Arts

With the pandemic hanging over our heads, it is not surprising that even in Canada, Christmas comes early – in festive outdoor decorations, carols playing on the airwaves and romantic Christmas movies on TV. In one Hallmark movie is Canadian Filipino actress Kat Ruston playing a supporting role in Good Morning Christmas!

After a six-month closure due to Covid-19, the Surrey Art Gallery is reopening with an exhibit starting on September 19 until December 13.  Artist Lakshmi Gill is the only Filipina among the many artists featured in this exhibit. 

With our location and dark skies here in British Columbia, we are blessed to see many astronomical wonders such as meteor showers, the Milky Way, and the aurora borealis.

The pandemic limited everyone’s movement, but it also forced everyone to be creative.

The Polaris Music Prize has announced the 10 albums on its list for the best Canadian album award in 2020.

The Polaris Music Prize is a not-for-profit organization that annually recognizes artists who make notable music albums. 

The Filipino Canadian Art Museum is all set for their first project -- a virtual Filipino art gallery and history museum celebrating Filipino heritage in Canada.

Haniely Pableo has come a long way since joining a poetry workshop after arriving in Toronto in 2006.

A nurse by profession, the Canadian Filipino artist known as Han Han has carved a name for herself as a rapper in Tagalog and Cebuano, two of the major languages in the Philippines, her native country.

Filipino-American filmmaker Steven De Castro’s Revolution Selfie: The Red Battalion is making the rounds of Canadian screens.

National broadcaster CBC has listed 18 of its best picture books of 2019, and one of these was penned by Canadian Filipino author Catherine Hernandez.

With Jewish refugees leaving Europe to escape persecution, one of the countries that came to their rescue was the Philippines.