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

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

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

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)

LIFT OFF! Festival at Cahoots Theatre
All events are free and held at Cahoots Creation Studio





FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015 @ 8pm
Cahoot Theatre presents 
a free public reading of HILOT MEANS HEALER 
By Jo SiMalaya Alcampo 
Playwright-in-Residence, supported by Diaspora Dialogues

Set in World War II in the Philippines, Jo’s interdisciplinary historical drama about one family’s attempt to heal soul wounds born from atrocities and occupation, through the touch of plants and the hope found in the garden of a healer.
 
& 

SUNDAY, JUNE 21, 2015 @ 7 pm
Storytelling by Hot House Play Creation Unit playwrights
Theme: "Shaken Roots"

Subtle Technologies Conference: 3RD EAR. Expanded Notions of Sound in Science and Art 

Sounding/Surviving: the role of music in health, emotion and memory with panelists
DIPNA HORRA - Media artist
DAVID BOBIER - Founder & Director, VibraFusionLab
JO SIMALAYA ALCAMPO - Interdisciplinary artist 

This panel will explore the ways in which music can be used as tool for therapy and rememberance. In an increasingly globalized world, migration and networked technologies have both diffused and enriched cultures through the fluid storage and transference of sound. What are the possibilities for personal and collective healing through the integration of audio technologies and aesthetic experiences? 

Sunday May 31, 2015
10am – 12 pm
Artscape Youngplace
180 Shaw St. Rm 107