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Performance Art: The Big Queer Filipino Karaoke Night! Online

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Updated: November 6, 2021, 7:20 P.M. Vancouver, B.C. Davey Samuel Calderon performs online adaptation of the BQFKN! Mildred German On November 1, 2021, Davey Samuel Calderon performed an online adaptation of the Big Queer Filipino Karaoke Night! (BQFKN!). “The BQFKN! Online team and I would greatly appreciate having an audience to test some interactive features […]

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Photo by Rae MacEachern-Eastwood.

Performance Art: The Big Queer Filipino Karaoke Night! Online

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Vancouver, B.C. Proudly Filipino, queer, and fabulous A bigger rendition of the BQFKN! by Davey Samuel Calderon in an online adaptation Mildred German On November 1, 2021, Davey Samuel Calderon performed an online adaptation of the Big Queer Filipino Karaoke Night! (BQFKN!). “The BQFKN! Online team and I would greatly appreciate having an audience to

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(Left to right) Mr. Jun Martin, Consul General Zaldy Patron, Mayor Peter Brown, and Associate Minister Muhammad Yaseen pose after unveiling the Dr. Jose Rizal Monument in Nose Creek Regional Park, Airdrie, Alberta. (Facebook)

Another Rizal bust rises in Alberta

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Airdrie, Alberta Filipino sculptor Toym Imao created the fifth Rizal statue in Canada Charmaine Rodriguez Kara FILIPINO pride ran high in Alberta, Canada when a three-foot bust of national hero, Dr. Jose Rizal, was unveiled in a special ceremony in Nose Creek Regional Park in the City of Airdrie on October 23, 2021.  Alberta Associate

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Community Arts: 18th Annual Heart of the City Festival

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Updated: October 30, 2021, 7:20 A.M. Vancouver, B.C. Filipino-Canadian artists Hari Alluri, Mildred Grace German and Juan Imperial take part at Downtown Eastside’s 18th Annual Heart of the City Festival Mildred Grace German Vancouver Eastside is notably home to the highest concentration of artists in Canada. Particularly the Downtown Eastside has been a hub of many

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Vancouver’s Kimmortal performs at Chan Centre Friday, October 22

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Vancouver, B.C. “…being an artist has been a way i can teach and learn…” -Kimmortal Teodoro Alcuitas Editor, PhilippineCanadianNews.Com (PCN.Com) Filipinx rapper and singer K!MMORTAL brings her music to the halls of Vancouver’s prestigious Chan Centre for the Performing  Arts at the University of British Columbia campus. BUY TICKETS FRI OCT 22 2021 8PM Chan

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Austria shares the honour with Catherine Hernandez and Karla Comanda.(Photo:JC Bonifacio)

Jennilee Austria’s story on reunification is second runner-up

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3rd update: October 18, 2021, 7:47 A.M. 2nd update: October 18, 2021, 7:33 A.M. Updated: October 18, 2021, 7:25 A.M. Ontario Jim Wong-Chu Emerging Writers Award for 2020 Charmaine Rodriguez Kara Filipina Canadian writer Jennilee Austria emerged as second runner-up in the prestigious Jim Wong-Chu Emerging Writers Award for 2020 and is set to become a

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Aaron Verzosa and co-workers at Seattle restaurant, Archipelago. (Photo: From Vicente Rafael Facebook)

Two Filipino restaurants among the best in America 

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2nd update: October 18, 2021, 5:35 A.M. Updated: October 16,2021, 9:05 P.M. U.S. New York Times list includes Seattle’s ‘Archipelago’ and Chicago’s ‘Kasama’ Teodoro Alcuitas Editor, PhilippineCanadianNews.Com (PCN.Com) Two Filipino-owned restaurants have been named among the Top Fifty Restaurants in the U.S. by the New York Times. Kasama in Chicago and Archipelago in Seattle made it

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Caleb Lagayan lands a role in Les Miserables in U.K and Ireland tour. (Photo: Facebook)

Theatre: Caleb Lagayan’s Les Miserables dream comes true

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Updated: October 14, 2021, 10:18 A.M. Vancouver, B.C. Filipino-Canadian actor joins iconic musical in England and Ireland tour Mildred German “You’re good at singing, but you lack the stage presence, ” Caleb Lagayan was once told by his high school teacher. Today, the Vancouver actor  will be joining the 2021-2023 U.K. and Ireland Tour of Les

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Remembering the old Vancouver

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Vancouver, B.C. A ‘settler’ reminisces about Vancouver By Rizalina Guilatco Carr History is alive! 41 years ago today, (October 7, 1980), I arrived in Vancouver on a beautiful, bright, cool sunny day. Sitting in the car, my favourite British rock band, “Queen,” blasted “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” through the car stereo. I remember looking

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Evann Siebens, Immigrant Lessons, 2021, Photo for multimedia installation, Courtesy of the Artist

Closing event and performance at Vancouver Art Gallery Offsite

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Press Release BOOK TICKETSBECOME AMEMBERMAKE ADONATION Today’s hours: 10 AM – 5 PM OFFSITE: EVANN SIEBENS + KEITH DOYLE APRIL 9, 2021 – OCTOBER 11, 2021 Evann Siebens + Keith Doyle, Pedestrian Protest, 2021, site-specific installation at Vancouver Art Gallery Offsite, April 9 to October 11, 2021, Photo: Ian Lefebvre, Vancouver Art Gallery In a

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