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PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Potri Ranka Manis, Artistic Director of Kinding Sindaw
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Potri Ranka Manis, Artistic Director of Kinding Sindaw, testified on the importance of arts and culture funding in New York City. She emphasized that culture and arts are the lifeblood of the city and urged for an increase in baseline funding for cultural organizations.
- Kinding Sindaw is a 33-year-old organization preserving indigenous Filipino traditions
- Manis called for a $75 million increase to the baseline budget allocated to DCLA
- She highlighted Kinding Sindaw's role in educating schools and libraries about unwritten Filipino history and oral traditions
Potri Ranka Manis
6:19:53
Thank you, councilman Rivera, for helping us today.
6:20:00
My name is Puturang Kamanis, the founder and tradition bearer of and artistic director of Kinning Sindau, a thirty three year old New York based cultural organization that assert, reclaim, preserve, and recreate the indigenous living tradition amid the now Philippines in diaspora.
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Kiningsi now serves the only resource for libraries, public schools, libraries, colleges, and other institution.
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I'm here to testify that culture and arts is the heart and soul of New York City.
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The heart pumps the blood life to all organ system of the body.
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Without culture and arts, New York industries will atrophy and die.
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It's a culture and arts that makes New York relevant, and the funding towards the culture and arts is a must.
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It's a lifeblood, the oxygen of New York City.
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Imagine New York without culture and arts.
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We want New York alive, breathing, thriving, and kicking.
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Kildisel, together with other organization for culture, all urgently plea the budget of $75,000,000 baseline added to the baseline be added, baseline, which is stagnant budget allocated to DCLA, the agency that we, culture and arts organization, depend on funding to continue the health and culture of the organization.
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And and I think that's it.
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Like, you know, it's it's it's the funding of the city that keeps us alive and be able to continue what we're doing.
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And I have been we have been existing as a small organization, but our services has gone all over the city.
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We reached a lot of public schools, especially during their assembly and libraries, and we became the source of information of the unwritten history and oral tradition of The Philippines.
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It's very much related to the indigenous people of the world
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that we have.
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Expired.
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Thank you.
Potri Ranka Manis
6:21:59
Thank you so much.
Carlina Rivera
6:22:00
Thank you.