Category: Press Release
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CIRCA Pintig is proud to share the third annual Chicago Filipino American
Theatre Festival, performing at the historic Rizal Center. This year’s festival theme is PASABOG–a common Filipino slang term to express how showstopping, brilliant, or extra someone or something is. Our selected plays are spectacular, explosive, and revelatory about the Filipino diaspora and the cultural themes that center the Filipino and Filipino American experience. This year’s…
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Help Us Build Kusina ng Bayan: The Community’s Kitchen
Chicago’s Filipinx/a/o community has faced significant challenges this year, from rising costs and economic uncertainty to reduced access to essential services and growing pressures on immigrant communities. This past summer, much of Rizal Center’s time, resources, and fundraising has focused on necessary improvements to make our building safer, more accessible, and better prepared to serve…
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A September Reflection: The Art of Doing Nothing and Why It Matters
There emerges a strange phenomenon as summer melts into fall. September arrives with a very specific vibe — yung hangin na medyo malamig na sa umaga, yung sunlight na hindi na kasing harsh ng July, at yung subtle shift sa city rhythm. Sa Chicago, ramdam na ito sa Lakefront breeze, sa mga bata na bumabalik…
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Maraming Salamat po! – Generations of Service: FACGC Honors the Volunteers Carrying the Rizal Center Forward
CHICAGO — The faces gathered for a group photograph at the Rizal Center tell a story larger than a single Volunteer Appreciation Day. Standing and sitting shoulder to shoulder, volunteers of different ages and backgrounds represent the latest chapter in more than seven decades of community service, sacrifice, and stewardship at the Filipino American Council…
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Pamana Children’s Library-From the Author’s Desk
This August at Pamana Library Corner, we are pleased to feature The Twin Mermaids of the Island Moon by Filipina author Marilou Urbi. Rooted in Filipino values of family, kindness, and community, this beautifully written story introduces young readers to a magical world where emotions, courage, and compassion are just as important as adventure. Inspired…
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From Baybayin to Filipino: The Enduring Journey of a Nation’s Language
How centuries of adaptation shaped the Philippines’ linguistic identity without erasing its cultural roots. The Philippines has always had a heritage language vouching for this country’s capacity to interact with the world – even long before the crowned heads of Europe came to colonize countries in Southeast Asia. The Philippines’ earliest language is called “Baybayin,”…
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Together We Belong: Circa Pintig at Rizal Center
This summer and fall, Rizal Center continues to be a vibrant home for Filipino American arts, culture, and community gathering through Circa Pintig’s ongoing work. From storytelling workshops to new theater festivals, Circa Pintig is helping activate the space as a creative hub where artists, elders, youth, families, and community members can come together through…