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Rude Guerrilla Theater Company presents the World Premiere of playwright Aurelio Locsin’s black comedy HELLTOWN BUFFET as the ninth production in its eleventh season. Can a Filipino-American manager of  Hometown Buffet and his hunky demon seducer fall in love through their real and imagined histories? This dark comedy propels them from Orange County to several [...]

FilAm ARTS (The Association for the Advancement of Filipino American Arts and Culture) is holding it’s yearly event, 17th Annual Festival of Philippine Arts & Culture (FPAC) this coming September 6-7, 2008 at Pt Fermin Park, San Pedro, CA from 10am to 6pm.
FilAm ARTS is a multi-disciplinary community arts organization whose mission is to [...]

GMANews.TV reported that National Artist for Music Lucrecia R. Kasilag died of pneumonia last Saturday night. Kasilag, 90, wasn’t only a composer but also a performing artist and a leader in music education. She innovatively fused Filipino ethnic music with Western music, using indigenous instruments in orchestral productions and led many Filipino composers to experiment [...]

The artists presented are Filipino, Filipino American, American Filipino, scholars of Philippine Studies or Pinoyphiles, marking the growth and development of the Filipino visual arts community; Overmapped is a pause, to look, and take stock of what is happening with young artists, established artists and their career trajectories, with hobbyists who find themselves deep in [...]

From Balitang America, Don Tagala reports about the new musical the Hunchback of Notre Dame. Filipino American Broadway Veteran Evan D’Angeles, plays Quasimodo as the lead actor.

The creation of FilAm Artists Network blog/directory stems from the fact that there is no Art organization that seems to encompass all the arts across the nation that focus on FilAm artists. Believe me, I’d searched high and low. Maybe that’s one of the reasons there isn’t much visibility among FilAm Artists. And I thought, I can start a dialogue about this to help pave the way in giving more recognition to FilAm artists and show to the world the diverse talents and dispel any negative myths within the Filipino Community.

Evan D’Angeles replaces George Andrew Wolff in the extended run of the new musical adaptation of Victor Hugo’s, “THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME” as the deformed bell-ringer Quasimodo. Styx’s Dennis De Young penned the book, music and lyrics and Bailiwick artistic director David Zak staged this musical that has been playing to sold-out [...]

According to their Worlds In Collision website :
“This project serves to record Filipino American history in the United States, through a lineage of our artists and makers and their cultural achievements in painting and sculpture, graphic design, graffiti writing, turntablism, music, writing, and film. This will function as a historical and cultural resource, for and [...]