Tag: Rizal Center
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Volunteer Work Day at the Rizal Center!
Join us as we continue to give back to our home away from home. On this day, we’ll need your help with: – Working in the garden – Cleaning up – Organizing and making space at our Community Center – Painting the fence (we may be doing some fun paint work, so come ready to…
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Featuring: Susan Alforque Silvano
Susan graduated with a BBA in Accounting, Cum Laude from the University of the East, Manila. She passed the CPA exams in the Philippines and in Chicago. She has had a good career as an accountant but her talent for painting and strong desire to start a second career led her to join a watercolor…
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Featuring: Kristel Becares
Kristel Becares is a Filipino-American illustrator and fine artist. Born in the Philippines, raised in Bahrain, and growing up in the Skokie/Chicago area, diversity and the storytelling behind culture heavily inspires her artwork. At a very young age she started experimenting with anime, graphic novels, and animation. Her curiosity for all different types of art…
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Featuring: Sheryl Coaxum
Sheryl Coaxum, Sheryl is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, and youth advocate whose work celebrates the strength, beauty, and diversity of women and communities of color. Born in California and shaped by her formative years in Hawai’i and Japan, Sheryl brings a rich cultural perspective to her practice. Now based in Chicago, she holds a BA…
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Featuring: Viola C. Mayol
Viola was born in Tacloban City, Leyte and came to the US in 1976. She has made art all her life, in various media, following in the footsteps of her grandmother and mother, who worked magically with cloth. Her work is informed by native crafts from the island of Higatangan, Biliran Province where Viola spent…
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Health Empowerment Sessions
KABABAYANS in CHICAGOLAND: Health Empowerment Sessions Join us for a series of community-building events that focus on Breast and Cervical Cancer Awareness, the MOSAAIC Study, and public health education resources. What to Look Forward To Weekly Campaigns: Community Values: What to Expect Important Information Please spread the word to your relatives, friends, and neighbors! Together,…
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Every Brilliant Thing, A Pink and Pinay Production
CIRCA Pintig, Chicago’s Filipino American theatre company in its 34th year, presents EVERY BRILLIANT THING, the groundbreaking one-performer play written by Duncan Macmillan with Jonny Donahue. This heartfelt play about a child’s mother living with depression is told through a narrator, letting the performer bring in their lived experiences into the storytelling, creating a profound theatrical…
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Featuring: Valerie May Baqueriza-Belleza
Valerie is a graduate of the West Visayas State University and was a former teacher of the SPED-Integrated School for Exceptional Children in Iloilo City, Philippines. She found her passion in the visual arts under the tutelage of the multi-awarded Ilonggo visual artist, Mr. Ronie Granja. Her first artwork was one of the few works exhibited…
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Featuring: Marea Cordero
Marea hand cuts intricate, layered, paper art focused on anatomy, spirituality, and the ability to evolve in adversity. Paper shifts from a format for art to be created upon into art itself by sacrificing pieces of itself. It becomes line and form, letting the space it lives in contain a new object. Bold, anatomical female…
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Health Empowerment Sessions
KABABAYANS in CHICAGOLAND: Health Empowerment Sessions Join us for a series of community-building events that focus on Breast and Cervical Cancer Awareness, the MOSAAIC Study, and public health education resources. What to Look Forward To Weekly Campaigns: Community Values: What to Expect Important Information Please spread the word to your relatives, friends, and neighbors! Together,…