Arts

Re-visiting the country in The Philippines Rediscovered II

A follow-up to the classic coffee table book The Philippines Rediscovered is now ...

Editorial
Anti-Asian hate is racism reaching its boiling point
April 2021 - News and the impacts of Atlanta spa shootings in the US on March 16 reverberated quickly on Canadian shores with protest rallies happening in major cities like Toronto, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Montreal and Vancouver.
Beware of the infodemic: like a virus, it could fan out, spreading fake news
March 2021 – We’re not going to rehash the minute details, as many of you have probably heard of stories about Bill Gates and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Bayanihan and Belonging: understanding religion’s role among Canadian Filipinos

A newly-published book finds a correlation between Filipino religiosity and the Filipino migrant experience in ...

Street photographer Allan Florendo captures humanity in moments of candour

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

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 ...

Alvin Erasga Tolentino weaves traditional Philippine malong into modern Canadian dance

A Filipino native garment serves as the fabric of a dance production by Vancouver’s Alvin Erasga Tolentino for this year’s celebration of Asian Heritage ...

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 ...

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