In 1995, a group of Filipino-Americans in Long Island (FAMILII), founded a new non-profit organization in Suffolk County, New York, for the purpose of nurturing their Filipino heritage and culture, promoting camaraderie and to do benevolent work for some unfortunate people in Suffolk County and in the Philippines.
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The Hawai’i Cultural Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to perpetuating Hawaiian culture outside of Hawai’i. HCF develops programs that create a deeper understanding of ancient and contemporary Hawaiian traditions, and strives to strengthen a community of people who share a common ancestry, background or interest in Hawaii.
Kinding Sindaw exists to assert, preserve, reclaim, and re-create the traditions of dance, music, martial arts, storytelling, and orature of the indigenous peoples of the Philippines by:
• Developing a broader repertory of dance and music dramas from several epic myths and legends of the Maranao, T’boli, Yakan, Higaoonon, Tausug, Bagobo, Tiruray, Manobo, Mandaya, Iranun, Talaandig, Samal, Igorot, and other tribes.
• Asserting the legitimacy of the art and traditions of Philippine indigenous tribes through the presentation of dance and music epics and smaller works which bring to life the historical and contemporary stories of these marginalized peoples.
• Research, study, adoption, and preservation of the cultural art forms and sacred rituals of these indigenous people.
• Serving as a resource for history, culture, dance, music, and martial arts of the indigenous peoples of the Philippines.
• Involving people interested in learning, participating, and growing within the traditions of the Kinding Sindaw community.
Founded in 1989, Ma-Yi Theater Company is an Obie Award-winning, not-for-profit 501(3)(c) organization whose primary mission is to develop new plays and performance works that essay Asian American experiences. We provide a home for artists where they can take big creative risks and investigate new avenues of collaboration as they hone individual and collective skills. We encourage our artists to engage their communities in vigorous dialogues that push Asian American aesthetics beyond easily identifiable Orientalist markers. We challenge popular prescriptions of what culturally specific theater should be by producing challenging, forward-thinking plays written by today’s emerging crop of new playwrights.