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Kariton Collective: Can I get a combo #4?

By angie torres | Published: October 5, 2010

Participants engage in a portrait drawing session last Saturday. | PHOTOS: JIHAN VICTORIA

Kariton Arts Worshops Series’ fourth and final meet-up will be a COMBINATION CLASS this coming Saturday, October 9 at 3 p.m.

Posted in @ THE K, Kariton Collective | Tagged art, drawing, drawing circle, Filipino Artists, Filipino-Canadian, Filipinos in Toronto, Kapisanan, Kapisanan Philippine Centre for Arts and Culture, Kariton Art Workshop, Kariton Collective | Leave a comment

Kapisanan Artist Residency Program (KARP)

By angie torres | Published: October 4, 2010

KARP is a one year artist residency program at KAPISANAN, open to young and emerging artists (under 30 years old, or in the first five years of their practice) who work in the visual arts, theatre, design, installation, architecture, digital media (video, interactive: development and production), sound, text, fashion, craft, community arts/education, or combinations of any two ormore, and/or other creative pursuits.

KARP is focused on mentorship and professional development, as well as Filipino cultural immersion. The Filipino cultural immersion piece to this program is designed to help build intangible assets of social and cultural capital to equip emerging Filipino artists with a cultural repertoire, and ways of presenting your work.

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PSL Week 3: building community (feat. Tomy Bewick)

By angie torres | Published: September 17, 2010

PSL Week 3: Building Bridges and Fostering Community
Facilitated by Len Cervantes
Featuring special guest, Tomy Bewick

When Len Cervantes first began attending Dwayne Morgan’s Roots Lounge (the monthly series that starts up at Kapisanan again this Sunday), he didn’t know anyone. This was around 2005 when he was only starting to spread his wings outside of the Filipino community, shuffling from one open mic to another around the city. Tomy Bewick was one of the first poets that caught Len’s eye during those days. Even then, he knew this guy would go further–and he was right.

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intern@Kapisanan: Tanaga, the Filipino Haiku

By angie torres | Published: September 14, 2010

By CitizenMars, Events Planning Intern

Poetry, written poetry, is in our blood. The first recorded piece of literature found in the Philippines was in the mid 1500s by Spanish friars, documenting their observations on life and culture amongst the tribal Filipinos. To put it into a more macroscopic perspective, that was only the first recorded discovery of Filipino poetry. That means our (Filipino) ancestors were poets long before that! And not just through word of mouth either. It was all written in an old and ancient script called alibata.

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PSL Week 2: Epics (feat. Word Mason)

By angie torres | Published: September 13, 2010

Here’s what Kapisanan’s got lined up:

PSL Week 2: Epic Poetry and Historical Tales
Featuring special guest, Spoken Word Artist Word Mason

If you’ve heard the stories of King Arthur, Beowulf, Homer’s Odyssey, Dante’s Inferno… then you know what an epic is. Just like many of the world’s people, early Filipinos used epic stories to make sense of the world around them. These were creation stories, tales of courtship and stories that passed down knowledge and wisdom through morals.

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