CP Shcedule of Events 2020-23

1 CIRCA Pintig Schedule of Events 2020- 2023

Name & Date of Event 2020

Description

Impact

UIC’s DHD Capstone Scholars Mentorship (Jan - May )+ *

Mentored three undergraduate students in a UIC Department of Disability & story collection/oral history project for a Human Development podcast series featuring Mental Health, Asian Americans, and Community Engagement

Stories from the Homefront: Oral History Collection Project (April)+*

Community partner for Storycorp, presented on our website, social media, and Soundcloud

StoryCorps

Fighting for Visibility Podcast: From Stigma to Mad Pride (May)+*

Video, audio, and transcription of three interviews conducted by capstone scholars for the Mental Health, Asian Americans, and Community Engagement project

UIC Department of Disability & Human Development

Monthly Beat #1: virtual open mic (Jun)+*

Featured artists include IL musicians, actors, visual artists for an online performance of music, plays, film, and healing

IL Artists

Piyesta Pinoy (Jun)+*

Annual Filipino Festival, dances, musicians, storytelling

Philippine American Cultural Foundation

Mr. & Mrs. La Questa Go Dancing (Jun)+* ($800)

Play reading and fundraiser for a LGBTQ+ homeless shelter

Fundraiser

Raising Voices: Stories from the Homefront & Beyond (Jul)+

Fundraiser for Artists affected by the pandemic, virtual broadcast, music, film, monologues, poetry, visual arts

Concerned Artists of the Philippines Fundraiser

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Raising Voices: Global Queer Filipinx Open Mic (Aug)+*

Broadcast on Friday, August 21, 2020, at 9 PM CDT – 11 PM CDT Circa Pintig Public · Hosted by Circa Pintig This will be a FACEBOOK LIVE VIRTUAL EVENT! Short Play. New Play. Song. Spoken Word.

Activism.

IL Artists

Raising Voices: Connecting Dots International (Aug)

CIRCA Pintig Facebook LIVE 8.7.2020 Featured Live Interview with Noah and Mizan: Connecting Dots International

Connecting Dots International

Description

Impact

Name & Date of Event 2020 Raising Voices Against Tyranny (Sep)+* (1,500)

"Talinhaga Laban sa Tirano: Raising Voices Against Tyranny", held on Sept. 18th (US, 6pm Pacific / 8pm Central , 9pm Eastern) / Sep 19th (Philippines, 9am).

This online event is a collaboration between arts collectives in the US and Philippines that are remembering the resistance against the Marcos dictatorship and continuing to raise voices against the killings, attacks, and the return of tyranny today.

These artists commit to never forget the dark past while fighting back against today’s descent into dictatorial rule, with brutal attacks on human and civil rights, moving of public funds towards military solutions to the Covid-19 pandemic, and neglect of the people’s welfare.

Concerned Artists of the Philippines

University of Michigan Undergraduate Research Program Mentorship (Sep-Dec)+*

Mentored three undergraduate students in a

University of Michigan

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story collection/oral history project for a podcast series featuring Mental Health, Asian Americans, and Community Engagement FAHM: Lunchtime Chat Series - One , Two, Three (Oct)+*

Virtual broadcast series in honor of Filipino American History Month in October 2020 about the history and activism of the Worker’s Bill of Rights, Ethnic studies, and Frontline Workers.

UIC GLAS, AFIRE, IL Nurses

Monthly Beat #2: Youth Voices (Oct)+*

Broadcasted LIVE on Facebook on Saturday, October 24th at 3PM CST -- the celebrations continue! Featuring Youth Voices: Songs, Poetry, Theatre.

IL Artists

Tindog Bicol: Solidarity and Fundraising (Nov)+*($2,000)

LIVE: #TindogBicol Solidarity and Fundraising Event - Help us raise funds and donations for typhoon-devastated communities in the Bicol region

Fundraiser

Piglas: Freedom from Fear and Want (Dec)+*

Facebook Live Broadcast on December 18, 2020 (US) -December 19, 2020 (PHL)

Concerned Artists of the Philippines

Piglas: Freedom From Fear and Want Artists’ Broadcast for International Migrants’ Day Taking off from the Tagalog word "piglas" (to be free/to free oneself from the hold of another) and a 1943 essay of immigrant Filipino novelist, poet, and activist Carlos Bulosan (1913-1956), this online artists’ broadcast on International Migrants Day 2020 features new songs.

