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  • 8 Memoirs That Complicate the Story of Filipino America
  • 2 Negrense national artists: One painted people’s struggles, the other lit the stage
  • ‘Forgotten Island’: Filipino American stories are Filipino stories

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electricliterature.com /1 month ago

8 Memoirs That Complicate the Story of Filipino America

The first known Filipino American memoir, Carlos Bulosan’s America Is in the Heart, was published in 1946. The next wouldn’t appear on the American literary landscape for nearly 60...

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rappler.com /1 month ago

2 Negrense national artists: One painted people’s struggles, the other lit the stage

Their lives in art were different. One continues to live with the community that became central to his work; the other is remembered for a career that helped shape how theater was...

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rappler.com /2 weeks ago

‘Forgotten Island’: Filipino American stories are Filipino stories

'Forgotten Island' is definitely an achievement worth celebrating, but Filipino storytelling does not begin nor does it end here. We have to take it upon ourselves to add to the na...

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rappler.com /5 days ago

Filipino composer Rom Dongeto and the song we thought we knew

Decades after a TV commercial propelled it into the mainstream, the activist-born anthem ‘Kanlungan’ — popularized by the voice of Noel Cabangon — continues to transcend generation...

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rappler.com /1 month ago

Resil B. Mojares, National Artist for Literature, dies at 83

Mojares was an award-winning writer, historian, and literary critic who had contributed greatly to the promotion of regional and Filipino literature

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rappler.com /1 month ago

This ‘hard to swallow’ Filipino film hopes to make Oscars history

‘Filipiñana,’ the country’s official film entry to the Oscars, hopes the international audience sees something different — a ‘different side of the Philippines’ and a ‘different ki...

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rappler.com /1 month ago

How ‘Filipiñana’s’ slow burn exposes the Philippines’ class divide

Heat and thirst establish the class divide in ‘Filipiñana,’ Rafael Manuel’s satirical debut featuring a 17-year-old ‘tee girl’

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rappler.com /3 weeks ago

‘An Sayaw nin mga Salampati’ and Bicol’s unwavering fight for human rights

Weaving Bicol folk dance and music, the film 'An Sayaw nin mga Salampati’ shows the enduring hope of the families of the desaparecidos

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globalvoices.org /1 week ago

Poetry book promotes Chabacano, Asia’s only Spanish-based creole language

"The project highlights not only the continued vitality of Chavacano as a language, but also the efforts of its speakers to create new literature and preserve the language through...

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rappler.com /6 days ago

[Rear View] The night they asked Pete Lacaba to sing, and the song that made him cry

The night ended with a rare request. Pete was asked to sing. 

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lionheartv.net /1 month ago

Filipino Fantasy Epic ‘Namwaran and the Golden Tara’ Launched After a 10-Year Literary Journey

Drawing its historical foundation and inspiration from two of the most exceptional and culturally significant pre-colonial artifacts discovered in the Philippines — the Laguna Copp...

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rappler.com /1 week ago

When history comes to life again through a fiction novel

Inspired by a 1,000-year-old museum artifact, author Darwin de Jesus Mariano breathes life into the names engraved on the Laguna Copperplate with his debut fantasy novel, ‘Namwaran...

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rappler.com /1 month ago

Day jobs and dreams: Dubai OFWs chase indie film spotlight

Despite the demands of their regular jobs, these passionate Dubai OFWs pursue unpaid acting projects, with some even earning recognition at international film festivals

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koreatimes.co.kr /2 weeks ago

Filipinos turn Hongdae venue into home away from home

In western Seoul’s vibrant Hongdae neighborhood, a celebration of Filipino music and culture transformed a live music venue into a space where the community felt closer to home. Fi...

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dakila.rappler.com /1 month ago

10 Filipino Artists Reimagine Democracy Across Philippine Islands through “Sprints” 

What does democracy look like when artists stop illustrating it as it is and start reimagining it as it could

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staradvertiser.com /2 weeks ago

Kain tayo!

The Filipino American National Historical Society established October as Filipino American History Month in 1992. What better way to celebrate than by treating yourself to deliciou...

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rappler.com /1 month ago

This Filipino couple has one of the biggest private collections of Yayoi Kusama’s art

(1st UPDATE) Lito and Kim Camacho have over 100 works of the late Japanese avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama in various mediums

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starmometer.com /3 weeks ago

P-Pop Music Awards to Celebrate Filipino Music, Talent, and the Rising PPop Scene

Filipino musical talent is something that comes naturally to many Filipinos, according to award-winning music composer and educator

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rappler.com /3 weeks ago

Valid visas, baseless claims: The aggressive deportation of Filipino seafarers 

Hundreds of seafarers — mostly Filipinos — were detained at US ports and shackled for deportation following interrogations 'full of torment and terror’

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cebudailynews.inquirer.net /7 hours ago

Kidlat Tahimik on ‘Kapwa’ as a cultural brake (preno)  

National Artist Kidlat Tahimik is a known advocate of “kapwa” (shared identity and relationality) concept as a cultural brake (preno) against Western consumerism and colonial value...

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rappler.com /3 weeks ago

Ilokano filmmaker spotlights real-life queer choir stories 

A former choir member himself, Ilokano filmmaker Ryand Angelo Ugalde shares the dilemma of a trans man singer: should he continue hormone replacement therapy or preserve the voice...

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entertainment.inquirer.net /1 month ago

'Forgotten Island' directors tells Hollywood: Filipino films not just for Filipinos

Hollywood still has a tendency to view Filipino stories as something made primarily for Filipino audiences, according to “Forgotten Island” directors Joel Crawford and Januel Merca...

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rappler.com /5 days ago

What makes a story film festival-worthy?

While local films at Puregold's CinePanalo do what they do best by making audiences laugh, grieve, remember, and feel, the festival actively seeks out stories rarely told on screen

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rappler.com /2 weeks ago

These former inmates turn life behind bars into art

For the formerly incarcerated members of the Bagongbuhay Group of Artists, art becomes one way of confronting the difficulty of rebuilding life after release

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electricliterature.com

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