Join Filipino academics in Canada for the official launch of “Filipinos in Canada: Disturbing Invisbility”, the first wide-ranging edited collection on Filipina/os in Canada.
Friday, October 19, 2012
5:00 p.m.
Location: OISE Nexus Lounge, 12th Floor
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
University of Toronto
252 Bloor Street West, Toronto, Ontario
For the past six months, Kapisanan has been home to the Clutch Vol. 4 girls: Charise Aragoza, Renelyn Quinicot, Victoria Marie, Victoria Bacnis, Diane Guison, Maureen Mendoza.
With Kristina Guison, their Clutch coordinator, the girls have been through various workshops under the guidance of inspiring mentors in the community.
Their final show, BRUHA, is on April 14 2012 at 7pm. Mark your calendars! While you’re at it, check out these photos from the last six months! Be inspired!
Clutch Vol. 4 family storytelling night
Clutch Vol. 4 poster work-in-progress
Check out more photos below:
WRITTEN BY CLUTCH VOL. 4 PARTICIPANT, VICTORIA MARIE SAWAL
On Yonge street alone there are more than 7 places that a minor could buy their very own fake ID. They could change their name, change their height, address and obviously their age; anything that is unsatisfactory to their standards. Customers are willing to cough up 20 to 60 dollars (depending on the quality they’re looking for); all in efforts to be something they aren’t. The funny thing is, these ID’s are most likely being used by these people, to be in places they don’t belong.
Brian Bantugan, our Filipino History workshop facilitator
Every Saturday, I travel from Durham to downtown to participate in workshops with my Clutch Vol. 4 sisters. I don’t pass Yonge street at all, but it came to my attention after one of the most surprising workshops of Clutch that every single person carries a fake ID, with out even knowing.
On December 10th, Brian Bantugan, a graduate from UP (University of the Philippines), facilitated a workshop entitled “Filipino History”. Clutch workshops have a knack for catching us girls off guard, but this time it left us wide-eyed and more curious than ever!
In mid-October of this year, leading Filipino artists and academics gathered together to highlight how the diaspora reconfigures our realities and memories, bodies and imaginations.
In case you missed it, check out some photos from ANIHAN: Cultures in the Diaspora
Thursday, Oct 13, 2011
George Ignatieff Theatre, University of Toronto
ANIHAN panelists and organizers (L-R): Christine Balmes, Caroline Mangosing, Alex Felipe, Nina Lee Aquino, Reuben Sarumugam, Marissa Largo, Patrick Alcedo, Eleanor Ty, Roland Coloma
The crowd at George Ignatieff Theatre
CLUTCH Vol. 5: My Body is Not a Wonderland
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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