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Last Login: 10/8/2009
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The Asian Arts Freedom School is an art-based radical Asian history and activism program for Asian/Pacific Islander youth in the Greater Toronto Area. We cover various artforms including writing, spoken word, music, visual arts, film, breakdancing, theatre and modern dance.
freedomschool's new program! PUSH PLAY Media Arts Program for Pan-Asian* Artists
Because we’ve been put on pause for long enough, it’s time to push play
Push Play is a new branch of Asian Arts Freedom School focused on the visual and media arts. Get ready for workshops that focus on the digital media arts, introduces you to work from mind blowing artists, and give
you the essential art history/theory/tech skills you need to make art that tells our stories and captures the world we see,
all ending with an exhibition of our works at the AGO!
Push Play will be an intensive 15-week program facilitated/run by artists Samuel Chow, Victoria Moufawad, Elvina Rafi and Gein Wong.
Tuesday evenings, 6:00 - 8:30pm, at the Art Gallery of Ontario
October 20th 2009 - February 23rd 2010 (break Dec 8 - Jan 5)
Push Play is completely FREE. Food and TTC Tokens will be provided.
To apply, check out pushplayarts.blogspot.com (Deadline October 16th!)
for more info email us at push.play.arts@gmail.com
www.myspace.com/asianartsfreedomschool
facebook group: Asian Arts Freedom School
*Asian = South Asian, West Asian (a.k.a. Arab or Middle-Eastern), Southeast Asian, East Asian, and Central Asian.
Push Play: New Media Arts for Asian Artists is supported by grants from the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts and is presented in partnership with the Art Gallery of Ontario
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Cycle 8 pt. 2: Mapping Home
Sept 9 – Oct 21, 2009 - 6:00-8:30pm
w Yaya Yao and Patrick Salvani
Sept 9 – Mapping home
Sept 16 - Mapping Community (Islands in the Stream...)
Sept 23 – If I Ruled the World...
Sept 30 – Writing workshop with Farzana Doctor
Oct 7 - FIELD TRIP! Visit & workshop on the "Codetalkers of the Digital Divide" Exhibit (in cooperation with A Space Gallery and the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival)
Oct 14 – Poster-making workshop with Sameer Farooq
Oct 21 – Open Mic nite for freedom schoolers! (Non-Asian) Allies and friends welcome to come see the show
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AAFS CYCLE 7 WORKSHOP SCHEDULE (Spring 2009):
Every Wednesday, Apr 1 to June 3,
food @ 6pm
workshop @ 6:30-8:30pm
Kapisanan, 167 Augusta Ave
Kensington Market
April 1st.
FREEDOM!!!!: Back to Basics.
April 8th.
Hussel Hussel Hussel Grind Grind Grind: Do you have work (hustle) on your mind?
April 15th.
Asian Idol: Voice, Beats, Rhythm.
April 22nd.
Gender Bender: Drag it Up!
April 29th.
Birth: Find your way back home.
May 6th.
A+: We’re the teachers, Let’s start the grading.
May 13th.
Trust Me : Sex and Relationship Workshop.
May 20th.
Freedom School to Freedom Home: Can you find your way?
May 27th.
Don’t Snap Snap Snap. Listen: Facing ourselves. End the drama.
June 3rd.
Block by Block: Building Community.
In this cycle we will:
Create a “Freedom Mural” - Ongoing
Perform at Mayworks - May 1st
Take Home a Collective Zine – June 3rd
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Fall 2008, Anthology Cycle: You Got Stories
Every Monday, Sept 22 to Dec 15, 6-8:30pm
Kapisanan, 167 Augusta Ave
Kensington Market
The Asian Arts Freedom School is a multidisciplinary Asian arts, history and activism program for Asian/Pacific Islander youth in the Greater Toronto Area. Immediately following our feature performance at Ladyfest Toronto, Cycle 6 will focus on creating written and visual works for the first Asian Arts Freedom School Anthology! Workshops will range from the history of Asians and labour in North America, to writing for kids, to creating Freedom School Halloween costumes! This cycle will be facilitated by Sabera Esufali, Thea Lim and Rabea Murtaza.
Asian = South Asian, West Asian (a.k.a. Arab or Middle-Eastern), Southeast 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.
why freedom school?
