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Welcome to Our Fil-Am Community—Thank You for Connecting!  Hi there! I want to take a moment to personally welcome you to my Pinoy Built Facebook circle and, more broadly, to the growing online community of Filipino Americans who celebrate, share, and build Filipino identity, culture, and pride together. First and foremost, thank you for connecting! Every friend I add is more than just a Facebook connection—they are a part of a living, breathing, vibrant community. Whether you grew up here in the U.S., migrated recently from the Philippines, or are somewhere in between like me, your presence matters. As part of this welcome, I’d love to introduce you to the Pinoy Built Facebook Page and Pinoybuilt.com . If you like and follow the Facebook Page, you’ll get notifications of new stories, community posts, and features on the website, so you never miss the latest content celebrating our heritage. What is Pinoybuilt.com? Pinoy Built is more than a blog or a website—it’s ...

7th Annual Napa Valley Aloha Festival Manaleo Hawaiian Cultural Foundation September 20, 2014 Ka Uluwehi O Ke Kai Special Request In lieu of, or in addition to a Facebook comment, please comment below if you have a Google account. Thank you! Maraming salamat po! 

Arielle Jacobs and the cast of the hit Broadway show take the stage for a live performance in Times Square.

Young Filipino-Americans in STEM and Medical Professions Most of my family members have occupations in the STEM fields or medical field or health care professions. STEM includes science , technology , engineering , and mathematics . When I was younger, my family pushed for me to go into these types of fields. I pushed back, saying that I wanted to go into the arts . They pushed back too. My dad would constantly remind me that “the money ” is in more “practical jobs”, urging me to look into becoming a computer engineer or a doctor . I knew that those types of jobs weren’t for me. While my eldest sister was pursuing a higher education at UCLA , she declared pre-med right after high school . It wasn’t until the end of her third year that she realized she did not have a passion for medicine . She switched her major to International Development and received a certificate in Interior Design. My family was disappointed when she decided not to pursue a medic...

Ma' Rosa, The Woman Who Left, and Imago to be screened at TIFF Toronto, Canada: Three Filipino films will be screened at the Toronto International Film Festival to be held September 8-18, 2016 . Ma' Rosa Filipino firebrand Brillante Mendoza (Slingshot, Kinatay) incisively explores the street-level corruption of the Duterte-era Philippines with this tragicomic tale about a low-level drug dealer (Jaclyn Jose, Best Actress winner at Cannes) on a desperate search for cash to pay a bribe to the local cops. The Woman Who Left (Ang Babaeng Humayo) Director Lav Diaz's drama examines economic disparity in modern Filipino society through the eyes of a woman released from prison 30 years after being framed and wrongly convicted. Imago A 54-year-old single mother in Manila heads out for another night at a job that, though rife with risk and desperation, is business as usual for her. Tonight, however, before her task is through, she‘ll have to contend with more th...