This year’s Pilipina/o Cultural Celebration (PCC) addresses issues that affect Pilipina/o American youth. This theatrical production will attempt to address personal trying times, explore philosophical conundrums and address political ideas that deal with pain, family and love in a performative manner. By using dance, dialogue and poetry, this year’s PCC follows the development of the main characters that examine the contours between life, death and after-life.
A 1995 article was published in the San Diego Union-Tribune entitled, “Filipino Girls Think Suicide at No.1 Rate.” This seminal article still speaks truth to many young Pilipina/o Americans who often have ineffable personal experiences growing up in America under their immigrant parents. The main characters of PCC: Fayt, Malaya, Trista and Chaos are all Pilipina/o Americans who each deal with pain and death differently. During Fayt’s journey, she meets a young girl named Trista, and through this relationship, she learns to treasure the bouts of emotion and freedom that exist within the most unlikely places. Chaos and Malaya are angels that look after human beings like Fayt and Trista, yet they experience and re-live their own issues. This story outlines Fayt’s experience, which is aligned with the basic premise of the 1995 article – that suicide risk and prevention and that coping with life is real and substantial in our community.
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