Sensing Stories, Shaping Change: An Immersive Theater Workshop

Join Asia Center 2025 Artists in Residence Abigail G. Billones and Eric V. Dela Cruz for Sensing Stories, Shaping Change--a two-day workshop that explores how our senses can awaken memory and imagination, and how these become raw material for storytelling. Through movement, sound, image theater, and collaborative exercises, participants will discover how everyday experiences can be transformed into narratives that build connection and understanding. 

Eric V. Dela Cruz is a Filipino performance-maker, dramaturg, and facilitator whose work explores memory, community, and the senses through immersive, multisensory performance. He is the founder of Theater. Applied. Experiential. Immersive (TAXI) Theater and designer of the Creative Sensory Attunement Workshop (CSAW), which developed into Relational Sensory Dramaturgy (RSD) —a practice of immersive, multisensory performance rooted in awe, curiosity, and care. A senior artist-teacher with the Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA), Eric has presented his practice internationally. His current project Sinag Lahi explores endangered Filipino foodways, beginning with Asin Tibuok.

Abigail G. Billones is Program Director of PETA’s Lingap Sining: Healing through the Arts and a Senior Artist-Teacher. She leads initiatives on narrative change, human rights, community mental health, and youth civic engagement, including Control + Shift: Changing Narratives and Youth Start-Up programs. With over 150 workshops facilitated since 1994, she has partnered with global organizations such as Misereor, Asia Foundation, and UNICEF. A performer and educator, she has appeared in nearly 70 productions. She holds a BS in Human Ecology from the University of the Philippines Los Baños.

This is a two-evening workshop held on Tuesday, October 7 and Wednesday, October 8, 4:00-8:00 p.m.
Participants must attend both sessions.

Registration opens September 16.