Announcement
August 19, 2014

The Congress of Progressive Filipino Canadians and member organizations will be holding two workshop sessions at the upcoming People’s Social Forum being held in Ottawa, Ontario from August 21-24. Details are listed below. The full program schedule and map can be found here.

Community-based arts & culture: A tool for social change

Filipino Canadian Youth Alliance/ Ugnayan ng Kabataang Pilipino sa Canada (FCYA/UKPC).
English.
Date: August 22
Time: 2:45PM
Location: TBT 070

In the process of building a movement for radical social changes, progressive Filipino Canadians incorporate community-based arts and culture in their programs that help transform individual and collective subjectivities. THey look critically at their history and experiences in Canada and translate them into art and cultural forms that empower and hopefully, push more people in community and social activism.

Organizing transnational communities for social transformation
Emmanuel Sayo – Congress of Progressive Filipino Canadians |Joy C. Sioson – Philippine Women Centre of Ontario | 
Reuben Saramugam, Ken Santos – Filipino Canadian Youth Alliance
English. Simultaneous Translation.

Date: August 23, 2014
Time: 9:00am
Location: MRT 256

Neoliberal globalization continues to create a transnational community of working people in countries like Canada. Displaced from their home country and discriminated in Canada, their effort at genuine settlement and integration is a key component in the struggle for radical social transformation against capitalism and goes beyond support and solidarity from the organized working people of Canada.

For more information, contact:

The Magkaisa Centre
416-519-2553