Super Inday Hablon Gallery
Hablon Freedom Weaves
Super Inday CoLove: Advanced Hablon Design Training for WDL (Women-deprived-of-liberty) in BJMP Iloilo District Jail Female Dormitory, Nanga, Pototan, Iloilo. The hablon training was conducted by master weaver from Miag-ao, Criselda Fagarita and sewing workshop by Pacita Mitra Recalb.
Super Inday Colove embarks on Community Design Thinking - Sister Brands for product development in collaboration with three jails (BJMP ICDJFD-Gen Luna, BJMP IDJFD Nanga, Pototan and MBCDJFD Bacolod). The MBCDJ-FD just finished hablon weaving workshop last February 2023 and trained the core team of weavers and designers.
This project was an offshoot of Inday Hablon Freedom Weaves - a restorative recovery process from COVID-19 Pandemic engaging the most vulnerable and marginalized artists in the region such as Women Artists Persons Deprived of Liberty (PDL) mothering behind bars and those in post incarceration from Iloilo City District Jail Female Dormitory.With support from Edified Energiser Grant 2020 and Lead 5050, in partnership with BJMP Iloilo District Jail Female Dormitory, Pototan. Hablon Loom artisan/maker Eddie Panuela from Salngan, Oton.
Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) with Super Inday CoLove
The Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) is a training program enabling participants to deal with potentially violent situations in new and creative ways.
AVP started in prisons in the U.S.A. in 1975, and now also operates in communities, schools, colleges and conflict situations worldwide. They run workshops in prisons, communities, schools, colleges and refugee camps around the world. AVP has done work in over 50 countries, 35 U.S. states, and is in 110 prisons throughout the U.S. They have provided tens of thousands of workshops impacting hundreds of thousands of individuals.
Super Inday at Iloilo Museum of Contemporary Art
In response to the COVID19 pandemic, the Super Inday art exhibit provides a breathing space where women who are seemingly invisible, voiceless, powerless, and marginalized are involved in psycho-social care-giving through arts as a survival tool kit expressed in the stories of objects.
Super Inday Virtual Art Residency Co-love Project
converges women artists and curators in a virtual artists residency set-up through zoom interactive workshops as a process of community disaster response in the spirit of Co-loveboration with women artists behind bars.
The workshops also includes skills exchange among women artists and the “Super Inday” women in
prison and communities involved which be mainly done through zoom barter. As community-based artist-led participatory disaster response, the “Super Indays” lead the CoLoveboration with partners in disaster communities.
Palangga Prison Poetry
Celebrating the joy of birthing a prison literature Hiligaynun Binalaybay, "Palangga Prison Poetry Prize" compiled and published translated into English featured in 2022 Iloilo Mega Book Fair - IMBF published by Kasingkasing Press through years of labor pains and sacrifices and meaningful inner journey.
INDAY Dolls: Restorative Social Enterprise.
The Inday Dolls are original iconic Ilonggo art products as personal self-portraits of women and visual narratives, stories-of-objects, about their prison experience, disaster, survival and resilience. Inday Dolls have traveled and presented in conferences and have been exhibited in New York, California, Canada, Japan, South Korea, and around the Philippines, Iloilo, Manila, Palawan, Bohol and Davao.
Rejuvenating PASSION and POTENTIAL
Storytelling is a powerful tool for healing and assertion. Women tell stories as a means of gathering parts of themselves back to one piece. Hilway (Freedom) is a process of expressive arts psychosocial intervention where women exercise their own sense of freedom navigating in a tight small crowded prison space through art-making. Women transcend their pains and struggles through artworks as they reclaim their dignity expressed as new colors to light up their life in the darkest times.
Collection list
SUPER INDAY: Exhibit & Wellness Space
“Super Inday” Sakdag Arts for Wellness Exhibit is the offshoot of Palangga Prison Art; Triple Lockdown Showdown which started as Freedom in Prison passion project which evolved into a restorative social enterprise showcasing the artworks produced with the women artists as Persons Deprived of Liberty (PDL) in Iloilo City District Jail Female Dormitory in Iloilo City (ICDJFD) and Iloilo District Jail Female Dormitory (IDJFD), Pototan, Iloilo.
Funders and partners
Ma. Rosalie Zerrudo: Inday Dolls Lead Artist/designer curActor
Inday Dolls Project is an output of Ma Rosalie Zerrudo professorial-chair-research Freedom in Prison/Hilway Art Project funded by the University of San Agustin. In 2016 a psycho-social intervention evolved into a livelihood and enterprise development that gave birth to Indy Dolls. Workshops were conducted in collaboration with Fine Arts Major Organization (FAMO) and other volunteer teaching artists and facilitators.