Vancouver’s hit Magkasama Market to be back next year

Magkasama – A Modern Filipino Market unexpectedly drew more than 2,000 people last November. It will be back in spring. INSTAGRAM

VANCOUVER, B.C.– Organizers of a huge Filipino festival last November 16 were so awed by its success that they are going to do it again next year.

A spring edition of Magkasama – A Modern Filipino Market is tentatively set for May 23, 2020. Magkasama Filipino Market was a one-of-a-kind event that offered food, drinks, apparel, art and more from more than 20 vendors.

Organizers from Shameless Buns and Layunin had planned the market expecting about 300-500 people to show up. But when more than 2,000 people greeted them instead, they said they were “at a loss for words,” according to 604Now.com.

“This was about promoting the diversity in the Filipino Community and to give some culture back to the Filipino Youth of today,” they wrote. “I believed we achieved all that and more and it’s all thanks to the hard work of the two teams joining forces together to create a new value to people in this city – we started a movement here Vancouver!”