February 5 |
KATIPUNAN PICNIC
Place and Time: Magic Island Picnic Area 33, 9:00 am - 1:00 pm
This is your chance to enjoy the beautiful outdoors and exercise genuine Filipino pakikisama (camaraderie) with fellow students in the program. Come enjoy good food and authentic Filipino games that will demonstrate age-old traditions of Filipino entertainment. |
March 11 |
SINE
Place and Time: Spalding 155, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Come and watch Filipino film masterpieces that express undying values and virtues of the Filipino people. This year, the film is Feng Shui, a horrific thriller that brings to life many practices and superstitious beliefs that govern the lives of many Filipinos. |
March 13 |
INDAYOG NG WIKA
(RHYTHM OF WORDS)
Place and Time: Philippine Consulate, 6:30 pm
The Filipino literary experience is rich and powerful. Join us for an evening of prose, poetry, song and dance as
we explore the many ways Filipino language is used to express powerful and encompassing emotions. Famous poet and professor of Filipino, Benilda Aquino, from Ateneo de Manila University, will be gracing this event with selections from her works. |
April 13 |
Literary Reading
Place and Time: Kuykendall 101 at 3:00 PM
Our guest of honor for this semester, Ms. Benilda Aquino, a prolific writer, poet and active feminist, will be sharing her masterful literary works with the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Ms. Aquino is a distinguished professor of Filipino at the Ateneo de Manila University |
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April 30 |
DRAMAFEST
Place and Time: Art Auditorium at 1:00 PM
Watch as the 100 and 200-level Filipino students compete for top honors as they perform excerpts from Jose Rizal's Noli me Tangere and El Filibusterismo - two of the hero's most powerful works. |
For more information, call the UHM Filipino Program at 956-3550 or 956-6970. |
