Department of Communication and Media Studies
York University
(416) 898-8622
cmecija@yorku.ca
Sound Studies; Performance Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Filipino/a Diasporic Studies; Transnational Feminisms
2020 Ph.D., University of Toronto. Dissertation: The Sound of Queer Diaspora: Sonic Enactments of Filipinx Desire, Loss and Belonging. 2013 M.A. in Communication and Multimedia Studies, McMaster University. 2004 B.A. in Radio and Television Arts, Toronto Metro University.
2020–Present Assistant Professor Department of Communication Studies, York University
2020–Present Faculty Member York/Toronto Metro Joint Graduate Program in Communication and Culture (CMCT), York University
2021–Present Faculty Member Graduate Program in Gender Feminist and Women’s Studies (GFWS), York University
A. Refereed Articles 2022 Dyer, H., Mecija, C. “Affective Belonging, Family Photography and the Reparative Practices of Queer Parenting.” Psychoanalysis Culture Society (27), pp. 145-162.
2021 Mecija, Casey. “‘The desert’s no home for a rose’: Filipinx Childhood and Music as Aesthetic Experience,” special issue of Global Studies of Childhood.
2020 Mecija, Casey. “Skin as Ecstatic Surface: Listening Queerly to the Works of Patrick Cruz,” special issue of Canadian Review of Cultural Studies, “Queer Canada,” 54(2), pp. 508–525.
2019 Mecija, Casey. “Disobedient Listening Practices: Notes on Christine Bacareza Balance’s Tropical Renditions: Making Music Scenes in Filipino America.” Journal of the Society for American Music (13)1. February.
2018 Dyer, H. and Casey Mecija. “Leaving to Love: Filipino Caregivers and the Queer Kinship of Transnational Childcare,” special issue of World Futures, “Transdisciplinary Child and Youth Studies: Critical Praxis and Global Perspectives,” 74(7-8), pp. 542–558.
B. Book Chapters
2021 Mecija, Casey. “Balang’s Dance: Puro Arte as Queer Affect,” special issue of Q & A: Voices from Queer Asian North America, “Q & A 2.0,” Temple University Press.
2017 Mecija, C. “Goodbye Ohbijou: Notes on Music, Queer Affect, and the Impossibilities of Satisfying Multicultural Ideals in Canada,” book chapter in Diasporic Intimacies, Queer Filipinos/as and Canadian Imaginaries, Northwestern University Press, pp. 119–133.
C. Peer Reviewed Web-Based Publications
2022 Mecija, Casey. “The Sound of What Becomes Possible: Language Politics and Jesse Chun’s 술래 SULLAE,” Sounding Out!: The Sound Studies Blog. Published: August 8.
2020 Mecija, Casey. “Blank Space and the Queer Sonics of Filipinx Childhood,” Sounding Out!: The Sound Studies Blog. Published: February 17.
Edited Collections and Special Issue
2022 (In Progress) H. Dyer, and C. Mecija (eds). Special Issue: “Childhood’s Sonic Dimensions.” Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures. Expected publication: Summer 2024.
2022 (In Progress) J. Catungal, L. Davidson, M. Largo, and C. Mecija (eds). Special Issue: “Filipinx Studies in Canada.” Alon: Journal for Filipinx and Diasporic Studies. Expected publication: Spring 2024.
D. Other Publications
2023 (Forthcoming) Mecija, C. “Birthdays and Sinigang.” ma ma at The Table: a diasporic cookbook. Art Metropole.
2022 (Forthcoming) Fujitani, Takashi, et al. “Critical Race Studies Now: Teaching Anti-Asian Racism With and Without Institutions.” Scholar Strike Canada: Anti-Asian Racism Undone Roundtable Conversation. Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas.
2021 Mecija, C. “Ness Lee’s ‘Soft Universe’: Queer Diasporic Art and a Pedagogy of Softness,” Goose Lane Publishing, November 2021.
2021 Mecija, C. “Screw the ‘Model Minority’ Myth: Why It’s Time for Asians to Fight Back.” By Tim Chan. Rolling Stone (online), April 26, 2021. Interviewed and quoted.
