Filipino Canadian Book Festival: Keynote Speaker

What is The Filipino Canadian Book Festival? It is a literary and community gathering dedicated to celebrating Filipino/a/x and Filipino Canadian writers, artists, storytellers and readers. Rooted in literature, cultural memory and community care, the festival creates space for conversations around diaspora, identity, migration, history, creativity and the stories that connect us across generations.

Taking place over four days between August 14 and 17, 2026 at the Museum of Vancouver and VS Creative Labs, the festival will bring together close to 30 authors across panels, workshops, a marketplace and community programming. Presented in partnership with Iron Dog Books, this year’s festival will feature acclaimed writer and public historian Adrian De Leon as keynote speaker.

This year’s theme, “Writing Our Diaspora: Literature Across Generations,” invites audiences to consider diaspora as something living, expansive and ever-changing—shaped across generations, geographies, languages and communities.

 

Visit museumofvancouver.ca/filipino-canadian-book-festival for more details of the Workshops and Authors

This is for tickets for Saturday, August 15, 2026: Keynote Speaker only (does not include panels) (4pm) and includes two ticket options:

• Free RSVP Required

• Free RSVP + Discounted MOV Admission Ticket: $12

If tickets are at capacity and you would like to be added to the waitlist, please email programs@museumofvancouver.ca.

Please note that the Marketplace is also on Saturday, August 15, 2026 from10:30am-5pm. No tickets are required to attend the Marketplace.