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June 1, 2023 - In celebration of the first Lapulapu Day, wooden swords painted silver clacked and flew on April 29, at the Bayanihan Centre of the Victoria Filipino Canadian Association (VFCA) in Victoria, BC. Actors Arnel Bongcasan and Sean Benedict Penola leaped through the air, enacting through dance the fierce battle between Filipino hero Lapulapu and the conquistador, Ferdinand Magellan.
June 1, 2023 - To understand a part of the traditional Filipino psyche is to grasp the significance of hiya. The Tagalog word literally means “shame”.
To celebrate June as Filipino Heritage month, Canadian Filipino.Net is featuring Filipino artists in Canada who have made a name for themselves.
May 1, 2023 - Jay Cabalu says he has been making pop art and collage for about 15 years, and that his method is always changing.
March 16, 2023 - Located offsite between Thurlow and Bute along Granville Streets downtown, Dr. Lani Maestro’s installation art, specifically sculpted glass texts and neon light that reads on two columns,
March 1, 2023 – A dragon or a dinosaur? Jesse is neither. But what he is, is a good friend to Oyster Ray, Octopus Faye, Jellyfish Vance, Starfish Nance, Whaleshark Pat, and Turtle Matt. And that, for Jesse, is enough—and more than enough.
February 16, 2023 - For literature buffs, Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) represents a powerful figure in modernist letters.
The Dimasalang III International Artist joined other Asian artists in a four-day art exhibition held from October 24th to 27th at the Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre in Vancouver.
The members of Dimasalang III International Artists Group, orphaned by the passing of SYM Mendoza last year, are regrouping to carry on SYM’s legacy by putting on canvass all that they had learned from him in years past.
Following the success of her documentary Finding Big Foot, Canadian Filipino director Kat Jayme goes deep into finding out why the Vancouver Grizzlies “disappeared” in her new documentary, The Grizzlie Truth, featured in both the Vancouver and Calgary international film festivals.
