Dialectic
Jun 10th, 2007, 04:57 PM
From Gein Wong:
The Asian Arts Freedom School is a writing/performance and Asian history and activism program for Asian/Pacific Islander youth in the Greater Toronto Area. This summer, Freedom School is back on, with a timing change... it's happening every WEDNESDAY, not Tuesday, starting June 13, but same place and time: Kapisanan, 167 Augusta, Toronto 6:00- 8:30. Kapisanan is just north of Dundas, in between Spadina and Bathurst.
This cycle, expect to have more rad Asian history lessons, including a guest appearance by Jo SiMalaya of Seeing Stories Productions, who's going to be talking about Filipino history through theatre, walking tours of Asian neighbourhoods including your own, and lots of collaborative exercises to get things ready for our exciting show at Harbourfront Centre on July 20!!! Freedom School is taking place at the Kapisanan Philippine Arts Centre 167 Augusta
All workshops are FREE, and we’ll have good food and free tokens!
To us Asian= West Asian (a.k.a. Arab or Middle-Eastern), Southeast Asian, South Asian, East Asian, Central Asian... mixed-race, adoptee, suburban, hood... just got here or been here since the 1800s. Asian stretches from the Philippines to Palestine, North China to Sri Lanka, Trinidad to Tibet, and all of it ends up in Toronto.
If you’re interested, have questions, or want to pre-register, please get in touch with the two lead artists: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Gein Wong at asianartsfreedomschool@gmail.com. We are also up at http://www.myspace.com/asianartsfreedomschool
Because you want to be able to tell your family’s stories. Because you don't know your family's stories. Because you want to be able to tell your own story. Because we're the only ones who can tell our stories. Because we are the ones we've been waiting for.
The school is supported by a grant from Artreach Toronto.
The Asian Arts Freedom School is a writing/performance and Asian history and activism program for Asian/Pacific Islander youth in the Greater Toronto Area. This summer, Freedom School is back on, with a timing change... it's happening every WEDNESDAY, not Tuesday, starting June 13, but same place and time: Kapisanan, 167 Augusta, Toronto 6:00- 8:30. Kapisanan is just north of Dundas, in between Spadina and Bathurst.
This cycle, expect to have more rad Asian history lessons, including a guest appearance by Jo SiMalaya of Seeing Stories Productions, who's going to be talking about Filipino history through theatre, walking tours of Asian neighbourhoods including your own, and lots of collaborative exercises to get things ready for our exciting show at Harbourfront Centre on July 20!!! Freedom School is taking place at the Kapisanan Philippine Arts Centre 167 Augusta
All workshops are FREE, and we’ll have good food and free tokens!
To us Asian= West Asian (a.k.a. Arab or Middle-Eastern), Southeast Asian, South Asian, East Asian, Central Asian... mixed-race, adoptee, suburban, hood... just got here or been here since the 1800s. Asian stretches from the Philippines to Palestine, North China to Sri Lanka, Trinidad to Tibet, and all of it ends up in Toronto.
If you’re interested, have questions, or want to pre-register, please get in touch with the two lead artists: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Gein Wong at asianartsfreedomschool@gmail.com. We are also up at http://www.myspace.com/asianartsfreedomschool
Because you want to be able to tell your family’s stories. Because you don't know your family's stories. Because you want to be able to tell your own story. Because we're the only ones who can tell our stories. Because we are the ones we've been waiting for.
The school is supported by a grant from Artreach Toronto.