2019 Dyer, H. and Casey Mecija. “One Queer Couple’s Hopes and Dreams for their Child: This Toddler’s Two Moms Wish for a World that Reflects their Family,” Toronto Star The Kit, May, 2019.
2018 Mecija, C. “Get Pulled Inside as Artist Laurie Kang asks you to Unhinge Yourself From Your Body,” CBC Arts, May, 2018.
2018 Mecija, C. “Heartbreak is Sonic: How Billy-Ray Belcourt’s Poetry Encouraged Decolonial Love in 2017,” CBC Arts Point of View, December 2018.
2016 Mecija, C. “Making Film, Art and Music as a Filipino in Canada,” CBC News, May 2016.
2023 “Distant Labor: Telecommunication and Its Attunements.” Invited Presider. MLA Annual Convention: Working Conditions. San Francisco, California. January 5–8.
2023 “Sonic Agencies and Filipinx Intimacies in the Diaspora.” Philippine Studies Conference in Japan (PSCJ). University of Tokyo. Tokyo, Japan. November 26–27.
2022 “Sounding Futures: Queer Sonics and Filipinx Intimacies.” FilipiNEXT: Filipinx Studies in Canada and Beyond. York University. July 14.
2022 “Ness Lee’s ‘Soft Universe’: Queer Diasporic Art and a Pedagogy of Softness.” Diasporic Solidarities Conference. McMaster University. Presented virtually on June 9, 2022.
2021 “The Queer Sonics of Childhood: Listening to Capital, Labor and ‘Asymmetries of Innocence’” (with Dr. Hannah Dyer). National Women’s Studies Association conference: We Are Family: Feminist Community Formations Across Borders and Experience! Presented virtually on October 15.
2019 “The Queer Sonics of Girlhood: Listening to Capital, Labour and ‘Asymmetries of Innocence’.” The Girl: From Expansive Imaginings to Embodied Experience. York University. Toronto, Canada. November 15–16.
2019 “Fighting for Reproductive Justice as We Build Families.” Roundtable participant. American Studies Association Annual Meeting: Build As We Fight. Honolulu, Hawaii. November 7–10.
2019 “The Queer Sonics of Childhood: Listening to Capital, Labour and the Asymmetries of Innocence” (with Dr. Hannah Dyer). Association for Research in Cultures of Young People: Youngsters 2. Toronto Metropolitan University. Toronto, Ontario. May 9–12.
2018 “The Queer Sonics of Childhood: Listening to Capital, Labour and the Asymmetries of Innocence” (with Dr. Hannah Dyer). American Studies Association Annual Meeting: States of Emergence. Atlanta, Georgia. November 8.
2018 “Leaving to Love: Queer Kinship, Transnational Mothering and Childhood Innocence.” Queering Friendship: Citizenship, Queer and Choice. Lisbon, Portugal. October 16–18.
2017 “Balang’s Dance: Puro Arte as Queer Affect.” American Studies Association Annual Meeting: Pedagogies of Dissent. Chicago, Illinois. November 9.
2017 “The Paradox of Leaving to Love: Queer Kinship and Transnational Mothering.” Conceptualizing Childhood and Youth Conference. Brock University. St. Catherine’s, Ontario. October 14.
2017 “The Paradox of Leaving to Love: Queer Kinship and Childhood Innocence.” Feeling Queer / Queer Feeling. University of Toronto. Toronto, Ontario. May 24.
2016 “Balang’s Dance: Puro Arte as Queer Affect.” Palimpsests 2: The Philippines and The Filipinos. San Diego, California. October 15.
2016 “Transnational Mothering and Queer Kinship: Psychoanalytic Notes on ‘The Caregiver Program’” (written with Dr. Hannah Dyer). Annual Conference Dreams and Nightmares: Psychoanalysis and Social Justice in the 21st Century. Camden, New Jersey. October 15.
2016 “The Paradox of Leaving to Love: Transnational Labour and Feminist Re-Orientations to Childhood Innocence.” International Congress of Gender Studies. Lisbon, Portugal. May 25.
2015 “Music’s Ability to Touch the Emotional Space of Diaspora.” Sixth International Conference on the Image. Berkeley, California. October 29.
