Sponsorship and Partnering Opportunities

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Our Mission
"Grow roots deep enough for generosity to sow seeds, for others you love... those you do not know...
unseen generations you will never meet."
-Diwatang Lupa, babaylan.net
The Center for Babaylan Studies (CfBS) focuses on Filipino Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Practices (IKSP)
with specic emphasis on indigenous healing traditions and Sikolohiyang Pilipino (Filipino psychology).
We are a 501-C3 organization and our scal agency is Mindanao Lilang-Lilang (EIN 94-3362135).
The mission of CFBS is to connect with resources and facilitate the relevance, cultivation and promotion
of Filipino indigenous wisdom in an age of globalization through:
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Exploring and developing Pakikipagkapwa (deep interconnectivity), Kagandahang Loob (Wholeness of Being), Pakikiramdam (Deep Empathy)

Organizing conferences, workshops, retreats, concerts and events that bring about deep appreciation for Filipino Indigenous Spirituality

Creating and maintaining an online archive of spiritual, social, cultural, historical and other materials relevant to our vision

Fostering learning groups and collaborating with other organizations who share our vision

Facilitating decolonization processes rooted in Filipino Indigenous Spirituality, Wisdom, and Beauty

Testimonials from Members

Working with CFBS has brought me into contact with many like-minded individuals, people who understand the value of our indigenous practices.
Here I have found community and established wonderful friendships. In return, it was within this community that I was able to more deeply share
my own research about our cultural histories and further explore my calling in life as a practitioner of our tattooing arts.
- Lane Wilken, Filipino Tattoos, Ancient to Modern
CFBS has connected me to a community of diasporic Pilipinxs seeking a connection and overstanding of our indigenous and
decolonized selves. It has oered a space for spirituality, creativity, and critical consciousness rooted in a deeper liberation of the
whole self. With its oerings come love, acceptance, and support from a rooted community inspired by Babaylan.
- Stephanie Soultree Camba, Poet & Activist

Global Impact

CfBS Programs and Events

Decolonization transforms the consciousness of the colonized through the reclamation of the Filipino cultural
self and makes space for the recovery and healing of traumatic memory, and healing leading to dierent forms
of activism. It is an open-ended process. It is a new way of seeing. As a way of healing, it is also a promise and
a hope.
- Leny Mendoza Strobel
We envision that our events and projects will bring together:
1. Key resource persons from the Philippines on Filipino Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Practices;
2. Babaylan/culture-bearers in the US whose life work is informed by the babaylan tradition;
3. Babaylan-inspired scholars who address the sub-themes in the stated vision;
4. Babaylan-inspired teachers, healers, warriors, priestesses, and visionaries whose life work is
centered around indigenizing the Filipino self;
5. Persons who recognize decolonization as a spiritual path;
6. Folks who consciously seek creative integration of non-indigenous elements into Filipino spirituality;
7. Persons whose expressions resonate with being indigenous or indio-genius.

Notable Programs and Events Organized

Kapwa and Loob: Filipino Popular Spirituality and Cultural Energy, feat. Fr. Albert Alejo (2014)- Search to Involve Filipino Americans (Los Angeles, California)
CfBS Symposium Gathering- Mabungang Panaghinabi /Fruitful Conversations: Bridging Indigenous and Christian Traditions of Spirituality (2014) (Ohio).
Kapihan w/ Dr. Ma. Christine Muyco of Balay Patawili (2014)- Santa Rosa, California, The 2nd International Babaylan Conference (2013)Wesminster Woods (California),The Beauty of Philippine Indigenous Culture: The Talaandig Tribe of Bukidnon feat. featuring Tribal Chief,
Artist, Musician Waway Saway (2013)- (Fulton, California), Kapwa-3 Conference: Indigenous Knowledge in the Academe-Bridging
Local and Global Paradigms (Baguio City, Philippines)- Kapihan w/ Kidlat Tahimaik-Santa Rosa, California (2012), Songs for the
Beloved- feat. Grace Nono (2012)- Sonoma State University (California), The 1st International Babaylan Conference (2010)Sonoma State University (California)

