Salo Salo, during the FABRIC FEST 2025, Bhen Alan invites guests into a space of collective care and transformation through Kamayan—an intimate feast rooted in a longstanding precolonial Filipino tradition. Diners gather around a communal table where food is laid out on banana leaves, inviting conversation, sharing, and the tactile act of eating with one’s hands.

Drawing from queer rituals, diasporic memory, and embodied gestures, the evening unfolds as a living score—where movement, food, drink, and presence intersect. Developed in collaboration with local immigrant mothers and Courtland Club’s bar team, the experience blurs the line between performance, meal, and gathering.

For this occasion, Bhen weaves Portuguese flavors and ingredients into the dishes, creating a dialogue between cultures that reflects migration, memory, and community. Each element—food, drink, performance—becomes a sensorial and relational thread in an unfolding tapestry of care, ritual, and transformation.

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