2015 “Goodbye Ohbijou: Notes on Music, Capital, and the Impossibilities of Satisfying Multicultural Ideals in Canada.” Diasporic Intimacies: Queer Filipinos/as and Canadian Imaginaries. University of Toronto. Toronto, Ontario. January 23.
2022 Invited Speaker. “Aesthetic Expression and Queer Diaspora.” Brock University. November 28
2022 Moderator & Organizer. “FilipiNEXT presents Topline: Filipinx Diaspora and Sonic Aspirations in the City.” Innis Town Hall. July 13.
2022 Moderator. “Master Class with Chase Joynt: The Making of Framing Agnes.” York University. May 4.
2022 Keynote Speaker. “Sonic Agencies and Filipinx Intimacies in the Diaspora.” Creating Knowledge, Making Change: Socially Engaged Research Methodologies with Im/Migrant Care Workers in COVID-19. York University. April 23.
2022 Invited Panelist. “New Sounds from Global Filipino Pop Music Studies.” Philippine Palimpsests: Filipinx Studies Today. University of Minnesota’s Transnational American Studies Lecture Series hosted by Dr. Martin Manalansan. March 31.
2022 Invited Speaker. “Interrogating Community Care.” Wavelength Winter Festival: Speaker Series 2022. Wavelength Music. March 9.
2022 Invited Speaker. “Diasporic Sound and Music as Aesthetic Experience.” Gallery TPW, Toronto. March 3.
2021 Invited Speaker. “Filipinx Childhoods in the Diaspora and Music as Aesthetic Experience.” Child and Youth Studies Colloquium, Brock University. November 16.
2021 Invited Panelist. “Worldmaking: A Conversation.” Elusive Desires (with Ness Lee, Florence Yee, Marissa Largo and Elisha Lim). Varley Art Gallery of Markham. November 18.
2021 Invited Speaker. “Immigrants, Women and Transnational Migration” (GSWS 312-4). Simon Fraser University. November 23.
2021 Invited Speaker. “Queer Dissonance in Pantayo.” Thinking Queer Diaspora Now. University of Cincinnati’s Taft Centre. October 29.
2021 Invited Grad Seminar Participant. MA Seminar in Gender, Feminist and Women's Studies (GFWS 6907). York University. October 20.
2021 Keynote Speaker. “Sounding Futures: Queer Sonics and Filipinx Intimacies.” Pivot Conference: Dismantling and Reassembling: Tools for Alternative Futures. OCAD University. June 23–24.
2021 Invited Panelist. “Critical Race Studies Now: Teaching Anti-Asian Racism With and Without Institutions.” Scholar Strike Canada: Anti-Asian Racism Undone (with Christine Kim, Takashi Fujitani, Allan Punzalan Isaac and Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns). May 29.
2021 Invited Panelist. Communication & Cultural Policy in the Age of the Platform. McMaster University. Hamilton, Canada. May 6.
2021 Invited Panelist. “Communication and New Media.” Grad Seminar, McMaster University. April 9.
2021 Invited Panelist. “Human Library,” Asian Community AIDS Services (ACAS). February 26.
2021 Invited Lecture. “Disrupting Childhoods.” York University. January 15. Attendance: 130.
2020 Guest Lecture. “Alternative and Community Media” (CMCT 6324). York University. November 12.
2020 Guest Lecture. “On My Own: Queer Sound and Artistic Interventions.” Asian Canadians and Popular Culture (ACAM250). University of British Columbia. November 3.
2020 Guest Lecture. “Filipinx Girlhood: Queering Kinship, Diaspora and Intimacy.” The Politics of Girlhood. University of Toronto. August 11.
2020 Guest Lecture. “Sound and Queer Affect.” Theories of the Flesh: Transnational Feminist Sensibilities. University of Toronto. March 10.
2019 Panel Moderator. “Intimacies and the City.” Beauty, Brutality and the Neocolonial City (with Martin Manalansan, Robert Diaz, Denise Cruz, Christine Balance, Allan Isaac). University of Toronto. March 22.