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Name & Date of Event 2021

Description

Impact

University of Michigan Undergraduate Research Program Mentorship (Jan-Apr)+*

University of Michigan

Monthly Beat: Pinay in the Time of Love & Struggle (Mar)+*

IL Artists

Community Workshop Series: Racial Healing and the Subversion of Hate (Apr-Dec)+* ($500) or apply AGC/RESIST funding

IL Artists

Raising Voices, Stories from the Homefront: Community Pantry (Apr)+*

Concerned Artists of the Philippines

CIRCA STEAM Launch: community youth pilot & workshops, Chicago (three camps) & Mexico (May-Aug)+* ($1,500)

IL Artists

Trilogy AAPI Celebration (May)+* ($500)

Trilogy, Inc

Chicago History Museum AAPI Celebration (May)+* ($1,200)

Chicago History Museum

At Home with Piyesta Pinoy (Jun)+*

IL Artists

Re-Indigenizing the Colonial Mind (Jun)+*

FilAm Arts

Red Rising Cordillera Book Launch (Jul)+*

Concerned Artists if the

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Philippines UIC’s DHD Capstone Scholars Mentorship (Sep-Dec )+*

UIC Department of Disability & Human Development

FAHM Celebration: Anniversary Special (Oct)+* ($1,000)

Filipino American Historical Society, IL Artists

Immigration Stories of Filipino Americans (Oct)+*

Filipino American Historical Society, DePaul University

FilAm Art Reception (Oct)+* (Jose Agarii)

FilAm Arts Collective

Human Rights Day Event (Dec)+* ($2,500)

IL Artists

CIRCA Pintig Schedule of Events 2022 (click here for images) Also search on our Facebook Group Page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/57499583978 LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/circapintig

Name & Date of Event 2022 Climate Justice Monthly Beat 2022

1/28/2022

Description

Impact

Monthly Beats is a regular monthly series of CIRCA Pintig aimed at sharing and highlighting actual events that directly affect the community. For the month of January 2022, the discussion will focus on Climate Justice, this is after a calamity struck the Philippines last December 2021, wherein until this moment, residents are still struggling to survive.

Guest Artists: Noel Cabangon, Filipino Folk Singer & Composer, Concerned Artists of the Philippines & Sining Obrero Facebook Live and reached over 2.9k viewers locally, nationally, and globally.

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Lunchtime Chat: Albany Park Theatre Project & Digital Tapestries 1/13/2022

AAPI Belong Workshop at NEIU 4/13/22

Tao Po Screening at MXC 4/21/22

Art.Heals. - Panther in the Sky

Lunchtime Chats are similar to our Monthly Beats a regular monthly series of CIRCA Pintig aimed at sharing and highlighting actual events that directly affect the community.

Community collaboration to share the immersive theatre of Yours Truly a story about a young Filipina living in Chicago. Also introduced the partnership with Digital Tapestries.

In celebration of APIDA Month at NEIU, the Angelina Pedroso Center for Diversity and Intercultural Affairs invited us to facilitate a community healing workshop and share the AAP(I) Belong traveling exhibit.

25 diverse students participated in programming related to Asian Pacific Islander Desi American (APIDA) community incorporating an integrated theatre arts workshop

So that the world will know what is happening in the Philippines and understand the human cost of our government's war on drugs. At the same time, find a creative way to link this with human rights issues anywhere in the world. And with post-screening discussions (Talkbacks) scheduled for every country where the movie will be available to watch, the conversations about the issues will continue, and hopefully, effect change.

Part of an Asian American Short Film Festival at Malcolm X College, students engaged in a Q & A and post viewing discussion

Art. Heals. is a curated performance and visual art exhibition aimed to bring the arts and

Audience Response 1

Talkback Invite

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5/1/2022

community together to help heal and reconnect. Panther in the Sky is a play

Audience Response 2

written by Lani T. Montreal about four mothers who are dealing with the murders of their teenage sons on the streets of Chicago. The sons meet each other in the afterlife and grapple with the reality of their abrupt demise. They talk and banter as teenage boys do, as their mothers cope with grief, and struggle to make sense of it all.

