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Plantable Seed Paper as an Offering to the Land

7/1/2023

 
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Illustration by Althea Balmes
Plantable Seed Paper as an Offering to the Land

This Kapwa Playshop will take place over two days, in an outdoor garden on the treaty lands and territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit, now known as in Guelph, Ontario. Our intention is to heal ourselves, our communities, and our relationship to the land.

Saturday July 22, 2023 from 10 AM to 2 PM (EST)
On day one, we will recycle letters, journals and other documents of the past and create plantable paper embedded with native seeds. All materials are provided and you are welcome to bring your own personal papers.

Sunday July 23, 2023 from 10 AM to 2 PM (EST)
On day two, we will write letters to the land including our commitments for the future, and plant the seed paper in a local garden.

Co-facilitated by Jo SiMalaya Alcampo and fellow members of Kapwa Collective. Presented by Musagetes, as part of Seed School - a programming series about engaging life and artistic practices that collaborate with/and for the land in generative ways. Curated by Elwood Jimmy and Lisa Hirmer.

Registration is limited to 10 participants. For more info and to inquire about accessibility please contact Sonia at: sonia@musagetes.ca

The workshops will take place at the ReMediate Garden, 800 Watson Parkway North in Eastview Park, Guelph, Ontario. Learn more about the venue at Guelph.ca.

The playshop will be happening outside, with a covered area and seating available. Lunch and refreshments will be provided. Masks will also be provided.

Arts Everywhere Festival

1/7/2023

 
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Kwentong Bayan Collective will be tabling at the Rock/Paper/Scissors Book and Print Fair, as part of the Arts Everywhere Festival.

Date: Saturday Janurary 28, 2023
Time: 1-6 pm E.S.T.
Place: River Run Centre, Guelph ON

More info:
https://festival.artseverywhere.ca

Faith and Fortune

6/13/2022

 
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Kwentong Bayan Collective at the Faith and Fortune exhibit (AGO). Photo credit: Melanya Liwanang Aguila.
Thanks to the curatorial team, Adam Levine, Ana Barajas, Bianca Weeko Martin, Gillian McIntyre, and Tahnee Pantig for inviting us to collaborate.
Jo SiMalaya Alcampo and Althea Balmes of Kwentong Bayan Collective were honoured to serve as community consultants (along with many other artists, academics and community folks from the Filipino and Latinx communities) for the exhibition, Faith and Fortune: Art Across the Global Spanish Empire.

The exhibit brings together more than 200 works of art from Latin America, the Philippines and Spain made between 1492 and 1898. It
runs from June 8-to-Oct 10, 2022 at the Art Gallery of Ontario.

Kwentong Bayan Collective member Althea Balmes contributed to the Exhibition Audio guide. Her piece is entitled "The Philippines" and it accompanies a map of the country that is presented askew for a reason. Listen here.
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Kwentong Bayan Collective at the Faith and Fortune exhibit (AGO). Photo credit: Melanya Liwanang Aguila.

Filipino Canadian Comics Symposium

3/7/2022

 
Congrats to the Institute for the Humanities - University of Manitoba and community organizers for hosting the virtual Filipino Canadian Comics Symposium on March 18, 2022.

Congrats to all the artists and comic makers!

Agyamanak / Many Thanks to Professor Eleanor Ty for including Kwentong Bayan's comics in her keynote address.

Watch online:
https://fb.watch/cIgY2LSm3Z/
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Together While Apart

2/27/2022

 
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Thank you to Megan who added colour to colouring page! Megan’s mom is a migrant care worker and community organizer.
Kwentong Bayan Collective is honoured to contribute to Together While Apart  an exhibition of interactive colouring pages and original stories based on experiences that women and gender-diverse people have faced during the past two years of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Together While Apart
Workers Arts and Heritage Centre
March 5 – April 2, 2022
(Extended to May 14th)
More info
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Here and There

3/31/2021

 
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Kwentong Bayan Collective and Care Worker Connections Education and Support Organization (CCESO) present:

“Here and There” - a collaborative storytelling event, as part of Myseum Intersections 2021

Sunday April 25, 2021
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM (EST)

Watch video:
http://bit.ly/3u4z5WR

More info

Home is in the Body

12/1/2020

 
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Kwentong Bayan Collective contributed to the book, Home is In The Body featuring 2SLGBTQIA stories & artwork from across the Filipinx diaspora. Althea and Jo contributed interviews, and Jo wrote the closing text for the book.

Please contact Anak Publishing for more info

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
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