Arts

May 16, 2024 - The Philippine Consulate in Vancouver was transformed into a veritable garden showcasing the paintings of Vancouver-based artist Delia Laglagaron in a show that opened on Friday, April 26, 2024 titled Floral Abstractions. 

February 16, 2024 — In 2008, Lani Maestro took a walk at Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, a neighbourhood that has struggled with complex social challenges, from drug use to prostitution, crime, and homelessness.

January 16, 2024 — A made-in-Manitoba sitcom has become the breakthrough vehicle for Canadian Filipino performer Victoria Exconde on television.

January 1, 2024 — Maglala is a Filipino word that means “weave” or “intertwine”. 

December 16, 2023 — William Howard Taft is best known as the 27th president and 10th chief justice of the United States. Prior to this, Taft was his country’s first civilian governor of the Philippines from 1901 to 1903. But when Filipino Canadian screenwriter Jorelle Almeda came up with an amusing TV pilot on this topic, his peers were befuddled.

December 16, 2023 — Many who have heard the word “mabuhay” know it as a traditional Filipino form of greetings.

November 16, 2023 — Vancouver dance company Co.ERASGA successfully held the world premier of Accumulation on November 9-11 at Performance Works on Granville Island. 

November 1, 2023 — Canadian Filipino actors Lissa Neptuno and Edward Escobal were nominated for Best Performance in a Short Film in the annual the Union of British Columbia Performers/ Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (UBCP/ACTRA) awards. 

October 16, 2023 — “I knew Rizal died for his country. I didn’t know he had a very sad love story, and that his family also suffered greatly.” 

October 16, 2023  — Jennilee Austria Bonifacio, a rising Canadian Filipino novelist born and raised in Canada, caught my attention for her sensitive handling of the migrant Filipino concept of a good parent.