2019 Guest Lecture. “Queer Diasporic Childhoods.” Gender in Popular Culture Course, University of Toronto. March 21.
2019 Guest Lecture. “Listening to Queer Filipinx Subjectivity in Canada,” McMaster University. March 14.
2019 Co-Panelist (with Ryan Rice, Camille Turner, Casey Mecija, and Patricio Dávila). Post-Colonial Hot Ones, OCAD University. February 28.
2018 Guest Lecture. “Performing Filipinx Subjectivity.” Rise of Music Industry Course, McMaster University. November 29.
2018 Guest Lecture. “Diaspora and Filipinx Performance.” Asian Cultures in Canada Course, University of Toronto. November 19.
2018 Guest Lecture. “Adolescent Bad Feelings and the Limits of Policy and Practice.” Gender in Popular Culture Course, University of Toronto. October 31.
2018 Guest Lecture. “Performance and Queer Diasporic Experience.” Asian Cultures in Canada Course, University of Toronto. March 8.
2017 Guest Lecture. “Transnational Migration and Queer Childhood.” Theoretical Frameworks in Child and Youth Studies Course, Brock University. November 29.
2017 Featured Speaker. “What Does a Painting Sound Like? Ecstatic Surfaces and Queer Affect in the Works of Patrick Cruz.” Co-presentation by University of Winnipeg and Plug-In Gallery. April 20.
2016 Respondent. Feminist Sex Wars: Sexual Representation as Threat and Empowerment, “Psychic Materials: Diaspora and Queer Sonics.” Carleton University. February 27.
2016 Guest Lecture. “Psychic Materials: Diaspora and Queer Sonics.” Black Noise: Cultures of the African Diaspora Course, University of British Columbia. October 26.
2016 Guest Lecture. “Psychic Materials: Diaspora and Queer Sonics.” Intro to Sexuality Studies Course, Carleton University. November 29.
2016 Featured Speaker. The Trampoline Hall Lecture Series, “Karaoke as a Method of Filipino Dream-making: How I Became Eponine From Les Miserables.” The Garrison. October 17.
2016 Featured Speaker. On Demand: Canadian Network of Psychoanalysis and Culture Speaker Series, “Quantum Positions in Music and Performance.” Aviv Restaurant. September 29.
2016 Featured Speaker (with Chase Joynt, Vivek Shraya and Danielle Peers). Sexuality, Aesthetics and Embodied Resistance, Carleton University. February 16.
2015 Co-Panelist (with Yen Le Espiritu, Conely de Leon, and Jennilee Austria). Filipino American and Filipino Canadian: A Conversation with Dr. Yen Le Espiritu. OCAD University. October 23.
2015 Guest Lecture. “Filipino Girlhood & Diasporic Attachments.” The Politics of Girlhood Course, University of Toronto. May 18.
2015 Panel Moderator. “Music and Performance: The Limits of Canadian Identity.” Art Gallery of Ontario. April 2.
2015 Co-Panelist (with Vivek Shraya and Shani Mootoo). Love Without Borders: A Conversation About Race, Racism and Literature. Ryerson University. March 14.
2015 Featured Speaker (with Vivek Shraya). “Family Ties Tour: Exploring the Relationships Between Queer Diasporic Children and their Parents.” McMaster University, University of Toronto, Brock University, Sheridan College. March.
2014 Guest Lecture. Positive Space Presents. “Queer Diasporic Art as A Site Of Repair.” George Brown College. November 14.
2014 Guest Lecture (with Dr. Hannah Dyer). “Diasporic Narratives of Childhood in Popular Culture.” Gender Theories and Culture Society, Culture and Environment Course, Wilfrid Laurier. November 6.
2014 Respondent. Memories to Light: Asian American Home Movies. Reel Asian International Film Festival and the Center for Asian American Media. Jackman Hall. November 11.
2014 Keynote Speaker. “Impossible Desires and Queering Kinship.” Hamilton Queerification Conference. Workers Arts and Heritage Centre. June 12.
2014 Co-Panelist (with Mark Milne, Sam Siva, Amber Aasman, Jamie Gunner Smith and Graham Rockinham). Music and Labour Conference. McMaster University. May 8.
2014 Guest Lecture. “Histories of Filipino Diaspora in Canada.” Gender and Violence Course, University of Toronto. April 14.
