Pantayo conversation + performance in Guelph

Presented by Wet Sounds: feminist + queer music practices in the polycrisis

Saturday January 25th

Improv Lab – Room 108 MacKinnon Building

Trent Lane – University of Guelph

6:30 doors open
7:00 Talk
8:00 refreshments + cash bar
8:30 performance

On Saturday January 25th, 2025, Wet Sounds: feminist + queer music practices in the polycrisis presents a performance and conversation with PANTAYO. The second guest in the series hosted by Musagetes in Guelph, Pantayo are queer Filipinx kulintang gong punks based in Tkaronto, Canada. The ensemble combines traditional Kulintang music from the Philippines with contemporary influences and experimental sounds derived from their experiences as queer diasporic Filipinxs on Turtle Island.

Wet Sounds is a quarterly arts series that presents conversations and performances centring the intersections of feminist and queer musicians’ academic work, artistic practice, and collaborations in the polycrisis. This series will examine notions of grief, ritual, queerness, pleasure, land, embodiment, colonialisms, decay, noise, and sound. Wet Sounds will ask how artists see their practice as impacted by or responding to the interconnected crises unfolding around us—climate chaos, genocide, fascism, an erosion of democracy, and multiple sites of oppression and resistance.

Photo: Green Yang

Suggested PWYC tickets of $15 will be donated to Filipinos United for Palestine, a coalition of Filipino individuals, organizations, and businesses in Canada working together for a free Palestine. No one will be turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF). Masks will be available; guests are encouraged to stay home if they’re not feeling well and to reduce the use of scented products (e.g. perfume, cologne) for this event.