PAA News and Announcements June 3, 2003

UCLA INFORMATION AND EVENTS
1. PAA Volunteers Needed For Linda Mabalot Memorial
2. PAA Elections
3. PAA and LA Works Day: Sponsored Registration
4. UCLA Alumni Volunteer Alert
5. PAA Albums
6. Sponsorship Request: UCLA Student AIDS Marathon Runner

COMMUNITY INFORMATION AND EVENTS
7. Farmer's Market & Art Fair at Historic Filipinotown
8. FPAC 2003 Call For Artists
9. LA Tofu Festival
10. Pagkamulat a Musical Awakening June 28, 2003




1. PAA Volunteers Needed For Linda Mabalot Memorial
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Linda Mabalot’s passing has been a tremendous loss to the Pilipino and Asian American Community. PAA invites you, our alumni, students, and friends to join in on honoring Linda Mabalot’s life on June 22nd. Volunteers are needed to help set up, usher, and clean up at the memorial service. If you can help out with a few hours of your time, please email Mark Sullano at mark@uclapaa.net


Linda Mabalot Memorial
Sunday, June 22, 2003
4 pm Memorial
6 pm Reception
Aratani/Japan America Theatre,
244 South San Pedro Street Los Angeles CA 90012

For more information on Linda Mabalot please visit http://www.uclapaa.net



2. PAA Elections
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PAA's elections are coming up in late June or early July. If you'd like to join an amazing group of people, enrich your leadership experience, and impact an entire community then please consider running for a PAA board position.

PAA is also accepting nominations if you’d like to nominate someone for a board position. Please email his or her name and information to PAA.

The board positions include chair, vice-chair, activities, finance, fundraising, historian, membership, mentorship, scholarship, and publicity & online supports.

If you have any questions please email any of the current board members or email PAA at alumni@uclapaa.net.

Further information will be announced in upcoming announcements.



3. PAA and LA Works Day: Sponsored Registration
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Join PAA and Activities Director, Rebecca Mendoza as we volunteer in LA WORKS DAY 2003 (Saturday, June 21). Bring your family and friends and join thousands of volunteers in transforming community sites throughout downtown Los Angeles. We will paint, remove graffiti, create murals, and plant trees. You'll be amazed at what a difference you can make in one day!

Neutrogena is participating in LA Works Day and is willing to pay the registration fees for any interested employees AND their family and friends.

Please email Rebecca at Rebecca@uclapaa.net for the registration form and for more information.

Fax the SIGNED registration and waiver by June 5 at (310) 337-5541 to Rebecca and all registration fees will be paid by Neutrogena (Rebecca's employer). Since space is limited, please sign up only if you're certain you can volunteer."


LA WORKS DAY 2003
Saturday, June 21st
Staples Center



4. UCLA Alumni Association Volunteer Alert
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-Commencement Reception
The UCLA Alumni Association is looking for a few good Bruins to help congratulate the Class of 2003. We will host a champagne toast at the James West Alumni Center on Friday, June 13, at 6:30 p.m., directly following the graduation ceremony, and we invite you to be a part of this joyous occasion by volunteering to help.

For information and to volunteer, contact Leslie Orticke at (310) 206-1995 or LOrticke@UCLAlumni.net.



-New Student Welcome Calling Project
This year’s New Student Welcome Calling sessions will be held:
· June 16 to 19, 6-9 p.m.
· June 23 to 26, 6-9 p.m.
· Saturday, June 21, 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m. and 12:30-4:30 p.m.

Join the list of volunteers, including UCLA Hall of Famer and former Olympian Rafer Johnson and Atlanta Falcon Kris Farris, who have helped make a new student’s transition to UCLA smoother. Alumni volunteers ranging from the Class of 1940 through the Class of 2002 will meet at the James West Alumni Center in June to place thousands of phone calls to new freshmen and transfer students entering UCLA in the fall. Students have told us how wonderful and surprising it was to receive a personal welcome to such a large campus. Volunteers receive free parking, a meal and calling scripts. To RSVP, please contact Nina Magno at (310) 794-4306 or NMagno@UCLAlumni.net.



5. PAA Albums
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If you would like to view PAA’s online photo albums please visit uclapaa.net or one of these links.

Album 5
Album 4
Album 3
Album 2
Album 1

If you’d like to upload a picture of your wonderful family to PAA’s Family Album please visit:

http://community.webshots.com
login: paafamily
password: paa1

Pictures can also be emailed to mark@uclapaa.net.



6. Sponsorship Request: UCLA Student AIDS Marathon Runner
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From UCLA Student, Crystal Carrillo


Dear PAA,

I know I know. I haven't even met most of you and you don't know me and all of a sudden here I am emailing you about me doing a MARATHON... However, I consider myself a member of the Pilipino community here at UCLA and thus, we are all family. It isn't any marathon - I will be participating in the Honolulu AIDS Marathon this December! Yup, 26.2 miles. It's going to be worth it however because while I go through 6 months of training and raise 3000 dollars I'll know that my efforts and the support from all of you will be contributing to those in our Los Angeles community living with AIDS and HIV. I expect to log nearly 500 miles - my Adidas' won't know what hit 'em and I'll no longer be able to feel the blisters on my feet. It's all part of the National AIDS Marathon Training Program, which raises money for AIDS Project Los Angeles, one of the leading providers of AIDS services in Los Angeles County.

