This is a breathing, growing fluid space centering care, creation and ancestral memory, where voices and bodies are honoured with tenderness and integrity.
We nurture the practice of re-membering through bodywork, ritual and the act of creation.
We breathe life into this space with the intention to offer room to those most often left out, vulnerable and systematically disadvantaged.
ARUGA is a weaving of care practices. An ongoing journey of learning, listening and returning, we recognize ourselves as students of life: finding wisdom in our own bodies & lineages, and the knowledge embedded within community.
We are living in a time called to organize, mobilize and hold spaces for us to further root ourselves into Ancestral Intelligence; collectively growing beyond current destructive and colonial paradigms. We aim to embody a space where art and a sense of belonging are practiced as rituals of care.
Envisioning a world where care is an integral part in the collective, creativity is sacred and healing is rooted in relationship with the self and others, we deeply resonate with Audre Lorde’s words that care is an act of resistance, and art a tool towards liberation.
We invite you to join us in building relation-ships
with ourselves, each other, and our ancestors.
Arugâ ᜀᜇᜓᜄ Tagalog: Care, tenderness, nurture;
A pulse beating towards remembering our return.
Rooted in the body and attuned to spirit, ARUGA was born from a longing for spaces that hold, nourish and honour those so often pushed to the edges. Art is not separate from life; it is a practice that helps us to remember an unfolding path returning home.
We believe care is relational, and the body witnessed as an archive, portal and guide. Through this belief, we hope to create meaningful work that is intuitive and grounded through touch and ritual.
This is our offering to build relation-ships with one another, a call to root oneself in the medicine held in ancestral memory.
We move slowly • with consent, curiosity and tenderness.