The 3rd International Babaylan Conference 2016

Makasaysayang Pagtatagpo (Historic Encounters)
Filipinos and Indigenous Turtle Islanders Revitalizing Ancestral Traditions Together

2016 Third International Babaylan Conference

co-created by Kathara Pilipino Indigenous Arts Collective Society
and the Center for Babaylan Studies
Date: September 23-25, 2016
Venue: YMCA Camp Elphinstone on the Sunshine Coast
Unceded Coast Salish Territories
Our Vision:
This is the Third International Babaylan Conference. In the rst conference in 2010 we focused on the
theme of KAPWA (Shared Being) as one of the core concepts in Filipino Indigenous Knowledge
Systems and Practices (IKSP). At the second conference in 2013, we wanted to deepen our grounding
in IKSP; thus, we focused on the power of myths, indigenous storytelling, and oral history as part of
our process of decolonization and re-learning of a sense of indigeneity as Filipinos in the diaspora.
In this third conference/gathering we follow the thread of re-indigenization by looking at our histories
of colonial migration within the larger context of settler colonialism and what our presence as
Settlers on Native Lands means for building just relationships with our native relatives. Likewise, in
recognition of the centuries of encounters and interrelationships between Filipinos and Native
peoples in North America (US and Canada), our desire is to make these interconnections visible. Our
vision is to be able to nd common ground and mutually-edifying partnerships as we struggle to
decolonize and recover a greater intactness in our relationship with the Land and ancestral traditions
within our respective communities and histories. We share the hope of being able to learn what it
means to live justly with all our relations and our goal is to be able to bring indigenous knowledge and
practices from the Philippine homeland as part of that vision.

What We Want to Deliver:

CfBS, in partnership with Kathara Society, is organizing a conference near Vancouver where we focus on the conference
theme of building bridges and interconnections with the original peoples of Turtle Island. We explore this theme through
workshops, creative performances, ritual and ceremony, and educational opportunities where we can learn and connect with
one another. Artists and cultural stakeholders will lead participants through dierent mediums of learning to reect and share
stories, ideas, and experiences that honour our indigenous roots, histories and legacies.
Our Goals:
to continue to build and strengthen our Filipino communities in the diaspora through the sharing of Indigenous Knowledge
Systems and Practices (IKSP);
to listen and dialogue with Filipinos who are of mixed ancestry (Filipino and Native) and bring their stories to the community
(that is largely immigrant);
to share contemporary practices of culture sharing between indigenizing (settler) Filipinos and Filipinos with Aboriginal/Turtle Islanders/Native heritage;
to dialogue on what it means to be an immigrant/settler on Native lands;
to develop a collective understanding of colonization and its parallels in the Philippine homeland as well as Turtle Island.
to locate our conversations at this conference/gathering within the ongoing challenge of the globalization of cultures and
economies, the destruction of the ecosystem, and the very real danger of climate change, and
to plant seeds of hope and beauty as we return to our local communities (both human and more-than-human) and re-learn
the wisdom and ways of our ancestors.

The 3rd International Babaylan Conference 2016

Makasaysayang Pagtatagpo (Historic Encounters)
Filipinos and Indigenous Turtle Islanders Revitalizing Ancestral Traditions Together

Introducing our conference Co-creators:

Kathara Pilipino Indigenous Arts Collective Society
Kathara Society is a community-based non-prot organization
composed of artists, community workers, advocates, retirees,
students, caregivers, TFWs, and professionals. Kathara is
multi-generational, multi-ethnic, rst and second generation
Filipinos and Canadians. We strive to center indigenous peoples
voices including other ethnic groups that support cultural revitalization. We are dedicated to the promotion of Philippine indigenous peoples' rights, art, culture, and history through community
events & action, peace education, public performances, & advocacy. We work cross-culturally in solidarity with Aboriginals of
Coast Salish Territories, indigenous peoples of the Philippines,
and social movements on climate & environmental justice and
human rights.

