CE Gatchalian
@cegatchalian.bsky.social
Author who writes in multiple genres. Filipinx queer neurodivergent 64-16 (“Vancouver”-born, “Toronto”-based). https://linktr.ee/cegatchalian
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When your writing is both too on the nose and, at the same time, misses the mark.
November 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
When your writing is both too on the nose and, at the same time, misses the mark.
Countdown to #NewJerusalem. #mamdaninyc
November 5, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Countdown to #NewJerusalem. #mamdaninyc
Visionary director Peter Hinton-Davis has been part of Falling in Time’s journey since 2018. Help us reach our goal by Giving Tuesday, Dec 2 — and bring this new chapter to life. 💙 www.gofundme.com/f/help-launc...
#canadiantheatre #fundraiser #cegatchalian #peterhintondavis #fallingintime
#canadiantheatre #fundraiser #cegatchalian #peterhintondavis #fallingintime
Donate to Help Launch Falling in Time: Our Design Workshop, organized by Chris Gatchalian
We’re building something extraordinary — and you can help shape it f… Chris Gatchalian needs your support for Help Launch Falling in Time: Our Design Workshop
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November 4, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Visionary director Peter Hinton-Davis has been part of Falling in Time’s journey since 2018. Help us reach our goal by Giving Tuesday, Dec 2 — and bring this new chapter to life. 💙 www.gofundme.com/f/help-launc...
#canadiantheatre #fundraiser #cegatchalian #peterhintondavis #fallingintime
#canadiantheatre #fundraiser #cegatchalian #peterhintondavis #fallingintime
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Arsenal Pulp Press is proud to be a #CertifiedCanadianPublisher. 🇨🇦
The majority of books sold in Canada are published by foreign-owned companies, yet Canadian-owned publishers produce the majority of books by Canadian authors.
The majority of books sold in Canada are published by foreign-owned companies, yet Canadian-owned publishers produce the majority of books by Canadian authors.
November 4, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Arsenal Pulp Press is proud to be a #CertifiedCanadianPublisher. 🇨🇦
The majority of books sold in Canada are published by foreign-owned companies, yet Canadian-owned publishers produce the majority of books by Canadian authors.
The majority of books sold in Canada are published by foreign-owned companies, yet Canadian-owned publishers produce the majority of books by Canadian authors.
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“You say you’re not going to make the same mistakes your parents made. But I didn’t realize how many other mistakes were available.”
- Sharon Olds
- Sharon Olds
October 26, 2025 at 10:15 PM
“You say you’re not going to make the same mistakes your parents made. But I didn’t realize how many other mistakes were available.”
- Sharon Olds
- Sharon Olds
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"Literary prizes can give the impression that art is a competition. Take it from a ferociously competitive person: Art is anti-competitive. Art is a long, unending conversation between generations."
- Lauren Groff
- Lauren Groff
October 24, 2025 at 9:02 PM
"Literary prizes can give the impression that art is a competition. Take it from a ferociously competitive person: Art is anti-competitive. Art is a long, unending conversation between generations."
- Lauren Groff
- Lauren Groff
A big part of our fundraiser is helping bring Maki Yi, an extraordinary Korean Canadian artist, to TO to work with director Peter Hinton-Davis. Her insight and collaboration are vital to the play’s soul.
DONATE HERE:
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#FallingInTime #CanadianTheatre #QueerTheatre
DONATE HERE:
www.gofundme.com/f/help-launc...
#FallingInTime #CanadianTheatre #QueerTheatre
October 22, 2025 at 1:24 PM
A big part of our fundraiser is helping bring Maki Yi, an extraordinary Korean Canadian artist, to TO to work with director Peter Hinton-Davis. Her insight and collaboration are vital to the play’s soul.
DONATE HERE:
www.gofundme.com/f/help-launc...
#FallingInTime #CanadianTheatre #QueerTheatre
DONATE HERE:
www.gofundme.com/f/help-launc...
#FallingInTime #CanadianTheatre #QueerTheatre
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🎉 Artist Members: Post Opportunities for HALF the Price! 🎉
Thrilled to announce a brand-new perk for all CBA Artist Members: 50% off the posting fee when you promote your opportunity on CBA – artist calls, jobs, funding, awards & more.
Post today for just $15!
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Thrilled to announce a brand-new perk for all CBA Artist Members: 50% off the posting fee when you promote your opportunity on CBA – artist calls, jobs, funding, awards & more.
Post today for just $15!
culturebrew.art/oppo...
October 20, 2025 at 11:10 PM
🎉 Artist Members: Post Opportunities for HALF the Price! 🎉
Thrilled to announce a brand-new perk for all CBA Artist Members: 50% off the posting fee when you promote your opportunity on CBA – artist calls, jobs, funding, awards & more.
Post today for just $15!
culturebrew.art/oppo...
Thrilled to announce a brand-new perk for all CBA Artist Members: 50% off the posting fee when you promote your opportunity on CBA – artist calls, jobs, funding, awards & more.