The AIDS epidemic is far from over. More than one million Americans, and 40 million others around the world, are now living with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. And Los Angeles has the second highest number of people living with AIDS in the nation.
This is why I am committed to raise at least $3000 before September 3th, although I would like to raise even more. Donations will allow AIDS Project Los Angeles to provide food, housing, transportation and other important AIDS services -- to help keep people alive until there's a cure. I know that we're all starving college students and broke post-grads but any donation you can make to help me meet my goal would be most appreciated! It's so easy to make a donation, just click on the link below. It only takes a few moments to make a contribution that could enhance the life of someone living with HIV/AIDS.

This is certainly the most challenging task I have ever attempted in my life, but I am confident that with your help I can make it to the finish line. Thank you for supporting me in this tremendous undertaking. When I hit the road this December to complete the Honolulu Marathon, I'll know that you helped me and many others along the way.

Thanks and Love,
Crystal Carrillo
Tinig 2000-now

Just click here to support me in this amazing endeavor:
http://www.aidsmarathon.com/participant.jsp?runner=LA-3163&year=2003

You may also email Crystal at crystalscarrillo@hotmail.com




7. Farmer's Market & Art Fair at Historic Filipinotown
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Saturdays: June 28 & July 26 (8am - 2pm)
at Beverly & Loma (St. Columban Church/Belmont H.S.)
We invite the community to the first ever Farmer's Market & Art Fair in Historic Filipinotown!

A Farmer's Market where you can find mangoes and bagoong, hot pandesal,
halo-halo, grilled corn on the cob, Filipino barbecue sticks, chicharon, balot, and a variety of Filipino food from pancit to adobo. Shop for handicrafts from the Philippines, books, cds, and t-shirts. Check out works of art from visual artists, poets, and musicians from the Pilipino Artists Network (PAN).

Also, join us in a tour of Historic Filipinotown. Find out about the historical and cultural contributions made by Filipinos in the area.
Please call FilAmARTS for more information regarding artists (213.389.3050) and vendors (213.382.1819) who want to participate.

Sponsored by FilAmARTS and the Office of the 13th District Councilman Eric Garcetti



8. FPAC 2003 Call For Artists!
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The 12th Annual Festival of Philippine Arts and Culture, to be held on September 6 & 7, 2003 at Point Fermin Park in San Pedro, is looking for artists of all genres to feature. This year’s theme is “Harmony," in celebration of all cultures, distinct but together, orchestrating tradition with innovation through family, art and music.
We aim to continue FPAC’s tradition of presenting a diverse and respected repertoire of traditional folk and contemporary Philippine and Filipino American arts. The following areas are now requesting submissions for consideration:
* Mainstage: Performance arts, Dance, Music, comedy * Generations Stage: Performance arts, Dance, Music, comedy * Pilipino Artist Network Arts Pavilion: Exhibition and Sales of Visual Works, CDs, books, etc. * First Annual FPAC Literary Festival: Poets, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Spoken Word, Comedy, Monologues. * 2nd Annual FPAC Amateur DJ Battle * 4th Annual FPAC Balagtasan Collective Poetry Slam: * FPAC Visual Communications Pinoy Visions Film Festival
Must be suitable for all ages. If you’d like to be considered for any of these areas, please send your contact information, address, primary phone and e-mail, and any materials for consideration, i.e. demos, VHS or VCD of songs or performances, media kits, etc. to ARRIVE IN THE FIL-AM ARTS OFFICE NO LATER THAN JUNE 30, 2003 to:
FilAm ARTS ATTN: FPAC Call for Artists 3200 West Temple Street Los Angeles, CA 90026
For inquiries: Please email fpac_mainstage@yahoo.com, fpac_generations@yahoo.com or fpacla@yahoo.com.
Thank you for your continued support of Philippine and Filipino American arts! Please forward this to anyone who may be interested.


9. LA Tofu Festival
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The 8th Annual LA Tofu Festival is fast approaching. This year’s festival is going to be bigger and better than ever. An event this size depends on the efforts of dedicated volunteers to help before the event on Friday, July 18th, and at the event Saturday, July 19th and Sunday, July 20th. Tofu Festival volunteers are needed in set-up, food booths, children’s pavilion, as runners, and for clean up. For volunteers this is rewarding experience. If you would like to volunteer, please visit www.ltsc.org or contact Bernadette at bbalagot@ltsc.org or call her at 213 473-1696.


10) Pagkamulat a Musical Awakening June 28, 2003
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Philippine music has connections with many different cultures across the globe: from the xylophone-like gamelan of Southeast Asia to the stringed mandolin of Europe, from the flat gongs of China, to the castanets of Spain. Over time, Filipinos modified these and other foreign musical instruments to better suit indigenous materials and preferences. Today, music of the Philippines is a true blending of Western and Eastern influences - a reflection of the Filipino's rich and diverse cultural heritage.
Featuring traditional and contemporary Philippine music by Rondalla Club of Los Angeles with dance accompaniment by Kayamanan Ng Lahi Philippine Folk Arts
Rondalla Club of Los Angeles (under the direction of Leonilo "Boy" Angos and Tagumpay De Leon) and Kayamanan Ng Lahi (under the direction of Joel Jacinto and Barbara Ele) combine their talents to resonate beautiful melodies and rhythms with vibrant steps and movements of the Filipinos in a concert entitled . . .
Pagkamulat: a musical awakening
Saturday, June 28, 2003
2:00pm & 7:00pm
Los Angeles Theatre Center
514 S. Spring Street
(between 5th and 6th streets)
Tickets $23/$18 ($18 for seniors students, children, groups of 20+)
For tickets and information please email: kayamanan@earthlink.net
310 391-2357
or
rcofla@hotmail.com
818 842-8655


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