APAT Reader’s Theatre at CPS

Lesson materials for educator and student engagement in celebration of AAPI Heritage Month

Skinner North Student Reflections

5/16/22 and 5/20/22

In-class integrated arts workshop with four classrooms (60-90 min session per class/grade)

ABC 7 News Coverage

Rehearsal and Performance support for in-school assembly

Served 4 classrooms at a Chicago Public School to support the TEAACH ACT

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AAPI Celebration at Chicago History Museum

AAPI CELEBRATION at The Chicago History Museum 2022

5/21/22

WE celebrated Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at the Chicago History Museum today. Thanks to CIRCA Pintig(Juan Tamad and the Tikling Birds and Alamat), Lane Tech High School’s Kapamilya Habang Buhay (Tinikling), When Ned Left (Pumapatak na Naman Ang Ulan, Manila and Bingo) Japanese American storyteller Anne Shiwojima who regaled the guests with folk stories. Aside from CIRCA Pintig and the Filipino American Historical Society of Chicago, the FilAm nurses of the Nightingales, Digital Tapestries Films (Roots Grow Together) and Sinag (Filipino American Artists of Greater Chicago) were there along with the Chinese American and Japanese American Service Leagues. Our thanks to the Chicago History Museum (shoutout to Erica Griffin, Greg Storms and Candace Bey) for hosting this event at the museum!

Salamat to all the participants and families, what a wonderful way to celebrate

APPI Celebration at Trilogy

A celebration of AAPI Heritage month with community stories, performances, and trivia.

5/22/2022

Video Sample at the museum

A hybrid model for our annual partnership to celebrate with staff and clients at Trilogy, Inc.

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Piyesta Pinoy 6/11/2022 Blasian March 7/30/2022

Easter Sunday Screening 8/2/22 & 8/6/22 FANHS Conference 2022 Workshop 8/13/22

Bayanihan for Pinoy Teachers: Picnic 8/27/2022

9th year of the biggest Filipino American festival of culture, music, arts, games, and food in the Midwest.

A few thousand attendees and a whole afternoon of cultural performance, music , and special guest artists

Participants of Blasian March at Federal Plaza on Saturday rallied to mutually-celebrate and build solidarity among Black, Asian, and Blasian communities.

Blasian March Chicago

Movie outing with volunteers and members to support the screening of JoKoy’s EASTER SUNDAY

Filled an entire movie theatre to support a FilAm feature film

Facilitated an Arts & Activism Workshop at the conference. FANHS promotes

Co-Facilitated with CIRCA Pinitg Artistic Associate and Artistic Director of Fil-AM Arts Los Angeles, Giovanni Ortega

understanding, education, enlightenment, appreciation and enrichment through the identification, gathering, preservation and dissemination of the history and culture of Filipino Americans Our meet and greet potluck picnic, clothing and food drive for newly arrived teachers from the Philippines. In partnership with Chicago Nightingales building FilAm community in Labagh Woods.

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WAANT Project Sep-Nov 2022

Based at the University of Illinois at Chicago https://www.circapintig.org/uicw (UIC), the new and exciting Wellness through aant/ Asian American Narratives and Theater (WAANT) project will bring together students, faculty and staff, and community activists to explore topics related to Asian/Asian Americans (A/AA) and mental health/disability.

To promote Asian mental health/disability justice, in Fall 2022 WAANT will incorporate theatre, filmmaking, and PhotoVoice activities through a series of story collecting workshops. The project has three main objectives. ●

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Objective 1: Produce theatrical performances, podcasts, film clips, and a PhotoVoice exhibit that highlight true-life narratives of A/AA experiences around mental health and wellness.

Objective 2: Share narratives of A/AA experiences with mental health and wellness through creative arts.

Objective 3: Increase awareness within the A/AA community, on and off campus, of available mental health services and supports.

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FAHM 2022

October 2022

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a journey through Filipino and Polish culture through two of their most October 2022 iconic dishes; lumpia and pierogi! https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=4156247 Enjoy a mini-Dumpling Fest with samples of the dumplings from each 10746310&set=a.369928948649220 of these cultures, along with fun and engaging musical and cultural performances.

FAHM 2022

Celebrate both Filipino Heritage Month and Polish American Heritage Month at one event!

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Panther in the Sky at UIC 10/12/2022 https://www.facebook.com/groups/57499583978 /search/?q=panther

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New Work Staged Reading: Hail/Mary/Maria 10/18/22

Bayanihan for Pinoy Teachers: Life in America 10/22/22

RJSilva’s Hail Mary/Maria play, we had a wonderful reading and fruitful discussion!

Part of CIRCA Pintig Incubator Series

SUCCESS! Thank you to all who helped make our event a successful one, this IS the BAYANIHAN SPIRIT! Community members gathered donations of winter clothing and household goods for Filipino OFWs who are teaching in Special Ed Chicago Public School classrooms.