Sponsorships for International Babaylan Conference 2016

CAMPAIGN TITLE SPONSOR $10,000

ON-SITE VISIBILITY
* Recognition as co-producer of International Babaylan Conference 2016
* Live acknowledgment at Conference
* Corporate logo with company description on programs
* Full-page ad in programs
* Corporate banner prominently placed at events
* On-location promotional distribution at shows (if applicable)
SOCIAL MEDIA AND LOGO PLACEMENT
* Prominent position in email blasts to our listserv
* Sponsorship recognition and logo placement in all advertising and promotional campaigns, including
press releases and TV/radio promotions (when possible)
* Company logo and hyperlinks on Center for Babaylan Studies website
* Regular sponsorship recognition on all social media platforms
GIFTED OFFERING
* Two Free Registrant to the 2016 International Babaylan Conference
* Two Printed Copy of a CfBS Publication of Choice

CAMPAIGN PRESENTING SPONSOR $5,000

ON-SITE VISIBILITY
* Recognition as co-producer of International Babaylan Conference 2016
* Live acknowledgment at Conference
* Corporate logo with company description on programs
* Half-page ad in programs
* Corporate banner prominently placed at events
* On-location promotional distribution at shows (if applicable)
SOCIAL MEDIA AND LOGO PLACEMENT
* Highlighted position in email blasts to our listserv
* Sponsorship recognition and logo placement in all advertising and promotional campaigns, including
press releases and TV/radio promotions (when possible)
* Company logo and hyperlinks on Center for Babaylan Studies website
* Regular sponsorship recognition on all social media platforms
GIFTED OFFERING
* One Free Registrant to the 2016 International Babaylan Conference
* One Printed Copy of a CfBS Publication of Choice

Sponsorships for International Babaylan Conference 2016

It is said that to awaken to critical conciousness, it is not enough to see and grieve what is wrong in the world
one needs also to fall in love.
- Lily Mendoza, Back from the Crocodiles Belly

PLATINUM SPONSOR $1,000

ON-SITE VISIBILITY
* Listed in program as Sponsor
SOCIAL MEDIA AND LOGO PLACEMENT
* Listed as sponsor in email blasts to our listserv
* Sponsorship recognition and logo placement in all advertising and promotional campaigns,
including press releases and TV/radio promotions (when possible)
* Company logo and hyperlinks on Center for Babaylan Studies website
GIFTED OFFERING
* One Free Registrant to the 2016 International Babaylan Conference
* One Printed Copy of a CfBS Publication of Choice

PARTNER $500
ON-SITE VISIBILITY
* Listed in program as Partner

PATRON $100
ON-SITE VISIBILITY
* Listed in program as Patron

Books by Center for Babaylan Studies Organizers and Volunteers

The Center for Babaylan Studies has supported the publication of multiple hardcopy and electronic texts that are
in line with our organization mission. By doing so, we hope to create access to resources for our communites to
gain knowledge about the ancestral stories, experience, practices and beliefs to be shared globally and with
future generations.
In the Philippines, please contact the St. Scholasticas College Bookstore, the Institute of Womens Studies
Publications or your local Philippine bookstore to nd out if they carry the title you are looking for.
For U.S. and International inquiries please contact Philippine Expressions Bookshop, Arkipelago Books or
visit Amazon.com.

Contact Us
The Center of Babaylan Studies has grown me from afar for 5 years now and has humbled my spirit by showing
me who I am and calling me to rise in my fullest, truest self whenever I felt I could not, or was afraid to...CfBS is
a community I will continue to give of my service and spirit to, as it has and I know will continue to ll me
time and time again.
- JANA LYNNE UMIPIG, Core Member

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