Tag Archive | candy gourlay

[Pre-AFCC Glitter] Meet Candy Gourlay

I am doing a series of interviews with invited guest speakers and other conference attendees: a Pre-AFCC 2013 Glitter, if you will. A shower of golden fairy dust and pixie glitter and virtual confetti to signal the coming of the Asian Festival of Children’s Content this year! Today, I am very excited to welcome Candy Gourlay […]

A Bonafide Fiesta at the Pop Up Festival, King’s Cross London UK

The amazing Candy Gourlay (our Featured Storyteller for our Bimonthly theme on Festival of Asian Literature and the Immigrant Experience) is hosting an “exuberant Filipino-style fiesta - complete with bamboo dancers! – to 2012′s Pop Up Festival.” Candy describes the event [which is happening on Saturday 30th June 11.30am-6pm & Sunday 1st July 12pm-6pm at King's Cross […]

Book Hunting Expedition (3): Library Love, AFCC Loot, and May Winner for the AWB Reading Challenge

It’s Sunday! Time for us to post the books that we have ‘hunted down’ during the week for our Book Hunting Expeditions Sunday theme. I have no recent acquisitions but I shall be featuring the books that I borrowed from our libraries here in Singapore as well as the books that were given to me […]

AFCC Update 3: Philippine Delegates brought Passion, Music, and Vibrance to the Festival

AFCC Update 3: Philippine Delegates brought Passion, Music, and Vibrance to the Festival

The basic premise of the Asian Festival of Children’s Content (AFCC) is to showcase and highlight masterful storytelling, artwork, imagery that is of Asian content and bringing it to the world’s children. This year, AFCC has upped the ante by doing a regional focus on the Philippines. This marks the beginning of a ‘global trek’ […]

AFCC 2012 Update 2: Snippets from the Parents Forum, Celebrating Singapore’s Stars, and an Evening with Noel Cabangon and Candy Gourlay

Yesterday, I managed to post my first update from the recently concluded huge event here in Singapore, the Asian Festival of Children’s Content. Today, I will just share snippets from the Parents Forum, the panel on celebrating our stars here in Singapore, as well as a magical evening with one of the Philippines’ finest musicians, Noel […]