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Eastern Comma Artists in Residence

3/31/2025

 
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Kwentong Bayan Collective are the 2025 Eastern Comma Artists in Residence. The Eastern Comma Artist-in-Residence program is named after a butterfly found near water sources in the eastern half of North America, and sporting comma-like markings on the underside of its wings. Held annually, this primarily literary residency has also engaged visual artists and musicians in its history. It is an initiative of the Musagetes Foundation and has its roots in a long-time programming relationship with the rare Charitable Research Reserve, which also includes the Question Mark Butterfly Fellowship, and the Long Dash Festival, an event bringing together the worlds of art and science.

Rest and Release Workshop

2/12/2025

 
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KBC participates in PS GUELPH‘s annual
Rock / Paper / Scissors: Book & Print Fair
at the Art Gallery of Guelph.

Rest and release:
Preventing burnout workshop

Saturday, February 22, 2025
1:30 - 4:30pm EST


This workshop series is co-presented by PS Guelph and Musagetes as part of Rock Paper Scissors Book & Print Fair. Free event. Space is limited, please register on eventbrite.

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Circle of Care

10/31/2024

 
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Circle of Care comes full circle...from October 2023 to September 2024, KBC facilitated Circle of Care, a monthly grief support group for the 2SLGBTQIA+ BIPOC community. We facilitated art activities that encouraged self-awareness through creative expression. Participants explored their personal experiences with grief, and the impact of global events on our collective mental health, and we shared a community meal each month.

The photo above features our "Lanterns of Light" - made of recycled glass jars and pressed flowers - to explore how to create light for ourselves and others during times of personal and global suffering.

We are grateful to all the Circle of Care participants for their support over the past year and acknowledge our venue sponsor, The 519.

Liberation Jeepney (2024 prototype)

7/1/2024

 
KBC created a Liberation Jeepney to embody creative resistance and community-engaged art. We shared our prototype at the Trans March and plan to develop this project.

We were inspired by the vibrant Philippine Jeepney currently at risk of being phased out. Learn more

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GladCon 24

6/1/2024

 
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Althea will be vending at GLADCON ’24. A Queer indie comics, arts & crafts market.

Glad Day Bookshop
Saturday June 15, 2024
1-4 PM
One day only!

Please support indie makers and one of the oldest gay, lesbian, bi, trans and queer bookstores in the world - they need our support to keep open!

Care Activism book launch

11/2/2023

 
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November 8, 2023
7:00 PM
Another Story Bookshop
On November 8th, Dr. Ethel Tungohan launches her book, Care Activism - Migrant Domestic Workers, Movement-Building, and Communities of Care in Toronto.

Kwentong Bayan Collective will present an interactive performance that affirms the history of activism and leadership by migrant care workers in Canada.

There will be guest speakers and snacks by Kanto by Tita Flips. Please join us!

Circle of Care

10/13/2023

 
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Beginning in October 2023, KBC has partnered with The 519 to program Circle of Care, a monthly grief support group for the 2SLGBTQIA+ BIPOC community.  KBC facilitates art activities that encourage self-awareness through creative expression, including visual art, music and embodied movement. Participants explore their personal experiences with grief and the impact of global events on our collective mental health. This is an ongoing group.

Labour Arts conference

6/2/2023

 
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Kwentong Bayan Collective will present an artist talk about our collaborations with migrant care workers as part of Building Possibilities: Labour Arts and Labour Heritage in Canada, a conference co-presented by the Workers Arts & Heritage Centre, Laurier University, and McMaster School of Labour Studies.

Saturday June 10, 2023
10:00 AM
Workers Arts & Heritage Centre
Hamilton

The conference presentation will lead to a future publication on labour arts.

Careworker Retreat

5/31/2023

 
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In May 2023, Kwentong Bayan Collective participated in a Careworkers Retreat in Vancouver, B.C. organized by Caregiver Connections Education and Support Organization (CCESO) and the Vancouver Committee for Domestic Workers and Caregivers Rights (CDWCR).

Our newest collective member, Melanya Liwanag Aguila joined us and facilitated embodied movement-based activities that highlighted the value of care work.

While care workers recognized the wins of the campaign for Status for All, over four decades, they are determined to strengthen and sustain their commitment to fight for the rights of all migrant workers.

GladCon 23

5/20/2023

 
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Althea will be vending zines and postcards at GLADCON ’23 a queer indie comics, arts & crafts market.

Glad Day Bookshop
Saturday June 3, 2023
1-4 PM
One day only!

Please support indie makers and one of the oldest gay, lesbian, bi, trans and queer bookstores in the world.

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