 | 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. |
 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  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  Jo is speaking on a panel at the Diasporic Intimacies conference on the topic of Sexuality, Collectivity and Indigeneity. She will show work at the group art exhibition and participate in the artist's dialogue.
All events are free: http://www.queerfilipinosincanada.ca/  photo by jennifer maramba 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 Presents:
B A T O K - Kalinga Tattoo Markers of Identity: From Indigenous to Diasporic with Dr. Analyn Salvador-Amores, Anthropologist and Professor University of the Philippines, Baguio Saturday November 3, 2012 519 Church Street Community Centre 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Program featuring storytelling of tattoo journeys by three Filipina Canadians, multimedia art by Kristina Guison and Jo SiMalaya Alcampo, and photography by Ruel Bimuyag Full details: http://kapwacollective.tumblr.com/events |
 photo credit: M.Buenafe jo simalaya alcampo explores memory, healing, and kapwa values through storytelling and community-engaged art
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