Filipino Canadian Book Festival: Keynote Speaker

Why we picked it

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—sha