Shadel Chavez is a Filipina-Canadian multi-disciplinary artist based in Tkaronto/Scarborough. Shadel conveys her introspection through songs, poems, and watercolour paintings. She aims to inspire learning, healing, encouraging creation to anchor the self and connect with community. As a descendant of immigrants, she seeks to bridge misunderstanding and mistranslated love, encouraging cultural reconnection and reflection on the impact of our actions and cycles’ on future generations. Singing to her inner child, she contemplates and shares affirmations to empower and soothe her audience.
Shadel is honoured to have performed at local showcases with RISE Edutainment, and stages such as the TEDx Conference at UTSC (2019), Manifesto Festival at Nathan Phillips Square (2019), and The Drake Underground (2023). Through Innergenerational (2021-2024) she explored the co-existing truths being Filipina and performed at 918 Bathurst. Shadel has collaborated with RISE for ArtWorxTO for poetry and photography exhibits at Scarborough Town Centre (2021-2022). She has worked on short films like The Space In Between and Custard by Sania Khan and False Cures by Paul Ohonsi. She has led a workshop at Unity Charity and Kapisanan’s Filipinx artist cultural immersion program, KAMI. Art, music, youth and community serve as her life’s compass.
Image credit: Shadel Chavez. Photography: Anthony Gebrehiwot.