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Nuit Blanche - Our Voices: A Portrait Series


October 03, 2015 to October 04, 2015


Multimedia Art Installation portraying Filipino Canadians' plight in building a home in Canada as part of Nuit Blanche 2015
Presented by The Philippine Women Centre of Ontario and The Magkaisa Centre

As part of the Magkaisa Centre's annual arts & cultural program and continuation of the Maleta [Suitcase] Project (also featured in Nuit Blanche, 2011), "Our Voices" is spearheaded by the Philippine Women Centre of Ontario (PWC-ON), in collaboration with the Filipino Canadian Youth Alliance of Ontario (FCYA-ON) and SIKLAB Ontario, and was first launched in an exhibit that ran from May 31st to June 1st, 2014 also held at Beit Zatoun. Through a series of educational workshops on the Filipino Canadian community's history of migration and capacity-building tutorials on art production, the culminating art exhibit was collectively produced by members of the community with the aim of showing the intimate yet social realities of Filipino Canadian youth, women and workers in Toronto.

The second installment of the exhibit revisits and deepens the themes of migration steeped in the lived-experiences and stories of Filipino Canadian women, young workers and working-class families' ongoing challenges of successfully building a home in Canada. As the third largest and one of the fastest growing immigrant communities in Canada, the Filipino.

Time: 7 pm- 7 am
Venue: Beit Zatoun
Location: 612 Markham St. Toronto, ON
Website: http://beitzatoun.org/event/nuit-blanche-our-voices-a-portrait-series/
Categories: Arts & Culture

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