micah rose kindles soft ferocity, in ode to titas and cousins and lolas who show us ways we love. They share traditions like story circles, yoga, and taiko as paths for communal care. She conjures at Arts Connect International, helping brew artist-led experiments as a co-director of emergence. Micah is thankful to learn & practice with chosen families ~ including peoples who collab at the Cultural Equity Incubator, Pao Arts Center, The Theater Offensive, Luya Poetry, Company One Theatre, The Design Studio for Social Intervention, and beyond. Toward Lumad sovereignty on her motherislands, Rose organizes with Liyang Network and weaves an Instagram avatar @micah_pdf.

Micah Rose
Altar for Our Ris[en, ing]
Collage in poem, cardboard, origami, and braided threads
5’10 x 6’3

Rose tells stories from the crossroads/intersections/spirals of space and time to manifest worlds through words. Urgently driven by communing with ancestors, they make art through excavation. As a descendent of transmuted/erased/colonized histories, Rose stares at the blood and bones of memory; of their/our history; of how we have come to see ourselves and each other in order to imagine futures centered in vulnerability, community, and a radical tethering to time (where we have been and where we can be). Through theatre (ANG UNANG PINYA AT KAALAMANG-BAYAN), poetry (MY ISLAND OF MANY GODS), and teaching, they explore language as a site of reclamation and possibility. And in community organizing and education, Rose works to invoke communities' individual abilities to forge narrative autonomy through storytelling.

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