6 communities to be part in Philippine Cultural Heritage Month celebration
By Charmaine Y. Rodriguez
A group of Filipino artists is taking a community arts project across Canada in time for Philippine cultural heritage month.
MigARTion community arts project will be done in partnership with organizations and communities, according to a statement released by Co.ERASGA.
Co.ERASGA is an arts organization with roots of Filipino heritage, migrant stories and racialized settlers.
“MigARTion aims to create critical and creative space where professional artists and the migrant community, create art together, in a shared environment of planning, integration and eventual execution of the project. It is engaging art practices through dancing, writing, singing, painting and acting, as a social intervention to marginalization and intercultural alienation, and a process that nurtures the everyday practice of criticality and empathy,” the statement added.
The project will be held in Ottawa, Montreal, Winnipeg, Edmonton, New Westminster and Victoria between June 3 and 25, 2023.
“Co.ERASGA calls upon POC members and (im)migrants to participate in arts and culture exchanges through dance, music, theater, visual arts and creative writings,” it also read.
The mobilization of MigARTion project is led by Co. ERASGA artistic director, choreographer/dancer Alvin Erasga Tolentino with his project artistic team of Filipino artists – theatre director Dennis Gupa, music and opera trained singer Jeremiah Carag, poet/writer Karla Comanda and visual artist Christopher Nazaire.
Tour and workshop dates and contacts are the following:
OTTAWA
June 3, 2023 | 9:30 AM – 5:30 PM
Saint Paul University (Normandin Room)
223 Main St, Ottawa ON, K1S 1C4
Contact for more information:
Email: info@pcc-ottawa.ca
Phone: (613) 482-0289
MONTRÉAL
June 7-10, 2023
Wed, June 7 – Fri, June 9 | 5:30 – 9:30 PM
Sat, June 10 | 11 AM – 6 PM
Gilmore College
7159 Chem. de la Côte des Neiges, Montréal QC, H3R 2M2
Contact for more information:
Michael Davantes (514) 465-6428
Tenne Rose Dayandante (514) 963-7512
WINNIPEG
June 13-15, 2023 | 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Philippine-Canadian Centre of Manitoba
737 Keewatin St, Winnipeg MB
Email: thenewpccm@gmail.com
Phone: (204) 775-4928
EDMONTON
June 17-18, 2023 | 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Edmonton Philippine International Centre
10104 32 Avenue NW, Edmonton AB
NEW WESTMINSTER
June 20-22, 2023 | 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Anvil Centre (Dance Studio – Room 415)
777 Columbia St, New Westminster BC
Email: info@companyerasgadance.ca
VICTORIA
June 24-25, 2023 | 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Philippine Bayanihan Community Centre
1709 Blanshard St, Victoria BC
Email: bayanihancc@shaw.ca
“We gratefully acknowledge the support of BC Arts Council Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des arts du Canada City of Vancouver – Cultural Services, the donors and members of Co.ERASGA and our partners Anvil Centre Philippine Arts Council Bayanihan Community Center Philippine Canadian Centre of Manitoba Inc. Philippine Centre Canada – Ottawa Gilmore College International.