12pm: Feminist Lunchtime Talks with CareForce (Marisa Morán Jahn), Cynthia Cranford, Kwentong Bayan Collective (Althea Balmes and Jo SiMalaya Alcampo), Pinky Paglingayen (TNO Caregivers in Transition Program)

2pm: Care Work artist-led exhibition tour

3pm: Dance Rally with Marisa Morán Jahn and local caregivers

Carework as Choreography begins with a roundtable on care work, presented as part of the Feminist Lunchtime Talks series. Kwentong Bayan Collective (Althea Balmes and Jo SiMalaya Alcampo) and Marisa Morán Jahn (CareForce) will each present their projects included in Take Care, UTM Associate Professor of Sociology Cynthia Cranford will speak to her research on personal care work in California and Ontario, and local activist Pinky Paglingayen will discuss her advocacy work as a former caregiver and now settlement counsellor with the TNO Caregivers in Transition Program.

Exploring themes such as artistic and academic modes of inquiry into care work, collaborating with caregiving communities, representing care labour processes, and workers’ responses to care crisis, the talks will be followed by an exhibition tour of Care Work with the artists and a dance rally led by Morán Jahn in collaboration with the Kwentong Bayan Collective and local caregiver communities.

This event is the first in a series of Feminist Lunchtime Talks featuring artists, writers, activists, and academics working across issues of labour, gender, race, and identity in the context of the crisis of care. The talks put artists participating in Take Care and other guest speakers into conversation with UTM faculty respondents.

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Care Work on view at the Blackwood Gallery from October 16–November 4, 2017, and as part of Take Care, Circuit 2: Care Work.