🌀 CAD virtual community check-ins will address the needs of Asian diasporic dance artists for dialogue about community issues. The gatherings will allow us to directly respond—for example, to community events/incidents, emerging political issues, and broader social currents—in emergent and quick ways. For our inaugural community check-in, we invite Asian diaspora dance artists from across Canada to meet the new team of CAD.  Where we can introduce ourselves, and what we are thinking and working on here in CAD.  It will also be a moment for us to meet you, the many artists in different communities that we may not know or have only met in passing.  We are proposing a first encounter, a meet and greet and introduction. 

We have created a link to a poll to determine the best potential times to gather - LINK IN BIO! We can’t wait to meet you 🌀 (fb)

MERYENDA ☀️ [snack, or in-between meal in Tagalog] Join CanAsian Dance & @dancemakersto for a facilitated conversation with artists from the Philippine Diaspora creating performances in response to and through the lens of diasporic experiences.  March 23, 2025, 1pm-4 pm (conversation at 2 pm) Parkdale Library Auditorium (Basement) 1303 Queen St W, Toronto, ON M6K 1L6 RSVP LINK IN BIO Invited artists Ralph Escamillan, Patrick Alcedo, Candace Kumar,  Blessy Buan, & Andrew Tay, will converse with facilitators Bee Pallomina and Fran Chudnoff about their experiences as artists and scholars working in the diaspora. These invited artists and attendees will work through questions like “How are contemporary practices in conversation with traditional forms? How do we work with culture and heritage, abiding or not traditional forms? How do we curate works sensitively with awareness to contexts of migration, colonialism and modernity?”  Snacks and beverages will be served (fb)