Category: Presentation

Asog - Film Screening

9/30/2025

We are excited to announce that Kwentong Bayan Collective and Pinay Collection are hosting a community film screening of Asog directed by Seán Devlin, a second generation Filipino-Canadian filmmaker.

Date: Monday November 3, 2025
Time: 7:00 PM (run-time: 1h, 39 min)
Location: Cineplex Yonge-Dundas and VIP
Address: 10 Dundas Street East, Toronto
Trailer: https://tinyurl.com/y8b7n94a
LINK for tickets (only available online)
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“Essential viewing as queer cinema, as political cinema and as climate cinema” - Eastern Kicks

ArtsEverywhere Festival

4/21/2025

Join us for a curated afternoon of conversations around labour inspired by ongoing conversations with Elwood Jimmy, Indigenous programs curator at the Musagetes Foundation.

Toronto-based Kwentong Bayan Collective’s artistic mandate is to explore a critical and intersectional approach to community-based art, labour, and education.

Yola Mamani is an Aymara broadcaster, radio producer, youtuber and activist for Indigenous, women’s and domestic workers’ rights based in La Paz, Bolivia.

Labours of Love:
Conversation with Kwentong Bayan Collective and Yola Mamani

A dynamic conversation around the intersection of art, activism, and domestic and care labour/workers.

May 3, 2025
1:00-2:15 PM
ArtsEverywhere Festival
River Run Centre, Guelph, Ontario
Free event

The labour and maintenance highlighted in this afternoon's events are often invisible from a colonial lens, but it is important and necessary work that strives to move us toward wiser and kinder practices/ futures in relation to Indigenous and non-Indigenous relations, climate emergency and the overall global dissonance and polycrisis that we are currently witnessing, experiencing and feeling.

Care Activism book launch

11/2/2023

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!

Labour Arts conference

6/2/2023

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.

The Philippines - exhibit audio guide

9/30/2022

Kwentong Bayan Collective at the Faith and Fortune exhibit (AGO). Photo credit: Melanya Liwanag Aguila.

Kwentong Bayan Collective member Althea Balmes contributed to the Exhibition Audio guide for Faith and Fortune: Art Across the Global Spanish Empire.

Her piece is entitled "The Philippines" and it accompanies a map of the country that is presented askew for a reason.

Faith and Fortune - 14 The Philippines and the entire audio guide can be heard here:
https://ago.ca/exhibitions/faith-and-fortune-art-across-global-spanish-empire

The exhibition runs from June 8 to Oct 10, 2022 at the Art Gallery of Ontario.

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.

Here and There

3/31/2021

Kwentong Bayan Collective and Care Worker Connections Education and Support Organization (CCESO) have reunited for Myseum Intersections 2021 to present, “Here and There” a collaborative storytelling event that will be live streamed on YouTube.

Sunday April 25, 2021
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM (EST)
Watch video:
http://bit.ly/3u4z5WR

Home is in the Body

12/1/2020

Kwentong Bayan Collective contributed to the book, Home is In The Body featuring 2SLGBTQIA stories & artwork from across the Filipinx diaspora. Althea and Jo contributed interviews, and Jo wrote the closing text for the book.

Please contact Anak Publishing for more info

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.

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>

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