Arts

Vancouver-based Allan Florendo became a professional photographer by accident.

Poet Shirley Camia dedicates her work “to all those struggling to carve out identities in a new place, but enveloped by the old. Feet on one land, mind on another.”

Although born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, having parents who were first generation Filipino immigrants leaves an indelible mark on Camia’s body of work that clearly reflects the dichotomy between East and West, childhood and aging.

Two brothers originally from the wood-carving capital of the Philippines are making a name in the ice carving circuit.

Theatre Calgary is presenting The Secret Garden this spring, and the Broadway musical’s cast includes Canadian Filipino performer Ma-Anne Dionisio.

Marianne Claire Bacani won first place in the sticker design contest for Brain Awareness Week (BAW) 2018. BAW is a weeklong global campaign that aims to increase public awareness of the progress and benefits of brain research.

It is described as a “journey of daring, sacrifice and dreams”.

Through writer Helene Klodawsky, Jennifer Haydock of Montreal tells the story of her mother who came to Canada as a pen-pal bride from the Philippines.

Since its establishment in 1982, the Carlos Bulosan Theatre (CBT) has presented works that reflect the issues of Canadian Filipinos.

“Underneath the layers of self-hatred that Filipinos as a people have accrued thanks to century upon century of colonization, we have agency - fierce agency - and much wisdom and beauty to offer. The world - and that includes Filipinos themselves - need to really SEE the many different shades of the Filipino face.” – C.E. Gatchalian

Canadian Filipino Karla Comanda is the winner of this year’s Jim Wong-Chu Emerging Writer Award in poetry. The announcement was made during the LiterASIAN Literary Festival held in Vancouver last September.

In 1989, to commemorate the visit of then Philippine President Corazon Aquino, the Vancouver, Filipino community gifted the late president with a life-size oil portrait done by Canadian Filipino artist Edgardo S. Lantin.