6pm | Exhibition Walkthrough  

7pm | Poetry Reading 

8pm | Karaoke

In conjunction with Stephanie Comilang: An Apparition, A Song, we invite you to join us for a night of poetry and singing. Paolo Javier, Yasmin Adele Majeed, and Aldrin Regina Valdez will read from their own work—and the work of friends and influences—finding resonances with Comilang’s explorations of migratory life, collective memory, intergenerational exchanges, and remnants of colonization.

In Comilang’s work, karaoke unfolds as a shared ritual, an act of emotional survival, and a quiet form of resistance. Search for Life II, for example, considers the histories of pearl diving from sea farming Indigenous and Muslim Filipino communities on Mindanao, the second largest island in the Philippines, to the Gulf States, where pearling emerged as an economic force in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The film ends with a karaoke scene featuring a young Emirati and Bicolano woman singing Dirty Projectors’ “Search for Life.”

Following the readings, the mics will open for a night of karaoke!