After a brief hiatus, it’s back! Prep for Pasko (Christmas) at KAPISANAN with a session (or two!) of crafting your own one-of-a-kind parol (Filipino Christmas lantern). Join the community and receive a kit with all the materials needed to light up the holiday season! All proceeds will benefit the centre’s youth programming.

Kapisanan Philippine Centre for Arts & Culture presents Parol Making Workshop:
Thursday Nov 20th 5-9pm@ ArtscapeYoungplace 180 Shaw St. Flex Studio Gold Room 107
Saturday Nov 22nd 12-4pm @ ArtscapeYoungplace 180 Shaw St. Creative Studio Room 108

Workshop fee: $25
Tickets available at: https://www.eventbrite.ca/myevent?eid=13886445733

Limited bicycle parking racks are located near the main entrance at 180 Shaw Street.
Parking: Car parking is available on the street or in several nearby “Green P”municipal parking lots. Closest “Green P”parking lots:
18 Ossington Avenue $1.00 per half hour
1117 Dundas Street West $1.00 per half hour

Want to attend this workshop, and other Filipino arts and cultural workshops for free? Become a Member! Contact us at info@kapisanancentre.com to avail of The Kapisanan Membership Program

Kapisanan is a positive space which integrates an anti-oppression framework for young Filipinos to express their voices, exchange ideas and explore their roots together as an empowered community.

Tune in this Wednesday at 5 pm, on CHUO-FM89, for interviews with three authors looking at different parts of the world. Bhalwant Bhaneja talks about his return to his family’s home in Pakistan, John. S. Saul critiques the economic equality failures of post-apartheid South Africa, and Waubgeshig Rice shares his First Nations stories.

The one-hour interview-based program broadcast on CHUO-FM89 and atwww.chuo.fm on Wednesdays at 5 p.m. It deals with the arts, socio-political issues and community events.

Seismopolite Journal of Art and Politics issue 8 will shed light on how different artistic forms and strategies may advance freedom of expression and be used to confront censorship in contexts worldwide.

Contributors from diverse disciplinary backgrounds are invited to submit articles, reviews or interviews that address this theme through a high variety of possible angles and art forms.

Topics may include (but are not restricted to):
– Artistic strategies in response to censorship and violations of human rights in contexts worldwide.
– Art as a tool of dialogue and conflict resolution.
– The conditions of artists to reflect and influence their local political situation through art.
– Art’s potential to promote cultural diversity, intercultural cooperation and understanding.
– The political conditions of artistic expression under neoliberalism and neoliberal urbanization.
– Artistic strategies of decolonization.
– Artistic strategies to challenge geopolitical, economic, cultural or historical master narratives.
– The emergence of new art scenes and regions in contemporary art; its consequences for art and politics and for the possibility of art scenes to rewrite the contemporary art map/ the concept of contemporary art.

We accept submissions continuously, but to make sure you are considered for the upcoming issue, please send your proposal/ draft, CV and samples of earlier work to submissions@seismopolite.com within November 16, 2014.

Completed work will be due November 26, 2014. All articles will be translated into Norwegian and published in a bilingual version.

Seismopolite Journal of Art and Politics

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