UPCOMING PROJECT: CULTURAL PRODUCTION 2025
Photo: House of Dance featuring Ethnisyncracies during the 2015 CPS International Conference
The Center is now gearing up for its 50th Anniversary in 2025. Many activities are in the pipeline, notably the holding of cultural production featuring Filipino songs, dances, and exhibits on Filipino costumes and artifacts. The Cultural Production program will be handled by CPS Co-Director, Dr. Jeffrey Lorenzo Perillo. This project will collaborate with ANNO, the East-West Center, and other organizations. In 2024, the initial salvo was launched. Please see Noiʻi Nowelo: An Inaugural Conference on Hawaiian and Indigenous Performance – ANNO.
CPS will partner with the Department of Theater and Dance to produce the first Kennedy Theater Main Stage to celebrate the history of Filipinos in Hawaiʻi and the diaspora. It will feature community and student performances from local and international collaborations. Some of these activities will happen in March 2025 featuring Artist Residency Workshops, with artists from the United States and the Philippines. Please visit our Calendar of Events for more.
Meanwhile, the Filipino Curriculum project launched a week-long training for about 20 Hawaiʻi teachers in June 2024 under Dr. Patricia E. Halagao, CPS Co-Director. This is part of a three-year effort implemented by CPS in cooperation with Sistan Alhambra Filipino American Education Institute to introduce Filipino social studies in high school. The curriculum project will use the Inquiry Design Model or IDM to continue teacher empowerment training on Philippine history, culture, and traditions.
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