Thanks to our partnership with the Chicago Nightingales,NFP for co-hosting this event at Saints Mary and Elizabeth Hospital's Nazareth Family Center's gymnasium.

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World Premiere of Ligeia 10/30/22

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DHD 400 Capstone Scholars January - Dec 2022

Save the dates for several community events and readings!

Sunday, 11/13/22 - AFIRE EVENT Monday, 11/14/22 - UIC DHD 400 Capstone Project: Roots Grow Together Friday, 11/18/22 - FIA PNC - reading of Lani T. Montreal's Damaged Merchandise:

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https://www.facebook.com/groups/FIAUI C/permalink/10158555864026331/ Sunday, 11/20/22 - CPs new works virtual reading of Conrad Panganiban 's Daryo's All-American Diner. Email ginger@circapintig.org to RSVP Friday, 12/2/22 - Celebration of Life for Estrella R. Alamar fortieth day at Trickster Gallery: https://www.eventbrite.com/.../celebrating -the-life-of...

Friday, 12/9/22 - Annual CP benefit event featuring guest Artist Erick Esteban and our first-ever Gamu Gamo Storyaoke Competition

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Lauren Dimayuga

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· hi fia hehe

For my DHD 400 course,

a couple of students and I are hosting an in-person event for our capstone project!

We are collaborating with CIRCA-Pintig and Digital Tapestries.

If you didn't know, CIRCA-Pintig is the Center for Immigrant Resources and Community Arts and pintig means heartbeat in tagalog. They are committed to engaging immigrant communities in movements for transformative change in arts as well as empowering communities and their identities. Digital Tapestries is an organization that hopes to share meaningful art pieces that create discussion/awareness to nourish and heal people's mental and emotional states.

At our event, we are embodying the missions of these community organizations and are hoping to create a

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safe space for individuals to talk about mental health and wellness. We will also be doing a fun, interactive art project to express yourselves and rediscover some roots you may have forgotten. This can be a way to grow together and heal together. There will also be opportunities to meet and network with other students or community partners. If you know anyone else that would be interested in joining, tell them to sign up!

Our event, Roots Grow Together: Mental Health & Wellness Mixer, will be held on Monday, November 14th from 3pm-4:30pm at 400 S Peoria Street (5th Floor). The building is the University Art and Design Hall - Gallery 400.

If you’re interested you can scan the QR code or sign up here: https://forms.gle/7Hffva1oJgWeN6yi9

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FIA Balikbayan Box

Reading of Lani Montreal’s play Damaged Goods

11/18/2022

New Play Reading: Daryo’s All-American Diner 11/20/22

You're INVITED to the Virtual Reading Workshop of DARYO'S ALL-AMERICAN DINER. I wrote this full-length drama with Circa Pintig and would love to share the first draft with you. There'll be a talk-back afterwards if you'd like to help us out with your thoughts as we look towards the next steps of this Fil-Am New Play! It's also a great way to find out about CIRCA Pintig too!

Reading Info Sunday, 11/20 at 3pm ET / 2pm CT / 12pm PST Register to get Zoom Link: https://tinyurl.com/CPNewPlayReading Synopsis Daryo's All-American Diner is about its

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struggling Asian-American co-owner, May Daryo, whose life is transformed after a violent attack on her family during the height of the pandemic. This Full-Length Drama set in the fictional midwestern city of Lakeside, IL., explores how something positive and hopeful can come out of a traumatic act of violence.

BALD SISTERS Outing 12/10/2022

Organised several members to attend

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Annual Gala & Storyaoke Competition 12/9/2022

Combining our Annual Gala Fundraising Program Booklet with our Year in Review Highlights, celebrate with us as we share our 2022 Sustainability Report with you.

Thanks to all our community partners, funders, donors, volunteers, and supporters! *** CIRCA Pintig acknowledges support from its Art Partners in celebrating Arts for Community Healing!

CIRCA Pintig is proud to forge an empowering partnership with private foundations and city/state agencies for its 2022-23 Arts Programming. CP expresses its thanks to Asian Improv aRts Midwest, Asian Giving Circle/Chicago Community Trust, Crossroads Fund, DCASE City Arts, Illinois Arts Council, and RESIST for their grant support and partnership.

