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

i accepted an invitation to present my installation, Singing Plants Reconstruct Memory at the KAPWA-3 Conference on Indigenous Knowledges in the Academe to be held at the University of the Philippines in Baguio City from June 28 to 30, 2012.

KAPWA-3 will convene scholars from diverse Philippine universities and Schools of Living Traditions, cultural workers and artists who are actively involved with preserving Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Practices (IKSP) in their lifeworks.  There will be international discussants from Japan, Thailand, Mongolia, the USA and Canada whose research points to the importance of IKSP in formal education.

i will be journeying with a group of Filipino-Canadian healers, artists, and critical thinkers from Toronto: Aimee Gomez, Jennifer Maramba, Christine Balmes, and Kristen Sison.  we are committed to sharing the learning process with our communities.  so in truth, you will be journeying with us. 

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maraming salamat / many thanks to Kidlat Tahimik, Dr. Katrin de Guia, and the Heritage and Arts Academies of the Philippines (H.A.P.I.) team for their support.

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_Carlos Bulosan Theatre in Partnership with Kapisanan proudly present

Flipside Festival + Tales from the Flipside
March 8-11, 2012
at KAPISANAN
167 Augusta Ave (Toronto)

For the past six months, members of Carlos Bulosan Theatre’s Play Creation Unit - Meesha Albano, Jo SiMalaya Alcampo, Darrel Gamotin, and Flerida Peña - have been led by Director of Play Creation, Marjorie Chan to develop their writing as emerging professional playwrights.

_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.

KULTURA presents "KA" - A VISUAL ART EXHIBIT
OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION: 
FRIDAY AUGUST 26,  7 PM
Exhibition runs from Aug 26 to Sept 10, 2011
167 Augusta Ave
HOURS: WED-FRI: 1-8PM and SAT: 1-6PM

Featuring New Works by Jo SiMalaya Alcampo, Fred Galang, Kristina Guison, Ryan Leonoras, Maureen Mendoza, Gabrielle Pratte, Eric Quebral, Joanna Sevilla, Jerome Hannam, Stephanie Lipp.

Kaleidocube: The Solar Scope of Life
Community Arts Project by Artists-in-residence: Jo SiMalaya Alcampo, Joce Tremblay, Kyle Duffield and the AGO Youth Council

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