Category: Filipino American
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Kusina ng Bayan Fundraising Update
By Ryan Viloria Status Report We are excited to share a progress update on Kusina ng Bayan, aka The Community’s Kitchen! Thanks to the generosity of our supporters, we’ve reached 25% of our fundraising goal, raising $16,250 toward restoring this vital community kitchen. Special shout out to Alpha Nicolasin for leading a fundraising team that…
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Call For Content Contributions
Got something fun, meaningful, or a little weird to share? 👀 A story, photo, video, poem, playlist, or memory? If it connects to Filipino or Filipino American life, Chicago, the Philippines, or your time with the Rizal Center, we want to see it. Did the Rizal Center leave a mark on you? Bring you back…
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FILIPINO AMERICAN COUNCIL OF GREATER CHICAGO
We just earned our 2026 Platinum Seal of Transparency from Candid.org Keep up with our accomplishments on our #NonprofitProfile https://bit.ly/4qYjwNG
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A Trilogy of Stories, a Century of Memory:
THE ART OF BELONGING Theater, Archival Film, and Filipino American Memory Come Together in Chicago Chicago, IL — CIRCA Pintig announces The Art of Belonging, a multidisciplinary theater and film project that celebrates Filipino immigrant life in the Midwest through staged readings and rare archival home movies. The project pairs three short plays adapted from…
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HOUSE OF HOPE
REIMAGINING THE RIZAL CENTER AMIDST THE FAST-CHANGING COMMUNITY The Rizal Center as our Home Away From Home is our House of Harmonious Transformation: A Story of Community Bayanihan In the heart of the Rizal Center, where Filipinos and Filipino Americans echo with the struggles of unemployment, lack of food, health disparities, stale cultural activities, lack…
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Filipino Nurses Exhibit Calls For Historical ‘Artifacts’
CHICAGO – Members of a local Filipino-American historical society have launched a collection drive for items depicting the history of Filipino nurses in America. Organizers of an upcoming museum exhibit are appealing to nurses with Filipino ancestry and their families and friends to donate or lend items ranging from the academic to professional, cultural to…
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Ilang Tala sa Paghigop ng Kapeng Pinoy
ni Ogot Sumulong Mahilig akong umiinom ng kape, lalo na sa umaga. Pero di ko binusisi kung anong klaseng kape ang iniinom ko maski noong nasa high school pa ako. Noon, instant coffee ang iniinom ko. Nescafe yata ang tatak. Ikaw ang magtitimpla kung gusto mong black; pero kundi, ikaw ang maglalagay kung ilang kutsara…
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Are We Empowered Yet?
That Filipino Americans are frequently labeled as “invisible Asians,” has been a topic widely written about — notably by Filipino writers themselves. It’s a well-intentioned reflective approach into understanding the reasons behind Filipino Americans’ invisible classification — according to the usual metrics by which races and ethnicities are observed and processed. Asian immigrant communities assume…