WARRIOR STORIES — Beauty of the Warrior Spirit

WARRIOR STORIES — Together, we challenge the stereotypes of women across the globe, redefine beauty as strength, and explore the themes of bridging our past, standing strong in our present, and building a powerful future. In these stories, each piece has a meaning, and each location has a significance to our culture.

This look was inspired by the melting pot of Filipino identity in the Philippines and across the diaspora. Dedicated to all those that survive street harassment everyday, the jeepney drivers, and all the indigenous peoples still here. #NoToJeepneyPhaseout

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Revolutionary AYAT - Lani Asuncion x Survival Arts

As part of the Revolutionary AYAT project, a multimedia collaborative community art intervention which aims to contest public narratives of war, colonialism, race, and migration, Survival Arts presents a counter narrative in performance, movement & sound, and community training for social justice.

Revolutionary AYAT (2021-22), the word ayat is the Ilocano word for love, is a multimedia public art project in collaboration with Survival Arts, in a ritual performance ceremony held on Memorial Day 2022 at The Hiker (Kitson—created by Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson) monument in Arsenal Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts one of 13 monuments throughout MA, out of 52 reproduced across the US. It marks the Spanish American War and the occupation of the Philippines, Puerto Rico & Cuba.

BUSINESS INSIDER — Survival Arts Analyzes Popular Fight Scenes

Kali weapons expert Jamie Yancovitz reacts to 11 fight scenes featuring traditional Filipino knives and stick weapons and rates them based on their technical accuracy. Yancovitz rates knife fights in Hollywood movies, from "Quantum of Solace" (2008) to "Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation" (2015), "Extraction" (2020), "The Book of Eli" (2010), "Kick-Ass" (2010), and "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" (2014). She also looks at improvised-weapon scenes in "The Bourne Identity" (2002) and "Kill Bill: Vol. 1" (2003) and rates the technique of baton and stick fighting in "Taken 2" (2012), "Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever" (2002), and "Arrow" (2012-2020).

"The LA Story" — Survival Arts 2019 Year in Review

Survival Arts Academy 2019 "The LA Story" — Training from Bacolod City, Philippines to Los Angeles, California. What began as one Warrior's mission to protect women and children against violence & sexual assault has now become a movement creating strength, empowerment, and community worldwide. Thank you to everyone who has supported Survival Arts in this mission. We are so grateful to build sisterhood and heal together, while connecting to our roots and sacred ancestral arts.

Survival Arts, Culture, History, Education, California, Kali, VideoSurvival ArtsJanuary 7, 2020survival arts, los angeles, California, pinay, LA, training

Survival Arts x Bayani Art

Bayani Art, one of the premier lifestyle brands of Filipino culture in the United States and throughout the diaspora, has partnered with Survival Arts to honor Warrior Queen Urduha.

Survival Arts Academy continues the legacy of Queen Urduha by leading the first all-womxn’s Kali training group internationally. By training womxn and girls to protect their bodies from violence and sexual assault, Survival Arts works to carry on the Pinay warrior bloodline.

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