Because you're sick of being asked "Where're you from? No, where are you really from?" Because Asian is not just curry paste, Lucy Liu, and henna 'tattoos'. Asian is not just being obscure one day and trendy the next, being quiet and well-behaved or being stopped every time you go to the airport or cross a border. Because you're sick of being profiled and harassed by the cops. Because feeling inauthentic is okay.
If you're interested, have questions, or want to pre-register, please get in touch with the director and lead artist Gein Wong or our program coordinator Kenji Tokawa at asianartsfreedomschool@gmail.com.
Join our facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=8229086153
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 Asian Arts Freedom School is supported by grants from Artreach Toronto, Toronto Arts Council, the City of Toronto and the Ontario Arts Council, agency of the Government of Ontario.
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Summer Session 2008 Volume 5: Freedom Remixed
are you South/East/West/Southeast Asian in the G.T.A?
the Asian Arts Freedom School is looking for you!!!
Every Tuesday, June 10 to Aug 12, 6-8:30pm
Kapisanan, 167 Augusta Ave
Kensington Market
The Asian Arts Freedom School is a multidisciplinary Asian arts, history and activism program for Asian/Pacific Islander youth in the Greater Toronto Area. This session includes a range of workshops from theatre and movement, to writing, film and visual arts, including speaking with your body; pulling letters from your heart; and finding the colony in your mind, as well as a neighbourhood tour of a local Asian community. We will also be holding special
coalition building workshops open to all friends and allies of freedom school.
Asian = South Asian, West Asian (a.k.a. Arab or Middle-Eastern), Southeast 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.
why freedom school?
Because you’re sick of being asked “Where’re you from? No, where are you really from?” Because Asian is not just curry paste, Lucy Liu, and henna ‘tattoos’. Asian is not just being obscure one day and trendy the next, being quiet and well-behaved or being stopped every time you go to the airport or cross a border. Because you’re sick of being profiled and harassed by the cops. Because feeling inauthentic is okay.
If you’re interested, have questions, or want to pre-register, please get in touch with the director and lead artist Gein Wong at asianartsfreedomschool@gmail.com.
Join our facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=8229086153
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 Asian Arts Freedom School is supported by grants from Artreach Toronto, Toronto Arts Council, the City of Toronto and the Ontario Arts Council, agency of the Government of Ontario.
Nuit Brune / Nuit Jaune: A Spontaneous Lunar Eclipse
Sept 29th 2007 9pm-12am
Veda Restaurant 506 Church Street (West Side) south of Maitland
Come watch Toronto's Asian Arts Freedom School
conjure up a lunar eclipse, as the moon's light
becomes a spectrum of colours from brown
to yellow with elements of drag, spoken word,
break dance/modern dance with live visuals
and sound by Gein Wong.
Part Of Nightless City at Nuit Blanche! (Zone A, Site 19)
Why "Freedom School?
Communities of color have a long tradition of creating our own places to teach and learn from each other when mainstream schooling doesn't cut it. The term, ‘Freedom School’ was created by the African-American civil rights movements of the 1950s and 1960s. Freedom Schools were small community schools, often run by unpaid activists and community members, that taught everything from literacy to African-American history as an alternative to the racist mainstream educational system. Teachers often worked with no pay while facing death threats and other forms of racist violence.
Many other movements used the example of the Freedom Schools to create their own community-controlled schools. Similar programs were created by the Brown Berets (a millitant wing of the Chicana/o movement), the Asian American movement of the 60s and 70s and First Nations organizers within the American Indian Movement, to name just a few.
In choosing to use the term, ‘Freedom School’ to describe our project, we give respect to the history of African-American resistance that gave birth to those two words. We also chose to use it because of we believe learning about the histories we were never taught in school about Asian struggles and resistance, and learning how to tell our stories through writing and spoken word, is to search for and find freedom together.
freedom school's super cool video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzkEBc82VpIcredits...
cast: Toronto Asian Arts Freedom School, Kapisanan Phillipine Centre for Arts and Culture
script: Toronto Asian Arts Freedom School
music: Chet Singh 'December 6th',
LAL 'Wide Open'
production: Freedom School, Alvin Campaña, Remix Project, Blitz
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