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Funded by Research & Creation and Concept to Realization grants, Canada Council for the Arts
Funded by Research & Creation and Concept to Realization grants, Canada Council for the Arts
Developed with support from the Canada Council for the Arts (2024–2025)
“Directed and produced by NOFAC3, ANG MERKADO tells the intertwining stories of a boy, his mother, and a street dog embroiled in a dangerous confrontation to survive.
Set in the heart of a bustling Filipino marketplace, the stop-motion drama unveils a haunting tapestry of trauma and betrayal. Based on Nikki Celis’ semi-fictional memoir, ‘The Market.’”
Published on ISSAY! Magazine (2024), Issue #3
“As diaspora kids, we’ve all probably heard the same noise about going home: “It’s where you can find yourself” and “Get in touch with your roots.”
Published on ISSAY! Magazine (2024), Issue #2
“As Filipinos, we find our pride through imagined fantasies of the motherland and express it lovingly through writing and music and visual art—but where are the outliers that talk about our pain?”
Published on ISSAY! Magazine (2023), Issue #1
“For Filipinos, we couldn’t care less—and that’s a good thing.”
Published on Sticky Rice Magazine (2023), Vol. #3
“What does the future look like for a community that feels like they’re never good enough? It’s about uncovering the past and telling our stories.“
Published on ISSAY! Magazine (2023), Issue #1
“We make our way through stalls and people. Our feet hit concrete in syncopated rhythm as everything else—the faces, the jeering, the stares—become blurry frames in a movie that I can’t make out.”
Published on COMPLEX CANADA (2023)
“Felipe Arriagada-Nunez wants to tell stories. Born and raised in Montreal’s Mile End, the artist—a.k.a Chien Champion—comes fresh off a recent collaboration with Nike, illustrating the Canada-exclusive box art for the limited edition “Montreal Bagel” Dunk Lows.”
Nominated for the Alberta Magazine Publishing Association’s Emerging Writer Award 2017-2018.
Revised and republished on Sticky Rice Magazine (2021).
Originally published in FreeFall issue XXVI.II (2017).
“Lately, I’ve been dreaming of SPAM. No, not the unsolicited emails that one receives daily in their inbox. But rather, the canned meat so often associated with lowbrow culture.”
Published on Arts Commons Magazine (2017)
“In Brisbane, Fred Leone is driving as we converse over the phone. Though it’s nearing the afternoon, Leone sounds exhausted, having slept little the night earlier as he premiered his own production that he had written, directed and produced all by himself”
Published on Georgia Straight (2016)
“Ricepaper founder Jim Wong-Chu talks about the rise of Asian-Canadian literature, and his part in its history.”
Published on Georgia Straight (2016)
“Director Ryley Grunenwald talks about her experience filming the Shore Break.”
Published on NOISEY and VICE (2015)
“The 2015 Mrs. Universe pageant was more than just show, with Ashley Callingbull Burnham, of the Enoch Cree Nation in Alberta, being the first First Nations woman to win Mrs. Universe.”