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THE Philippine American Cultural School (PACS) in collaboration with the Philippine Independence Day Council Inc. (PIDCI), the Antiquenos in the Tri- State area and the Pagtatap Group, will hold a Dinner-Dance in honor of the governor of Antique, Salvacion Zaldivar Perez and company.
The Dinner-Dance will be held on June 11, Sunday, at 4:30 – 10:00 p.m. at the Sheraton Hotel in Frontage Road, Newark, New Jersey.
Since the Governor is on a Cultural Mission tour, she has with her some government officials and members of the Binirayan Cultural Group of Antique.
This cultural Group has performed all around Philippines and in other Asian countries such as Thailand and Malaysia.
Come and see the famous Binirayan Cultural Group perform folksongs and folkdances fron Antique and many more.
Antique is one of the four Provinces in the Island of Panay. The governor has promoted the rich heritage and culture of Antique and the Philippines.
The Philippine American cultural School is based at Seton Hall University in South Orange , New Jersey. The school is founded in 1993 and holds Saturday classes.
Registration for membership and students are on going. Moreover, PACS needs teachers to teach Filipino language, Philippine Folkdances, Arts and Crafts and Filipino Cuisine. PACS will be holding classes also in September at the Ascension Church in New Milford, New Jersey.
Filipino language is also offered as a three-credit course at Seton Hall University. Students interested in learning a language to satisfy his/her required language course may register at Seton Hall.
For details in teaching and or learning the Philippine culture at PACS or for Dinner Dance on June 11, please call Agnes Marshall at 1973- 762-5431 or 973-632-1716, Isagani Puertollano at 908-964-5473 or 908-230-6468, Lilian Vita at 908-687-6894, Jes Tubianosa at 908-206-8928, or may write to Rev. Lawrence E. Frizzell, D. Phil, Director, Jewish-Christian Studies, Seton Hall University, 400 South Orange Avenue, South Orange, New Jersey 07079
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THE ever-growing cornucopia of financial access that is the affluent US Filipino-American market is truly here to stay. With the prosperity that many Filipino-Americans are enjoying, their buying strengths and purchasing power created a magnetism that both US- and Philippine-based firms have found too difficult to resist.
And giving this magnetism a higher surge of energy is the Philippine Fiesta 2006 in US.
This year marks the eighth “Philippine Fiesta in America” presentation. Since 1996, the weekend event is the largest indoor assembly of Filipino Americans in the East Coast.
The Philippine Fiesta is slated on August 19-20, at the Meadowlands Exposition Center in Secaucus, NJ, its venue for the past 5 years. The event is organized under the able management of New York City-based multi-media company, Special Edition Press, Inc. (SEP), owned by Nanding Mendez and his wife, Mila Mendez.
Mila Mendez, who serves as vice president for marketing for SEP, encourages that Filipino companies will use the Philippine Fiesta to their utmost advantage for penetrating both the Filipino and the American mainstream markets in the US.
“The Philippine Fiesta serves as an avenue to showcase Philippine products where Filipino American and mainstream markets can buy them,” Mendez said. “In the past, mainstream buyers found their ways to the Fiesta and were able to connect to exhibitors who are manufacturers from the Philippines and had the opportunity to order products from these exhibitors directly.”
Economically, the high Filipino American income has helped improve this market’s preferences in purchasing quality products.
The Fiesta is a cultural exposition, presenting the finest in Filipino traditions and customs and help the young generation Filipino Americans build an understanding of their parents’ heritage.
While at the event, guests are invited to browse through the many vendor booths displaying new products, promotions, and product sampling presented by both American and Filipino businesses and service providers.
Visitors are also encouraged to attend a series of seminars on investments, self-improvement, and business-related topics offered by some of the more aggressive exhibitors of the Philippine Fiesta.
“Solidarity is the Fiesta’s biggest goal,” Nanding Mendez, president of Philippine Fiesta, Inc., said, “We want to have Filipino businesses from various industries working together not only to promote our heritage and culture as one but to take advantage of the opportunities offered by Philippine Fiesta.”
To participate in the Philippine Fiesta as an exhibitor, sponsor, or advertiser, you may phone 212-682-6610 or fax at 212-682-2038, e-mails: sepmgzn@aol.com, or info@philippinefiesta.com. Inquiring parties may also visit the website at philippinefiesta.com.
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SOME 600 members of the Knights of Rizal from all over the United States, Europe, Canada, Asia and the Philippines will converge in Jersey City on September 1-3 for the organization’s 15th International Conference
The Knights of Rizal New Jersey Chapter is this year’s host of this annual conference, which will be held at the Double Tree (Hilton) Hotel near Pavonia Newport Mall.
Lito Gajilan, commander of the Knights of Rizal New Jersey Chapter, said he expects the internationl conference to drum up interest in the teachings of Rizal among Filipino American youth and Filipinos in the tri-state area.
Gajilan said the event also hopes to gather books, writings and other reading materials on Rizal which the organization will donate to a public library in Jersey City.
Invited to attend the international conference are New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez, Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy, and Jersey City Council President Mariano Vega.
Vega is a member of the Knights of Rizal.
Gajilan also said that the Jersey City Council has assured him that the city will further develop Rizal Park on Columbus Drive.
Rizal, the Philippines’ greatest hero, was a liberal and progressive thinker who was educated in Europe and Manila. He wrote two great novels – Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo, which helped stir nationalistic fervor among the Filipinos.
He was an impassioned critic of injustice and abuse committed by Spanish officials and friars during the Spanish colonial period
He sought peaceful rectification of the feudal conditions in the Philippines through meaningful reforms in economy and education. He was sentenced by a Spanish military court and died in a firing squad on December 30, 1896.
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