Nandito Na Kami
2024-ongoing (Yumi Janairo Roth and Emmanuel David)
In 2024, We Are Coming/Nandito Na Kami traveled to the provinces of Cavite and Masbate in the Philippines. Through their research, the artists discovered the last known address in the Philippines of one of the Filipino Rough Riders, Ysidora Alcantara, who performed with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West in 1899-1900. They visited San Roque and Cavite City, met with local historian Sir Wilfredo Pangilinan who helped them pinpoint a long-ago renamed street where they enacted a procession welcoming Ysidora back to her former street, her home long gone.
In Masbate, they shared this previously unknown story of the Filipino Rough Riders by presenting public talks, wheat pasting building walls, and distributing an edition of broadsheets to Rodeo Masbateño contestants, organizers and officials, and community members.