 | Kwentong Bayan Collective contributed to the book, Home is In The Body featuring 2SLGBTQIA stories & artwork from across the Filipinx diaspora. Althea and Jo contributed interviews, and Jo wrote the closing text for the book. Please contact Anak Publishing for more info |
 Please join Cahoots Theatre on June 18th for a pay-what-you-can reading of HILOT MEANS HEALER by Jo SiMalaya Alcampo. Directed by Nina Lee Aquino. Immediately following the reading, guests and community members are invited to stay and enjoy refreshments to celebrate the end of Cahoot's incredible 30th Anniversary season!
Sunday June 18, 2017 HILOT MEANS HEALER 2:00 P.M. to 4:00 P.M. CAHOOTS End of Season Party 4:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M. Space is limited, so please RSVP here. Location: The Ernest Balmer Studio (Tapestry/Nightwood) 9 Trinity Street, Studio #316 3rd floor in Toronto's Distillery District Wheelchair accessible space with freight elevator access from 15 Case Goods Lane.
 Kwentong Bayan is honoured to be part of this NEW BOOK by the Graphic History Collective!
Drawn To Change: Graphic Histories of Working Class Struggle is a collection of new comics about working class histories in Canada. Available now: https://btlbooks.com/book/drawn-to-change  Thank you to Jennilee Austria for writing about HILOT MEANS HEALER for The Philippine Reporter. Here's a link to the article.
Maraming salamat / many thanks to the community of artists, healers, and critical thinkers for helping me grow my play. - JSA (Photo: Jo SiMalaya Alcampo, Playwright-in-Residence with her dramaturge and Cahoots Artistic Director, Marjorie Chan. Courtesy of J. Austria)  Jo SiMalaya Alcampo is joining a group of Diaspora Dialogues authors for a day of readings at the secret Heritage Room, a crypt-like space underneath the Metropolitan United Church, as part of Doors Open Toronto.
They’ll read excerpts from their works, as well as selections of works that have been censored or banned, both at home and abroad, and speak about underground writing. Gain access to this secret subterranean space and experience works — formerly or currently — buried by repressive governments, schools, and religious organizations the world over. Readings all day, from 11 am – 4 pm. Check out DiasporaDialogues.com for the full list of authors.
Time: 11 am – 4 pm Where: Metropolitan United Church, 56 Queen Street East Cost: Free!  I am honoured to be the new Playwright-in-Residence for
2014 - 2015 at Cahoots Theatre Company supported by Diaspora Dialogues. Over the next year, I will develop my historical drama "Hilot Means Healer" set in WWII in the Philippines. There will most certainly be Singing Plants. I am grateful to Carlos Bulosan Theatre for helping me grow these stories in their Play Creation Unit. Maraming Salamat/Many thanks for the community love and support. I look forward to creating interdisciplinary art together. - jsa  Kwentong Bayan: Labour of Love is a community-based comic book project created by Althea Balmes (Illustrator) and Jo SiMalaya Alcampo (Writer) in close collaboration with Filipina migrant workers in the Live-in Caregiver Program.
These are the stories that you don't see in mainstream media. These are the stories that you won't find in most academic papers or research studies. These are real-life stories of community and friendship, love and struggle, and women's empowerment. In the Filipino language, "kwentong bayan" is the literal translation of "community stories" and our comic book project is rooted in love. Please visit our website to learn more: www.lcpcomicbook.com  Kapwa Collective in Baguio City, Philippines 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. peace/katahimikan jsa 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. learn more about our kapwa journey  Support my Carlos Bulosan Theatre playwrighting-mate, Flerida Peña as she presents Sister Mary’s a Dyke?! to the community - jsa
Sister Mary’s a Dyke?! by Flerida Peña Friday May 25, 2012 at 8PM & Sunday May 27, 2012 at 2PM Fringe Creation Lab 720 Bathurst St, Suite 403 Pay-What-You-Can |
 photo credit: M.Buenafe jo simalaya alcampo explores memory, healing, and kapwa values through storytelling and community-engaged art
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