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Theatre Amihan's Summer 2020 Reading

7/30/2020

 
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Congratulations to Carolyn Fe (who played Manang Flor in Hilot Means Healer) for writing her first play. It's an honour to share new beginnings!

Maraming salamat to Maddie Bautista & Adriano Sobretodo Jr., my fellow readers, and our wonderful audience for making this event possible. - JSA

Play Reading of One by Five Survive, Go Fish!
by Carolyn Fe


Thursday August 6, 2020
7:30PM (Eastern Standard Time)

READERS
CANCER - Primrose Madayag Knazan (MB)
NURSE - Jo SiMalaya Alcampo (ON)
BORDER - Flerida Peña (ON)
ACTIVIST - Rose Cortez (BC)
ACTRESS - Michele Tolosa (BC)
WIFE - Emilee Veluz (QB)

Free event. RSVP: theatreamihan@gmail.com

Theatre Aminhan is continuing their intimate and informal on-going play reading series to showcase Filipino plays & works. These readings bring theatre artists interested in Filipino culture together around a new play on the regular in Toronto.  

Revolutionary Graphics of the IWW

7/2/2020

 
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Join us on Zoom:
July 16, 2020
from 7-8 pm (EST)

Register here:  http://wahc.fyi/iwwgraphics

The Workers Arts & Heritage Centre (WAHC) in partnership with the Hamilton & District Labour Council present the online conversation: Revolutionary Graphics of the IWW with artist, activist, and scholar Dylan Miner. Facilitated by interdisciplinary artist, Jo SiMalaya Alcampo.

This talk will explore some of the political iconography of the Industrial Workers of the World, as seen in WAHC’s recent exhibit "One Big Union: The Revolutionary Graphics of the IWW" and what we can glean from it today in the current context and the importance of having graphic artists involved in social struggle.

In Conversation: Cast & Crew of HILOT MEANS HEALER

11/8/2019

 
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World Premiere of Hilot Means Healer by Jo SiMalaya Alcampo (Cahoots Theatre in association with b current performing arts) at the Theatre Centre, October 2019. Photo by Sameera Khan.
"This comes from our story. Our people’s story. From our survival. Throughout all the atrocities we’ve had to endure, our people have always resisted. If you look at our history, every attempt at colonization has been met with a people’s resistance. I wanted to tap into where that spirit comes from – our collective soul, our kapwa."  - Jo SiMalaya Alcampo, Playwright

Thank you to Justine Abigail Yu for interviewing the Hilot Means Healer cast and crew for Intermission Magazine!  Read the full article

Tatarin & Hilot Means Healer featured at Theatre Amihan

10/4/2019

 
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World Premiere of Hilot Means Healer by Jo SiMalaya Alcampo (Cahoots Theatre in association with b current performing arts) at the Theatre Centre, October 2019. Photo credits: Seanna Kennedy and Dahlia Katz
A full house viewed Theatre Amihan’s Fall 2019 Play Reading of the controversial classic “Tatarin, A Witches’s Sabbath in Three Acts,” by Filipino National Artist for Literature Nick Joaquin at Artscape Wychwood Barns on September 30th.

“More than the grammar of performance, we want to offer an intimate and informal play reading series to showcase diverse Filipino plays and works" explained Theatre Amihan’s co-founder Maddie Bautista.

In the post-discussion comparing Tatarin to the forthcoming production “Hilot means Healer,” soon to be premiered in Toronto October 5 to 27, 2019 playwright and guest artist Jo SiMalaya Alcampo said the presence of the mythical balete tree also figures in her play set in the last days of the Japanese Occupation in Manila.

“The babaylan tending a magical garden of indigenous trees and plants to provide healing and nurturing is central to our prehistoric culture and has been passed on through generations of colonization and conquest.”

As well, said Alcampo, the role of women in pre- and post-colonial Philippines is highlighted by their often leading role in indigenous-based rites and traditions.

Read more in the Philippine Inquirer article by Patty Rivera

Theatre Amihan's Fall 2019 Reading

9/9/2019

 
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AMIHAN'S READING SERIES

Theatre Aminhan continues their intimate and informal on-going play reading series to showcase Filipino plays and works. These readings bring theatre artists interested in Filipino culture together around a new play on the regular in Toronto.  
Theatre Amihan hosts a play reading of the classic Tatarin by Filipino National Artist for Literature, Nick Joaquin. Tatarin is considered one of his most acclaimed and controversial literary works.

For our post-discussion, we will be comparing Tatarin with Hilot Means Healer by Jo SiMalaya Alcampo, who will be leading a talk-back and discussion as our guest artist.  

We will explore the themes of Spanish colonialism, American colonialism, and Filipinx indigeneity and how they regard the masc and femme, and the power of ritual.

