CLUTCH is a free six-month arts-based program for young Filipina women to start a dialogue with each other, receive mentorship support from professional artists, have access to tools to hone their creativity, define their identity, explore their cultural heritage, and tell their stories on their terms. More information: kapisanancentre.com
I had the pleasure of returning as one of the mentors with the CLUTCH program at Kapisanan this year. Congratulations to the Vol. 4 participants: Charise Aragoza, Renelyn Quinicot, Victoria Marie, Victoria Bacnis, Diane Guison, Maureen Mendoza and Kristina Guison (Coordinator). Please support their multimedia collaborative exhibit: BRUHA opening April 14, 2012 at 7pm
CLUTCH is a free six-month arts-based program for young Filipina women to start a dialogue with each other, receive mentorship support from professional artists, have access to tools to hone their creativity, define their identity, explore their cultural heritage, and tell their stories on their terms. More information: kapisanancentre.com Jo talks about: “i am good inside” Read two articles in The Philippine Reporter about the recent interactive arts event: Growing up "Canadian" and Fil-Can Youths not doing as well as parents based on the Filipino Youth Transitions in Canada (FYTiC) research project. _As a Canadian of Filipino descent or Filipino-Canadian: What does growing up in Canada look like? According to Statistics Canada, Filipino-Canadian youth are not, on average, doing well in education and employment after they leave high school. Members from the Filipino Youth Transitions in Canada (FYTiC) project are conducting research to find out why. Join us as we march in solidarity with 2011 International Grand Marshall, Angie Umbac as she leads the Toronto pride marches to highlight queer and trans human rights issues at home and around the world. In an interview about about LGBT rights in the Philippines, Angie Umbac says: "No matter the hardships, tragedies and brutalities we face here, we are strong." Read Toronto Magazine article and CP24 interview Jo will present her work at the 1st Annual Indigenous Health and Healing Conference hosted by graduate students at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto on June 11, 2011. Jo's keynote presentation, singing plants as healing plants will explore how she incorporates indigenous cultural knowledge in her artwork and how this practice can nurture healing, strengthen communities, and help us understand our interconnectedness to the ecosystem. Special thanks to OISE graduate students Casey Mejica and Min Kaur, and Dr. Njoki Wane, Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education. thanks to Leslie Shimotakahara for writing about "the inviolable heart". i'll be reading an excerpt from my short story at the Flipside Festival Opening Night on Thursday May 12th. peace/katahimikan - jsa 'There can be no simple coming to terms with the past as the speaker scours the lesbian of colour community in Toronto in search of a therapist who can help her unearth a wealth of repressed memories cutting across her body, different times and places.' read more Leslie's blog can be read at The Reading List - Literature, Love, and Back Again. Last year, Leslie was selected as an Emerging Writer with Diaspora Dialogues and her writing has been published in TOK: Writing the New Toronto, Maple Tree Literary Supplement, and GENRE. I had the pleasure of being a visiting artist with the CLUTCH program. Please support their work! - jsa CLUTCH Volume 3 Presents: Excavations (Ang Arkeolohiya) An exhibition featuring Michaela Cruz and Lyndel Aguilar OPENING RECEPTION Saturday, March 19, 2011 7PM – 2AM Kapisanan Philippine Centre for Arts and Culture Visual Art // Installation // Film // Photography // Music // Performance Exhibition runs from March 23 - April 2, 2011 listen to stories from the homeland with friends from kamalayan. - jsa Kwentuhan: A Story Tell Thursday February 10, 2011 7- 9 pm @ The Central 2nd floor, 603 Markham Street (Toronto) The Kamalayan Filipino Konsciousness Series aims to uplift and inform young people to move forward responsibly, conscious of their power and their crucial role in creating change. Kamalayan means “awareness” or “consciousness” in Filipino. SiMalaya Alcampo to present at first National Symposium on Filipina/o Canadian Studies Jo SiMalaya Alcampo will present her paper "Filipina/o Artists in Search of Community" at the upcoming National Symposium on Filipina/o Canadian Studies "Spectres of In/Visibility," hosted by the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto on October 23, 2009. This first-of-its-kind symposium aims to fill the research gap on Filipinos in Canada. Leading scholars will convene to address the absence of academic and policy discussions on Filipinos in Canada, the third largest non-European ethnic group in the country. "The symposium was developed out of a community need to fill the research gap on Filipinos in Canada," says Dr. Roland Sintos Coloma, a faculty member in Sociology and Equity Studies in Education and the only Filipino professor at the University of Toronto. He adds, "It will be a groundbreaking gathering. It will bring together a critical mass of scholars throughout Canada, for the first time, to develop a national academic platform for Filipino Canadian Studies." The symposium is free and open to the public. It is organized by Kritikal Kolektibo, a group of faculty and graduate students interested in Filipino Studies at the University of Toronto. Read the Philippine Report article here still from "taking root" Thank you to Asian Community AIDS Services (ACAS) for organizing the 2008 BAMBOO SHOOT video contest judged by Toronto-based video artists, Richard Fung and Jo SiMalaya Alcampo. Congratulations to all the finalists. Watch the winning video by Hisayo Horie entitled,"taking root". |
jo simalaya alcampo explores memory, healing, and kapwa values through storytelling and community-engaged art
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