Post today for just $15!
culturebrew.art/oppo...
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#CBAOpportunity: The Greater Vancouver Professional Theatre Alliance is hosting a GVPTA INDUSTRY HANGOUT for BLACK THEATRE ARTISTS!
REGISTER HERE:
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#CultureBrewArt #CultureBrewArtists #IBPOC #BIPOC #BIPOCArtists #IBPOCArtists #BCArtists #VancouverArtists #BlackArtists
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#CultureBrewArt #CultureBrewArtists #IBPOC #BIPOC #BIPOCArtists #IBPOCArtists #BCArtists #VancouverArtists #BlackArtists
October 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
#CBAOpportunity: The Greater Vancouver Professional Theatre Alliance is hosting a GVPTA INDUSTRY HANGOUT for BLACK THEATRE ARTISTS!
REGISTER HERE:
culturebrew.art/oppo...
#CultureBrewArt #CultureBrewArtists #IBPOC #BIPOC #BIPOCArtists #IBPOCArtists #BCArtists #VancouverArtists #BlackArtists
REGISTER HERE:
culturebrew.art/oppo...
#CultureBrewArt #CultureBrewArtists #IBPOC #BIPOC #BIPOCArtists #IBPOCArtists #BCArtists #VancouverArtists #BlackArtists
Today we launch! ✨
Help us make the FALLING IN TIME design workshop happen — a small step toward a big dream.
Even $5 or $10 makes a difference. Let’s make it happen, together.
#FallingInTime #SupportTheArts #StrengthInNumbers
Help us make the FALLING IN TIME design workshop happen — a small step toward a big dream.
Even $5 or $10 makes a difference. Let’s make it happen, together.
#FallingInTime #SupportTheArts #StrengthInNumbers
Donate to Help Launch Falling in Time: Our Design Workshop, organized by Chris Gatchalian
We’re building something extraordinary — and you can help shape it f… Chris Gatchalian needs your support for Help Launch Falling in Time: Our Design Workshop
www.gofundme.com
October 14, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Today we launch! ✨
Help us make the FALLING IN TIME design workshop happen — a small step toward a big dream.
Even $5 or $10 makes a difference. Let’s make it happen, together.
#FallingInTime #SupportTheArts #StrengthInNumbers
Help us make the FALLING IN TIME design workshop happen — a small step toward a big dream.
Even $5 or $10 makes a difference. Let’s make it happen, together.
#FallingInTime #SupportTheArts #StrengthInNumbers
It’s been a week since I found out and it’s still top of mind for me. RIP to my amazing friend and colleague JD Derbyshire.
JD (Jan) Derbyshire - KORU Cremation | Burial | Ceremony
JD (Jan) Derbyshire peacefully kicked the bucket on Sept 26th, 2025. A curious, non-binary, queerdo lesbian, proud parent and working class artist, they haphazardly “trained” with Keith Johnstone at L...
www.korucremation.com
October 8, 2025 at 11:41 PM
It’s been a week since I found out and it’s still top of mind for me. RIP to my amazing friend and colleague JD Derbyshire.
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“My theory is that a poem is troubled into its making. It’s not like a thing that blooms; it’s a thing that wounds. I had a terror I could tell to none, as Dickinson would say.”
- Lucie Brock-Broido
- Lucie Brock-Broido
September 30, 2025 at 8:32 PM
“My theory is that a poem is troubled into its making. It’s not like a thing that blooms; it’s a thing that wounds. I had a terror I could tell to none, as Dickinson would say.”
- Lucie Brock-Broido
- Lucie Brock-Broido
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"I have to constantly re-identify myself to myself, reactivate my own standards, my own convictions about what I'm doing and why."
- Nina Simone
- Nina Simone
September 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
"I have to constantly re-identify myself to myself, reactivate my own standards, my own convictions about what I'm doing and why."
- Nina Simone
- Nina Simone
T-post in Sweden sent me one of their designer “readable t-shirts” for free. It’s literally a magazine-in-the-shape-of-a-shirt. Here’s me modelling it. Anything to promote literacy!
#tshirt #tpost #wearabletshirt #wearableshirt
#tshirt #tpost #wearabletshirt #wearableshirt
September 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
T-post in Sweden sent me one of their designer “readable t-shirts” for free. It’s literally a magazine-in-the-shape-of-a-shirt. Here’s me modelling it. Anything to promote literacy!
#tshirt #tpost #wearabletshirt #wearableshirt
#tshirt #tpost #wearabletshirt #wearableshirt
In this recent open statement about the killing of Palestinian journalists that I signed along with 243 other authors, my name is paired with Mohamed Abu Hasira, who was killed in Nov 2023 when Israeli forces targeted his home. Rest in power.
www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...
#freepalestine
www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...
#freepalestine
September 28, 2025 at 5:16 PM
In this recent open statement about the killing of Palestinian journalists that I signed along with 243 other authors, my name is paired with Mohamed Abu Hasira, who was killed in Nov 2023 when Israeli forces targeted his home. Rest in power.
www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...
