This week is Fundrive at CiTR! Please consider donating if you are in the position to do so :) This week, we interviewed Kathleen Zaragosa, co-founder of the Sliced Mango Collective. SCM is an arts and culture dedicated to creating a space for community building among Filipinx youth. We also interviewed Erin Woodward, founder of The Gloss. The Gloss is a global book club community that has several chapters in Canada including one in Vancouver. The second half of our episode today focused on discussing other book clubs you can join in the Metro Vancouver area and a segment dedicated to highlighting local Black scholars and Black Canadian authors in honour of Black History Month.Heaven For RealEnergy BarWait In the Doorway
May 10, 2021
By: Charlene Aviles, Peak Associate
A conversation between friends led to the creation of the Sliced Mango Collective (SMC), an initiative to celebrate Filipinx culture. Realizing there were few resources for young Filipinx-Canadians to learn about the cultures of the Philippines, Claire Baguio and Kathleen Zaragosa wanted to provide youth, mainly those 16
–25, an environment to learn about their heritage. In an interview with
The Peak, Zaragosa described SMC’s history, goals, and initiatives.
By studying language, an important aspect of culture, Zaragosa learnt the significance of representation and nurturing adolescents and young adults within the Filipinx-Canadian community. To address the lack of Filipinx representation in academia, Zaragosa gathered data on Filipinx-Canadian youth. Zaragosa’s research found: Tagalog is the most common Filipinx language taught, most Filipinx-Canadians are not fluent in their native language, and Metro Vancouver lacks lan