Smithsonian launches Fil Am Centennial
BY JENNIE L. ILUSTRE, MALAYA
WASHINGTON – The Smithsonian Institution, the world’s largest museum complex, last Friday launched the Filipino American Centennial in partnership with the Filipino-American community with a program here.
Some 60 community leaders and members were on hand to listen to speeches and a power point presentation on the celebration with the theme "A Century of Challenge and Change: The Filipino American Story."
The year-long celebration will showcase exhibits and programs showing contributions of Filipino Americans in the mainland US as workers, doctors and nurses, active soldiers and veterans, public servants and artists and performers.
The target audiences are Americans and Filipinos who were raised in the US but know very little about their roots.
On Feb. 10, Smithsonian will hold a series of panel discussions and performances and film showings that will be open to the public.
From May to August, the Smithsonian will feature "Singgalot: Ties That Bind," an exhibit of 100 photographs at its S. Dillon Ripley Center. Its curator is Professor Dean Alegado of the University of Hawaii’s Ethnic Studies Department.
The exhibit documents the early migration of Filipinos and images of Filipino life from the turn of the century to the present.
The exhibit will tour key US cities over three years.
The cost of the photo exhibit and other events reached $200,000. It was shouldered by community organizations and individuals.
Dr. Franklin Odo, director of the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program founded in 1997, said the 150-year-old Smithsonian has only recently focused on Asian Americans.
"It is our unit that began to make Smithsonian pay attention to these minority groups," he said.
According to census, there are 2.36 million people of Philippine ancestry in the US. They are the second fastest-growing Asian minority, next to the Chinese.
"It’s a big deal for Smithsonian to have an office and a four-person staff handling major activities of the Filipino American Centennial," Odo said.
Evan Garcia, Embassy deputy chief of mission, in his remarks lauded the resolution passed by the US Congress on the Filipino American Centennial. The resolution was sponsored by Rep. Ed Case of Hawaii and endorsed by lawmakers who are members of the Philippine-US Congressional Caucus.
WASHINGTON – The Smithsonian Institution, the world’s largest museum complex, last Friday launched the Filipino American Centennial in partnership with the Filipino-American community with a program here.
Some 60 community leaders and members were on hand to listen to speeches and a power point presentation on the celebration with the theme "A Century of Challenge and Change: The Filipino American Story."
The year-long celebration will showcase exhibits and programs showing contributions of Filipino Americans in the mainland US as workers, doctors and nurses, active soldiers and veterans, public servants and artists and performers.
The target audiences are Americans and Filipinos who were raised in the US but know very little about their roots.
On Feb. 10, Smithsonian will hold a series of panel discussions and performances and film showings that will be open to the public.
From May to August, the Smithsonian will feature "Singgalot: Ties That Bind," an exhibit of 100 photographs at its S. Dillon Ripley Center. Its curator is Professor Dean Alegado of the University of Hawaii’s Ethnic Studies Department.
The exhibit documents the early migration of Filipinos and images of Filipino life from the turn of the century to the present.
The exhibit will tour key US cities over three years.
The cost of the photo exhibit and other events reached $200,000. It was shouldered by community organizations and individuals.
Dr. Franklin Odo, director of the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program founded in 1997, said the 150-year-old Smithsonian has only recently focused on Asian Americans.
"It is our unit that began to make Smithsonian pay attention to these minority groups," he said.
According to census, there are 2.36 million people of Philippine ancestry in the US. They are the second fastest-growing Asian minority, next to the Chinese.
"It’s a big deal for Smithsonian to have an office and a four-person staff handling major activities of the Filipino American Centennial," Odo said.
Evan Garcia, Embassy deputy chief of mission, in his remarks lauded the resolution passed by the US Congress on the Filipino American Centennial. The resolution was sponsored by Rep. Ed Case of Hawaii and endorsed by lawmakers who are members of the Philippine-US Congressional Caucus.
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