Learn Tagalog with the K!

By Nicole | Published: March 21, 2013

Conversational Filipino Language Program

Filipinos are the fastest growing community in Canada, especially Toronto, and Tagalog is also the most spoken foreign language in the country. Whether you’re new to the language or a fluent speaker looking to practice with others, Kapisanan’s Tagalog Classes is a great opportunity to join a fun class that will exercise your tongue and expose you to an exciting culture.

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Superheroes Invade Toronto: An art exhibit and fundraiser featuring Filipino-Canadian Illustrators

By kat estacio | Published: May 1, 2013

Superheroes Invade Toronto: A Fundraiser
featuring Filipino-Canadian Illustrators

Kapisanan Philippine Centre for Arts & Culture Presents:
Superheroes Invade Toronto: An art exhibit and fundraiser featuring Filipino-Canadian Illustrators
featuring the works of Kevin Briones, Oliver Castaneda, Paul Limgenco & Vince Sunico

Friday, May 24th
Art sale & reception starts at 7:00 p.m.
Party starts at 9:00 p.m.
@ TOTA Lounge (592 Queen St. W)

Works will be exhibited until May 31
Suggested donation at door: $5

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CLUTCH Vol. 5: What Do Your Shadows Reveal?

By Patricia | Published: May 22, 2013

WRITTEN BY CLUTCH Vol. 5 PARTICIPANT, MARIA PATRICIA ABUEL

Finding good lighting. Choosing the right angle. Taking multiple shots. Finally! I am satisfied with a photo of myself–where my skin looks lighter than it actually is and where my nose doesn’t look as flat.

It’s due to this mentality that I have many photos of myself where I don’t look like myself. However, during the CLUTCH photography workshop facilitated by Alex Felipe, I embraced and accepted my appearance and also changed the way I handle my photo-taking process.

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CLUTCH Vol. 5: The Shameless Spender’s Guide to Saving Money

By Marie | Published: May 16, 2013

WRITTEN BY CLUTCH Vol. 5 PARTICIPANT, MARIE SOTTO

In this week’s workshop with financial consultant (and Kapisanan Board Treasurer) Rhowena Adolfo, we learned about practical ways to budget and manage our money.

As someone who has made some inadvisable decisions with money more than once, this workshop was a very big help! Here are some of the things I’ve learned and would like to highlight about this week’s workshop:

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CLUTCH Vol. 5: Movement(s)

By Shaina | Published: May 15, 2013

WRITTEN BY CLUTCH Vol. 5 PARTICIPANT, SHAINA AGBAYANI

Movement Art Workshop with Andrea Mapili

Patricia contemplates her writing and paper art on Kapisanan's gallery stage.

Qui a tué ma mère?

Sino ang nag patay sa inay ko?

Who killed my mother?

I was compelled to ask these questions to preface other musings brought to poetic life on paper, through pen, by the somatic and cerebral calisthenics catalyzed in me by this workshop. These three inquiries are all congruent in intended meaning, yet dissimilar in genetics inasmuch as this French, Tagalog, and English inquiry illuminates the incongruent grammars and the syntaxes of tongues touched by diverse colonial encounters, and influenced by disparate migratory trajectories. I grew up learning in, listening to, speaking in English, French, and Tagalog and this exercise of creative writing has prompted me to reflect upon the history that informs my hodgepodge of linguistic consciousness.

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CLUTCH Vol. 5: My Body is Not a Wonderland

By Loisel | Published: May 11, 2013

WRITTEN BY CLUTCH Vol. 5 PARTICIPANT, LOISEL WILSON

Mould of my cheeks bones, breasts and nipples.

I am, in every sense of the word, a klutz. It’s difficult for me to avoid physical objects and navigating through the world is a constant struggle for me. You may say that I am physically unaware and that I live in my head rather than though my body. Two weekends ago, as part of our weekly Clutch workshops, we explored the body. More specifically, the body as prize, possession and art. As a pre-cursor to our body moulding workshop with Tim Manalo, he invited us to the last of a series of monthly discussion sessions on Filipino readings, facilitated by Christine Balmes. Appropriately, our reading for that session was titled “The Filipina’s Breast”, written by Nerissa Balce. It is certainly a powerful title. When I first read it, immediately I was struck by feelings of sexual shame and embarrassment as if the spotlight was on not even two, but one breast, and it was mine.

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VINTA unveiled at Canada Philippine Fashion Week

By Debbie | Published: May 10, 2013

Photo courtesy of Canada Philippine Fashion Week

From jeepney to sail boat, fashion socialites, philanthropists, and the Toronto Fil-Can community are closing the divide between Canada and the Philippines at the upcoming first ever Canada Philippine Fashion Week in Toronto! Read More »

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