Performance Studies alum Allen Baylosis (MA '21) recently published his article "Staging Filipinx Migration in British Columbia" in the BC Studies 227: Filipino Canadian Studies in, on and through British Columbia.
Guest edited by JP Catungal and May Farrales, this issue features several articles, a research note, and a soundwork centring Filipino Canadian voices exploring diaspora, belonging, and collective histories across BC. Allen's essay examines selected fragments of the production "buto/buto:bones are seeds" and its process that demonstrate and employ alternative ways of staging migrant narratives, enabling a reparative reimagining that confronts the burden of representation and critiques existing societal imaginaries imposed on the Filipinx immigrant body. His essay also addresses the challenges of representational politics, recognizing that not only 'what' stories and 'whose' stories are told in theatre are at stake, but also 'how' and 'why' they are told.