The Pinays on the Rise Artists Delve into Their Origin Stories and Music
Get to know Kiyomi, Ouida, and DJ Bitesize — rising Filipino American music artists native to the San Francisco Bay Area.
Get to know Kiyomi, Ouida, and DJ Bitesize — rising Filipino American music artists native to the San Francisco Bay Area.
To music writer Todd Inoue, Ben Fong-Torres is like the groovy uncle with a better record collection and a more impressive Rolodex.
“Filipinos love drama. We love to sing and dance. It was like, ‘Why not a musical?’ I think it would be the perfect vehicle for telling Larry’s story.” -Melvign Badiola
“I would have done an album a disservice if I had this project talking about the Filipino American experience and not include elements of Filipino language.”
Catch the world premiere of “Japanese American Home Movies to Light” on Sunday, September 30th, 3:30-4 pm at the Herbst Theatre during San Francisco Music Day 2018.
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) recently gave SOMA Pilipinas a $100,000 “Our Town” arts grant that will go toward the Filipino Cultural Heritage District.
“I try to incorporate stories about where I am from because I know how dynamic the immigrant and POC experience is.” – Ruby Ibarra
Catch the world premiere of NOBODY DIES, a Center for Asian American Media-funded documentary on acclaimed musician Thao Nguyen of Thao and the Get Down Stay Down on September 7 and on PBS this fall.
The musician behind “Ordinary Guy” and other hits talks about his Black and Filipino identity growing up among Latino Americans in Harlem.
Legions of Bloom is back! Catch it Friday, May 13th at Bindlestiff Studios!
Thanks for all your contributions to our great, mutual journey, with one common destiny. Perhaps we have all been flowers growing between concrete and stone. But we are also the forest.
Meet us at OMCA for an evening of food trucks, live painting, the world premiere of Tadashi Nakamura’s newest documentary, and a special musical performance by Bambu and Prometheus Brown as The Bar!