Arts

Riley Palanca has broken creative ground in Canada. Last June 2016, the 26-year-old playwright, who immigrated from the Philippines in 2013, had his first full-length production staged in St. John’s, the capital of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Dianna David isa performing artist and inspirational speaker. The Alberta-born and B.C.-based artist is the creative mind behind the Red Ball Movement, a project that seeks to empower people through dance, performance, and self-expression.

Those who are well-versed in the Broadway world have already heard of a Canadian Filipina powerhouse who garnered nominations for her role as Kim in the Toronto production of Miss Saigon.

A documentary produced by a Canadian Filipino woman tells the story of migrant agricultural workers in the so-called Tomato Capital of the World in Leamington, Ontario.

A Vancouver-based author writing under the name P. Milisande has published a novel titled As Above So Below: Veil Over Atlantis. 

Three Asian Canadian artists are presenting their signature watercolour styles in celebration of Asian Heritage Month in May 2016.

Jay Peachy discovered art and reconnected with nature during the darkest days of his life.

Filipinos in the most easterly province of Canada are the subject of a new documentary drama by the National Film Board.

In 2001, Jose Pepito Magpayo started publishing Bayanihan News, the first Filipino community newspaper in Calgary.

The national winner of Royal Bank of Canada’s annual painting competition in 2015 believes that artists from different communities can learn much from each other.