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).

Voices of America (KURDISH) — Survival Arts Feature in the Kurdish Language

Survival Arts Academy was featured on Voices of America in Kurdish.

Interviewed by journalist Ava Homa, members of Survival Arts talk about training women and children against violence and sexual assault. Please share with your Kurdish-speaking friends! Spas dikim!

CNN PHILIPPINES — Julia Saubier speaks about Survival Arts Academy

Julia Saubier speaks on CNN Philippines about the work that Survival Arts Academy is doing to protect women, children, and LGBTQ communities worldwide through Pekiti Tirsia Kali.

Watch her live interview with Charles Tiu on our channel!

#NoMeansNo — Survival Arts Teaches Consent in 13 Languages

In the Philippines, a person is reportedly raped per hour. In America, every 92 seconds, an American is sexually assaulted. In this article, Jamie Yancovitz and Julia Saubier discuss their campaign #NoMeansNo in 7 world languages and 6 languages of the Philippines.

Survival Arts represents a global movement to equip women, girls, and members of the LGBTQ community with the tools and mindset to protect themselves, and to likewise, seek to challenge and dismantle power systems and paradigms which give rise to a world where sexual violence, harassment, and abuse are the norm. The international multilingual Survival Arts #NoMeansNo campaign is just the first step in our global plan to educate the public about sexual consent.

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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