2022 Chair of Organizing Committee FilipiNEXT: Filipinx Studies in Canada and Beyond (July 13–15) York University. Toronto.
2022 Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) Research Spotlight: Casey Mecija: Exploring the Queerness of Sound. August 3.
2022 Podcast Interview. “An Interview with Casey Mecija,” produced by Isa S You. The ACAM Dialogues Podcast. UBC Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies Program. August 9.
2022 Print Feature. “FilipiNEXT Imagines What’s Next in Filipinx Studies in Canada.” Philippine Reporter. July 22.
2022 Interview. “Filipinx Scholars Gather in Ontario to Celebrate Growing Community.” Omni News (television), July 15.
2022 Interview. York University’s #PeopleOfYU Series: Casey Mecija and the Queerness of Sound. June 17.
2021 Interview and quoted. “We Demand: 50 Years After Our First Major Rights Rally, This Is What Queer Canadians Say We Need Today.” By Peter Knegt. CBC Arts (online), August 27, 2021.
2021 Interview and quoted. “Screw the ‘Model Minority’ Myth: Why It’s Time for Asians to Fight Back.” By Tim Chan. Rolling Stone (online), April 26, 2021.
2021 Interview and quoted. “Profile: Tina Jung.” By Kaela Tenn. Excalibur News (online), March 17, 2021.
2020 Podcast Interview. “The Queer Bar with Casey Mecija.” By K. Anderson. Lost Spaces. November 26, 2020.
2020 Podcast Contributor. “Bonus episode.” By Anupa Mistry. Burn Out. May 20, 2020.
2019 Video Interview. “Singing Queer Love Songs with Casey Mecija.” Xtra Video. June 12, 2019.
2019 Video Interview. “Casey Mecija on Richard Fung | Super Queeroes.” CBC Arts. June 21, 2019.
2017 Video Interview. “For Artist Casey Mecija, There’s More Than One Way of Coming Out.” Huffington Post. November 15, 2017.
2017 Podcast Interview. “Kreative Kontrol with Vish Khanna Ep. #365.” October 12, 2017.
2016 Radio Interview. “3 Artists Call Out Racism in Toronto’s Music Scene.” CBC Q. January 28, 2016.
2016 Print Interview. “Real Talk About Racism in the Toronto Music Scene: Casey Mecija: Solo artist, former member of Ohbijou, PhD student, host of CBCs The Doc Project.” Now Magazine. January 27, 2016.
2016 Print Interview. Casey Mecija Aims to Write Dreams, Not Songs.” Vice Magazine. January 27, 2016.
2016 Video Interview. “On the Eve Of The Bands Reunion, Ohbijou’s Casey Mecija Talks About Fighting Racism in Music.” Vice Video. November 16, 2016.
Department of Communication Studies, York University
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2022–2023 |
COMN2830 6.0 |
Music & Society 40 Students |
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2022–2023 |
COMN4732 3.0 |
Theories of Diaspora and Transnational Media 25 Students |
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2021–2022 |
COMN4733 3.0 |
Second Generation Diaspora and Identity 22 Students |
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2021–2022 |
COMN4732 3.0 |
Theories of Diaspora and Transnational Media 16 Students |
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2021–2022 |
COMN1425 6.0 |
Youth, Media, and Culture 118 Students |
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2020–2021 |
COMN4733 3.0 |
Second Generation Diaspora and Identity 24 Students |
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2020–2021 |
COMN4720 3.0 |
Cultural Industries and Work 24 Students |
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2020–2021 |
COMN4732 3.0 |
Theories of Diaspora and Transnational Media 13 Students |
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2020–2021 |
COMN3725 3.0 |
Young People’s Media in Canada 37 Students |
Women and Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto
2017/2020 Course Instructor: “Gender in Popular Culture,” University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario.
2019 Course Instructor: “The Politics of Girlhood,” University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario.
Child and Youth Studies, Brock University
2018/2019 Course Instructor: “Gender and Sexuality,” Brock University, St. Catherine’s, Ontario.
2022 – 2025 Catalyzing Interdisciplinary Research Clusters Program Designing Sound Futures Cluster, York University
PI: Kurt Thumlert (York), Co- PI: Andreas Kitzmann
Co-Applicants: Melanie Baljko, James Smith, Vassilios Tzerpos, Casey Mecija,
Graham Wakefield, David Cecchetto.
