Positively Filipino

08/19/2024

[VIDEO OF THE WEEK]From The Filipino Story: this Filipino-American didn’t want to be Filipino, until a unique experience happened. Watch here: https://www.positivelyfilipino.com/video-of-the-week-1


The Filipino Story

Tony Olaes

08/17/2024

We continue to spotlight Filipino artists, this time a pointillist born and bred in the Philippines' art capital, Angono, Rizal. Dolpee Alcantara Jr.'s signature technique and vivid colors are discussed by first-time contributor Leodovico Padua Masuli. Read the story here: https://www.positivelyfilipino.com/magazine/points-of-artistic-power

Leodivico Padua Masuli


Dolpee Alcantara

08/17/2024

The Philippine call center industry in the Philippines is big business and already a permanent presence in the nation's economy. It's just fitting then that an award-winning fictionist - Glenn Diaz, a professor at Ateneo de Manila - makes a call center the setting of this crime thriller, The Quiet Ones. New York-based writer/academic Elaine Joy Edaya Degale reviews the book. Read the review here: https://www.positivelyfilipino.com/magazine/call-center-caper


Elaine Degale
Operation Merienda

Glenn Diaz

08/16/2024

[Global Briefs] FIL-AM GOLFER RIANNE MALIXI WINS U.S. WOMEN'S AMATEUR

For the second time in three weeks, Filipina golfer Rianne Malixi ruled over the Unites States’ Asterisk Talley, this time conquering the US Women’s Amateur in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Sunday, August 11 (Monday, August 12, Manila time) (See Rappler for story) .

08/16/2024

[Video of the Week] "I Didn't Want to be Filipino."

From The Filipino Story: this Filipino-American didn’t want to be Filipino, until a unique experience happened. https://www.positivelyfilipino.com/video-of-the-week-1

08/16/2024

[ACT AGAINST HATE] Our Anti-Asian Hate Watch this week features the following: a feature on the North Valley community, 25 years after a deadly attack at its JCC, a mask ban at New York's Nassau County and how the New York City mayor hosts a dialogue to address therising levels of hate crime. Find the stories here: https://www.positivelyfilipino.com/act-against-hate/anti-asian-hate-watch-august-14-2024

This resource is supported in whole or in part by funding provided by the State of California, administered by the California State Library in partnership with the California Department of Social Services and the California Commission on Asian and Pacific Islander American Affairs as part of the Stop the Hate program. Positively Filipino is a grantee for one year during which we will be posting stories that support this campaign. To report a hate incident or hate crime and get support, go to CA vs Hate.

08/15/2024

[Global Briefs] FIL-AM WOMEN'S OLYMPIC RUGBY PLAYER WINS BRONZE MEDAL FOR US

Alena Olsen from Caledonia, Michigan, has secured a bronze medal in the Women’s Olympic Rugby Sevens, marking West Michigan’s first medal of the Paris Summer Games. The 28-year-old Olsen played as a scrumhalf and helped Team USA achieve a historic 14-12 victory over Australia (See WGHN for story...

08/15/2024

Positively Filipino invites our Bay Area readers to "Building Communities: A Tribute to our Manongs and Manangs", an event to honor community leaders on August 31, 2024 at the San Francisco Public Library. Due to the venue's limited seating, please RSVP at [email protected] by August 20, 2024.
https://www.positivelyfilipino.com/magazine/building-communities-a-tribute-to-our-manongs-and-manangs

08/14/2024

[Global Briefs] FILIPINO STUDENTS WIN 2 GOLDS, 1 SILVER IN INT'L NUCLEAR SCIENCE COMPETITION

Two Filipino secondary-level students won gold medals, and another secured a silver during the 1st International Nuclear Science Olympiad (INSO) at New Clark City in Pampanga from August 1 to 6 (See Rappler for story) .

08/14/2024

[+BTW] OUR VOTES MATTER

Fact: "In the 2020 and 2022 elections, Democrats won Asian Americans’ votes in national elections by noticeably smaller margins than in years past." Author/academic James Zarsadiaz, in his op-ed piece first published in the Los Angeles Times, traces the history of Asian Americans’ increasing slant towards the Republican Party, an interesting shift worth watching. But will the recent upheaval in the US presidential elections -- the phenomenal ascendance of Kamala Harris as the Democratic candidate -- alter this trend? As Filipino telenovelas would urge: Abangan ang susunod na kabanata (watch for the next episode).

https://www.positivelyfilipino.com/blog/our-votes-matter

08/13/2024

Finally, be athletic or simply go about wearing 1587 Sneakers, a new brand created by sneaker industry veteran Adam King to celebrate the first arrival of Luzones Indios or ancestral Filipinos in America. Activist and award-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas explains his enthusiasm for the venture in Walk the Talk in 1587 Sneakers. Read the story here: https://www.positivelyfilipino.com/magazine/walk-the-talk-in-1587-sneakers

Jose Antonio Vargas


1587 Sneakers

08/13/2024

What a writer needs: a room atop a lighthouse in France’s Charante-Maritime region. Criselda Yabes writes about this UNESCO heritage site that dates back to the 17th century. Read her story here: https://www.positivelyfilipino.com/magazine/to-the-lighthouse

Criselda Yabes

08/12/2024

A Book Talk about “Dauntless,” the story of the 1st and 2nd Filipino Infantry Regiments in the Philippines during WWII will be held this Saturday, August 17th at the Waipahu Public Library from 10am to 12 noon.

