PEP and YFPA PRESENTS: DREAMS AND DRINKS! October 5, 2011

Please join the Young Filipino Professionals Association (YFPA) and Pinay/Pinoy Educational Partnerships (PEP) as we co-host:

DREAMS AND DRINKS
at NOBLE
600 Polk Street at Turk
6pm to 830pm
www.noblesf.com

A Filipino American History Month Happy Hour Mixer celebrating the Ten Year Anniversary of Pinay/Pinoy Educational Partnerships (PEP) and ten years of providing Filipino American Studies in the San Francisco Unified School District. Also celebrating the 4th Annual Filipino American Jazz Festival!

Have drinks and mingle with members of YFPA and PEP, celebrate the start of Filipino American History month, 10 years of Filipino American Studies in San Francisco Unified School District, and PEP's 10 years of education, research, activism, and service to Filipino Americans of the Excelsior Neighborhood in San Francisco!

Special Performance by Actress and Comedienne Nicole Maxali!
www.nicolemaxali.com
Nicole will perform an excerpt from her upcoming one-woman show, Forgetting the Details, to be shown at the newly opened Bindlestiff Studios.
Things aren't right at home. Nicole’s lola (Tagalog for grandmother) is starting to forget more and more details. But now it's more than misplaced keys. In a span of three months, she changes the locks on all the doors, is driving on the wrong side of the street and is shoplifting Rocawear and Sean John outfits from Serramonte Mall. As the family struggles through her grandmother's descent into dementia, Nicole faces the conflict between being a respectful Filipina apo (Tagalog for granddaughter) or pursuing her American dream. What's a Fil-Am girl to do?

Directed by Paul Stein of Comedy Central Stage in Hollywood, Nicole Maxali’s full-length solo performance piece, Forgetting the Details, explores the familial and cultural-related challenges a young adult faces when losing a loved one to Alzheimer’s.

Described by comedian Dave Chappelle as “funny, heartwarming and funny again,” Forgetting the Details is an endearing performance piece that captures the unwavering love between a lola and apo. Nicole Maxali's one-woman show will make you laugh, cry and remind you that in the end, it's not the details that matter.

Hope to see you celebrate with us!

Sponsored By:

Young Filipino Professionals Association
www.yfpa.org
The mission of the Young Filipino Professionals Association (YFPA) is to foster professional connections, ideas and expertise to support and engage Filipino professionals in the greater San Francisco Bay Area.

Pin@y Educational Partnerships
www.pepsf.org
Pin@y Educational Partnerships (PEP) is a teaching pipeline and a space for the development of critical Filipina/o American curriculum and research. PEP is dually located in the academy and in the community. As a program of San Francisco State University’s Asian American Studies Department in the College of Ethnic Studies, PEP partners with San Francisco public schools and the Filipino Community Center located in the Excelsior neighborhood of San Francisco.

San Francisco Filipino American Jazz Festival
www.sfpinoyjazzfest.com
The San Francisco Filipino American Jazz Festival's mission is to promote, preserve, and celebrate Filipino-American history and culture; to acknowledge contributions past and present by Filipino jazz artists; to educate, provoke throughout, engage in dialogue; to entertain the public with performances by Filipino-American artists.
Nicole Maxali began creating art since the age of five; but after graduating from high school, she followed her grandparent's advice and decided to pursue her college degree in a more "stable" career: Broadcast Journalism. While a student, in 2000 Nicole began working at ABC7's Public Affairs Department. There she produced "Filipino-American in the Bay Area: Past, Present & Future" and "Local and International Efforts to Stop Sex Trafficking" for ABC's Emmy-nominated Beyond the Headlines.
www.nicolemaxali.com

Questions? Contact:

Eleanore Fernandez
Vice President
Young Filipino Professionals Association
eleanore@yfpa.org

Ben Cabangun
President, Board of Directors
Pin@y Educational Partnerships
ben.cabangun@yahoo.com