Category: Comics

GladCon 24

6/1/2024

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!

GladCon 23

5/20/2023

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.

Panagawid launch

4/2/2023

Panagawid is a short komik in colour by Althea Balmes

Panagawid - a new komik by Althea Balmes launches at TCAF!

“Feeling depleted and lost in the city, Tala finally connects with her ancestors who takes her on a journey of spirit retrieval. Inspired by the Ilocano soul retrieval practice.”

Althea will be reading Panagawid this Saturday April 29th at TCAF - the Toronto Comics Festival. Please drop by and pick up a copy: PWYC $10 min.

April 29th, 2023
3:00 PM EST
Toronto Reference Library
798 Yonge St., Discussion Room (3rd floor)
Free event

Arts Everywhere Festival

1/7/2023

Kwentong Bayan Collective will be tabling at the Rock/Paper/Scissors Book and Print Fair, as part of the Arts Everywhere Festival.

Date: Saturday Janurary 28, 2023
Time: 1-6 pm E.S.T.
Place: River Run Centre, Guelph ON

More info:
https://festival.artseverywhere.ca

Filipino Canadian Comics Symposium

2/27/2022

Watch online:
https://fb.watch/cIgY2LSm3Z/

Congrats to the Institute for the Humanities - University of Manitoba and organizers for hosting the virtual Filipino Canadian Comics Symposium on March 18, 2022.

Agyamanak / Many Thanks to Professor Eleanor Ty for including our comics in her keynote address and congrats to all the artists and comic makers.
“Padayon / Onwards Together!”

Photo: Keynote Address by Prof. Eleanor Ty

Together While Apart

2/25/2022

Thank you to Megan who added colour to colouring page! Megan’s mom is a migrant care worker and community organizer.

Together While Apart
Workers Arts and Heritage Centre
March 5 – April 2, 2022
(Extended to May 14th)

Kwentong Bayan Collective is honoured to contribute to Together While Apart an exhibition of interactive colouring pages and original stories based on experiences that women and gender-diverse people have faced during the past two years of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Artists: Abby Nowakowski, Amber Williams-King, Dalawang Babae, Edith Chavez, Kwentong Bayan Collective, Lisa Pijuan-Nomura, Natalie King, Pink Angel, Sab Meynert, Sahra Soudi, Shira Spector, Z’otz* Collective.

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

Komiks Zine Fair article

8/1/2018

Thanks to Ysh Cabana for writing about the Komiks Zine Fair in The Philippine Canadian News. Read article

"Toronto-based artists Jo SiMalaya Alcampo and Althea Balmes have been hosting pulp fiction weekly meet-ups since July 2017. Participants have been encouraged to network, to create and bring their comics/komiks to completion..Zines, tiny photocopied and stapled books that are often with political text and images, deck the Lillian H. Smith Library branch. Kwentong Bayan Collective believes that a new model for komiks and pop culture events will take shape over time."

Komiks Zine Fair

7/1/2018

We're celebrating the 1 year anniversary of our weekly Comics / Komiks Meet-Up at the library with a Kwentong Bayan - Komiks Zine Fair!!

All-ages activities include short films about comics, button-making station, merch tables, a Filipino Komiks reading corner, & raffle prizes.

Saturday July 21, 2018
1 PM - 4:30 PM
Lillian H. Smith Branch - Toronto Public Library
239 College St. (at Spadina), Meeting Room A, Lower Level
FREE EVENT

Thanks to our community partners, the Toronto Public Library -Lillian H. Smith Branch, The Beguiling Books & Art, and Comics/Komiks Meet-up artists. Please join us!

First Solo Exhibition

1/12/2018

BALIKBAYAN runs Jan 24 to Apr 21, 2018.

Kwentong Bayan Collective will launch our first solo exhibition at the Workers Arts & Heritage Centre. BALIKBAYAN features a visual timeline of 150+ year history of caregiving in Canada by radicalized women, and balikbayan box sculptures that share labour and migration stories.

In a series of gatherings, workers from Hamilton and Toronto will participate in a healing soup circle, create storytelling wearables, and plant native seeds. At each gathering, folks can create their own pasalubong (gifts) to take home and share with others.

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