Arts

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 ...

The year that was (and never again!)
January 2021 - The year 2020 has been called many (bad) names: dumpster fire, exhausting, year of infamy, a fresh new hell at every turn.
Don’t let COVID-19 be the Grinch who stole Christmas
December 2020 - In a recent media briefing, British Columbia’s top doctor talked about what is on the mind of a lot of people: Christmas.
Pondering our Mortality: Is quality of life possible in old age?
November 2020 - When family and friends have a birthday, we often wish them many more birthdays to come as though a long life is a great gift. Is it always desirable?

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. ...

Ed Lantin’s Presidential Portraits

In 1989, to commemorate the visit of then Philippine President Corazon Aquino,the Vancouver, Filipino community gifted the late president with a life-size oil portrait done by Canadian Filipino ...

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 ...

Canadian Filipino Artists Gift Canada a Unique 150 Bday Present: ”The Journey of Boom” A Documentary of a Bi-cultural Artist’s Discovery of Canada

“When I first moved to Vancouver, it cost a dime to take a bus, Pierre Elliot Trudeau was Prime Minister and the only Filipinos working in the McDonalds I used to go to was the ...

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