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Erika Ileto Catral
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Joined:
01/06/2015
Last Updated:
28/03/2016
Location:
Davao, Philippines
Climate Zone:
Wet/Dry Tropical
Web site:
www.lunangan.org





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About Erika Ileto Catral

Hello, my name is Erika, a liberation arts educator and permie newbie.

After working with indigenous schoolchildren in southern Philippines, I pursued Anthropology & Education and Indigenous Studies at Columbia University to re-imagine new forms of dialogue, social action, and ways of engaging in decolonizing research that involved a more egalitarian process--all of which my country's public education system I severely lacks.

It was in the course of my studies that I became involved in workshops in Theater of the Oppressed at TOPLAB in NYC and Gas & Electric Arts in Philly. Their incredible work resonated with my desires so much so that I packed my bags and moved to the opposite coast where the University of Southern California offered an MA in Applied Theater Arts. The program's thrust of Liberation Arts & Community Engagement exposed me to different modalities of the work with genocide survivors, gender justice warriors, immigrants working for community land trust, youth fighting the school-prison-pipeline, former convicts working to rebuild their lives, psychiatric ward residents trying to change the stigma around their disorders, female domestic workers fighting sexual harassment, and youth fighting drug-related gang violence. After a residency with Centro Teatro do Oprimido in Rio de Janeiro, I took a permaculture design certificate course at Occidental in Northern California, which exposed me to Liberation Permaculture, where colored communities empower themselves by building self-sufficient, resilient communities through the tools of permaculture.

A thread that ran throughout all these democratic spaces was an ethics of possibility that invigorated prefigurative realizations of better worlds. I hope to weave this thread in my own life in the Philippines where I am sprouting Lunangan Initiatives, a non-profit project.

"We make the road by walking" and I've been belly-flopping into mud puddles along the way! Thank you for visiting and mud-puddling with me. :)

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Lunangan

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Permaculture Design Certificate
Type: Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) course
Verifying teacher: Occidental Arts and Ecology Center OAEC
Other Teachers: Brock Dollman, Kendall Dunnigan, Toby Hemenway, Darren Doherty, Janine Bjorson, Carol Nieukirk
Location: Occidental, California
Date: Sep 2013

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