08/11/2024

Greater Filipino presence is also rising on the international concert music stage. On July 7, 2024, the Manila Symphony Junior Orchestra (MSJO) made history by nabbing its third gold medal in the 16th Summa Cum Laude Youth International Music Festival in Vienna.

Just three days earlier the youth orchestra won the Grand Prize in the Bratislava International Music Festival in Slovakia. Talk about bravura performances. Writer Pablo A. Tariman reports on MSJO’s feats in Manila Symphony Junior Orchestra Conquers Europe. Story here: https://www.positivelyfilipino.com/magazine/manila-symphony-junior-orchestra-conquers-europe

Photo courtesy of the Bratislava Music Agency and the MSJO delegation
tariman
Pablo Tariman

08/11/2024

It’s exhilarating to see Filipinos excel in Olympic sports be it via the homeland or the diaspora. We’re ecstatic over Filipino gymnast Carlos Yulo’s historic two Olympic gold medals for the Philippines and the bronze medals of Filipina boxers Nesthy Petecio and Aira Villegas. We’re kilig (thrilled) as well over half-Filipinos Lee Kiefer who bagged a gold in fencing for the US, and gymnast Jake Jarman who won a bronze for the UK.

It’s a good time as any to remember another international pathbreaker in sports, the late tiny but mighty tennis star Felicisimo H. Ampon. In Felicisimo ‘Mighty Mite’ H. Ampon: Tennis Giant, writer Rey E. de la Cruz recalls how the ace from the working class broke “social, racial, physical, and political barriers” to put the Philippines on the world map of tennis. Read the story here:https://www.positivelyfilipino.com/magazine/felicisimo-mighty-mite-h-ampon-tennis-giant

De La Cruz Rey

08/10/2024

Pistahan Parade and Festival

08/10/2024

Kariktan

08/10/2024

Mabuhay Folkloric Society

08/10/2024

Books for the Barrios

08/10/2024

Parangal Dance Company

08/10/2024

St. Augustine Children's Choir

08/09/2024

[Community News] SKY RIVER CASINO LAUNCHES MILLION-DOLLAR "TWICE AS NICE" ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION

Sky River Casino is set to dazzle guests with its $1,000,000 "Twice as Nice" Anniversary Celebration, marking two years of premier entertainment and gaming excellence in Elk Grove.

08/09/2024

Positively Filipino invites our Bay Area subscribers to "Building Communities: A Tribute to our Manongs and Manangs", an event to honor community leaders on August 31, 2024 at the San Francisco Public Library. Due to the venue's limited seating, please RSVP at [email protected] by August 20, 2024.

https://www.positivelyfilipino.com/magazine/building-communities-a-tribute-to-our-manongs-and-manangs

08/09/2024

Our Anti-Asian Hate Watch stories span the West and East coasts. Read the stories here: https://www.positivelyfilipino.com/act-against-hate/anti-asian-hate-watch-august-7-2024

This resource is supported in whole or in part by funding provided by the State of California, administered by the California State Library in partnership with the California Department of Social Services and the California Commission on Asian and Pacific Islander American Affairs as part of the Stop the Hate program. Positively Filipino is a grantee for one year during which we will be posting stories that support this campaign. To report a hate incident or hate crime and get support, go to CA vs Hate.

08/08/2024

[COMMUNITY NEWS] The Philippine Consulate General in San Francisco invites all citizens of the Philippines who are students and alumni of higher education institutions under its jurisdiction to register with the Consulate and answer the online survey.

This covers Filipino citizens who are currently enrolled in or have graduated from a certificate, associate’s, bachelor’s, master’s or doctor’s degree program in a college or university under the Consulate‘s jurisdiction—which includes Alaska, Northern and Central California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Northern Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington State, and Wyoming.

This online registration and survey effort will help the Philippine government in crafting policies and programs that will advance the welfare and well-being of Filipino students while studying abroad, including orientations and other information dissemination activities that will make them better equipped in their new environments. This effort will also guide the Consulate in coming up with events and projects that will cater to Filipino students under its consular jurisdiction.

Detailed information collected from the online registration will remain confidential, and will be protected under Philippine Republic Act No. 10173 (Data Privacy Act of 2012).

Filipino students are encouraged to register and answer the survey by accomplishing this online form: http://tinyurl.com/SFPCGStudents

08/07/2024

[Video of the Week] Puso sa Paris 2024: The Golden Boy of Gymnastics

Smart Sports presents this mini-documentary on 2-time Olympic Gold medalist Carlos Edriel Yulo.

08/07/2024

[+BTW] FLEXING OUR MUSCLES

It’s exhilarating to see Filipinos excel in Olympic sports be it via the homeland or the diaspora. We’re ecstatic over Filipino gymnast Carlos Yulo’s historic two Olympic gold medals for the Philippines and the bronze medals of Filipina boxers Nesthy Petecio and Aira Villegas. We’re kilig (thrilled) as well over half-Filipinos Lee Kiefer who bagged a gold in fencing for the US, and gymnast Jake Jarman who won a bronze for the UK.

https://www.positivelyfilipino.com/blog/flexing-our-muscles

08/07/2024

[Global Briefs] GYMNAST CARLOS YULO BAGS ANOTHER OLYMPIC GOLD

Carlos Yulo became the Philippines’ first double Olympic gold medalist after reigning in the men’s artistic gymnastics vault final at the Bercy Arena on Sunday, August 4 (See Rappler for story).

08/06/2024

Our video of the week is Sebastien Gilbert’s documentary on Filipino pole vaulter EJ Obiena’s journey to the Paris Olympics. Link here: https://www.positivelyfilipino.com/video-of-the-week-1

Sebastien Gilbert