#freepalestine
www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...
#freepalestine
Have been dramaturging Isobel Rondeau’s play WINGS OF AN ANGEL as part of my immensely rewarding stint at the Ryga Arts Festival in Summerland.
And like, that view.
#IndigenousTheatre #CanadianTheatre #Dramaturgy #Playwriting #SummerlandBC
And like, that view.
#IndigenousTheatre #CanadianTheatre #Dramaturgy #Playwriting #SummerlandBC
September 21, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Have been dramaturging Isobel Rondeau’s play WINGS OF AN ANGEL as part of my immensely rewarding stint at the Ryga Arts Festival in Summerland.
And like, that view.
#IndigenousTheatre #CanadianTheatre #Dramaturgy #Playwriting #SummerlandBC
And like, that view.
#IndigenousTheatre #CanadianTheatre #Dramaturgy #Playwriting #SummerlandBC
Thrilled to be on the unceded, ancestral, traditional territory of the Syilx people for the Ryga Arts Festival—I’ll keep you posted on what I’ve got going on this week. In the meantime, just enjoying this view, and the devastating beauty of my home province.
September 17, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Thrilled to be on the unceded, ancestral, traditional territory of the Syilx people for the Ryga Arts Festival—I’ll keep you posted on what I’ve got going on this week. In the meantime, just enjoying this view, and the devastating beauty of my home province.
Not celebrating, but not mourning. #charliekirk
September 11, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Not celebrating, but not mourning. #charliekirk
Cdns finally waking up about the genocide in Palestine.
In Gaza-Israel conflict, sympathies now shared equally between both sides after shift in Canadian opinion - Angus Reid Institute
Concern over genocide allegations drives increase in calls for a full ceasefire February 12, 2024 – As the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza drags on, new data from the non-profit Angus Reid Instit...
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September 6, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Cdns finally waking up about the genocide in Palestine.
Some of you—smarter, wiser, faster on the uptake—dismissed Ayn Rand from the get-go. I admire you. Deeply. Unfortunately, it took me a lot longer to figure it out. My latest Substack piece is a brief account of how I finally stopped drinking her poisonous Kool-Aid.
#aynrand #objectivism #inrecovery
#aynrand #objectivism #inrecovery
PENSIVE ADVENTURES: On Ayn Rand
The Fetishization of the Self (Or, Why I’m No Longer an Objectivist)
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September 2, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Some of you—smarter, wiser, faster on the uptake—dismissed Ayn Rand from the get-go. I admire you. Deeply. Unfortunately, it took me a lot longer to figure it out. My latest Substack piece is a brief account of how I finally stopped drinking her poisonous Kool-Aid.
#aynrand #objectivism #inrecovery
#aynrand #objectivism #inrecovery
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With fascism in our midst, Indigenous artist Gord Hill revises and expands his brilliant graphic history of fascism and anti-fascist movements, #TheAntifaComicBook.
👉 Out now in Canada (USA September 2, 2025). Read more: arsenalpulp.com/Books/T/The-...
👉 Out now in Canada (USA September 2, 2025). Read more: arsenalpulp.com/Books/T/The-...
August 26, 2025 at 7:22 PM
With fascism in our midst, Indigenous artist Gord Hill revises and expands his brilliant graphic history of fascism and anti-fascist movements, #TheAntifaComicBook.
👉 Out now in Canada (USA September 2, 2025). Read more: arsenalpulp.com/Books/T/The-...
👉 Out now in Canada (USA September 2, 2025). Read more: arsenalpulp.com/Books/T/The-...
Navigating both the Toronto heat and the mysteries of the Pinter play I just saw at Soulpepper. #OldTimes #HaroldPinter #TorontoTheatre #SummerHeat
August 16, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Navigating both the Toronto heat and the mysteries of the Pinter play I just saw at Soulpepper. #OldTimes #HaroldPinter #TorontoTheatre #SummerHeat
August 4, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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“CultureBrew.Art will be a game-changer for our artists and arts production in Canada.” – Jean Yoon
Thanks to her generosity, BIPOC artists can now access a free membership via the JEAN YOON BURSARY FUND!
Apply here: culturebrew.art/bursary
#BIPOCArtists #DiversityInTheArts
Thanks to her generosity, BIPOC artists can now access a free membership via the JEAN YOON BURSARY FUND!
Apply here: culturebrew.art/bursary
#BIPOCArtists #DiversityInTheArts
July 21, 2025 at 8:51 PM
“CultureBrew.Art will be a game-changer for our artists and arts production in Canada.” – Jean Yoon
Thanks to her generosity, BIPOC artists can now access a free membership via the JEAN YOON BURSARY FUND!
Apply here: culturebrew.art/bursary
#BIPOCArtists #DiversityInTheArts
Thanks to her generosity, BIPOC artists can now access a free membership via the JEAN YOON BURSARY FUND!
Apply here: culturebrew.art/bursary
#BIPOCArtists #DiversityInTheArts