CIRCA Pintig bounced back from pandemic mode with an in-person excerpt performance of Lani Montreal's new play, "Panther in the Sky" as part of Art.Heals., a collaborative arts project initiated by Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble in Spring 2022. CP returns to performances with its 2022-23 Theater Season that begins with excerpt performances of Montreal's

https://youtu.be/e7t6TFqliQA

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one-act play about mothers and their young sons dealing with gun violence in the fall. Following this are a devised theater project on Mental Health, Wellness through Asian American Narratives and Theatre in partnership with UIC and a new full-length play by Conrad A. Panganiban on Anti-Asian Hate, "Daryo's All-American Diner" scheduled for performances in the Spring and Summer of 2023. Together with these performances, CP also engages in conducting community drama workshops for the TEAACH Act program and Dismantling Anti-Asian Hate & Safer Communities Campaign. These performances are conducted in collaboration with Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble, Malcolm X College, Asian ImprovArts Midwest, UIC WAANT Project, Chicago Nightingales, and the HANA Center.

For inquiries, partnerships, and other activities, visit www.circapintig.org or contact Ginger Leopoldo, Executive Director at ginger@circapintig.org.

Where do we go from here? Sustainability reports are not just about looking back but also looking forward. This is a continuous work in progress - a way for us to track our impact and improvements over time.

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Join us as we take ACTION! Instagram: @circapintigtheatre YouTube: @circapintig Facebook: Circa Pintig Twitter: @circa_pintig www.circapintig.org

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Name & Date of Event 2023 Lunar New Year Celebration at Navy Pier

Description

Impact Program Director and Coordinator in collaboration with the Philippine American Cultural Foundation (PACF) https://navypier.org/events/glo bal-connections-lunar-new-ye ar-presented-by-comed/

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Fiul-Am Comedy Jam

Co-Producer with Chicago Asian Network https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ fil-am-comedy-jam-chicagosbest-up-and-coming-f-tickets514910249417

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Tao Po U.S. Tour - Film Screening April 14 - May 14, 2023

Host for U.S. Tour Film Screening receptions and live talkbacks (in-person and virtual) https://circapintig.networkforg ood.com/projects/190475-taopo-2023-us-tour

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Wellness through Asian American Narratives & Theatre

https://waant-program.ahs.uic. edu/

April 25, 2023

https://www.circapintig.org/ui cwaant/

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Daryo’s All-American Diner

Commissioned play and production

May 5-20, 2023 eventbrite.com/e/the-wastelan d-and-daryos-all-american-din er-tickets-579219750867

DIRECTOR'S NOTES: Message from "Daryo's All-American Diner" director: Luis Pascacio Watching an assembly of Filipino, Korean and African American characters in a play is a rarity in American theater. Even more rare is hearing them talk about common issues and shared values about family, friendships and community.

Conrad Pangniban's play gives voice to these values with such wit and pathos. It unearths a shared humanity that is given power through drama and through a talented set of actors and crew who bring their own truths and emotion to Conrad's poignant play. To a dedicated assembly of actors and production staff, many thanks for all the hard work and commitment to the process of community healing through the arts!

PLAYWRIGHT NOTES: Message from "Daryo's All-American Diners" playwright, Conrad A. Panganiban: Thank you for spending an evening of "Humanity and Hope" with us! With Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble's production, it is a true honor to share DARYO'S ALL-AMERICAN DINER with you. What started as a meeting with CIRCA Pintig has become one of the most emotional and introspective journeys I've ever taken as a playwright. Learning about the violence against some in the AAPI community during the pandemic and looking into the history of violence

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against Asians in America has run me through the gauntlet of anger, sadness, inspiration, and eventual hope. Channeling all of these emotions, along with some humor, to create the world the Daryo family and its characters will face is something I hope you will be able to reflect upon long after the houselights come back up to share with others. Maraming Salamat

House of Nurses Author Reception and Book Reading May 25, 2023

https://houseofnurses.com/

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Author Reception for M. Evelina Galang’s When the Hibiscus Falls

Sponsored event in collaboration with Asian Improv aRts Midwest

August 4-6, 2023 https://coffeehousepress.org/pr oducts/when-the-hibiscus-falls

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11th Annual Piyesta Pinoy

Program Director and Coordinator

June 10, 2023 http://pacfmidwest.org/2023/0 2/save-the-date-june-10-2023piyesta-pinoy/

Panther in the Sky (full production) Fall 2023

Panther in the Sky is a play written by Lani Co-Producer with Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble T. Montreal about four mothers who are dealing with the murders of their teenage sons on the streets of Chicago. The sons meet each other in the afterlife and grapple with the reality of their abrupt demise.

They talk and banter as teenage boys do, as their mothers cope with grief, and struggle to make sense of it all.

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