Updated: February 24, 2021, 8:12 PM The cultural importance and taboo of storytelling by Mildred German Vancouver, B.C. Growing up in the Philippines, it was customary to do storytelling. Disasters after disasters have taught us to get customized to the blackouts (or brownouts as referred to in the Philippines), and to gather in a circle […]
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A love story The painter and his muse An enduring love story has been playing in social media for sometime now. We thought we would share it with you this Valentine’s Day. ‘Necie Forever’ By Romi Necie MananQuil Necie inspired Art: “Banduria Belle” In time for Valentines Day, I dedicate this post for Necie, the
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https://youtu.be/Dmw0foUAGQg Updated: February 28, 2021, 3:00 PM Young singer-songwriter follows mother’s footstep Teodoro ‘Ted’ Alcuitas Editor, Philippine Canadian news.Com (PCN.Com) It took her four years to finish her song and finally Zenia Marshall is releasing her new single ‘Heaven and Hell’ tomorrow, February 12. The music video will follow on February 26, 2021. The emerging
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Edmonton, Alberta Philippine art and the Filipino artist… in focus By Ida Beltran-Lucila Connections through Stories Paglalayag is the Filipino word for voyage or journey. Paglalayag: the Philippines to Canada Journey, is a video project that chronicles the stories of migration and the lives of Filipinos in Canada. The documentary relates the stories
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2nd update: December 12, 2020, 6 PM Updated: December 8, 2020, 11:08 AM Vancouver, B.C. An interview with the versatile dancer Ralph Escamillan Teodoro Alcuitas Editor, Philippine Canadian News. Com At first I thought I was doing a cooking interview. Meeting the fame dancer Ralph Escamillan in his kitchen through the modern technology Zoom, was
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Vancouver, B.C. Dancers exude our own anxious isolation and the hope of coming out of this pandemic A review by Teodoro Alcuitas Editor, Philippine Canadian News.com ’Offering’ indeed was translucent in all the solo performers’ interpretations as their hands and bodies move in a darkened environment. Costumed like semi-primitive beings lost in a world beyond
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Vancouver, B. C. Live-streamed tomorrow, Saturday & Sunday at 3 PM Like many others impacted by the pandemic, Alvin Erasga Tolentino was planning a performance long before Covid struck. To commemorate Co. Erasga’s 20th anniversary, he was envisioning a large-scale performance but was stymied by the onset of the pandemic with all its attendant health
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Media Release November 13, 2020 Andres Bonifacio 2020 Festival to be held online November 29 Bonifacio Festival 2020, A Conversation on History and Cultural Performances Online, will be held on Sunday, November 29, 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. EST. The online event, organized by the Filipino-Canadian Writers and Journalists Network (FC-WJNet), in partnership with Malaya Movement
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Updated: November 20, 2020, 12:50 PM Surrey, B.C. Excellence in Performance by a Female Identifying Artist or Best Female Artist Glisha Dela Cruz won the Best Female Artist award at last night’s 2020 Fraser Valley Music Award. The first-time nominee did not win the RnB Award but the Best Female Artist came as a surprise
Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg-made movie with predominantly Filipino cast makes successful run despite pandemic Teodoro Alcuitas Editor, Philippine Canadian News.Com The first Canadian-made movie to feature an almost all Filipino cast will now be available on video (VDO), says Sean Garrity, producer and filmmaker of ‘‘I Propose We Never See Each Other Again After Tonight’. On
