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
Historic Kogawa House hosting workshops from December 3, 2020 – January 21, 2021 Author C.E. Gatchalian will lead QueerAsian, a series of workshops for people who identify as LGBTQI+ Asians, focused on anti-Asian racism during the pandemic. The Queer Asian/Filipinx author of “Double Melancholy’ will be hosting the workshops at the historic Joy Kogawa House
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Tribute to Filipino frontline workers who have died of Covid Teodoro Alcuitas, Editor, Philippine Canadian News.Com Poet Shirley Camia’s poetry animation Novena is among four Filipino films featured in the years’ Reel Asian Film Festival All films are screening digitally across Canada from November 12 to 19. Created in June to commemorate Filipino Heritage Month, Novena
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Edmonton, Alberta University of the Philippines Alumni Association Edmonton (UPAAE) The Edmonton Philippine International Centre (EPIC Alberta) Writing for Children 0-8 Thursday, November 12 6:00 to 7:30PM MST Register here: Link to Form Local Edmonton author, Mila Bongco, shares tips on creating graphic narratives for children and guides us through the submission process. Open Submissions
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BY RUTH ROACH PIERSON To open All Violet is to enter a world like that of Berlin throughout the Weimar Republic, the Berlin of Christopher Isherwood and Der blaue Engel cross-pollinated with Nosferatu and Dr. Caligari. To open All Violet is to be greeted by a soul-searching young woman in love with words while sickened by
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Only in the Philippines Sign at the entrance of the Municipal Cemetery in Carcar City, Cebu. Dead End: Funeral services. Travel in style!
Araw ng Patay : All Souls Day in the Philippines Read More »
