Arts

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.

A symposium titled Visual Becoming will be held at the Simon Fraser University (SFU) School for the Contemporary Arts in Vancouver on December 11. 

Beginning November 16, 12 Canadian Filipino artists pay homage to nature through a multi-media art exhibit at the Surrey Art Gallery at 13750 88 Avenue in Surrey. The exhibit How Green is Your Muse? will run until February 2, 2020. 

Theater actor and feminist Monica Ogden took hateful comments from trolls and her personal experience with intergenerational trauma together to come up with a one-woman show dubbed Monica vs. the Internet enjoying two runs with two fringe festivals in the last few years.

For Canadian Filipino writer GK Limcangco, writing has always been a huge part of her healing journey. 

“I have always kept a journal since I was a child,” she said.

Comics creator and storyteller Emmanuelle Chateauneuf did not need to look too far from home to find love and inspiration. She already found it in her mom, a Filipina immigrant who had to find her way around Canada with the help of extended family and friends. 

Three films on the Filipino diaspora are featured in this year’s Vancouver Asian Film Festival (VAFF) to be held at the Cineplex Odeon International Village Cinemas in Vancouver’shistoric Chinatown district from November 7 to 10.