Filipino dancers in Canada

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September 28, 2023

How Durham Filfest perfected the Filipino festival recipe

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Picture this perfect recipe for a Filipino festival: the sun’s shining, there are people dancing, as the sound of Filipino rap-slash-cha-cha music echoes throughout the square in Memorial Park in Oshawa, Ontario for the Durham Filipino Festival. The scent of barbecued pork and chicken wafts through the air. Line-ups form as hungry attendees seek out […]

Three Filipino women in colourful dresses lift up their arms during a Filipino dance presentation at Carassauga Festival

June 6, 2023

8 Things to do at Carassauga Festival’s Filipino Pavilion

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The deep sound of kulintang instruments fill your ears as you enter the Philippines Pavilion at the Carassauga Festival held annually in May, located in Mississauga. Hailed as Canada’s largest multicultural festival, the event started in the fall of 1985 when Mississauga’s former mayor Hazel McCallion challenged cultural groups to organize a multicultural festival for […]