Category: Arts and Culture
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Digital Art Gallery October 2026 Featuring: Mark B. Agcaoili
Mark Bernardo Agcaoili is a visual artist from Ilagan City, Isabela. After contracting meningitis at a young age, he lost the use of his hands and experienced difficulty speaking. Despite these challenges, Mark found a way to continue doing what he loves. He taught himself to draw and paint using his feet. Mark creates portraits…
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Digital Art Gallery October 2026 Featuring: Litany Esguerra
Litany Esguerra is a self-taught artist, musician, and researcher living in West Town, Chicago. She experiments with other forms of mixed media such as collage, cyanotype, and pastel, although they mainly paint with oil and acrylic. As a second-generation Filipino-American, Litany’s art centers on themes of identity, solitude, and culture. She is particularly interested in…
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Digital Art Gallery October 2026 Featuring: Set Gozo
Set is a visual artist born in the Philippines and raised in Majayjay, Laguna, a small town at the foot of Mount Banahaw known for its lush green scenery and bodies of water. Growing up in this naturally rich environment sparked her interest in art at an early age. Her work reflects nature, as well…
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SAYAWAN AT BAYANIHAN SA RIZAL CENTER
A Monthly Community Dance, Fellowship, and Fundraising Program Sayawan at Bayanihan sa Rizal Center brings members of the Filipino American community together through dance, movement, music, fellowship, and shared responsibility for the Rizal Center. Rooted in the Filipino tradition of bayanihan, Sayawan recognizes that sustaining our community center is a collective effort. Everyone can contribute.…
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Rooted in Community, Connected Through Our Stories
Celebrating Filipino American History Month Across Chicago and the Midwest An archive can inspire a performance. A performance can open a conversation between generations. A family story can become a learning resource. These connections are at the heart of the community work I am grateful to share with so many of you. This October, the…
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Unnamed, Not Forgotten: The First Filipinos on American Shores, 1587
On the 439th anniversary of the Morro Bay landing, a history and an imagined retelling of the three “Luzon Indios” who arrived before America existed On October 18, 1587, three crewmen of the Spanish galleon Nuestra Señora de Buena Esperanza —recorded as “Luzon Indios”—became the first documented Filipinos to set foot in the United States. …
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Money Remittance is a Lifeline of Support
By Willie Jose Wherever we are in the world—in the US, Canada, Australia, or Middle East countries—far from our families back home, they are always in our thoughts. We remain deeply rooted in their lives, and whatever comfort or success we experience abroad, we naturally want to share those blessings with the loved ones we…
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Featuring: Dr. Peter Stover
Dr. Peter S.T. Stover is an educator, artist, ethnographer, and transformational leader and coach. Half-Filipino, born in Tacloban City, Philippines, and raised in small towns across Michigan and Colorado, he harnesses human potential through creative, collaborative, experiential learning that fosters mutual growth of both teacher and student. Driven to address the world’s numerous contemporary crises,…
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Featuring: Indigo Field
Indigo Field is a rising sophomore at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a focus on fibers and material studies, as well as fashion. Based in Chicagoland, her work explores the Filipino-American diaspora experience through a feminine perspective, using materials like lace, rhinestones, and found…