The Filipino American Student Organization is proud to present this educational arts festival honoring and celebrating the multifaceted Filipino American identity.
RATED P is the first ever Filipino American Arts Festival at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a national leader in Southeast Asian Studies, particularly on the Philippines, with the largest archive collections maintained by Memorial Library.
RATED P will challenge participants to explore self-identity and cultural understanding through Delina Brooks' powerful performance, understand the pressing and controversial current situation with the War on Terror in the Philippines with Professor Alfred McCoy, discover the savory flavors of Filipino cuisine with Slow Food UW, and create community expression through muralism with MEChA.
Our friends and co-sponsors include:
Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Slow Food UW, Pathways to Excellence, Multicultural Council, Wisconsin Experience Grant, MEChA, Asian American Student Union, Campus Women's Center, aKDPhi, Chi Sigma Tau, Queer People Of Color, Wisconsin Black Student Union
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Delina Patrice Brooks is a dancer, songwriter, poet and actress, proudly based in Oakland, CA. As a first time playwright, Brooks earned a 2008 Isadora Duncan "Izzie" Award nomination for "Beauty, The Beast: A Dance-Theater Production," which she coins as a breathing self-portrait. Brooks has studied and performed across the U.S, Western Europe, and Guinea, West Africa, where she participated in several intensive dance workshop series' with Les Ballets AFricains. She has been funded by Zellerback Family Foundation, City of Oakland's Cultural Funding Program and East Bay Community Foundation.
Most recently she was presented by Yerba Buena for the Arts, Youth Speaks, The Black Choreographers Festival, and La Pena Cultural Center, and performed with The Living Word Project's touring project "SCOURGE," Deep Waters Dance Theater, ASE Dance Theater Collective (NYC), Faustin Linyekula, and Robert Henry Johnson, among others. Favorite roles include Hubert/Tribe Member in "HAIR" with Willows Theater (Concord, CA) and the title role in "CINDERELLA" with San Francisco's African American Shakespeare Company. Brooks has a Bachelor's' Degree in Kinesiology (SFSU) and a second Bachelor's in Ethnic Studies (CSU EB). Oh, and she's a Pisces.