 | Thank you to the Musagetes community for inviting Kapwa Collective to facilitate a series of Kapwa Playshops this weekend in Guelph. We will create handmade seedballs containing wildflowers, and plantable paper out of recycled materials and seeds. We will invite the community to plant these offerings in the Mashkiki Gitigaan (medicine garden in Anishnaabemowin) - "a medicine and pollinator garden that Musagetes staff, Elwood Jimmy and Chelsea Brant have been building and growing with the support of many community members through their donation of time, seeds, and plants. The garden is the foundation for a variety of summer workshops/talks/walks/knowledge gatherings/community circles throughout the city, centering art, ecology sustainability, relationship-building, collaborative learning, restorative and trauma-informed practices, and Indigenous & land-based teachings." |
 Seed Bombs & Singing Plants
Subtle Technologies Festival Co-Presented with Evergreen Featuring the work of Jo SiMalaya Alcampo Amy Desjarlais (nee Tabobandung) Ester Dulawan Tuldague & Members of Kapwa Collective Sunday June 25th, 2017 11:30 AM to 1 PM Chimney Court in the Children’s Garden at Evergreen Brick Works 550 Bayview Avenue, Toronto Admission is free. All are welcome. In celebration of National Aboriginal Day and the radiance of the Summer solstice, Jo SiMalaya Alcampo and friends will facilitate an all ages seed bomb playshop followed by a performance that features the Singing Plants installation as a live instrument. The afternoon’s activities will include traditional prayers, chants, and a participatory jam session with singing plants and indigenous instruments. PROGRAMME: 11:30-12:00 PM Native Wildflower Seed Bomb Playshop with Kapwa Collective This playshop will feature a hands-on demonstration on how to create seed bombs, an age-old agricultural practice now used for guerrilla farming. Participants will combine seeds, clay and compost into small balls perfect for tossing in places in need of native wildflowers! Singing Plants (Live) 12:00-1:00 PM Amy Desjarlais (nee Tabobandung), Michele Perpaul, and Jen Maramba will open the event with songs from the Sacred Water Journey album. Ester Dulawan Tuldague will share a solidarity statement and talk about the Hudhud, one of the songs that the plants sing. It is a epic chant indigenous to the Ifugao People. Jo SiMalaya Alcampo will introduce the Singing Plants and will invite them to play with us! Kapwa Collective members will engage the audience in an interactive activity that embodies the elements of wind, water, air and fire; and introduce us to the rhythms of Isinay gongs. Kapwa Collective will then invite Jo, Ester, Amy and the audience to join in a group jam session with singing plants and indigenous instruments.  Visitors: Singing Plants (Redux)
Subtle Technologies Festival Co-Presented with Evergreen Featuring the work of Jo SiMalaya Alcampo June 3rd–25th, 2017 8am-5pm, Saturdays and Sundays Weekday viewings by request Children’s Garden Greenhouse at Evergreen Brick Works 550 Bayview Avenue, Toronto "An interactive sound art installation situated in the greenhouse of the Brick Works, Alcampo’s singing plants are potted banana plants that respond to human hand gestures to emit soundscapes of Indigenous chants, songs and spoken words. The project’s title “Visitors” calls attention to the insertion of these foreign flora into the otherwise completely native gardens of the Brick Works and raises important questions around responsible horticulture, embedded forms of knowledge and the importance of asking the land for permission to access its resources." - from Subtle Technologies website  Please join Cahoots Theatre on June 18th for a pay-what-you-can reading of HILOT MEANS HEALER by Jo SiMalaya Alcampo. Directed by Nina Lee Aquino. Immediately following the reading, guests and community members are invited to stay and enjoy refreshments to celebrate the end of Cahoot's incredible 30th Anniversary season!
Sunday June 18, 2017 HILOT MEANS HEALER 2:00 P.M. to 4:00 P.M. CAHOOTS End of Season Party 4:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M. Space is limited, so please RSVP here. Location: The Ernest Balmer Studio (Tapestry/Nightwood) 9 Trinity Street, Studio #316 3rd floor in Toronto's Distillery District Wheelchair accessible space with freight elevator access from 15 Case Goods Lane.
 Kwentong Bayan is honoured to be part of this NEW BOOK by the Graphic History Collective!
Drawn To Change: Graphic Histories of Working Class Struggle is a collection of new comics about working class histories in Canada. Available now: https://btlbooks.com/book/drawn-to-change  Kapwa Collective presents “The Journey of a Brown Girl” in Toronto - AUG 28 & 29 created, produced and directed by artist/activist Jana Lynne Umipig.
Friday August 28 and Saturday August 29 Pre-show at 7:00 PM. Curtains at 7:30 PM Tickets: $15-$18 adv, $20 at the door Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst St. (Toronto) This experimental theatre storytelling movement calls out and breaks down misrepresentations of Filipina women and reminds audiences of their true selves - powerful leaders, healers, visionaries, teachers and warriors of culture and communities. Advance tickets at: http://thejourneyofabrowngirlto.eventbrite.ca/ More info: http://kapwacollective.tumblr.com/  I am honoured to share Singing Plants Reconstruct Memory at the 4th Annual Asinabka Film & Media Arts Festival. Celebrating Indigenous Arts in unceded Algonquin territory.
August 19-23, 2015 www.asinabkafestival.org twitter: asinabkafest |
 photo credit: M.Buenafe jo simalaya alcampo explores memory, healing, and kapwa values through storytelling and community-engaged art
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