Grace Nono
As music artist, Grace specializes in the contemporary performance of Philippine sung oral/aural traditions-with special focus on songs with sacred themes-taught to her by oralists/auralists from different parts of the Philippines. She has been featured in concerts at Cultural Center of the Philippines in Manila, the House of World Cultures in Berlin, the Circulo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, the Lincoln Center’s La Casita Festival and the Asian American Arts Alliance’s Locating the Sacred Festival in New York, the Asia Society-Hong Kong Center in Hong Kong, the Singapore Arts Festival and the National Museum of Singapore, the Music Village Festival in London, the Gathering of Drummers in Prague, concerts in Paris and Monte Carlo, WOMAD in Yokohama, the World Exposition on Nature’s Wisdom in Nagoya, the Penang World Music Festival in Malaysia, the Asian Fantasy Orchestra tours of New Delhi, Bombay, Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, Miyazaki, Bangkok, Vientiane, Yangon, Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh, various presentations in Huairou, Bangkok, Jakarta, Nanning, Shanghai, Seoul, Penang, Taipei, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Chicago, Butuan, Bunawan, Davao, Ilo-ilo, Palawan, Mindoro, Bicol, Baguio, and Sagada. She has published six award-winning solo albums and has contributed tracks to around fifteen recording compilations. She also co-produced and co-published together with composer Bob Aves, five recordings of Philippine oral/aural music traditions.
Mayo Landicho
Mayo Landicho stands among his peers as a world-class tattoo artist. With more than a decade of experience, Mayo’s original designs and beautifully rendered interpretations have graced the bodies of artists, celebrities, sports figures, teachers and other celebrated tattoo artists locally and throughout the world. His reputation as a fine artist has grown to include membership in the elite and internationally renowned Dimasalang III group while his charisma as a performer has garnered praise as an upcoming musician.
Situated in a private fully licensed studio on Main street, Birthmark Tattoos is what most people refer to as: “Vancouver’s BEST Kept Secret” and is the final destination for some of Vancouver’s top name clients. It is a place where stories unfold and become inspiration for new art, new tattoos, new memories.
http://birthmarktattoos.com/about-mayo/
Bert Monterona
Bert is a Filipino visual artist living in Vancouver, Canada. A compleat artist -an educator and cultural worker doing designing, illustrations, painting, murals, sculpture, installations, set and props for stage performances and TV shows. Internationally and nationally acclaimed, he is a recipient of the Western Australia Department of the Arts and Australia Council for the Arts Grants, Asian Artists Awards of Vermont Studio Centre, U.S.A., Philip Morris Group of Companies ASEAN Art Awards, GSIS Museum Artist Awards, Art Association of the Philippines Award, The Outstanding MSU-IIT Alumni Awards (TOMA 2008 in Visual Arts) Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology,Philippines, 2007 Winner of the International Mural Festival and Competition in Manitoba, Canada and won the 2009 Artist in Residence of the Leigh Square Community Arts Village Mural Project, City of Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada.
http://bertmonterona.com/main/index.html
Alvin Tolentino
Alvin Erasga Tolentino is one of the most active Asian/Canadian dance artists who continue to reveal, provoke, fascinate and bring a fresh voice in the national and international dance scene. His successful career has garnered him notability and a distinct reputation as an original and an unpredictable contemporary performing artist.
Tolentino’s dance creations are driven from the need to intricately illustrate human experiences of light and darkness and the infinitely complex relationship between nature and humanity. His choreography challenges the exploration of hybridity that juxtapose to reveal the private and public territory empowering the issues within the traditional and contemporary cross-cultural dialogue.
http://www.companyerasgadance.ca/en/about_us/alvin_erasga_tolentino/
Kathara Canada
WHO WE ARE Kathara Canada is a dance theatrical organization composed of multi-disciplinary artists in movement, dance, music, theatre, martial and multimedia. We are first and second generation Filipinos, as well, non-Filipinos dedicated to the promotion of Pilipino Mindanaoan Indigenous arts and culture.
OUR VISION Our vision is that of creatively empowered individuals and communities embracing Philippine Mindanaoan Indigenous arts and culture.
OUR HISTORY In 2002, Kathara Dance Theatre Collective from Davao Mindanao Philippines, came to Canada to perform at a series of community events which led to the holding of community workshops attracting aspiring local artists who wished to learn more about Kathara and Mindanaoan Indigenous identity. Filipinos and non-Filipinos from diverse artistic backgrounds joined to explore the culture and the arts of the Lumads (indigenous people of Mindanao). In the spirit of intercultural Exchange, it was then that ushered in the journey of Kathara Canada.
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Other artists include: TRIBU, BC Kasama, & Pancit Collective.
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