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API Heritage Night

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Ms. Philippines 2024

Please join us for the coronation of our 2024 Ms. Philippines, Melizza and the 2024 Royal Court: Aniline, Shally, Ana Maria, and Lovely.

Film Showing

Award winning actress, Suzette Ranillo, will be at the Sept 13 Meet & Greet for the Oregon Premiere Night of "Pagbalik" (Return) which Suzette also wrote and directed.
$10 from each ticket sold from these showings will benefit FAAPVI programs for the community
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Pagbalik (The Return) is written, starred in, and directed by Suzette Ranillo (Maria S. Ranillo), an award winning Filipino actress who started at the age of 12 as an actress with the screen name, Nadia Veloso. She is well known for her awards and successes in film, television and theater.
The late Gloria Sevilla, a well known and respected muti-award actress, and also known as "Queen of Visayan Movies" also stars in this film.
The film received the highest rating from the Cinema Evaluation Board (CEB). The film is in Cebuano language with English subtitles and was filtered with black and white to focus more on the storyline and the characters’ emotions.
“Pagbalik is a drama film which everyone, people of all ages can relate to … the story is very simple but will surely touch everyone’s heart, including the millennials kasi minsan they are left with unimaginable responsibilities that is beyond their control. So I hope a lot of people get to watch the film because it is the story of our lives,” Maria Ranillo, also known as Suzzette Ranillo, said.
The story centers around the mutual relationship of the three family members, Choleng (played by Gloria Sevilla) is an ailing grandmother who seems to be insensible to the quiet agony of her daughter and her grandchild, Rica (played by Suzette Ranillo, the director herself) is a striving OFW mother who is willing to sacrifice for the family, and Vince (played by Vincent Ranillo) is a responsible and devoted son who is yearning for his mother’s affection and who is also having a hard time taking care of his grandmother.
Movie is in Cebuano with English subtitles.

Health and Wellness:
Dementia Up Close and Personal

FAAPVI and our partners, PNAOW (Philippine Nurses Association of Oregon and Washington), and Legacy Health Asian & Pacific Islander Employee Resource Group invite you to our Health & Wellness Program's "Dementia Up Close and Personal" featuring "Preserving Family Relationships at the Onset of Dementia"
OBJECTIVES:
1. To offer much needed information about Dementia, and related issues like Alzheimer’s. Preparing families on how to navigate the difficult path that families and their caregivers have to endure and experience.
2. The featured workshop "Preserving Family Relationships at the Onset of Dementia", aims to help families and their caregivers learn the right approach and language needed in caring for seniors, especially those diagnosed with Dementia.
Aside from its advocacy for education, the seminar is also an avenue for families of patients with Dementia or Alzheimer’s to share, reach out, and connect with others in similar situations.
3. Provide informative talks about Wills and Estate Planning, Real Estate, and other dementia health related topics
4. We will also have a focus-group meet at this Health and Wellness event to obtain input from caregivers and the community on what their needs are and what we can do to serve them better.
5. September is also Alzheimer’s Month
TARGET AUDIENCE
 Seniors
 Family Caregivers/Adult Children
 Business Owners with Aging Parents or Grandparents
 Active Adults
 Professional Caregivers
 Senior Advocates
MAIN SPEAKER
The featured seminar will be conducted by Ms. Ellen Samson, a Dementia Advocate, Geriatric Care Manager, and Certified Dementia Practitioner and Trainer of the International Council for Certified Dementia Practitioners (ICCDP).

"DEMENTIA UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL" featuring "Preserving Family Relationships at the Onset of Dementia"
Sept 7, 2024 (Sat)
9am to 4pm
Lorenzen Conference Center (Legacy Emanuel Medical Center is on 2801 N. Gantenbein Ave.)

Community Sale

FAAPVI is having a big rummage sale on Aug. 10. Lots of pre-loved items that will be great for new owners.
New wedding gowns by local Fil-Am designer, Joe Ramirez, will also be sold at this event
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Summer Rummage Sale
August 10 & 11 (EXTENDED!)
9:00am-4:00pm
FAAPVI Center

Support our Youth

Our 2024 Young Princess Fundraising Event was held on July 20, 2024 at our very own Fil-Am Portland Events Center. We crowned our 2024 Fil-Am Young Princess Jewel, and the Royal Court Aly and Uila.

Join us for a picnic in the Park!

Please join us for our Annual 4th of July Picnic at Blue Lake Regional Park in Fairview, OR.

