

This is a global gathering of entrepreneurs, artists, musicians, creatives, and thought leaders that are expanding the cultural dialogue using a new online platform to engage attendees in participating in this larger narrative of solidarity and connection.
Featuring 4 virtual stages, 4 streaming hubs in SF, LA, NYC, & Manila, 60+ performers, speakers, and panelists, and 50 vendor booths, this is one weekend you do not want to miss!

happy filipino american history month! this awesome reading list includes the Pilipinx Radical Imagination Reader which features some of my paintings.

I created the portraits featured in PRIR right out of art school. I made a lot of terrible art and was lost, confused and assimilated. nearing the end of college, I found in the back of my parents closet black & white photos of my family in the philippines. up until that moment I had never seen historical photos of pilipinx people and i was incredibly intrigued by them and full of questions.

when I come back to these paintings, I can see how far i’ve come in the last decade. they mark the beginning of decolonization for me. it’s been constant searching, reading, remembering & connecting with other pilipinx americans, re-landing, re-rooting, un-learning & learning. this work & journey of healing has only begun, but it feels good to reflect on how I got here.

the Pilipinx Radical Imagination Reader covers a spectrum of topics including identity, sexuality, anti-blackness, whiteness, mixed heritage, diaspora, the hood, cooking, and foodways.

A Filipino American History Month Reading List | Community of Literary Magazines and Presses For Filipino American History Month, observed annually during the month of October, we asked our members—independent presses, literary journals, and others—to share with us some of the books and magazines they recommend reading in celebration.   : once teeth bones coral : by Kimberly Alidio Bel...