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
The condominium development Bennet Miemban-Ganata knew would eventually displace her Filipino restaurant seemed a distant threat until she heard the noise of a development application sign going up.
Miemban-Ganata owns Plato Filipino, a restaurant nestled between four other Filipino and Chinese eateries and food stores, all set for demolition if a proposed zoning application goes through near the Joyce Skytrain station in Vancouver. The new zoning would allow for a 32-storey mixed-use property, with commercial residences on the bottom floor, a new branch of the Vancouver Public Library on the second, and residences above.
“We’d been told already that the owner was going to sell this (site) for a highrise building. We asked when it was going to be, and they said, ‘Not soon,’ so we were kind of surprised when this (sign) was here,” said Miemban-Ganata, who rents her restaurant space. “And then suddenly, it’s like that.”