Arts - Canadian Filipino Net

Street photographer Allan Florendo captures humanity in moments of candour

Vancouver-based Allan Florendo became a professional photographer by ...

April 1 - 15, 2019

Editorial: Making history
In the Philippines, general elections are taking place mid-way into the current Duterte administration in May, and ballots for overseas voting have been mailed to every registered voter residing elsewhere in the world. Campaign period has started in the Philippines with hundreds of candidates belonging to over a hundred political parties tirelessly travelling to every nook and cranny to convince voters to vote for them. Read more

Shirley Camia: Finding Poetry in Dualities

Poet Shirley Camia dedicates her work “to all those struggling to carve out identities in a new place, but enveloped by the old. Feet on one land, mind on another.” Although born and raised in ...

Theatre Calgary casts Ma-Anne Dionisio in Broadway musical The Secret Garden

Theatre Calgary is presenting The Secret Garden this spring, and the Broadway musical’s cast includes Canadian Filipino performer Ma-Anne ...

My mother was a pen-pal bride from the Philippines

It is described as a “journey of daring, sacrifice and dreams”. Through writer Helene Klodawsky, Jennifer Haydock of Montreal tells the story of her mother who came to Canada as a pen-pal bride ...

C.E. Gatchalian – A Voice for Racialized Folks

“Underneath the layers of self-hatred that Filipinos as a people have accrued thanks to century upon century of colonization, we have agency - fierce agency - and much wisdom and beauty to offer. ...

Baisas brothers win international ice carving competition in Edmonton

Two brothers originally from the wood-carving capital of the Philippines are making a name in the ice carving ...

Canadian Filipino wins global sticker design contest for Brain Awareness Week 2018

Marianne Claire Bacani won first place in the sticker design contest for Brain Awareness Week (BAW) 2018. BAW is a weeklong global campaign that aims to increase public awareness of the progress and ...

Carlos Bulosan Theatre prepares anthology of original Canadian Filipino works

Since its establishment in 1982, the Carlos Bulosan Theatre (CBT) has presented works that reflect the issues of Canadian ...

Canadian Filipino Karla Comanda bags 2017 Emerging Writer Award

Canadian Filipino Karla Comanda is the winner of this year’s Jim Wong-Chu Emerging Writer Award in poetry. The announcement was made during the LiterASIAN Literary Festival held in Vancouver last ...

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