Just Between Us!

  Alvin Catacutan  is a life-long martial artist ranked and certified to teach multiple styles of martial arts. As a black belt and instructor under Guro Dan Inosanto in Jun Fan Gung Fu / Jeet Kune Do, and FMA, training at the world famous Inosanto Academy reconnected him with his Filipino heritage. This prompted him to start ‘Pamana Martial Arts’ with a mission is to share his ancestral heritage by teaching Filipino and South East Asian Martial Arts. In 2012, he established Shield Karate in Culver City, California. He uses proximal learning strategies and games to teach empathy, compassion, and social emotional skills for children and has devoted the last ten years teaching children to live healthier, happier lives! He has worked in theater, film, and television as an actor and fight director and is an accomplished photographer. Eric Bogosian is an author and actor known for his plays: Talk Radio, nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and adapted to film in 1988 by Oliver Stone, garnering the prestigious Berlin Film Festival Silver Bear;  and subUrbia as well as numerous one-man shows. He has starred on Broadway in Donald Margulies’ Time Stands Still, published three novels, and was featured on Law & Order. Between 1980 and 2000, six major solos written and performed by Eric Bogosian were produced Off-Broadway, garnering him three Obie Awards as well as the Drama Desk award. Bogosian founded the dance series at The Kitchen. During his tenure there, he produced the first concerts in New York City by Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane, Karole Armitage and Molissa Fenley as well as dozens of other choreographers. In 2006, Bogosian acted as producer on the New York City Ballet’s documentary, Bringing Back Balanchine. <br /> Josh Kornbluth’s live and filmed works are almost entirely solo monologues based closely on events and people his life, his upbringing, and his career. As such he is among a small group of artists that includes Eric Bogosian, Lily Tomlin, and Spalding Gray. Most of Kornbluth’s monologues relate to personal and societal ethics, self-fulfillment, and the role of the individual in society, drawing a connection between his own personal foibles and larger issues of citizenship. Playing a hapless, sincere, and sometimes buffoonish everyman caught up in world events, he demonstrates the relevance of these concepts to daily life. His live performances occasionally include a question-and-answer session with academic lawyers or other experts and scholars. Despite the serious messages and somewhat dry themes his works are all lighthearted and highly humorous. Roger Guenver Smith has collaborated with Spike Lee on several works. He has appeared in films such as School Daze, Do the Right Thing, King of New York, Deep Cover, Panther, Malcolm X, Poetic Justice, Get On the Bus, Eve’s Bayou, He Got Game, and Summer of Sam. In 1996, he starred in the self-written and produced A Huey P. Newton Story, a one-man theatre performance based on the life of Black Panther Party founder Huey P. Newton, for which he received an Obie Award, a performance later filmed by Spike Lee and released in 2001. In 2003, he had a starring role in the Steven Soderbergh/George Clooney