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The Cup Doodle Project folks and I played Patintero in Kensington Market in front of 187 Augusta’s Halo Halo Market as part of Pedestrian Sunday! <3 <3 

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Electric Eclectics is happening on August 4-6, 2017 at Meaford, Ontario. This year’s lineup has been released, and I’ll share the stage with a buncha talented folks! >> http://c3r.ca/electriceclectics/?page_id=1068

Schedule to be released soon! 

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Raw Materials is thrilled to announce the second instalment of 'SHHHHH', an annual event consisting of diverse musical programming at the Parkdale Public Library. The performances will be spread over two days, all free and accessible to the general public. May 5th's sets will take place on the main floor of the library (7pm-8pm), while May 6th's will happen in the basement auditorium (1pm-5pm / accessible by stairs or elevator). Performers: May 5th (Main Floor / 7-8pm) Kat Estacio Julius Pedersen

May 6th (Basement Auditorium / 1-5pm) Carl Didur Bodies That Matter deenzi Manticore The SKETCH band Now Magazine did a shoutout to SHHHHH over here >> https://nowtoronto.com/music/features/two-indie-music-festivals-put-diversity-first/

“Kyle Knapp of the band Deliluh and the label Raw Materials planned the SHHHH music fest to address the lack of diversity he’s seen on other festival bills, and he set it in an unconventional space: the Parkdale Library.

“The library is a hub, and it’s a lot of different things for a lot of different people, whether it’s someone looking for a job or a kid who needs to be occu­pied after school,” he says.

His aim is to take advantage of that welcoming space to make the music more accessible than in bars, clubs or basements...

This is the second consecutive year for SHHHH, which helped launch the Parkdale branch’s instrument lending library last year. The experimental acts set to play this year include Kat Estacio (of Pantayo), Carl Didur, Bodies that Matter, Deenzi and a host of others. The two-day festival also aims to be accessible in another way: both shows take place in the early afternoon and evening.

Full event details here >> https://www.facebook.com/events/637777616417129/

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Spent the morning at Major Minor Festival creating some new collage tings

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Raw Materials is thrilled to announce the second instalment of 'SHHHHH', an annual event consisting of diverse musical programming at the Parkdale Public Library. The performances will be spread over two days, all free and accessible to the general public. May 5th's sets will take place on the main floor of the library (7pm-8pm), while May 6th's will happen in the basement auditorium (1pm-5pm / accessible by stairs or elevator).

Full event details here >> https://www.facebook.com/events/637777616417129/

Relevant content here >> http://katslexic.tumblr.com/post/162064489206/raw-materials-is-thrilled-to-announce-the-second

And a Now Magazine shoutout to SHHHHH over here >> https://nowtoronto.com/music/features/two-indie-music-festivals-put-diversity-first/

“Kyle Knapp of the band Deliluh and the label Raw Materials planned the SHHHH music fest to address the lack of diversity he’s seen on other festival bills, and he set it in an unconventional space: the Parkdale Library.

“The library is a hub, and it’s a lot of different things for a lot of different people, whether it’s someone looking for a job or a kid who needs to be occu­pied after school,” he says.

His aim is to take advantage of that welcoming space to make the music more accessible than in bars, clubs or basements…

This is the second consecutive year for SHHHH, which helped launch the Parkdale branch’s instrument lending library last year. The experimental acts set to play this year include Kat Estacio (of Pantayo), Carl Didur, Bodies that Matter, Deenzi and a host of others. The two-day festival also aims to be accessible in another way: both shows take place in the early afternoon and evening.”

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Reflections from the making the Community Meal 

I'm still vibing from the community meal I made on Tuesday 💖😍 It was a lot of work and I think I've only gotten over my tiredness now but that event felt really good. This film somehow made me deal with some thoughts and feelings that I have and I'm finally writing it down for memory's sake. I'm able to process a lot of things by making Filipino food for my family, for my friends, then to the broader community.

