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 Dionisio.
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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 benefits of brain research.
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 from the Philippines.
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 Filipinos.
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. The world - and that includes Filipinos themselves - need to really SEE the many different shades of the Filipino face.” – C.E. Gatchalian
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 September.
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 artist Edgardo S. Lantin.
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 janitor.
Art Centrum: An Innovative Community Art Space in Richmond, B.C. for Free Expression
Community Art Space. Three innocuous words that when put together acquire several meanings to artists everywhere – a school of art, a gallery, a creative sanctum. This is what Art Centrum is all about.
Generation One Art Exhibit Explores Theme of Social Integration
Social integration is the central theme at this year’s Generation One Art Exhibit by first-generation Asian Canadian artists marking the 21st explorAsian festival, an annual event celebrating national Asian Heritage Month in May.
