With support from the California Arts Council, Maraya Performing Arts Collective will produce and tour “Bayanihan: For Life, For Blood” a dance theatre performance and civic engagement project addressing the need for ethnically diverse blood donors. CAC funds will support artist compensation for Filipinx artists and creatives, production costs including choreography, technical production, dramaturgy, and community engagement workshops that inform the performance’s narrative. The project will activate parks, cultural hubs, schools, and public spaces. Each performance will be paired with an on-site blood drive in partnership with the San Diego Blood Bank. CAC funding will help transform community spaces into sites of cultural healing, civic action, and collective storytelling, led by and for historically underrepresented communities that include Filipino elders and youth with special needs.