{"id":532073,"date":"2026-03-12T19:42:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T19:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/532073\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T19:42:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T19:42:17","slug":"vancouver-lapu-lapu-festival-set-for-april-19-a-year-after-deadly-attack-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/532073\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver Lapu Lapu festival set for April 19, a year after deadly attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filipino BC has announced that it will host its annual Lapu Lapu Day festival in Vancouver on April 19 to \u201creflect on shared healing\u201d a year after a <a href=\"https:\/\/cheknews.ca\/tag\/vancouver-lapu-lapu-festival-attack\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">vehicle ramming attack at the last festival killed 11 people<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Italian Cultural Centre is donating space for the festival, instead of holding the event on community streets, in a move organizers say is about prioritizing safety.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On April 26 last year, a vehicle plowed down a crowded street of festival goers, resulting in Adam Kai-Ji Lo being charged with 11 counts of second-degree murder and 31 counts of attempted murder.<\/p>\n<p>Filipino BC calls this year\u2019s festival the Lapu Lapu Day of Togetherness, with a focus on \u201creflection and communal healing,\u201d and those attending are encouraged to take part in ways that \u201cfeel meaningful to them and supportive of their individual healing needs.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The group says the festival will feature a comprehensive safety plan, including controlled access, defined entry points, trained security and co-ordination with emergency services.<\/p>\n<p>Filipino BC board member C\u00e9line Loriot says in a statement that the event isn\u2019t about moving on from what happened, but about \u201cmoving forward together, with survivors, families, and the broader community, to reclaim space for healing, cultural pride, and collective care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want people to know that however they choose to engage, or even if they choose not to, that choice is respected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It says detailed schedules on programming for the festival will be released later.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 12, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Filipino BC has announced that it will host its annual Lapu Lapu Day festival in Vancouver on April&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55,208619],"class_list":["post-532073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver","tag-vancouver-lapu-lapu-festival-attack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}