Friday, December 3, 6:00 pm (PST) // Saturday, December 4, 10:00 am (PHT)
All ages, FREE
Location: ZOOM
Join us online with exhibiting artist collective Load na Dito and curator Makiko Hara for an artists’ talk and virtual workshop. Over the course of an hour and a half, we’ll explore their collaborative art practice and engage in a virtual workshop where, using Zoom and Google Jamboard as communication tools, Load na Dito invites everyone to join a shared process of mapping personal experiences, feelings, observations, and local knowledge, prompted by the word home.
The virtual workshop Almost There aims to create a cozy, comfy, and relaxing space to exchange the stories of our daily experiences with friends and strangers from different places in Canada, the Philippines, and elsewhere. Anyone interested in telling their own stories and listening to those of others is encouraged to join. The workshop will be facilitated by Load na Dito in English (Filipino English) and participants are also invited to use drawings, photographs, audio clips, or anything else as a way to express their stories.
Load Na Dito is an artistic and research project based in Manila, Philippines. Developed as a homemade culture currently located in Cubao, Quezon City, the collective uses any possible space as a site for knowledge sharing, inquiry, and discussion. Load na Dito is a local top-up system for cellphone credit, where you can load credits anywhere as long as you can see a sign load na dito. Developing it as a model, the initiative makes projects in different locations; building new energies to have load. By organizing and co-organizing a wide range of programs, Load na Dito hopes to critically address the questions of participation and collaboration in relation to the practice of contemporary art.
Whose Stories? is curated by Makiko Hara and is on view at the Kamloops Art Gallery until December 31, 2021.
Load na Dito, Almost There, 2021. Photo: Kamloops Art Gallery.