WHEN: September 30, 2019
7:00 - 10:00PM

WHERE: b current studio
Artscape Wychwood Barns
Studio 251, on the second floor

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Hilot Means Healer

7/31/2019

 
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Photographed above: Jo SiMalaya Alcampo. Image description: A mock travel magazine cover. A Brown person looks intently into the camera. Masthead reads "Hilot Means Healer". Coverline reads "Ancient Healing Meets Modern Warfare in the Philippines" (courtesy of b current)
HILOT MEANS HEALER
BY JO SIMALAYA ALCAMPO
TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE


A Cahoots Theatre
production in association with b current performing arts 
October 5 - 27, 2019
at the BMO Incubator, Theatre Centre
1115 Queen St W, Toronto


Set in Manila, during World War II, and drawn from the long tradition of Philippine folklore, legends, and Indigenous spirituality, HILOT weaves the tangible with the intangible to tell a story of unexpected bonds formed during cataclysmic change. Written by Jo SiMalaya Alcampo, and directed by Jasmine Chen, this interdisciplinary story explores the social and political consequences of war and occupation in the Philippines and its impact through generations.


 Written by Jo SiMalaya Alcampo
Direction by Jasmine Chen
Dramaturgy by Marjorie Chan
Set, Costume & Props Design by Jung-Hye Kim
Lighting Design by Jareth Li
Sound Design by MaryCarl Guiao
Production Management & Technical Direction by Crystal Lee
Stage Management by Victoria Wang
Apprentice Stage Management by Emie Sabandal
Production Assistance by Gloria Mok
Audio Description by Kat Germain

Featuring Karen Ancheta, Aldrin Bundoc, Belinda Corpuz, Carolyn Fe
Music composed and performed by MaryCarl Guiao


Re-Imagining Stories of Care Work

3/1/2019

 
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Image: Archival photography + Projection art by Kwentong Bayan Collective, 2019
Please join us for Re-Imagining Stories of Care Work - a collaborative storytelling and audio-visual art performance about the invaluable contributions of migrant caregivers to Canada’s social, economic, and political past, present and future.

Collaborative storytelling by Caregiver Connections, Education & Support Organization (CCESO) and audio-visual art performance by Kwentong Bayan Collective (Althea Balmes and Jo SiMalaya Alcampo) With support from Karen Ancheta, Storyteller/Facilitator and Leon Aureaus, Artistic Director, Carlos Bulosan Theatre. Presented by the Myseum Intersections Festival.

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TAKE CARE Exhibition - la Ferme du Buisson

2/1/2019

 
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Image: Kwentong Bayan Collective, In Love and Struggle, 2017, Blackwood Gallery. Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid.
Kwentong Bayan Collective is honoured to announce our 1st international exhibition, opening March 3rd at la Ferme du Buisson in France. We will share work on the current issues, history, and future of Care Work in Canada by Black, Indigenous and Racialized women.

Take Care
March 3 – July 21, 2019
la Ferme du Buisson
Allée de la Ferme
Noisiel, France

"Ten artists exhibiting for the first time in France question how activism, mutual aid, feminism, indigenous knowledge, queer desire, creative survival, and a closer relationship to the land can contribute to a better recognition of care as a powerful social and cultural force."

Opening Reception & Artist's Roundtable
Sunday, March 3, 2019
La Ferme du Buisson
with Kwentong Bayan Collective, Steven Eastwood, Sheena Hoszko, Hazel Meyer, Raju Rage, and curator, Christine Shaw

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Art of Propagation

1/31/2018

 
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The Museum of Contemporary Art presents Jo SiMalaya Alcampo: Singing Plants, as part of the Art of Propagation performative speaker series that aims to broaden perspectives on art and culture through acts, thinking and projects of cultivation, fermentation and propagation.

Jo will introduce us to the Singing Plants – keepers of indigenous knowledge, stories and memory. These banana plants respond to human touch with songs – the Hudhud chant of the Ifugao people – and sounds of bamboo instruments and gongs indigenous to the Philippines.

March 14, 2018
7 PM - 9 PM
Henderson Brewing Co., 128A Sterling Road
Free event

BALIKBAYAN Exhibition

1/8/2018

 
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BALIKBAYAN
Solo exhibition by Kwentong Bayan Collective
at the Workers Arts & Heritage Centre (Hamilton)
runs January 24 - April 21, 2018

Reception: Feb 9
Artist Talk: Feb 10

BALIKBAYAN features a visual timeline of the history of caregiving in Canada by racialized women, and Balikbayan boxes that contain migration and labour stories.

Visit http://wahc-museum.ca/event/kwentong-bayan-balikbayan for info about the Caregiver Gathering Series. From February to April, WAHC will be a space for care workers to socialize and engage in creative arts that share stories of care, work, and migration.

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