Title: FilAm Jam concert to benefit Bahay Kubo Center
Start Time: 07:30
Date: 2012-06-02

It’s not too late to join our programs!  Please stop by for a visit this Saturday, at 10:00am for our LFP class, and at 11:30 for our FMA class.  Classes are held at 17531 Rinaldi Street in Granada Hills.  Parking is behind the Hillcrest Christian School on Shoshone Ave.  See you there!

Bahay Kubo Center will reopen its doors on Saturday, April 21st at 9:00 am. Come to the first day of the spring workshop as we reintroduce our Learn Filipino Program and Filipino Martial Arts class. Bring your children, grandchildren and friends to meet the teachers, the martial arts instructor and continuing students from previous sessions.  All ages welcome!

Help the Filipino culture thrive with the current generation of Filipino-Americans who can learn some conversational Filipino, martial arts, history, geography, folk arts dances and arts & crafts. Register now!.

If you would like more information about our programs, contact us now!

Even if you do not know anyone who can benefit from our programs, you may help us with our mission by supporting our organization with a donation, or by volunteering your time or knowledge.  We are always looking for help in the classrooms, with projects, with events and with anything that helps promote and enrich the community with our rich heritage.  More information will follow in the coming weeks.  Hope to see you soon!

Fortunately, BKC has a loyal parent and volunteer base that helps the programs continue each year.  But what can the community do to help this center continue to thrive and expand beyond the boundaries of the San Fernando Valley?  With limited resources,  BKC can only reach Valley residents and the neighboring Santa Clarita Valley community.  In order to fulfill its mission to reach the Greater Los Angeles Filipino American community one day, more volunteers are needed to help this center grow. 

If you have children, grandchildren or friends who are first, second or third generation Filipino, as well as mixed cultural background, please take a moment to think about the value of keeping your culture alive for generations to come.  You can make a big difference if you could share some of your time with BKC.  You don’t need to be a teacher to facilitate a class, just have a mutual interest in showing this generation of Filipino Americans some language and history.  The LFP Program is a predesigned class originally created by the founders of Bahay Kubo Center, alumni of the University of the Philippines.  You can step right into a classroom setting at any time, even as a substitute facilitator, because the template is already in place.  Or you can simply assist in a class, as needed, with arts and crafts, special projects or costume-making.  If you have Filipino martial arts under your belt, please inquire on how you can participate with the FMA program, to assist or substitute as needed.  BKC is always in need of back-up volunteers.  Come visit, spend some time watching the programs in action, and see how you can share some of your spare time by getting involved with these valuable enrichment programs.

Please keep an eye out for upcoming announcements regarding the reopening of BKC’s doors to the Spring Workshops.  It will be another exciting year!  Halina kayo sa ating Bahay Kubo Center!

For inquiries please http://bahay-kubo.org/contact-us/.  You may also call (818) 832-1941.

Bahay Kubo Center is proud to invite you to watch “POPera” on Saturday, October 15th at the Ford Amphitheatre!  Come support BKC’s very good friend and supporter, Annie Nepomuceno, who has been involved with BKC for several years, performing alongside an amazing cast at our show “Awit Ng Buhay (Music of Life)” at the Ford Amphitheatre in 2009.  This will be an awesome show not to miss!

Title: POPera
Location: Ford Amphitheatre
Description: An evening of musical fusion with Jonathan Badon…
Featuring Annie Nepomuceno, Claire Rodriguez and Lianna Gutierrez.

Start Time: 07:30
Date: 2011-10-15

Many people depend on the life-saving availability of blood, for an operation or for on-going treatments. That blood comes from the kindness of volunteer donors all over the country.  The need is so great that sometimes blood banks run dangerously short.  And blood is expensive, costing hospitals more than $350 per pint.  Luckily, healthy people can donate blood without any harm to themselves, as their bodies replace that blood within a couple of weeks.  Repeat donors can donate every 56 days.

All blood donors will receive a free t-shirt, a free pancake breakfast (or lunch), a free Baskin-Robbins ice cream coupon and a free raffle ticket.  The raffle grand prize will be a ride for two aboard the Goodyear Airship, and many other prizes!  Hope to see you there!

Although the Summer workshop was shorter than the usual Spring and Summer sessions, it was still a lot of fun, and it was great to see new faces.  We hope the new BKC families enjoyed their first experience with the LFP and martial arts classes.  The value of this workshop is not only measured by the content of the classroom instruction, but by the experience of being part of the Bahay Kubo family where everyone shares a common identity.  Learning about the Filipino culture can be fun and festive when tasting and sharing everyone’s favorite Filipino foods is involved, and discussing different vacations spots that classmates have visited on the islands or plan to visit, in addition to the standard language, history and geography that is taught. 

The LFP class may have seemed more content-packed since the usual 14-week program was squeezed into seven weeks.  But the LFP and FMA programs ended on a high note, culminating with a special event sponsored by BKC partners like FilAm Arts and the Filipino Ministry of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, the BKC family joined them in another workshop for people of all ages, in the Parol-making workshop.  It was another amazing summer at Bahay Kubo Center.  We hope you will join us again when we reopen our doors for the upcoming sessions on the agenda!

Above are some photos of the LFP students and their final project.

We are just a few weeks away from another exciting workshop which we are hosting with one of our community partners, FilAm Arts, who has partnered with the Filipino Ministry Archdiocese of Los Angeles and Western Union to bring us this fun experience.  We will be participating in the Filipino folk art of parol-making, and we welcome the community to share in this special activity with us.  How often have you had the chance to make a parol?  So, come join the fun!

The best thing about this event is that the parols that we’ll make will be part of the Parol Competition at the 20th Annual Festival of Philippine Arts and Culture (FPAC) on September 10 and 11, 2011, and showcased in a parade at the Simbang Gabi evening mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Angels on December 15, 2011.

This workshop is FREE!  So, register online to: www.filamarts.org before July 31st and be part of this great and exciting experience!

Halina kayo sa ating Bahay Kubo Center!

Title: Parol Ng Pinoy Workshop
Location: Bahay Kubo Center
Link out: http://www.filamarts.org/
Start Time: 10:30
Date: 2011-08-06
End Time: 14:30