Labas’s work is centered on facilitating live performance and educational endeavors in and around the San Francisco Bay Area.

Our performance projects like popular experimental duo Grex and Karl Evangelista’s Suite: Taglish (Talking Filipino/American) focus on navigating the tensions between abstraction, tradition, and populist aesthetics. These projects have united musical communities culled from different generations, regions, and artistic praxes.

At the same time, we’ve worked with numerous local nonprofits, schools, and cultural organizations to cultivate meaningful ties to grassroots politics and communities of color, mounting numerous performance curations, educational lectures, and fundraisers. One prominent example has been the staging of over half a dozen COVID-19 “Lockdown Festivals,” uniting socially distanced musicians from across the country through the power of livestream performance and remote gatherings.