Filipino Community & Lifestyle News
What do you call an almost improbable dance routine involving two long bamboo poles rhythmically clapped together to the beat of a Spanish rondalla, while a dancer or two quickly hop in and out of the clapping poles, each time narrowly missing sprained ankles? It’s the most thrilling of all Filipino dances: the Tinikling. […]
Over 200 Filipinos attended the Christmas party at Fish and Game Club in Belleville, Ont. on Saturday, Dec. 17, 2022. Photo by Yona Harvey, Mabuhay Canada Media You can say I’ve attended a multitude of Filipino parties large and small. We Filipinos love to gather together for any occasion. I used to live at my […]
There’s a refreshing innocence on the set of Filipino coming-of-age play ‘The Waltz’, the sequel to Marie Beath Badian’s Prairie Nurse, shown at The Factory Theatre in Toronto from October 22 to November 13, 2022. Taking place in the 90’s, time doesn’t go supersonic: the pace is relaxed. This play is set at a time when cellphones […]
Christian Esguerra, a 2021 McLuhan Fellow, presented a talk about “Democracy at Stake: How the Media Combats the Disinformation Phenomenon” in Toronto, Ont. on Sunday, Nov. 6, 2022. Photo by Yona M. Harvey, Mabuhay Canada Media With files from Edwin Mercurio Christian Esguerra, a 2020-2021 Marshall McLuhan Fellow, spoke on the topic “Democracy at Stake: […]
Kristian Santos is a Filipino Rexdalian running for council in the Ward 1 Etobicoke North riding. Submitted photo Kristian Santos, 37, had been praying for two years, searching for something meaningful to do when he said the answer came to him loud and clear: to serve his community first. That’s when he decided to run […]