You're invited to FUTURE ANCESTORS - a free, all-ages interactive art & music festival celebrating west coast artists of the Asian diaspora!Live music by local hip hop duo Sendai ERA, the "Beatbox Panda" EVMB, as well as a multimedia performance by poet-producer-singer-songwriter Nic Masangkay.Also featuring Los Angeles-based DJ, percussionist and vocalist Gingee whose global bass productions are accompanied by the kulintang (gongs native to the Philippines). Miss TANGQ and Jyun Jyun bring an multi-sensory interactive performance showcasing live global electronic music with projected animations, shadow dancing and puppetry. Interactive altar installations by local artists Derek Dizon of Sad Ancestor, installation artist and sculptor Hanako O'Leary, new media artist Jarel Baz and painter Nikita Ares. CBD Lounge by Trichome and tea and snack lounge provided by moksha seattle.Future Ancestors is an outdoor arts celebration inspired by the Hungry Ghost Festival, a holiday which honors ancestors that are believed to visit the living during this time. This multi-sensory arts festival represents artists from across the Asian Diaspora, featuring an exciting lineup of west coast artists, performers, musicians and a night market of interactive installations and experiences. Join us for a magical night on the water, where we feed the spirit through a feast for the senses. Costumed performance artists, Asian bass DJ's and live bands join together amongst interactive altars, while spirits commemorate with the living on the beach at twilight. This is a festival of remixing and remaking, where we imagine modern traditions and animate ancient futures.Funded by the Office of Arts & Culture Seattle and Seattle Parks and RecreationFlier by Sick Delicious

ANiMA is an mesmerizing exploration of ancestry, tradition, nature, and technology. Jyun Jyun and missTANGQ perform live global electronic music together with stunning projected animation, shadow dancing and puppetry using spectacular masks and costumes. An expedition of multi-sensory time travel, the show transforms ancestral traditions into ritual futurisms - as audiences participate in the co-creation of narratives that expand cultural identity and global community. ANiMA adapts ancient myth into contemporary performance aimed at healing our urban disconnection, through a deep reverence for nature and mystery. Using cutting-edge technology, interactive visuals respond directly to the performer’s bodies, creating a union of digital and organic movement. The stage itself is an altar, where audience members are invited to offer handmade crafts to pay homage to their stories and participate in a culminating dance party.
A testament of transnational migration and cultural interchange, the show urges viewers to consider the meaning of home and place in the borderlands of human experience. In the current climate of anti-immigration and divisive socio-political forces, ANiMA reminds us that ancestral wisdom and earth-based practices can be a compass, a guiding mythos to help navigate our humanity and harness the power of ritual and communion.

ANiMA is an mesmerizing exploration of ancestry, tradition, nature, and technology. Jyun Jyun and missTANGQ perform live global electronic music together with stunning projected animation, shadow dancing and puppetry using spectacular masks and costumes. An expedition of multi-sensory time travel, the show transforms ancestral traditions into ritual futurisms - as audiences participate in the co-creation of narratives that expand cultural identity and global community. ANiMA adapts ancient myth into contemporary performance aimed at healing our urban disconnection, through a deep reverence for nature and mystery. Using cutting-edge technology, interactive visuals respond directly to the performer’s bodies, creating a union of digital and organic movement. The stage itself is an altar, where audience members are invited to offer handmade crafts to pay homage to their stories and participate in a culminating dance party.
A testament of transnational migration and cultural interchange, the show urges viewers to consider the meaning of home and place in the borderlands of human experience. In the current climate of anti-immigration and divisive socio-political forces, ANiMA reminds us that ancestral wisdom and earth-based practices can be a compass, a guiding mythos to help navigate our humanity and harness the power of ritual and communion.