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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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: 
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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.