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Family announces passing of historian, community activist Dawn Bohulano Mabalon
By Cristina DC Pastor The family of Dawn Bohulano Mabalon announced the passing on August 10 of the historian and Stockton, California native while on vacation with her family in Hawaii. She was 46. The announcement was made on GoFundMe as the family requests assistance with funeral and memorial costs for the author of “Little […]
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‘Balangiga’ film: Amid the nightmare of war, a coming-of-age
By Joel David A small town (now a municipality) on the eastern part of Samar island in the Philippines, Balangiga [balan-HI-ga] was the site of the bloodiest conflict during the Philippine war of resistance against American colonization. In 1901, when Americans themselves believed that the war was nearing its end, Philippine revolutionaries succeeded in overpowering […]
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‘Mindanao the Legend’ unfolds centuries-old history of resistance and resilience
By Cristina DC Pastor On December 3, 2017, a lumad leader was killed by the military in Lake Sebu town of South Cotabato. Datu Victor Danyan was one of eight indigenous folks from the T’boli-Manobo tribe slain while defending their ancestral lands. Reports say he was killed in a “hail of bullets.” The theatre group […]
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‘Mindanao: The Legend’ presents the struggle of an unconquered people
On its 25th anniversary, Kinding Sindaw Heritage Foundation, Inc. will premiere “Mindanao: The Legend of Tabunaway, Mamalu and Their Descendants” at La MaMa E.T.C from June 21 to June 24, 2018, with concept, choreography and direction by founder Potri Ranka Manis. Mindanao The Legend will focus on the resilience of the indigenous peoples and the […]
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Sentro Rizal opens in Toronto in honor of the 1st Global Filipino
By Ricardo Jorge Caluen On May 12th the Sentro Rizal was inaugurated in Toronto, Canada’s most populous city. The cultural center is located in the Philippine Consulate office on 160 Eglinton Avenue East. In simple ceremonies, National Commission for Culture and the Arts Chairman Virgilio Almario and Consul General Rosalita Prospero inked the Memorandum of […]
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Guess who came to Explore the islands
By Cristina DC Pastor “The Philippines is not like a city like New York, it is like a jungle.” Whoa! Direct from the mouth of a third-grader! Students from Success Academy on the Upper West Side shared their impression of the Philippines when they checked out Explore Islands Philippines on May 10 at the Grand […]
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Maia Cruz Palileo reinterprets pre-colonial history in solo exhibit
“Meandering Curves of a Creek” is Maia Cruz Palileo’s first solo institutional exhibition, comprised of a selection of recent paintings and drawings that continue the artist’s ongoing exploration of her personal identity, cultural heritage and feelings of multiplicity as a Filipino-American. This body of work traces a direct lineage to the ethnographic photographs of Dean […]
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Letters to our children — native, brown, yellow, white, black, gay
By Tricia J. Capistrano Two thousand and three was not a good time to be with child. In March of that year, the U.S., UK, Australia, and Poland invaded Iraq. The same week, I was told that the baby that I was carrying was going to be a boy. On the subway ride home from […]
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Voices of a movement in ‘A Time to Rise’
By Renee Macalino Rutledge From our first wave of immigrants, the manongs of the 1920s and ’30s who risked their jobs and safety fighting exploitative labor conditions on West Coast farms, Filipinos have been politically active in the U.S. Yet the dominant image of the passively assimilated Filipino prevails. “A Time to Rise: Collective Memoirs […]