Dialekto Workshop 04: Sari-sari Giftshop with Aida Azin & MJ Flamiano
When: Sunday 1 May, 1.00 - 3.00pm (including snacks)
Where: Visual Arts Studio, Footscray Community Arts [accessibility map]
Audience: Kids (6 - 10 years)
Group: Up to 12 participants
Cost: Free - sign up required
Known for their bright and colourful shop fronts and bric-a-brac garlands, sari-sari stores are considered iconic in the Philippines and may be found in barrios throughout the archipelago. Did you know that there are over 1.3 million of them in the Philippines now? Ay nako! O_O
Join us for a sari-sari-inspired workshop where young kids will be encouraged to choose a gift from our play store and use this to design and embellish their very own t-shirt using fabric markers, glitter glue, and miscellanea.
This workshop is open to children aged 6 - 10 years old and will be taught in English by visual artists (and ates), Aida Azin and MJ Flamiano.
You will need:
All materials will be supplied
BYO art smock or apron (not essential, but encouraged)
Participate:
If you’d like to participate, please complete the online sign up form by 10am, Friday 30 April.
[Sign up]
Facilitators
Aida Azin is an artist/community organiser based in Naarm/Melbourne and the founder of Saluhan Collective. Born to Iranian/Filipina parents and raised in an Australian context, Aida’s unique life experiences are melded with depictions of liminality, and attempt to reconcile losses that all diasporic bodies contend with. Aida has exhibited her paintings and installations at Fontanelle Gallery (SA), Format (SA), Blak Dot (VIC), Seventh Gallery (VIC), Project 20 (the Philippines), First Draft Gallery (NSW), FELT Space (SA), and Ace Open (SA), Bus Projects (VIC), and Yavuz Gallery (NSW).
MJ Flamiano is visual artist, producer, and community arts worker of Anglo and Filipino ancestry with roots in Luzon and the Visayas. She endeavours to present critical and often playful investigations into sites and their cultural significance. She explores Filipinx histories and diaspora through solo and community projects in printmaking, video, installation and text. In 2021, she facilitated Agimat, a series of community screenprinting workshops at Sunshine Print Artspace (VIC). In 2022, she will undertake an artist and workshop residency at Watch This Space artist-run-initiative in Mparntwe/Alice Springs (NT).