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Hilot Means Healer

7/31/2019

 
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Photographed above: Jo SiMalaya Alcampo. Image description: A mock travel magazine cover. A Brown person looks intently into the camera. Masthead reads "Hilot Means Healer". Coverline reads "Ancient Healing Meets Modern Warfare in the Philippines" (courtesy of b current)
HILOT MEANS HEALER
BY JO SIMALAYA ALCAMPO
TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE


A Cahoots Theatre
production in association with b current performing arts 
October 5 - 27, 2019
at the BMO Incubator, Theatre Centre
1115 Queen St W, Toronto


Set in Manila, during World War II, and drawn from the long tradition of Philippine folklore, legends, and Indigenous spirituality, HILOT weaves the tangible with the intangible to tell a story of unexpected bonds formed during cataclysmic change. Written by Jo SiMalaya Alcampo, and directed by Jasmine Chen, this interdisciplinary story explores the social and political consequences of war and occupation in the Philippines and its impact through generations.


 Written by Jo SiMalaya Alcampo
Direction by Jasmine Chen
Dramaturgy by Marjorie Chan
Set, Costume & Props Design by Jung-Hye Kim
Lighting Design by Jareth Li
Sound Design by MaryCarl Guiao
Production Management & Technical Direction by Crystal Lee
Stage Management by Victoria Wang
Apprentice Stage Management by Emie Sabandal
Production Assistance by Gloria Mok
Audio Description by Kat Germain

Featuring Karen Ancheta, Aldrin Bundoc, Belinda Corpuz, Carolyn Fe
Music composed and performed by MaryCarl Guiao


Re-Imagining Stories of Care Work

3/1/2019

 
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Image: Archival photography + Projection art by Kwentong Bayan Collective, 2019
Please join us for Re-Imagining Stories of Care Work - a collaborative storytelling and audio-visual art performance about the invaluable contributions of migrant caregivers to Canada’s social, economic, and political past, present and future.

Collaborative storytelling by Caregiver Connections, Education & Support Organization (CCESO) and audio-visual art performance by Kwentong Bayan Collective (Althea Balmes and Jo SiMalaya Alcampo) With support from Karen Ancheta, Storyteller/Facilitator and Leon Aureaus, Artistic Director, Carlos Bulosan Theatre. Presented by the Myseum Intersections Festival.

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TAKE CARE Exhibition - la Ferme du Buisson

2/1/2019

 
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Image: Kwentong Bayan Collective, In Love and Struggle, 2017, Blackwood Gallery. Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid.
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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Art of Propagation

1/31/2018

 
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The Museum of Contemporary Art presents Jo SiMalaya Alcampo: Singing Plants, as part of the Art of Propagation performative speaker series that aims to broaden perspectives on art and culture through acts, thinking and projects of cultivation, fermentation and propagation.

Jo will introduce us to the Singing Plants – keepers of indigenous knowledge, stories and memory. These banana plants respond to human touch with songs – the Hudhud chant of the Ifugao people – and sounds of bamboo instruments and gongs indigenous to the Philippines.

March 14, 2018
7 PM - 9 PM
Henderson Brewing Co., 128A Sterling Road
Free event

BALIKBAYAN Exhibition

1/8/2018

 
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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.

Diasporic Intimacies Book Launch

11/6/2017

 
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Diasporic Intimacies: Queer Filipinos and Canadian Imaginaries is the first edited volume of its kind, featuring the works of artists, activists, scholars, and frontline community workers who reflect on the contributions of LGBTQ Filipinos/as to Canadian culture and society. 

Jo SiMalaya Alcampo's work is featured in this collection. Jo will speak at the book launch on:

November 17, 2017

Urban Space Gallery
401 Richmond Street

6:00 pm - 10:00 pm

This celebration will feature performances, reflections, and community dialogues.

Invisible Footprints

10/16/2017

 
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"The Continuum of LGBTQ East and Southeast Asian Storytelling"
With panelists, Elisha Lim, Paul Yee, Wayson Choy, Richard, Fung, and Jo SiMalaya Alcampo.

October 28, 2017, 1-4 PM
Open Space Gallery, OCAD University
49 McCaul Street

As part of the Invisible Footprints 0.1, Art & Archive exhibition



TAKE CARE Exhibition

9/30/2017

 
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Kwentong Bayan Collective is honoured to be part of TAKE CARE - performances, publications, and workshops comprising a year-long exhibition organized around five circuits of care.

CIRCUIT 2 - "Care Work"
runs October 16 to November 4, 2017
at the Blackwood Gallery
University of Toronto, Mississauga campus
"Care Work" featues:
- Marisa Morán Jahn (Studio REV-), "CareForce"
- Onaman Collective, "Land and Water Protectors"
- Kwentong Bayan Collective (Althea Balmes + Jo SiMalaya Alcampo), "In Love and Struggle"

Kapwa Playshops with Musagetes

8/10/2017

 
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Thank you to the Musagetes community for inviting Kapwa Collective to facilitate a series of Kapwa Playshops this weekend in Guelph. We will create handmade seedballs containing wildflowers, and plantable paper out of recycled materials and seeds.

We will invite the community to plant these offerings in the Mashkiki Gitigaan (medicine garden in Anishnaabemowin) - "a medicine and pollinator garden that Musagetes staff, Elwood Jimmy and Chelsea Brant have been building and growing with the support of many community members through their donation of time, seeds, and plants.

The Mashkiki Gitigaan is the foundation for a variety of summer workshops/talks/walks/knowledge gatherings/community circles throughout the city, "centering art, ecology sustainability, relationship-building, collaborative learning, restorative and trauma-informed practices, and Indigenous & land-based teachings."

Philippine Inquirer article

7/13/2017

 
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It was a pleasure speaking to Walter Ang writer for the Philippine Inquirer about my work in the community. Maraming salamat/Many thanks for sharing the journey! - JSA

Image from "Singing Plants Redux" at the Subtle Technologies Festival 2017


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