Dialekto Workshop 03: Kusina Konversations with Rio Withall and Catherine-Ortega Sandow

When: Saturday 2 April, 11.00 - 3.00pm (including lunch)

Where: Workroom 2, Siteworks [accessibility map]

Audience: Adults 18+ / No experience in art or design

Group: Up to 12 participants

Cost: Free - sign up required

Join Kusina Konversations, a calendar-making workshop and lunch date, exploring the role of food as a shared language, commonly used to communicate within diasporas and migrant communities.

Guided by food advocate and graphic designer, Rio Withall, in collaboration with researcher and storyteller, Catherine Ortega-Sandow, this workshop invites participants to draw from their own cultural experiences with food, ingredients, recipes, and celebrations to share their stories in a range of fun and accessible media including collage, drawing, and text. At the conclusion of the workshop, participants will be invited to submit their works for inclusion in the Kusina Konversations calendar, which will be printed and exhibited in late 2022.

In addition to the workshop, all participants will be invited to share in a Filipinx lunch prepared by the artists and featuring their takes on classic and contemporary dishes from the archipelago.

You will need:

All materials will be supplied. However, you’re encouraged to bring photocopied reference materials, including photos, drawings, old magazines, paper publications, newspaper, etc. for collage.

Participate:

This workshop is currently at capacity. If you’d like to sign up for the waiting list, please complete the waiting list form below.

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Facilitator bio

Rio Withall (they/them) is a Filipinx-Australian Freelance Graphic Designer based in Naarm (Melbourne). They work with a range of industries across the continent and have a particular interest in working with grassroots and community-led organisations and bringing accessible design to the forefront of their discipline. Rio is currently working on a Filipinx cookbook - Kamay, which aims to share, connect and uplift Filipinx people in the diaspora by using food as a way of resisting, healing and connecting to lineage.

Catherine Ortega-Sandow is a researcher and community practitioner currently based in Naarm (Melbourne). Catherine has a history of designing and delivering a range of place based community projects across Australia and Asia-Pacific, and works as an Advisor on a national initiative exploring mental health in communities. Catherine is a member of Saluhan, a Filipino/x artist collective, and is currently developing a public program of works by Filipino/x artists to be delivered in 2022.