Filipinas Of HamOnt: “For International Women’s Month, this is our first Instagram Live, and we want to highlight the work of Filipina-Canadians and how this work are conducted alongside others and broader social movements to bring about systemic change for the Filipina-Canadian community and other racialized communities.

As you can see from our posts, we are running history workshops this year. This partly comes from our recognition that for some of us who want to reconnect with our Philippine heritage, there are really not a lot of avenues for us to do that. So, we at FoH are delighted to hear about the Philippine Arts and Social Studies in the Ontario Curriculum Project, with Dr. Marissa Largo.

Marissa Largo is a researcher, artist, curator, and educator whose work focuses on the intersections of race, gender, settler colonialism, and Asian diasporic cultural production. She earned her PhD in Social Justice Education from OISE, University of Toronto (2018) and holds degrees in Visual Arts and Education from York University and has a Master’s degree in Art Education from Concordia University.She is an Assistant Professor of Art Education at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) University in the Division of Art History and Contemporary Culture.

She was in Hamilton in 2019 for a performative lecture called A Scholarly Kamayan for The Reception. She presented this lecture in a two-day forum on decolonizing arts institutions.“