"Sila/Siya/Ako", Artist & Curator Interview 

OMNI News: Filipino Edition, Jan 24 2024

Aired: OMNI News: Filipino Edition, Wednesday, January 24, 2024.  Interview with Curator Marissa Largo & Artist Julius Poncelet Manapul for the show "Sila/Siya/Ako" (They/Them/Me) at A Space Gallery, 401 Richmond St. West, Toronto Canada.

Anchoring Experiences of Belonging Through Creative Practices in Arts Based Participatory Learning

Onsite Gallery at OCAD University. 

Anchoring Experiences of Belonging Through Creative Practices  Thursday, November 30, 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.  

Panelists Khadija Aziz, Herman Pi’ikea Clark, JJ Lee, and Julius Poncelet Manapul each delve into their experiential belonging through their distinct creative practices, which connect deeply with their identities, and communities. Moderator Susan Jama.

Julius Poncelet Manapul, Artist Interview: OMNI TV Filipino, Jan 25 2023

Aired: OMNI TV Filipino Vancouver, Wednesday, January 25, 2023.  Interview with Julius Poncelet Manapul from Toronto Canada.

“TULOY, TAWID” (Translation “Continue, Cross”) 2021

6 Artist Group Show, curated by Kuh Del Rosario & Manar Abo Touk. Art Gallery of Grand Prairie, June 24th – Sep 20th, 2021. (Accompanied with an artist talk Sept 10th, 2021

CBC: "Art is my Country" 2018

Toronto artist Julius Poncelet Manapul's intricate paper sculptures are more than meets the eye. But Manapul's work isn't just a gimmick designed to surprise and shock audiences — it's meant to explore and question their identity and the experience of people of colour in the queer community. An Artist Interview for CBC Arts "Art is my Country" Episode #10.

"The It List" With Rachelle Cruz, Season 2, 2016 

“The It List” Season 2, Interview with Rachelle Cruz, Filipino TV (FTV), Showcases stories to the Filipino-Canadian Community, from fashion, arts, culture, politics, sports, health, lifestyle and 

business, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 

PART 1 JULIUS PONCELET MANAPUL ART TALK 2019

September 25th, 2019, at Ontario College of Art and Design University. 100 McCaul Street, Toronto, Ontario. Julius Poncelet Manapul Artist Talk

PART 2 JULIUS PONCELET MANAPUL ART TALK 2019

September 25th, 2019, at Ontario College of Art and Design University. 100 McCaul Street, Toronto, Ontario. Julius Poncelet Manapul Artist Talk

PART 3 JULIUS PONCELET MANAPUL ART TALK 2019

September 25th, 2019, at Ontario College of Art and Design University. 100 McCaul Street, Toronto, Ontario. Julius Poncelet Manapul Artist Talk

“Body  Parts” Conference on the Couch, Austin TX 2019

Panel Discussion with the artists and  academics organized by LGBT studies of Faculty of University of Texas in  Austin, Austin, Texas, February 21, 2019

  “CABINET  OF QUEERIOSITIES” Artist Talk, Austin TX 2019

"A continuation of a series of work consisting of  installation, sculpture, animation, digital collage, and mix media  crafted from gay porn and butterfly templates indigenous to the  Philippines, interrogating the artist’s experiences of racialized  displacement and diasporic queerness in an age of globalization".  OUTsider Fest 2019, Austin, Texas, February 23, 2019  

CBC This Art Works!: "Making Art for Bees and Turning Porn into Butterflies " 2017

Artist Marjan Verstappen reveals different paintings that are only visible to the eyes of the honeybees.  Meanwhile, artist Julius Poncelet Manapul decides to take gay porn representing Western standards of beauty through a metamorphosis into something surprising!surprising!

"Hybrid God: Queerious Hybrid Queen" 

 Art Project on "Hybrid God: Queerious Hybrid Queen" commenting on post colonial issues, religion with homoerotic medium. 2011-2013 Dress sculpture made from kraft paper, vellum & gay magazine/ gay porn magazine. Wallpaper made from kraft paper and gold paint stencil/ with a translucent wash with text: Twink, Fudge Packer, Bear, Fag and Rice Queen.  

"Queerious Patterns" Cabinet of Queeriosities  

Butterfly Animation, Digital Collage animated from Photoshop. From the "Cabinet of Queeriosities", Show during WorldPride 2014, Toronto. of Julius Poncelet Manapul, Curated by Marissa Largo.  

"Kissing Utopia Good-Bye"  

These materials  challenged  me to  explore  the  human  relationships  within  the  Disney  conventional  views  of  Love,  Marriage,  and  Happy  Endings,   and  parallel   that  idea  with   queer  Love,  Marriage  and   Happy  Ending.   The  act  of  tracing  these   Disney   figures  recalls   childhood memories  and  constructed  images  that  conventionalized  our ideologies   within North American values. These are the images  that are accecable to the  public

"Whitewashed Queer Diaspora"  

This work talks about the process of white washing from a diasporic perspective of a queer Filipino man. Trying to find my self within the Homonormative representations that upholds the masculine queer white male to be valued as seen on gay dating apps, gay magazines to gay media and club scenes. Where queer culture had rendered queer of colors unrepresented, invisible and exoticized.