I come from an immigrant family where my parents really miss the idea of home. When I cook different ulams for our family meals, it used to make me furious to make separate food that they can baon to work and I would ask, "why don't you just baon that sopas I made, there's so much of it!?!" 😬😬 They would baon sandwiches/pasta/salad/whatever the fuck white people eat to assimilate. So much internalized shame that latched on to me too. Later on they would tell a story of how one of their nonwhite coworkers brought food from their own culture, and we talked about how they could do the same. They now baon adobo, bistek, or pinakbet. But still won't baon sopas tho 😂

At potlucks, I used to bring this eggplant parm that kinda looked like naked lasagna. I'm not much of a dessert maker, so most of what I know to cook is savoury. But the savoury things I knew were ulam and had to be served with rice lols 💀💀 But as I grew more comfortable with my friends, I felt that it was okay to share food that I also made at home. I'd bring pancit or ginataang kalabasa. One time I even brought stir fried ampalaya/bitter melon and was able to share my fondness for ampalaya 😍 (my 2nd fave vegetable after🍆). I feel that when I share the food I grew up with with my friends, that I am sharing my true self. I love how I'm learning new ways of cooking familiar dishes from my friends' take on an ulam. And I love how I'm learning more about my friends too and their connection with food and culture with what they cook

Filipino food has been ~trending in the west for at least 5yrs now lol 😩😩Filipino fusion food is a thing. Highlighting flavour profiles that are similar in different cultures is def one way of introducing new people to the food. Like, "you know goat roti, right? Well, similar flavours can be found in caldereta!" But idk, that outward focus on making food, that need to be approved by others. It feels not too different from bringing a ham sandwich so your coworkers won't look at you weird when you try to heat up your lunch 😬😂🔪

And then on the opposite end of the spectrum, there's this search for the authentic. Like, some people take so much pride in making things ~from scratch and how all their ingredients are ~pure. In this video, one woman who grew up in the US was talking about making sinigang in her parents' hometown, and the locals used a flavour packet for the soup base as opposed to using ~fresh tamarind. I like how she says that was a reality check to her and says, "who am I to say that this is not authentic?" 💣💣Living so far from the Philippines, it's sometimes really hard to get the ingredients to make ~authentic Filipino food. It's a reminder that those who /can/ get their damn ~pure ingredients are also the ones who have privilege and access due to their socioeconomic class. It gets SO RIDIC sometimes that people are made to feel bad because they don't make "authentic" food!! 😬😬😬 Sweet spaghetti with hotdogs. Salisbury style burger steak with mushroom gravy. Chickenjoy and other things you can find at Jollibee. Food that is associated with the low-to middle-class that some Filipinos disassociate themselves from because it's not "authentic". Like, you never ate/had to eat Jollibee? Check your privilege!!! 👹👹These are authentically Filipino too, because it is what we grew up with, it gives us comfort and makes us feel at ease in our own skin.

ANYWAY 😂😂 I just really wanted to express how good it felt to share food that I make at home to coworkers and friends and people in the community. It felt empowering to never had been told that I had to tone down some flavours. I believe that if people have been eating their food for most their lives, that we should just trust that it's good and enjoy it.

Ok I'm done, I think I'll make a zine out of this rant lol

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Did a Filipino food event with folks from work at The Centre for Mindfulness Studies, with special thanks to Myung-Sun Kim for making it happen!

Mindful Eating with Filipino Food by Kat Estacio, Patricia S. Baron, Karen Sutherland, Jeremy Finkelstein, Jennifer Jeffery, Marija Miskovic, Mary Githumbi & Myléne Seguin in collaboration with The Theatre Centre & The Centre for Mindfulness Studies Tuesday, April 4, at 1:00pm $5 for a plate of delicious home cooking! The Theatre Centre Café/Bar, 1115 Queen St W. MENU - Pansit (stir fried noodle dish with veggies, contains fish sauce) - Fresh Lumpia (vegetarian spring rolls) - Beans with bagoong (shrimp paste) - Bibingka (rice cake dessert - gluten free) - Sago't Gulaman (syrupy drink with grass jelly) 

More info here >> https://www.facebook.com/events/153537301837787/

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I hung out with 7-12 year old girls one lunch break at Girls Rock Camp and showed them my sarunay <3 

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Doing guitar instruction for Girls Rock Camp - Toronto for the second March Break Camp at Dixon Hall School of Music in Regent Park! 

