Author Reading: Balderdash Reading Series at Another Story Bookshop

Featuring works from local youth and emerging artists, compiled by artist and educator Eric Tigley

Tabled works by members, event featured over a dozen vendors from the Filipino-Canadian community

In celebration of Buwan ng Wika with Katutubo Exchange Philippines, presented at Sentro Rizal-Philippine Consulate General Toronto and facilitated by Nastasha Alli

Featuring readings by members for Filipino-Canadian Heritage Month, in collaboration with Philippine Edmonton Events and Arts Society

Featuring performances by members, in association with Bad Dog Community Theatre

Featured readings by contributors Nastasha Alli and Karen-Luz Sison, in celebration of AAPI Heritage Month

Featured author reading by Alia Rasul from her debut poetry collection Super Important Filipina Thoughts, in celebration of National Poetry Month

Featuring author Rachel Evangeline-Chiong

Facilitated by artist and educator Eric Tigley for local youth, with support from the City of Toronto

Participated in author readings and panel talks for sessions on Philippine folklore, cuisine, diasporic lineage to legacy and artist showcase

Featuring contributors Jennilee Austria-Bonifacio, published by Guernica Press

A writing and storytelling workshop series that explores what it means to live in between cultures, peoples, and places as part of a diaspora and what it means to give and receive care from afar during a global pandemic, facilitated by Justine Abigail-Yu

Featured author reading by Shirley Camia from her poetry collection, Mercy

Novena, the short film, was created with funding from the Canadian Council for the Arts, with the event itself funded by the League of Canadian Poets. Kat Estacio will talk about the score and author Shirley Camia will read from her poetry collection, Mercy, published by Turnstone Press

Facilitated by Justine Abigail-Yu in celebration of Filipino Heritage Month, goals are to explore how we can honour our Filipino heritage while also living in between cultures, peoples, and places as part of a diaspora

Participated in inaugural event for author readings and panel talks, on sessions including multidisciplinary artists, entrepreneurship, creating Filipino children's books and culturally-responsive support for Filipinos in school systems

Session at PodCamp Toronto, Canada’s largest digital media ‘un-conference’, facilitated by Nastasha Alli for Exploring Filipino Kitchens

Featuring talk by Patricia Evangelista, an award-winning journalist for Rappler, co-presented with the Filipino-Canadian Writers and Journalists Network & Canada's National Ethnic Press and Media Council

Featuring Mila Bongco Philipzig, an Edmonton-based children’s book author, at Sentro Rizal-Philippine Consulate General Toronto