Professional Development Series

Join us on June 15, 2024 (Sat) for "Energy Leadership", the first of our FAAPVI Professional Development Series
SPEAKER: ELLEN BOLUS-EDMONDS
Ellen Bolus-Edmonds is a Certified Professional Coach, a Growthwheel-Certified Business Advisor and an Energy Leadership Index Master Practitioner.
Speaker Ellen Bolus-Edmonds coaches entrepreneurs and management teams. Most of her clients are looking to shape their businesses into what they thought they would be when they started or acquired it -- the ideal image of their business.
Ellen uses a unique approach called Energy Leadership TM which helps entrepreneurs to discover the default tendencies, beliefs and perceptions that they have adopted over the years. This program helps them become conscious of how these default tendencies have guided their decisions and actions and driven their business's success (or lack thereof).
Using the Energy Leadership Development System, entrepreneurs can re-create their ideal image of themselves and their business. When the ELD system is continuously employed, the organization reemerges as an energetic, successful and immensely satisfying workplace.
A positive culture is born!

Induction of Board Members

We invite you to attend the formal induction ceremony for our Officers and Board Members for the 2024-2025 term.

“Sama-sama Tayo sa Sinehan at Kainan”
(Sharing the Filipino Cinema and Food Experience).

Celebrating Filipino Cinema and Filipino Food Month, a project of FAAPVI, in partnership with Filipino Food Oregon, and various Fil-Am organizations in Oregon.

The whole project will be statewide but will start in the City of Portland for 2 weeks starting on April 5 - April 19 (and runs from April 5, 2024 - June 2, 2024 in the State of Oregon). Project is spearheaded by FAAPVI, in collaboration with other Fil-Am organizations in Oregon.

The featured international movie, “When I Met You in Tokyo”, is one of the official entries of the 2023 Metro Manila Film Festival (Philippines), as well as an entry at the Manila International Film Festival (Los Angeles), and stars Filipino movie icons, Vilma Santos (won Best Actress for both Film Fests) and Christopher de Leon.

ABOUT THE FILM: (This movie has subtitles)

This romance film tells a story about unconditional love, sacrifices, suffering, age, and aging. It is about a "dedicated and devotedly in love with each other" Filipino elderly couple and their courageous end of life journeys. Joey is an OFW permanent resident of Japan who is wounded and traumatized by his ex-wife's betrayal. He promised himself never to love again but things changed when he met Azon, who is also an OFW and a permanent resident in Japan who will make him believe to give love another shot, only to discover after only few years of a happy blissful marriage that Azon is dealing with an age-related debilitating disease that will surely break Joey's heart once more.

CAST: Christopher De Leon, Vilma Santos

TRAILER: https://youtu.be/DHvrBfDhsBM?si=4gy4asqTgB77rjmk

WHAT’S DIFFERENT:

For the Portland Metro leg of the event which starts April 5 to April 20, there will be a two (2) week Filipino Food Fest, where featured Filipino food vendors will sell ‘meriendas’ (Filipino hors d’oeuvres and desserts) before each movie screening at the Fil-Am Center (5pm to 7pm)
We will also have participating Filipino restaurants and other food establishments offer a “special” at their business location, which can be an entrée or a dessert, named after the movie icons/ characters of the film.
Fil-Am groups in Central and South of Oregon were invited to collaborate with us to show the film at their cities and do the same Filipino Food Fest.
There will be 5 movie showings at the Fil-Am building located in Portland (the building can handle 180 people each day)
It will be a great movie experience as the Fil-Am Center will have updated sound system and equipment, as there are plans to do more of these kinds of projects in the future.

PREMIERE NIGHT:

April 5, 2024 (Friday) at 6pm

REGULAR MOVIE SHOW TIMES:

April 6, 2024 (Saturday): 7pm-9:15pm ------- food vendors: 5pm-7pm
April 12, 2024 (Friday): 7pm-9:15pm ------- food vendors: 5pm-7pm
April 13, 2024 (Saturday): 7pm-9:15pm ------- food vendors: 5pm-7pm
April 19, 2024 (Friday): 7pm-9:15pm ------- food vendors: 5pm-7pm

FAAPVI (Filipino American Association of Portland & Vicinity, Inc.) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit established in 1959.

Our Mission Statement: “We are an organization of Filipino Americans, working with local communities and our global network, helping the Fil-Ams and their families live, work, and thrive in America, ensuring the creation of generational wealth and the preservation of our cultural heritage for our future.”

FAAPVI PARTNERS FOR THIS PROJECT:

Filipino Food Oregon (Philippine Department of Tourism- San Francisco)
Council of Filipino American Association
Filipino American Association of Vancouver (FAAV)

GRATEFUL TO THE FOLLOWING:

Sapience A Consulting
Rivera Mansions
Anonymous Donor
Serenity Home Care

HOW TO GET TICKETS:

• Online Via Eventbrite:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/when-i-met-you-in-tokyo-tickets-859259808217

• Email: junpioquinto@yahoo.com or sapience.A.consulting@gmail.com

Filipino-American Association of Portland and Vicinity, Inc.

8917 SE Stark Street - Portland, Oregon 97216