Arts

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 ...

February 16- 28, 2020

Editorial
The costs of Philippine Immigration and Love of Country (February 2020)
According to the Philippine Embassy in Ottawa, of the 837,130 people in Canada with Filipino ethnic origin based on the census conducted in May 2016, 780,130 reported they were a visible minority in the country, making Filipinos and Filipino-Canadians the 4th largest visible minority after South Asians (1,924,635), Chinese (1,577,060) and black (1,198,545) minorities in the country. Read more

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 ...

Art Centrum: An Innovative Community Art Space in Richmond, B.C. for Free Expression

Community Art Space. Three innocuous words that when put together acquires several meanings to artists everywhere – a school of art, a gallery, a creative sanctum. This is what Art Centrum is all ...

Mezzo soprano Grace Chan opens Vancouver voice studio

Grace Chan has over 25 years experience as a voice teacher and coach. She started singing in the pop genre and Broadway musicals before emerging as an opera and theater singer. She has performed on ...

Filipino Volunteer Group Stages Fundraising Concert for Local Charity

A diverse group of talented musicians will band together at a fundraising concert on March 4, in support of Richmond Cares, Richmond Gives (RCRG), a local charity that serves as a hub for ...

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 ...