Join us for the Inaugural Kapwa Collective Speaker Series:
B A T O K – Kalinga Tattoo Markers of Identity: From Indigenous to Diasporic

Saturday November 3, 2012
Place:  519 Church Street Community Centre
Address:  519 Church Street, Toronto (Canada)
Times:  6:00 PM – 7:00 PM Reception;  7:00 PM – 9:00 PM Program

Free event.  Donations welcome.
PLEASE RSVP:  kapwacollective@gmail.com

F e a t u r i n g :
Storytelling of tattoo journeys by three Filipina Canadians
Multimedia art by Kristina Guison and Jo SiMalaya Alcampo
Photography by Ruel Bimuyag
Presentation by Anthropologist Analyn Salvador-Amores, University of
the Philippines. Continue reading →

CELEBRATING 10 YEARS OF NAFRO DANCE 
MOVING
INSPIRATIONS DANCE
FESTIVAL

Hallo Canada
The Moving Inspirations Dance Festival is cooked, spiced, juiced and ready to go. The table is decorated and filled with a delicious meal. Three days full of world dance and music with acclaimed choreographers, dancers and musicians… This is going to be a big feast… the door is open and tickets are on sale at www.nafrodance.com. They are going fast… so take a seat and don’t miss your place at the table. 

 
Festival Dance Companies:

WINNIPEG YOUNG LUNGS DANCE EXCHANGE | GEARSHIFTING PERFORMANCE WORKS
THEATRE FLAMENCO | SCHOOL OF CONTEMPORARY DANCERS

WINNIPEG’S CONTEMPORARY DANCERS | ROYAL WINNIPEG BALLET — ASPIRANTS

DRIVE DANCE | NAFRO DANCE AND EMERGING DANCERS

TORONTO COBA | BALLET CREOLE | KASHEDANCE

MONTRÉAL NYATA NYATA | MURIVA DANCE CALGARY MICHELE MOSS

NEW YORK SEAN MCLEOD

BANDS PAPA MAMBO | NAFRO BAND | MARIACHI GHOST

THURS NOV 1 | FRIDAY NOV 2 | SATURDAY NOV 3 | ALL SHOWS AT 8:00PM Continue reading →

C Magazine | Conversations
Art Toronto 2012

Friday, October 26 to Monday, October 29
Daily at 3 pm in the Publications Lounge

C Magazine presents a series of intimate conversations between C Magazine Editor Amish Morrell and artists, curators, writers and collectors about national and regional artistic practices within a global context. Join us daily at 3pm in the Publications Lounge at Art Toronto Focus Asia 2012. 

Speakers List

October 26, Friday:

3:00 pm. Mark Titchner: Art in the Public Realm.

London UK based artist Mark Titchner makes text-based works that explore notions of belief, the self and authority. He is currently the Artist in Residence at the Art Gallery of Ontario and in 2006 was nominated for the Turner Prize.

3:20 pm. Rutherford Chang and Dave Dyment: On Re-Translating Popular Culture in Contemporary Video Art.

Rutherford Chang is an artist working in the United States and China.Dave Dyment is an artist and curator who lives in Toronto.

3:40 pm. Leah Modigliani and Liss Platt: Autobiography, Landscape, and the Legacy of Conceptual Art. Continue reading →