The Northwest Filipino American Student Alliance (NWFASA) 16th Annual Conference
April 9-12, 2010 Portland State University Portland OR
Isulong: Building, Creating, Forging Ahead
Information: www.nwfasa2010.org http://nwfasaconference2010.groups.pdx.edu/
The Northwest Filipino American Student Alliance (NWFASA) will be holding its 16th annual NWFASA Conference on April 9-11, 2010, in Portland, Oregon on the campus of Portland State University. This is an opportunity for various Filipino American student organizations from Oregon and Washington to learn and celebrate Filipino culture.
The conference is a weekend-long event for student groups to gather and learn about leadership, networking, and team-building. It enables students to build a strong and unified community between all participating organizations, increases education and awareness, and promotes student activism and involvement. One full day is devoted to attending educational workshops catered to addressing issues affecting Filipino-American and Asian Pacific Islander communities. Workshops cover a wide range of topics such as identity issues, immigration, comfort women and sex trafficking, and many others. These workshops help shape students into more critical and active individuals as they gain a better understanding of the issues affecting them and their respective communities.
The theme “Isulong: Building, Creating, Forging Ahead” encompasses the whole objective that the NWFASA is trying to achieve – to empower Filipino American youth through workshops and speakers that will educate them about their history, identity, culture, and the important issues that are facing their community. By building a stronger community we begin creating a movement (Isulong) that will allow us to forge ahead towards social justice and social change.
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Expecting over 500 participants from all over the Northwest region, the conference hosts a weekend-long event for Filipino-American student organizations from Oregon and Washington to gather and learn about leadership, networking and team-building.
The theme of the conference this year, “Isulong: Building, Creating, Forging Ahead,” hopes to empower Filipino American youth through workshops and speakers that will educate them about their history, identity, culture and significant issues that the community faces. With the goal of motivating the next generation of Filipino Americans to have a voice in society, the 3-day event hopes to build a stronger community by creating a movement (isulong) that forges ahead towards social justice and social change.
This year’s NWFASA Conference is hosting 3 keynote speakers:
- Kiwi, an active member of the San Francisco Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines and Deputy Secretary General of Bayan-USA, who has organized various workshops raising awareness through music on Filipino identity and community involvement towards social change;
- Geo Quibuyen, an accomplished hip-hop vocalist of Blue Scholars and a cultural worker for Bayan-USA, who has co-founded the People Power Tour with fellow musician and keynote speaker Kiwi raising awareness about human rights violations in the Philippines; and
- Anne Beryl Corotan, the National Chairperson of SANDIWA and youth representative at the executive body of the National Alliance for Filipino Concerns (NAFCON) who has dedicated her life towards advocacy for the youth, migrants and the Filipino community both in the local and international sphere.
Attendees choose from 10 various workshops with topics ranging from cultural themes such as Symbols of Our History: The Evolution of the Philippine Flag to current issues like Being Filipino in America.
Admission:
Conference fees are $35, which include information packets, workshop fees, all meals, a souvenir T-shirt, and an all access pass to a midnight river cruise aboard the Portland Spirit. There is an additional $35 for those needing hotel accommodations for the weekend.
Registration:
If you are part of a NWFASA Organization, register online at www.nwfasa2010.org. Otherwise, the registration packet is available to download on the website. Registration forms must be submitted by February 21th. Otherwise, late registration forms will be accepted no later than March 12th with a late registration fee of $10.
Interested individuals are invited to contact:
Irynne Padua irynne_padua@hotmail.com
Ryan Jumamil ryanjumamil@yahoo.com
KAIBIGAN at kaibigan@pdx.edu for more information
Other relevant information, including brochures, promo commercials, and posters, about the 16th NWFASA Conference can be found at www.nwfasa2010.org
About Northwest Filipino American Student Alliance (NWFASA):
Formerly known as the Washington State Filipino American Student Alliance a.k.a. “the Alliance” was established in 1995 by Filipino student organizations from Washington universities. In 2003, “the Alliance” has been renamed to be called Northwest Filipino American Student Alliance (NWFASA). The NWFASA brings together the various student groups on higher education campuses across the state of Washington and Oregon. NWFASA’s purpose is to build a strong network and community between the organizations in order to pool resources, increase education/awareness, and provide support to current & new organizations. NWFASA goals are for the betterment of our Filipino American community through education, student activism, and involvement. The Alliance has grown to 16 member organizations from different campuses in Washington and Oregon: Washington State University (WSU), University of Washington (UW), Seattle University (SU), Western Washington University (WWU), Gonzaga University (GU), Central Washington University (CWU), AnakBayan Seattle (AB), Oregon State University (OSU), University of Oregon (UO), Portland State University (PSU), Portland Community College (PCC), Seattle Central Community College (SCCC), NaFFAA Young Professionals Region 7, Saint Martin’s University (SMU), the Sisterhood of Pi Nu Iota (Ates), and the Brotherhood of Omega Phi Omega (Kuyas)
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