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First Solo Exhibition

1/12/2018

 
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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

 
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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.

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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
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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

 
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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

 
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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.


Comic-making Workshop + Residency

11/21/2016

 
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Althea Balmes is facilitating a new comic-making program for Asian* youth, newcomer youth, new generation, 1.5, LGBTQI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, queer/questioning, intersexual) and/or with disability between 16-29 who:
  • Have interest in being part of an art community;
  • Have the desire to hone their comic-making skills;
  • Want a positive space to share their experience of being Asian in Canada;
  • and want to explore their visual storytelling style with other Asian storytellers and cartoonists!
  • The deadline for submission is December 7th

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Noodles & Doodles - Comics 101

10/31/2016

 
Curious how to turn your doodles into a story? Wanna make comics with other Asian youth while sharing Asian noodle-inspired snacks?

Althea Balmes will be facilitating
Noodles & Doodles - Comics 101
Wednesday, November 9, 2016
from  5 PM - 7 PM
at SKETCH Working Arts

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This workshop is for self-identified Asian youth who are mixed race, newcomer youth, new generation, 1.5, LGBTQI, folks with disabilities, between 16-29.

LabourStart Conference

5/1/2016

 
Kwentong Bayan Collective has contributed a 10-page mini-comic about the history of the Live-in Caregiver Program to the anthology, “Drawn to Change: Graphic Histories of Working Class Struggle”, edited by the Graphic History Collective with historian, Paul Buhle.

Please join us for the book launch and signing on May 7th. This free event is part of the LabourStart Conference.
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Drawn to Change now available!

4/20/2016

 
Kwentong Bayan is honoured to published in
Drawn To Change: Graphic Histories of Working Class Struggle is a collection of new comics about working class histories in Canada. Available now
PictureEdited by the Graphic History Collective with Paul Buhle

Cartoons for Social Change

9/24/2015

 
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We are excited to be a part of the 5th Annual Ryerson Social Justice Week from October 5 to 9, 2015. The theme is “Social Justice and Democracy: Arts, Activism and the Academy”.

Kwentong Bayan Collective will facilitate the Art Tools Workshop: Cartoons For Social Change on October 6, 2015 from 4-6 PM.

Participants will generate ideas through mind-mapping, learn how to combine re-purposed images and doodles to create one-of-a-kind mixed media comics that explore social justice issues. We will have lots of materials to work with and folks are invited to bring their own images!



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