Events
2024 AGM
Adil (Peace in Palawan language), Kathara Membership Kapwa,
Tail end of the year, the season when Bakunawa’s mouth points Sidlangan (East) and their tail points Katungan (West) in the Philippines. On Turtle Island the Winter Solstice approaches, the darkest time of the year. Kathara Society calls upon our community stakeholders, those who support Indigenous Filipino Identities, who strive towards solidarity with IP (Indigenous Peoples) of the Philippines as well as our Coast Salish host nations as we reflect upon our continued commitment to Padayon, to keep moving forward. To navigate our diasporic existence as a collective, in our greater communities and within ourselves with more regard, intention and direction.
This year our AGM will be held online. Please join us in reflecting on our 2024 Program Achievements and usher in more to come in 2025.
Please note that our AGM has been rescheduled to the below time.
Saturday February 22nd
From 5-6pm Pacific Time.
Please confirm your RSVP by sending an email to katharainfo@gmail.com
Indigenous-identifying community members are all invited to attend without cost. We accept donations from non-Indigenous members to be a full voting member. To ensure your membership for 2025 please forward $20 Interac payment to katharainfo@gmail.com with the security password: Kathara. We can also accept paypal payments at https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/TTFDHNADJ89UL
Why hold an AGM? That seem's a little colonial
Fulfilling the institutional components of an annual general meeting (AGM), we create this event with intention beyond colonial constructs to connect together as diasporic Filipino/a/x on personal and collective decolonizing journeys.
Pagpapagaling ng Ugnayan, “Healing Relations”
🌿✨ Healing begins in connection.
Embark on a transformative journey with Pagpapagaling ng Ugnayan, “Healing Relations”, our offering. Rewrite narratives, embrace healing, and decolonize Pilipinx connections together with @Pamati_Counselling and our Apo Nakatatanda (Elder) - nurture your capacity through tools, resources and community building.
Join us for 7, fully subsidized, trauma-informed circles centering♀️🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 and non-binary kin of the arkipelago, sa Piñas; fostering intercultural, ancestral, & intergenerational relations.
Presented by Kathara Pilipino Indigenous Arts Collective Society Hosted at Joyce Collingwood Neighborhood House Mondays 6:30pm-8:30pm. May-June 2024.
Applications open soon.
Let’s keep in touch! Please say hello contact@pamaticounselling.com
Kapwa Arts Winter Cohort
Kapwa Arts Winter sessions are January to February at Collingwood Neighbourhood House, please note that some sessions are located at the "Main House" 5288 Joyce St, Vancouver, and some sessions are located at the "Annex," 3690 Vanness Ave, Vancouver.
Kapwa Tots Circle Time
18months-3 years old
Collingwood Neighbourhood House
Multi.P.Room) 5288 Joyce Street
11:00am-12:30pm Tuesdays
Jan.23-Feb 13,2024
Singing and Music, creative movement, storytelling, parachute play and Indigenous dances. This unique cultural arts program is rooted from the Philippine archipelago to support development of one's creativity, body and emotional awareness. The uplifting music and dance explores and celebrates our connections to one another and with nature.
Kapwa Kids
Collingwood Neighborhood House
(Multi.P.Room) 5288 Joyce Street
4:30pm-5:30pm Saturdays
Jan13-Feb.10, 2024
*Jan. 20 @Collingwood Annex
Singing and Music, creative movement, storytelling, parachute play and Indigenous dance and Filipino martial arts movements.
A cultural program rooted in development of one's identity, creativity, body and emotional awareness, learning uplifting music and dance that explore our connections to one another and nature.
Kapwa Youth and Adults
10 years and Up
Families encouraged
Collingwood Neighborhood House
Multi.P.Room) 5288 Joyce Street
6-7:30pm Saturdays
Jan.13-Feb.10, 2024
*Jan. 20 @Collingwood Annex
It's a class for beginners-multilevel that supports creative development, body awareness and greater understanding to one's identity through arts.
Through storytelling, theatre techniques, participants deepen kapwa connections to one another and nature.
A vibrant cultural arts program rooted in Indigenous dance, music and Martial arts traditions of the Philippine Archipelago.
Facilitated by our Artistic Director/Indigenous Music Movement Artist- Babette Santos, Singer/Musician Jesselyne Regala, Percussionist-Sacha Levin and Filipino Martial Artist Guro, Oneal Mendoza from Mendoza Boxing
Come 15 min early to register or pre-Register
Padayon! Kathara AGM 2023
Kathara Pilipino Indigenous Arts Society’s Annual General Meeting with merienda, ceremony, sharing about the year and gathering input from our valued stakeholders.
Boracay Ata's Songs, Ancestral land, & Environmental Reflections by Maria Christine Muyco, PhD
A special report about the Ata of Boroacay and their lands and waters by Christine Maria Muyco PhD taking place at Collingwood Neighborhood House, 5288 Joyce St, Unceded Coast Salish Territories.
Register at: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/boracay-atiata-songs-ancestral-land-environment-tickets-674240239707
The Flipside Vol. 1
The Flipside Vancouver is a series of multi-disciplinary events aimed at fostering community & empowering Filipino and BIPOC voices that will take place on Unceded Coast Salish Territories, on Turtle Island, BC.
THE FLIPSIDE - VOL. 1 // JUNE 29 @ RAILWAY CLUB
Balikbayan Ceremony of Return from the Motherland
Balikbayan Ceremony of Return from the Motherland
A private ceremony for Kathara Society members to bear witness to the recent journey to the Visayas by Kathara Board Members, Michelle and Sobey Wing along with Michelle’s children Oona and Hugo. An emergent strategy in decolonizing travel and invoking relational ties with land, water, forests, mountains, family and Indigenous kin. For further details please email katharainfo@gmail.com cc: kabisyan@gmail.com.