Category: Comics

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.

Comics / Komiks Meet-Up

6/27/2017

Kwentong Bayan Collective is pleased to announce our new partnership with the Toronto Public Library! Please join us for Comics / Komiks Meet-Up - a regular workspace for those wishing to network, create and bring their comics/komiks to completion.

Filipino Komiks featured on CBC Arts

6/7/2017

"Filipino 'komiks' have always been a political act - a form of resistance against our colonizers." - Althea Balmes, Kwentong Bayan Collective

Thank you to Amanda Parris, the host of Exhibitionists on CBC Television and Marvin's Room on CBC Radio, for featuring our work in her weekly column for CBC Arts.

Read: The newest comic-book heroes are real-life Filipino caregivers

Conversation on art and social change

6/4/2017

Kwentong Bayan Collective will be in conversation about art and social change with Marisa Jahn (CareForce Project) and Christine Shaw (Blackwood Gallery). Moderated by Marissa Largo. Presented by A Space Gallery + Yyz Artists' Outlet.

Monday, June 12th @ 7 PM
401 Richmond St. W, Suite #140

Remember | Resist | Redraw - Poster #03

3/8/2017

Check out the full poster & essay online: https://goo.gl/Tre1jC

For International Womxn's Day, we are launching new work that examines the 150+ year history of care work performed by racialized women in Canada, including Live-in Caregivers

We created this artwork for Remember | Resist | Redraw - a radical history poster project produced by the Graphic History Collective (GHC) that aims to intervene in the Canada 150 conversation. Collectively, we hope to encourage people to critically examine history in ways that can fuel our radical imaginations and support struggles for radical change.

Thank you to Dr. Ethel Tungohan, GHC and all the caregivers, advocates and community allies whose support makes our work possible.

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