Frequencies with Sha Agbayani
About this Event
Dialing in, dialing out - in our second summer session, we strive to better understand the utility of offering or reneging presence, to usurp the regular insistences upon static ways of being as considered through frequencies. By figuring relationality as a wave - we can make more legible the kinds of attunement our bodies offer, how they transmit and receive knowledge through feelings of reticence, openness and closure. Interference makes itself apparent through difference and its subsequent misalignments - striving to find an aural commonplace can serve as a guide to rebuild trust for ourselves, and our own capacity to signal what we need to others. These poems will guide us to the more intuitive space of knowledge frequencies provide, steering us to a place we can connect and reflect upon internal systems which are already there.
This session will be facilitated by featured poet, Sha Agbayani and Tender Possibilities’ founder, Farhia Tato alongside an installation by featured visual artists Soledad Fátima Muñoz and Nala Haileselassie.
Created collaboratively, this site-specific textile traces waterways that once existed on this land and have since disappeared through human intervention, drawing attention to a territory more commonly remembered for its extractive industries and role within Canada's colonial history. Through the archival qualities of cloth, the artists memorialize what is no longer present, inviting reflection on memory, disappearance, and the enduring presence of the land itself. Even in an anthropocentric world, before traces there is always land.
Soledad Fátima Muñoz is a Canadian-Chilean artist whose practice centers on the political and historical dimensions of textiles. Raised in Rancagua, Chile, she creates large-scale weavings—often made with copper wire—that explore memory, resistance, and material storytelling.
Nala Haileselassie is an artist, researcher and curator based in Toronto, working from the lineage of Black women and cultural workers across the world. Her work is rooted in film, animation, facilitation and archival remixing.
Sha is a steward of life, writer, curator-producer, transdisciplinary artist and co-founder of Greenhouse Theatre. Her work unravels borders between art, life, ritual and ecology. She produces programming merging ritual, art, land connection, and interdisciplinary creation across Turtle Island and in the archipelago known as the Philippines. She is currently rooted near the Chi Sippi (Rouge River) with ancestral roots in the Tagalog region.
This series is made possible with support from: Toronto Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, and Scarborough Arts. With special thanks to our community partners: East Scarborough Storefront, East End Arts and Riverdale Hub.
Transit reimbursement:
As part of the summer sessions, we’re offering fare reimbursement for public transit riders (PRESTO 2-Ride Tickets in person, and up to $10 in reimbursement for GO Transit or other regional transit fares prior to the sessions). If you’d like to opt in, please email [email protected] with the best email address or phone number for e-transfer and the amount of reimbursement requested.TTC service is available via the 28 Bayview South bus from Davisville subway station. The free Evergreen Shuttle Bus also runs seven days a week, year-round, between Broadview Station and Evergreen Brick Works. It departs every 30–45 minutes from the Broadview Subway Station Parkette, located on Erindale Avenue next to Broadview Station.
Childcare support:
During each session we can have up to two people who can provide on-site childcare services to support parents and caregivers if requested. Depending on the day, this may include an arts and crafts activity inside or around the Children’s Garden which is the meet up point for the session and/or a walking tour of Evergreen Brick Works which will end at the location of the session. If you need this type of support, sign up here or e-mail [email protected]!
Agenda
🕑: 01:30 PM - 02:00 PM
Snacks and refreshments
🕑: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Session begins
Where is it happening?
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