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.
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.
Panel One: What is Collective Care?
May 13, 2020 | 2-3pm
The pandemic may have forced many of us to practice physical distancing, but is also encouraging some to collaborate and support each other in creative ways. This discussion focuses on Toronto's Parkdale neighbourhood, and how people are providing collective care to the most vulnerable members of their community. Looking beyond COVID-19, what can we learn from these strategies, and are they here to stay?
Panelists:
Angela ElzingaCheng, Executive Director, Greenest City
Tish Carnat, ESL Instructor, TDSB; Board Member, Parkdale Neighbourhood Land Trust
Phylicia Davis-Wesseling, Founder, KGO Adult Literacy; Board Co-chair Parkdale Project Read
TBD - Community Legal Worker, Parkdale Community Legal Services
Storytellers:
Jillian Tamaki, Illustrator and Parkdale Project Read Tutor
Victoria Miller Johnson, Author and Parkdale Project Read Learner
Moderators: Kwentong Bayan Collective
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Panel Two: Precarious Workers are Essential Workers
May 20, 2020 | 2-3pm
Grocery store workers, farm labourers, and cleaners were already precarious workers before the pandemic. Job insecurity, low wages, hazardous working conditions, and the looming threat of becoming undocumented are just some of the challenges they face. Yet, their work continues to be essential to ensuring society’s basic needs. How can we better protect workers who are providing essential services but are marginalized by the system? This panel features workers’ sharing the realities of their daily lives and recommendations on how to ensure their safety and protection.
Panelists:
Laura Pena, United Food and Commercial Workers Union representative
Nathalie Vengal, United Food and Commercial Workers Union representative
Jesson Reyes, Managing Director of Migrants Resource Centre Canada
Lourdes de la Peña, Worker, Migrants Resource Centre Canada
Storytellers:
Valrie Francis, Grocery store worker, member of UFCW Local 1006A
One more storyteller to be announced shortly
Moderators: Kwentong Bayan Collective
May 13, 2020 | 2-3pm
The pandemic may have forced many of us to practice physical distancing, but is also encouraging some to collaborate and support each other in creative ways. This discussion focuses on Toronto's Parkdale neighbourhood, and how people are providing collective care to the most vulnerable members of their community. Looking beyond COVID-19, what can we learn from these strategies, and are they here to stay?
Panelists:
Angela ElzingaCheng, Executive Director, Greenest City
Tish Carnat, ESL Instructor, TDSB; Board Member, Parkdale Neighbourhood Land Trust
Phylicia Davis-Wesseling, Founder, KGO Adult Literacy; Board Co-chair Parkdale Project Read
TBD - Community Legal Worker, Parkdale Community Legal Services
Storytellers:
Jillian Tamaki, Illustrator and Parkdale Project Read Tutor
Victoria Miller Johnson, Author and Parkdale Project Read Learner
Moderators: Kwentong Bayan Collective
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Panel Two: Precarious Workers are Essential Workers
May 20, 2020 | 2-3pm
Grocery store workers, farm labourers, and cleaners were already precarious workers before the pandemic. Job insecurity, low wages, hazardous working conditions, and the looming threat of becoming undocumented are just some of the challenges they face. Yet, their work continues to be essential to ensuring society’s basic needs. How can we better protect workers who are providing essential services but are marginalized by the system? This panel features workers’ sharing the realities of their daily lives and recommendations on how to ensure their safety and protection.
Panelists:
Laura Pena, United Food and Commercial Workers Union representative
Nathalie Vengal, United Food and Commercial Workers Union representative
Jesson Reyes, Managing Director of Migrants Resource Centre Canada
Lourdes de la Peña, Worker, Migrants Resource Centre Canada
Storytellers:
Valrie Francis, Grocery store worker, member of UFCW Local 1006A
One more storyteller to be announced shortly
Moderators: Kwentong Bayan Collective
