Kapwa Collective members - Jen Maramba, Christine Balmes, and Jo SiMalaya Alcampo - will develop new work for Restless Precinct, a site-specific, group exhibition and performance series developed by curatorial collective SUM°, which involves a number of commissioned artworks by multiple artists working with land, identity and colonization. 

The site is situated in Scarborough's Guild Precinct, a park full of transplanted European facades.  www.restlessprecinct.ca

That's So Gay: On the Edge is a celebration of new projects created by LGBTTI2QQ artists about their experiences of disability, radicalization, class, and other intersectional experiences of identity.

The show attempts to interrupt the idea of a singular queer community, and reimagines what it means to talk about our lived experiences as artists from a diversity of backgrounds. Launched on the eve of World Pride 2014, the project necessarily responds to the construction of a  simplified “LGBT” community in Toronto as posited in the bid for hosting the festival.

As Toronto launches onto the world stage of LGBTTI2QQ activism, That’s So Gay: On the Edge will creatively explore difference through photography, performance, installation projects and large-scale works on paper.  Participating Artists: Jo SiMalaya Alcampo, Daryl James Bucar, Graham Kennedy, Anna Jane McIntyre, Hazel Meyer, Abdi Osman, Alvis Choi/Parsley, Elizabeth Sweeney, Jes Sachse, Rebeka Tabobondung, Mary Tremonte, Leah Lakshmi Piepsna-Samarasinha, Shimby Zegeye.  Curated by Syrus Marcus Ware.

Kapwa Collective Speakers Series
B N E K : S E E D S From Indigenous to Diasporic
June 2014 as part of TBOLIxTO

TBOLIxTO is a cultural exchange between the T’boli School of Living Traditions (Philippines) and communities in Toronto featuring  Kapwa Playshops on T'boli music, dance,  T'nalak Dreamweaving, a children's program and the Kapwa Speaker Series, BNEK:SEEDS From Indigenous to Diasporic. Visiting Artists, Maria Oyog Todi (Cultural Specialist), Barbara Buwat Ofong (Dreamweaver) and Andi Todi Wanan (Artist) will share knowledge about T’boli Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Practices through the arts.

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