2022 SSHRC Connections Grant $23,693
FilipiNEXT: Filipinx Studies in Canada and Beyond.
PI: Casey Mecija
Co-Applicant: John Paul Catungal (UBC)
Collaborators: V. Damasco (UofT), L. Davidson (York), C. de Leon (Toronto
Metro), M. Farrales (SFU), M. Largo (York)
2021 SSHRC Partnership Development Grant $200,000
Kids, KidTech and the Metaverse: Global childhoods in digital capitalism
Project Leads: PI: N. Coulter (York), Co-applicant: R. Willett (UW-Madison)
Co-Applicants: A. Harvey (York), M.Dezuanni (QUT, Australia) and Jeong
(GINUE, South Korea)
Collaborators: D. de Jesus (York), H. Jensen (Aarhus), M. Mauk (UW-Madison),
M. McKee (Cambrian) K. McPherson (Ryerson), C. Mecija (York), Morris (UW
Madison), A. Shabtay, A. Sriskandarajah (York)
The KidTech project, a partnership of 4 international universities, York (Canada),
UW-Madison (USA) Queensland University of Technology (Australia) and
Gyeongin National University of Education (South Korea), seeks to address the
rapidly shifting spaces of children’s digital cultures and media and how these
spaces are impacted by the global expansion of digital capitalism.
2021–2024 Catalyzing Interdisciplinary Research Clusters Program $525,000
Digital Justice Research Cluster, York University
PI: Patricio Davila (York), Co-PI: Ganaele Langlois (York)
Collaborators: Caitlin Fisher, Brenda Longfellow, John Greyson, Mary Bunch,
Alison Harvey, Shital Desai, Desirée de Jesus, Gabrielle Moser, Natalie Coulter,
Archer Pechawis, Rianka Singh, Kelly Bergstrom, Yan Shvartzshnaider, Amanda
de Lisio, Ian Garrett, Laura Levin, Joel Ong, Helene Mialet, Vera Pavri, Casey
Mecija, Marissa Largo, Janine Marchessault, Shirley Roburn, Michael Darroch,
Taien Ng-Chan, James Elder, Lisa Myers, Rebecca Caines, Yu-Zhi Joel Ong
2021 SSHRC Insight Development Grant $62,368
Imagining Diasporic Experiences through Digital Storytelling
PI: Immony Men (OCAD U)
Co-Applicant: Casey Mecija (York)
2022-23 Experiential Education Development Fund – Stream 1 $1000
2022 LA&PS Research Events Fund $3,000
FilipiNEXT: Filipinx Studies in Canada and Beyond.
2021-22 Experiential Education Development Fund – Stream 1 $770
2020 Minor Research Grant $5,000
Sounding Out Diaspora: Music as a Mode of Filipinx Representation.
RA: Nadjie Danielle Magsumbol
2020 SSHRC Explore Grant $4,131
Diasporic Mix Tape: Fostering Filipinx Intimacies in Canada Through Sound.
RA: Joanna Delos Reyes
2022 Invited Performer, Queer Songbook Orchestra. Toronto, Ontario. December 20.
2022 Contributing author. Lambda Literary Awards (Nominated): Special issue of Q &
A: Voices from Queer Asian North America, “Q & A 2.0,” Temple University
Press.
2022 2022 Sundance Film Festival NEXT Innovator Award and NEXT Audience Award:
Framing Agnes, directed by Chase Joynt with music contribution by Casey Mecija.
2020 City of Toronto Women and Gender Studies Scholarship. University of Toronto.
2020 Invited Participant, Duke University Feminist Workshop, March 19–21.
2019 Superior Teaching Award (Nominated). University of Toronto.
2018 Ontario Graduate Scholarship. University of Toronto.
2017 Creation Grant. Toronto Arts Council.
2017 Invited Participant (declined). Banff Research in Culture Residency: Year 2067. Banff, Alberta. July 10–August 11.
2017 Invited Participant. Perversion at the Crossroads of Critical Race Studies, Psychoanalysis and Queer Theory. Toronto, Ontario. June 5–7.