The lesson plan I prepped for this day was slayed by noon. They are such fast learners!!

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Just in time for #InternationalWomensDay: my gongbaes Pantayo is featured on CBC Music. 

I value this sisterhood so much, for allowing me to explore my creativity and identity. I value this sisterhood so much for the doors it has opened, and the connections it brought me/us with other queer women of colour musicians who would not compromise their work and who they are. This sisterhood keeps me awake at night, it keeps me in check, it grounds me. And we’ve still got a lot of work to do, so here we go!!

CBC Music Tweet here >> https://twitter.com/CBCMusic/status/840638455738589184

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Super proud of Joee & I for finally releasing her EP To The End of The World on Feb 24, 2017! 

I had the honour of playing kulintang in track 2.Kidnap and 4.Teknobalat. Full album credits here >> https://iandjoee.com/2017/02/26/to-the-end-of-the-world/

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Drone Brunch, co-presented by Mechanical Forest Sound, is a new feature added to this year’s Wavelength Music Festival

Glad to have shared the stage with North Atlantic Drift and play before a brunching audience at The Gladstone Hotel Sunday, February 19, 2017 Gladstone Hotel 1214 Queen St. W. 11:00 AM All Ages FREE Exclaim! checked out the performance and had funny insights from the show. Check out the review by Tom Beedham here >> http://exclaim.ca/music/article/kat_estacio-gladstone_hotel_melody_bar_toronto_on_february_19 (Header photo taken by Atsuko Kobasigawa) Also, I sat down over tea with Joe Strutt of Mechanical Forest Sound for a #WL17 interview. We talked about how pressing one button/key/note at a time can calm someone with no chill (hint: me :D). 

Read my blabberings here >> http://www.wavelengthmusic.ca/kat-estacio-the-wavelength-interview/

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Played Sofar Sounds Toronto with my gongbaes Pantayo Dec. 4, 2016 Boxcar Social at Harbourfront Centre

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Pantayo is in the CKUT90.3 studio for their annual fundraising drive! 

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ITCHY FEET was first made available at the Toronto Queer Zine Fair and was also available at Kapisanan’s table at Canzine! It has some of my doodles along with the travel stories of a silly-deadpan Filipinx tween Ps -- the zine is available in 4 colours: Lakwatsa Lavender, Gimik Green, Puro-galâ Pink, and Biyahe Blue 👻👻👻 

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i'm playing on Oct 22 (saturday) to celebrate the release of Off World's LP 1 ✌🌴🔮 

“Off World began in 2008, with Sandro Perri and Lorenz Peter (Corpusse, Processor) working together on tracks and occasionally performing live. The project has expanded to encompass collaborative recordings with many others, including Drew Brown (Lower Dens, Blonde Redhead, Beck), Susumu Mukai (Zongamin), M J Silver (Mickey Moonlight), Craig Dunsmuir (Glissandro 70, Kanada 70), Eric Chenaux and Jesse Zubot. "1" is their debut LP, the first in a series of 3 for Constellation Records.”

Read more about the record here: http://cstrecords.com/cst117/

Constellation Records & Ratio present 3 nights of live music by: OFF WORLD  ft. guests Oct 21 Friday: Hoover Party + Transcombobulation Oct 22 Saturday: Kat Estacio + Joseph Shabason Oct 23 Sunday: Fleshtone Aura + Cell Memory

Event deets >> https://www.facebook.com/events/178040222640095/

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Spacious drones and brooding Tropicalia start off The Music Gallery’s programming season with Ricardo Dias Gomes (of Do Amor and Cê (Caetano Veloso’s band)), Ida Toninato, and Kat Estacio. 

The show featured "a trio of artists from widely different backgrounds united by a love of drones, reverberant spaces, and the contrast between grand gestures and subtle sonic displacements." 🐝👽🚁😌 

Saturday, September 17 Doors: 7pm | Concert: 8pm The Music Gallery, 197 John St.

More event deets >> https://www.facebook.com/events/1023072337799719/