06/09/2023
Salo-Salo: A Fund Raising Exhibit for the Art Relief Mobile Kitchen
Since its founding in 2013, the Art Relief Mobile Kitchen (ARMK) has served a conservative estimate of 685,809 meals at ground zero of major disasters in the Philippines. In the past 10 years, we have created our own niche in the Emergency Food Aid Space: ARMK is an Artist/Volunteer-Led Emergency Food Aid Provider.
We need your help to allow us to tell our story beyond the confines of our country. This October, Alex and I will be speaking at the University of Wisconsin in Madison where we will deliver a public lecture, interact with graduate students, and of course, cook. It is our chance to share the ARMK story in North America: of how a motley group of artists gathered to feed the survivors of Typhoon Yolanda arriving at the Villamor Airbase 10 years ago and how “a group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world”*.
In the coming days, we will be showing photographs by Artist-Volunteers to help raise funds for the trip. Each photograph will be printed on archival paper and signed by the artist. Each print will come with a Certificate of Authenticity (CoA) designating it as an original work of art. Aside from works by Alex and our son, Dylan Baluyut, photographs by Little Wing Luna, Nana Buxani, Luis Liwanag and Veejay Villafranca will be featured as well. Proceeds from the sale will go towards helping fund the trip.
We will also be hosting a “Salo-salo” on Saturday, September 16 at Shutterspace Studios in Quezon City. We invite everyone to come and partake in this gathering of artists and friends. For this exhibit, we will “salo” or catch each other in times when a lifeline is most needed. - Alex and Precious Baluyut, Founders of the Art Relief Mobile Kitchen
*When we started the Art Relief Mobile Kitchen, we often quoted the cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead: "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. ..."
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