2015 Hammed Shahidian Graduate Award in Women and Gender Studies. University of Toronto. March.
2015 Popular Music Grant. Ontario Arts Council.
2014 Creation Grant. Toronto Arts Council Creation.
2014 Commissioned Score. Reel Asian International Film Festival. November.
2014 Vida Heydarian Gender Justice Award. University of Toronto. March.
2014 WIFT-T Award (Women in Film and Television). Toronto, Ontario. November.
2012 The Golden Gitch Award (in memory of artist and activist Will Munro). Toronto,
Ontairo. June.
2012 Invited Participant. 10x10: Celebrating Queers in the Arts. Toronto, Ontario. June.
2011 Access and Development Grant. Ontario Arts Council.
2010 Popular Music Grant. Ontario Arts Council.
2009 Invited Participant. Artscape Gibraltar Point Writing Residency. Toronto, Ontario. July.
2007–2009 Co-Founder. Friends in Bellwoods (a music compilation and collection of concerts
that has raised almost $50,000 for the Daily Bread Food Bank of Toronto).
Toronto, Ontario. August.
2008 80 “Women to Watch.” Chatelaine Magazine. Toronto, Ontario. May.
2008 Popular Music Grant. Ontario Arts Council.
2022 Contributing Composer. “This Place” directed by V.T. Nayani. Selected
Screenings: Toronto International Film Festival. September 9.
2022 Mentor. Flame (2SLGBTQ Youth Performance Mentorship Program). Sherbourne Health. June 9.
2022 Contributing Composer. “Framing Agnes” directed by Chase Joynt. Selected Screenings: Sundance Film Festival. January 22.
2021 Performer (as part of Queer Songbook Orchestra). The Opera House. December 21.
2021–Present Board Member – Vice Chair. “Queer Songbook Orchestra” (Music Organization).
2018 Jury Member. “Reel Asian Shorts.” Reel Asian International Film Festival. Oct 11.
2017–2021 Board Member. “Long Winter Toronto” (Multidisciplinary Arts Organization).
2017 Music Mentor. “Music Mondays.” Rose Avenue Public School. May 2017.
2017 Featured Visual Artist. “I Don't Know How to Love the Sun and Moon On My Own.” The Reel Asian Festival. November.
2016–2020 Co-Founder. “From Song to Studio” (Music mentorship program in collaboration
with the Regent Park School of Music and Union Sound Studio). September.
2016–Present Jury Member. “Artist Development Program.” Factor Music Canada.
2016 Performer (as part of Ohbijou). “Rites of Passage Performance.” The Reel Asian Festival. November 13.
2016 Film Director. “Sounds That Mark Our Words.” The Reel Asian Festival, November 13.
2016–Present Board Member. “Girls Rock Camp Toronto” (youth-centered arts and social justice organization). September.
2016 Solo Performer. Indie Fridays, Yonge and Dundas Square, August.
2016 Solo Festival Performer. The Hillside Festival, July.
2016 Solo Festival Performer. Luminato Festival, June.
2016 Jury Member. “Multi and Inter-Arts Projects,” Ontario Arts Council, June.
2016 Headlining Performer. Art Gallery of Ontario, “First Thursday,” February.
2016 Headlining Performer. “Psychic Materials” (First solo album release), January.
2015 Consultant. “Jean-Michel Basquiat: Now’s the Time.” Art Gallery of Ontario. January.
2013–Present Film Director. “My Father, Francis.” Selected Film Screenings: Inside Out LGBT
Film Festival. Mixed Shorts: Local Heroes. Toronto, Canada. Toronto Reel Asian
International Film Festival. Best of Canadian Shorts: Counter Move Program.
Toronto, Canada. November.
2012 Music Mentor. The Amy Project (arts-based mentorship program for youth). March.
2010–Present Program Coordinator/Music Mentor. Clutch Program (arts-based mentorship
program for Filipinx youth). Toronto, Ontario. March.
2006–2013 Performer. Ohbijou (music group), international tours, frequent grant recipient,
critically acclaimed albums. Ohbijou Artist Residencies: Banff Centre, Gibraltor
Point, Breakglass Studios. 2006–2013.