Dreamweaving: T’nalak

Kapwa Collective in collaboration with OCAD University (Faculty of Design) present Dreamweaving: T’nalak

Thursday, June 12, 2014
6:30-8:30 pm
Room 600, OCAD University
100 McCaul Street, Toronto, Ontario M5T 1W1
Free event

Dreamweaving: T’nalak is a lecture and demonstration by the T’boli School of Living Traditions (Philippines) featuring T’nalak weaving.

Maria “Oyog” Todi (Cultural Specialist), Barbara “Buwat” Fanuy Kibed (Dreamweaver) and Andrea Todi Wanan (Young Artist) will share knowledge about T’boli Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Practices of the ancestral T’boli tradition called t’nalak.

This lecture and live demonstration will focus on the process of T’nalak dyeing, weaving, and T’boli cultural significance of T’nalak.

Dreamweaving: Tnalak is an opportunity to develop an awareness of T’boli material culture, living traditions, and their leadership role in advocating for the rights of Indigenous people in the Philippines.

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The T’boli people are indigenous to the Lake Sebu area of South Cotabato, Mindanao in the Philippines.

Kapwa Collective is a group of Filipino-Canadian artists, critical thinkers, and healers who work towards bridging narratives between the Indigenous and the Diasporic, and the Filipino and the Canadian.

Members of our group engaged in a cultural immersion at the T’boli Schools of Living Traditions in Lake Sebu in 2012. TBOLIxTO is a cultural exchange between the T’boli School of Living Traditions (Philippines) and communities in Toronto.

S T A Y C O N N E C T E D
www.kapwacollective.tumblr.com and www.facebook.com/kapwacollective.

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Access information and requests:

OCAD U (100 McCaul St.) has fully accessible entrances and washrooms are accessible for scooter users, manual and powered-chair users. The closest accessible TTC subway station is Queen’s Park.
There is a single-user, gender neutral, restroom on the ground level that is wheelchair accessible.
Please come fragrance-free to respect folks with health concerns and so that community members to attend without getting sick and having to leave. Information about how to do this can be found here: http://www.brownstargirl.org/1/post/2012/03/fragrance-free-femme-of-colour-realness-draft-15.html.
Interpretation from T’boli to English is provided.

RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/804689546215929