In May 2018, I joined a program called “Creative Entrepreneurship For Newcomers” provided by Artscape Toronto. I learned so much about myself as a creative professional and have now started to think differently about how I could work within (and across) various food and community spaces in the city.

On May 11, 2018, I joined a roundtable dialogue with a dozen other emerging Filipino-Canadian writers to meet with Virgilio Almario, a distinguished writer and prolific poet, and Joey Ayala, whose folk music influenced generations of artists in the Philippines.