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Filipina theater actor Regina De Vera is the only Filipino who has qualified for the Drama Division of one of the most prestigious arts school in New York – The Juilliard School. Regina De Vera [via Rappler] Over 1,900 applicants from all over the world auditioned for the 4-year Masters of Fine Arts in Acting Program which starts this September. De Vera was among the 18 who passed the qualifications. De Vera received financial aid from Juilliard amounting to $28,000 while the total cost of her expenses including housing, basic supplies, and other academic matters reached up to $61,290. She started crowfunding on May 25 using the #GoFundRegina. Fortunately, she gathered the amount needed as a proof of her capability and get approval for her student visa. The theater actor started her career by joining a drama club in high school. From then on, De Vera became an advocate of local films and theater plays. She has steadily campaigned for the need to appreciate the ingenious Filipino talent. She is currently a resident actor of Tanghalang Pilipino Actors Company from the Cultural Center of the Philippines.   Related posts: Joel Torre wins Best Actor award in Korean Film Festival Alagwa wins Best Narrative Feature, Actor awards in Guam Richard Gomez, Aiko Melendez win in Portugal & London Pinoy mathletes bag 12 golds, 138 medals in Hong Kong

By: Emil Guillermo, September 17th, 2015 01:56 AM The Filipino Community Hall in Delano, California looks like an old gym with a clock on the wall that looks like it’s permanently stuck in the 1940s. That’s when the building was built, but it was in 1965 when this was the place where Filipinos made history. Forget the champagne, pop a fresh grape in your mouth, hopefully the kind from Delano that comes with a snap. You can find them at Costco. Fifty years ago this month, the Delano Grape Strike began. Hey, wasn’t that the strike that turned Cesar Chavez into an American saint? Yeah, sort of. Let’s take nothing away from the non-violent protest acumen of Chavez.But it all came at the expense of the veteran labor strategist who made the strike happen— Larry Itliong. You don’t have to be Filipino to make a mecca-like journey to 1457 Glenwood St. in Delano. But it wouldn’t be a bad idea. The Grape Strike was started by Itliong (left) and the Filipinos on September 8. Itliong asked Chavez (right) to join the strike Sept. 16. Together Chavez and Larry Itliong merged their groups to form the United Farm Workers. Courtesy of Filipino American National Historical Society-Delano chapter This is where where Itliong and members of the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee made history. It’s a seminal Asian American/Filipino American story. Like many of the strikers, my father was one of the original Filipinos to arrive in America in the ’20s. He came Read More …

INQUIRER.net U.S. Bureau By: Carol Tanjutco, September 17th, 2015 01:54 AM Soledad by Greta Lood. CONTRIBUTED PHOTOS NEW YORK CITY — An ongoing art exhibit dubbed “Res Ipsa Loquitur III,” a Latin phrase meaning “the thing speaks for itself,” is currently showing the recent works of artists Greta Lood, Rellie Liwag and Joyce Herrera-Wong at the Philippine Center here from September 8 to 18. The first of the Res Ipsa Loquitur series was conceptualized in 2005 by Greta Lood, a Manhattan-based, Philippine-born artist who was then curator for the Gardens Memorial Park in Boca Raton, Florida. Res Ipsa Loquitur II was launched in Makati, Philippines, in 2013 for the Michael Acosta, Christina Acosta and Cristalle Acosta-Laurel photography exhibit. . A scene from the Mountain Province by Joyce Herrera. Lood, whose second solo “Bakit Bilog?” was opened by Mrs. Imelda Marcos in Manila in 1999, will now present the RKBC series, standing for her three inspirational masters, Mark Rothko, Gustav Klimt and Ben Cabrera. Her paintings feature women dressed in traditional 1900 fashion, embellished with 22K gold leaf in Klimt’s ornate, flat form patterns, superimposed on Rothko’s floating color fields. The titled female subjects, with quaint names such as Soledad, Purificacion and Amparo, harken back to a more pristine moment in the Philippine culture. As such, the viewer, while absorbed by the abstract, minimalistic aura of the Rothko horizons, will experience a somewhat mystical counterpoint between the modern century and a time gone by, evoking a sense of serenity and spirituality. Read More …

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