Filipino Americans Hope to Revive Cultural Neighborhood in San Francisco
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.
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.
The school has a long history of providing Filipino language and culture to San Francisco students.
“I think the visibility of Filipio Americans is now coming to the forefront because we’re finally realizing, we have really arrived.” – Alleluia Panis, Kularts
“I confess to sharing that feeling of being slighted in seeing my own traditional dishes being ‘explained’ by an ‘outsider.'” – Andrew Lam
The documentary about Asian Pacific American, which debuted on PBS in December, grapples with how family, tradition, faith, and geography shape our relationship to food.
The recordings will culminate in a special series of oral history devoted to Lunar New Year. Come in with someone you know, someone who’s important to you in some way, and share your story.
PBS Distribution has just released the documentary from award-winning filmmaker Grace Lee.
Thanks to amazing home movie footage donated to CAAM’s Memories to Light initiative by local Bay Area painter/artist Hugo Kobayashi, you can see for yourself how mochi is made.
Tune in for Grace Lee’s newest documentary, Off the Menu: Asian America, premiering this week on PBS! Broadcast begins December 8.
“We hardly get to listen to a man like Kosal with his past, without apprehension.”
Come and record your stories at StoryCorps, San Francisco.
“The steps that artists are taking, it shifts the imagination of what can be. That makes a new politics possible.”