Two Filipinos in cast of Jesus Christ Superstar By Ted Alcuitas The iconic musical Jesus Christ Superstar will have two Filipinos in the cast – Caleb Lagayan and Jennifer Suratos who plays Pontius Pilate. URP began as a small community theatre company in 1995 with its first staging of Jesus Christ Superstar. Since then, […]
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Mel at his bookstore. Notice the old typewriter. ( Photo: Dahong Pilipino) Vancouver, B.C. Pumanaw: Man of letters is gone By Ted Alcuitas Last month at the Jim Wong-Chu Celebration of Life, I sat with Filipina author Eleanor Guerrero Campbell and I inquired about Mel Tobias. Author Eleanor Guerrero-Campbell discusses ‘Stumbling Through Paradise’
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[featured-img-caption] Syjuco’s ‘Mi Ultimo Adios’? No Eulogy for the Living – An Open Letter to the Philippines By Ted Alcuitas Miguel Syjuco has only 40 days or 40 years to live! That’s the startling revelation by the prize-winning author of a piece he wrote for the Boston Review published on September 29. Entitled ‘Eulogy
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[featured-img-caption] Vancouver Karla Lenina Comanda wins Jim Wong-Chu Emerging Writer award By Ted Alcuitas LiterAsian has awarded the Jim Wong-Chu Emerging Writers Award for Poetry to Karla Lenina Comanda. Comanda is the second Filipino to win the literary award by LiterAsian, an annual festival of Pacific Rim Asian Canadian writing launched in 2013 by the
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Updated: 6:22 AM, Sept. 21, 2017 Catherine Hernandez will be in Vancouver Sept. 22 By Ted Alcuitas Catherine Hernandez and Lorina Mapa are among 17 writers included in this year’s CBC writers to watch for 2017. Hernandez is the author of the just released novel ‘Scarborough’. Published by Arsenal Press,Hernandez’s plays Singkil and Kilt Pins were
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Kasaysayan at diwa ng Buwan ng Wika Rappler.com Posted: 21 Aug 2017 MANILA, Pilipinas – Ginugunita ng Pilipinas ang Buwan ng Wika tuwing Agosto. Puno ng iba’t ibang aktibidad ang buwan bilang pagsaludo sa wikang Filipino at sa pagmamahal sa bansa. Kaakibat ng pagdiriwang na ito ang pagbalik-tanaw sa kasaysayan ng pambansang wika at ang
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In honour of Buwan ng Wikang Filipino which is celebrated in August, we post this poem by UBC Professor Leonora Angeles which appeared in Ethnographic Poetry and Social Research: Problematizing the Poetics/Poethics of Empathy in Transnational Cross-Cultural Collaborations Author’s note: The poem Tagisan ng Talino above was originally dedicated to Professor Ma. Cynthia Rose
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Updated: August 18, 2017, 5:45 PM Her school also gets $10,000 technology award By Ted Alcuitas A Grade 11 student at Toronto’s Madonna Catholic Secondary School in Toronto, Ontario has won the $10,000 university scholarship Doodle 4 Google award for 2017. Jana Sofia Panem’s ‘doodle’ will now be Google’s website image since last June. In
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Philippines Editor’s note: August is celebrated as Language Month in the Philippines. This article by Thinking Machines is instructive in light of the debate as which is the correct way to call the Filipino language. Recently Statistics Canada released new findings on languages spoken and ‘Tagalog’, as has been commonly called, is again
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Toronto, Ontario The Ethics of Honouring Other Lives The Philippine Reporter Community Opinion & Analysis Aug 15, 2017 at 8:42 pm Dr. Robert Diaz By Dr. Robert Diaz Assistant Professor University of Toronto I moved to Canada six years ago and, for the most part, I’ve lived a life that seems unimaginable for an immigrant
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