It's Summer - and that means your favorite Creators Summer Party is back for its 3rd year!

2024 has been a wild ride (and we're only halfway through!), so let's welcome this season with a gentle breeze. Tagalikha Salo-Salo SUMMER BREAK is an afternoon of relaxed conversations, art activities, and a pretty chill vibe. Bring a blanket, a snack to share, and your creative energy, and get ready to be inspired together.

Join us for the 3rd Annual Tagalikha Summer Salo-Salo. Let's unwind and enjoy the sunshine together!

OPEN TO FILIPINO CREATORS AND FRIENDS!

Join MEDS, Zekie, Thirteen, and David Reyeg as they share their music and culture in this all-Filipino lineup in the heart of Woodside, Queens. This event is in partnership with Tagalikha, an organization whose purpose is to create communities for Filipino/xs to explore culture through creativity. Come to enjoy, connect with others, and experience raw music that only a DIY show in New York can offer you!

Join Tagalikha x PUSO (Pilipinx United Student Organization) as we look forward to what’s next with "Passport to the Next 5 Years" on February 27, 5-7 PM PT / 8-10 PM ET! 

Immerse yourself in a virtual panel connecting college students with inspiring Filipino creatives from diverse careers. Explore breakout rooms, ask questions, and discover the opportunities awaiting you post-college (or around that time). Let Filipino professionals share their journeys, offering guidance and proving that options are limitless. Connect, learn, and be inspired!

Registration limited to OXY students. For any questions, please email puso@oxy.edu.

For Tagalikha's August workshop, you will learn the art of storytelling and culling insights from everyday life— creating a platform and frame for your ideas, emotions and memories.

In this workshop, we're learning from Tish , a twenty-something artist who can’t seem to decide which ‘art’ to focus on.. So she tries them all. She is a UP Diliman graduate of Fine Arts, with a background in advertising, marketing, design and illustration. She has worn many hats, including a senior copywriter, studio co-owner, sculptor, illustrator and now— floral designer.

Keep connected with Tish: @tishburt | @tish.draws @studioaftersix | @bkdnyc

If the nature of creativity is originality, what does that mean for the path we follow to pursue it? Filipino/xs are a traditional people—hear from those who are along (or away from) the tradition of a linear path.

Speakers

Ashley D. Topacio, Cartoonist & Illustrator, she/her, @mommasmashley

Ashley Topacio is a multidisciplinary artist living in Seattle. Her work focuses on relationships through the diasporic lens.

Her creative journey has always included raising her family and keeping a day job. She wants young artists, particularly those who are caretakers to children or elders, that keeping an artistic practice is possible, and even necessary, as a form of self care. Ashley believes that art is for everyone, and that we all have stories worth sharing.

Presently, she is working on a series of comics for a new platform celebrating AAPI voices. She plans on spending the rest of this lifetime making comics, loving her family and eating really good food.

Charisse Ledres, Estate Private Chef & Founder of Lamisa Events LLC, she/her, @lamisa.events

Charisse went to the Culinary Institute of America in NY for Associates in Baking and Pastry and Hospitality Management from Johnson and Wales University. In college, she worked as a Head Chef Instructor Assistant and as a Camarera for one of the school’s renowned restaurants, American Bounty.

She worked in the Pastry Department of a big wholesale bread company, Bread Alone. She then started working for a boutique hotel and a catering company, The Rhinecliff, as a Line Cook working her way up to an Executive Chef position. Currently, she is the founder of Lamisa Events LLC and a multiple estate Private Chef. Lamisa Events LLC also provides wholesale products sold in NYC and the Hudson Valley.

Working in a male dominated industry as a woman and a minority showed many challenges. This taught her adaptability, confidence and perseverance in her skills, physical strength and intellect. Eventually she decided to create a space for her career that is a representation of her cultural background and childhood. 

Her goal is to continue to represent her Cebuano roots within the culinary industry in the US and eventually go back home and establish a creative food space for aspiring Filipinx/Filipino/Filipina chefs. This space will highlight sustainability, traditional culinary techniques, indigenous ingredients as well as local talent. 

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Hear and learn from Filipinas on their wins, losses and growth into thriving creatives in the world of advocacy, advertising and fashion design. It just so happens they’re part of the Tagalikha team, too!

Please join us for Tagalikha’s first ever virtual event celebrating Women’s History Month.

Speakers

Nikki Santos-Ocampo, Creative Consultant, she/her, @northwhitespecs

Nikki Santos-Ocampo is a freelance creative consultant based in Manila working in advocacy-driven organizations geared towards Philippine development. Using creativity as a means for raising awareness and edu-cation, she works towards tying several seemingly irrelevant industries together towards growth on a national scale. 

Working in the start-up and non-profit sectors, she learned that it is collaboration, not competition, that is necessary in elevating professions such as creativity when questioned for its benefits or viability. 

Her ultimate goal is to build the Philippines up on the global stage, as well as define what it means to be a contemporary Filipino/x through the creatives she meets.

Kenisha Rullan, Multidisciplinary Designer, she/her, @kapareha

Kenisha Rullan is a multidisciplinary designer & illustrator based in NYC.

She currently works at an award-winning creative agency, runs a small business of her artwork through her brand Kapareha, while designing and cultivating a creative community for and with the Filipino/x diaspora at Tagalikha.

Her personal focus is to help agencies and brands create more authentic products, campaigns, and spaces through a holistic design approach. And with it, aims to empower others with the use of multi-dimensional communication. 

Nikole Weineke, Fashion Designer, she/her, @nalexine

Nikole Wieneke is a New York City based fashion & visual designer. She currently works for a retail wholesale design company that creates styles for private labels throughout the U.S. 

Outside of fashion, she likes to play with photography, assists friends/family on small visual design projects, as well as working with the Tagalikha team to produce new creative strategies, make content and challenge the Filipino/x diaspora. 

Nikole is inspired by romanticism and culture, which has helped her gain a large empathy to the world and society she coincides with. Through her personal designs, she hopes to uplift underrepresented communities, tell stories, and bring empowerment & joy to those around her. She graduated from Parsons School of Design in 2019 with a BFA in Fashion Design and concentration in culture & media studies + visual design.

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