Kwentong Bayan Collective

Stories of Collective Care in the Time of COVID-19

5/5/2020

Kwentong Bayan Collective is honoured to be Myseum of Toronto's 2020/2021 Artist Collective in Residence.

We have collaborated with Myseum to present Stories of Collective Care in the Time of Covid-19 a series exploring collective care in Toronto and beyond through panel discussions and storytelling.

Please join us for a series of online conversations with essential workers, food justice advocates, and community educators from May to June 2020.

Learn about grassroots strategies of community care and mutual support. Experience some of the cultural practices being created during this time of global transition.

Free events, register online.

Covid-19 Response Must Leave No One Behind

3/16/2020

From Migrants Rights Network: "Canada is seeing a rise in Coronavirus / COVID-19 cases, accompanied by growing levels of xenophobia and racism. Crises do not affect us all equally – migrant, poor, and racialized communities will be the first excluded from response measures and the worst affected by the economic downturn.

We must demand collective responses that leave no one behind, including migrant workers, undocumented people, low-waged students, poor people, and refugees. Pandemics know no borders, neither should our solidarity.

We call on individuals and organizations across the country to join us in uniting against racism. Groups from across the country call on federal, provincial and municipal leaders to ensure worker & migrant Justice as part of the COVID-19 response.

Please sign this Call to Action and "Leave No One Behind"

Digital Literacy Drop-in for Migrant Workers

2/29/2020

We're glad to support this free Digital Literacy Drop-in for Migrant Workers in partnership with IntersectTO (a BIPOC tech community), Caregiver Connections, Education and Support Organization (CCESO) and Parkdale Project Read.

Sunday March 15, 2020
12-4 PM
This free event is designed for the Migrant Care Workers / Caregiver community.
Registration is required. For more information, please visit www.cceso.org

Becoming Labrador

10/2/2019

Please join us on Sunday, October 20th, 2019 for the screening of the feature film, “Becoming Labrador” at the 19th annual Reelworld Film Festival.

SYNOPSIS: A whole generation of Filipino migrants have travelled halfway across the world to work in the icy plains of Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Labrador, leaving behind families and friends as they struggle to adjust to a remarkably different climate and culture in Canada. Becoming Labrador takes an intimate look at what it means to uproot yourself to try and find a new home.

Becoming Labrador
Sunday, October 20th, 2019
Screening 6:30pm
Famous Players, Canada Square
Language: English, Tagalog
70 Minutes

Co-presented by the Reelworld Film Festival and Kwentong Bayan Collective
Tickets available at <https://www.reelworld.ca/becominglabrador>

AGO Course - Intro to Comics

6/22/2019

Althea Balmes of Kwentong Bayan Collective will be teaching an Introduction to Comics course at the Art Gallery of Ontario this summer!

Have fun with comics and cartooning. Inspired by comic genres ranging from surreal psychedelic to autobiographic graphic medicine, you’ll enjoy a variety of exercises and create a mini-zine by the workshop's end.

Materials for the first class are provided.

You’ll receive a list of materials required for subsequent classes.

Register online

HABI - June 2019

5/27/2019

HABI: Weaving Stories of Migrant Labour and Indigenous Resurgence
A public programming series by Kwentong Bayan Collective
June 2019
Small Arms Inspection Building (SAIB)

Kwentong Bayan Collective’s new project, HABI: Weaving Stories of Migrant Labour and Indigenous Resurgence explores the inaugural convergence of National Indigenous People’s month and the newly announced, National Filipino Heritage Month in June 2019.

In the Filipino language, “habi” means "weave” - referring to the practice of weaving, or the patterns found in woven materials. HABI is also the process by which something is kept together and made whole.

This month-long public programming series will explore Indigenous history, labour, migration, and our relationship with the land.

All programs are free of charge and will be held at the Small Arms Inspection Building, located on the Treaty Lands and Territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation along Lake Ontario’s eastern waterfront.

View full schedule

Kwentong Bayan Collective acknowledges the generous support we have received from Mississauga Culture and the Small Arms Inspection Building to make this program possible.

Migrant Worker Tech Support

5/5/2019

We are glad to support IntersectTO - a BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Colour) tech community in Toronto that is offering FREE Tech Support Workshops for migrant workers & organizers.

Volunteers can teach you practical skills, including:

how to update your Presto card online
how to manage settings on your devices
how to find and use apps
how to back up your data and save passwords
how to talk to your family about online safety
and anything else you want to learn!

Support is offered in English, Tagalog, Spanish, Tamil and French. Childminding and refreshments provided. The first Tech Support Workshops will be held on Sunday May 19th at the Workers’ Action Centre with more dates to come!

Pinay Power II

4/1/2019

Kwentong Bayan Collective will present "PIN@YS IN COMICS" with Trinidad Escobar, as part of Pinay Power II : Celebrating Peminisms in the Diaspora. This gathering will bring together self-identified Pinays (Filipina-identified, including queer and trans women) from across the diaspora to learn from one another and to create an agenda for peminist liberation in the 21st century.

The Pinay Power II Conference will be held April 17-20, 2019 on Tiohtià:ke, located on the greater Turtle Island. The Kanien’kehá:ka peoples - who are also known as the Keepers of the Eastern Door and are a part of Haudenosaunee Confederacy - are the traditional stewards of this land.

Re-Imagining Stories of Care Work

3/3/2019

Bong, Cristina, Maria Cecil and Gladys rehearsing with facilitator, Karen Ancheta. Photo by Eloisa Guerrero.

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. With support from Karen Ancheta, Storyteller/Facilitator and Leon Aureaus, Artistic Director, Carlos Bulosan Theatre. Presented by the Myseum Intersections Festival.

TAKE CARE - International Exhibition

3/2/2019

Image: In Love and Struggle, Kwentong Bayan Collective, 2019. la Ferme du Buisson, France. Photo: Émile Ouroumov

We are honoured to announce our 1st international exhibition, opening March 3rd at la Ferme du Buisson in France. Kwentong Bayan Collective will share work on the current issues, history, and future of Care Work in Canada by Black, Indigenous and Racialized women.

Take Care
Stephanie Comilang, Steven Eastwood, Jeneen Frei Njootli, Sheena Hoszko, Kwentong Bayan Collective, Hazel Meyer and Cait McKinney, Raju Rage, Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory

Curated by Christine Shaw

March 3–July 21, 2019
La Ferme du Buisson
Allée de la Ferme
77186 Noisiel
France

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