18th Annual PArol Lantern Festival Announcement
Share Your FAVORITE traditional holiday dish
There is always a dish you look most forward to during the holidays,
a dish that brings you comfort and warm memories.
We invite you to share your favorite traditional holiday dish and what it means to you by submitting images or clips here.
Jeff DeGuia
Pasadena, CA ←→ Chicago, IL
I'm slowly making Bibinkga a tradition for me and my friends in LA and family in Chicago a holiday tradition. Looking forward to making it this year again :)
@jeffdeguia_
Alleluia Panis
San Francisco, CA
Thankful to be able to cook, eat and hang out with family on this pandemic 2020. Small representation of 4 generations.
I had not baked a turkey in at least decade! Turned out pretty good. My mother demo’d purple rice biko to great granddaughter Zaiah. Quiet, small but sweet and satisfying!
From my house to yours - wellness, peace & joy
@alleluiasfprojects
The parol lantern is essential to
Pilipino holiday tradition and celebration
No matter where we are in the world, let us continue to light up our hearts, our homes, and our community with the quintessential Pilipino holiday symbol of hope, blessings, luck, peace, and light.
We invite you to share images of your parols to be featured in our digital Parol Lantern Gallery, submit here.
Alleluia Panis & Zaiah Calvin-Luna
San Francisco, CA
Homemade parol lantern & gingerbread cookies on a rainy day
@alleluiasfprojects
Beverly Yanuaria
Los Angeles (Tongva/Gabrielino land), CA
We had a great date night creating parols with the online workshop. We've been wanting to check out the SF parol festival for years, happy to finally attend -- even if virtually from LA! Maligayang pasko!
@beverlyyanuaria
Arisha Roj Anne C. Real
San Francisco, CA
This is my project in our 3rd Grade Class with Ms. Charity, my mom and my sisters help me make it. I am hanging in our window coz it’s Christmas time. This shows our tradition as a Filipino, my mom told me that in Philippines they started to hang parol with Christmas lights and Christmas Tree starting from September 1st.
Laurel Santos, Lindsey Mora, & Jenica Mora
Fairfield, CA & Vacaville, CA
Our collective works in progress (attended 11/27 virtual class together in our respective homes). We couldn’t get together for Thanksgiving so we were grateful to have this opportunity to be together and learn about/create parols.
@atehatihan
Julie-Ann Burkhart
Pacifica, CA
Capiz Parol from the Philippines and Homemade Parol made by my 6 year old son and me.
@surfingbirdy
Farrah Coloma
American Canyon, CA
Last year I made my very first parol and decided to make a Philippines flag paper flower to put inside. Who knew Disney would make a Disney short featuring Filipino culture this year 😍. So in love with the Mickey plush with the parol and the stitches on the ear just like in the video.
@journey.beautyforashes
Hana Sun Lee
Daly City, CA
Every year during the holidays we are so busy trying to make it to every Friendsgiving and Christmas party, sometimes even making two stops in one night, but due to the pandemic those traditions have sadly come to a pause. As 2020 comes to an end, making parol lanterns for the first time was the perfect start to a new holiday tradition for the Lee household.
Sayaw sa Ilaw
Dancing in the Light
December 18, 2020
As part of this year's Parol Lantern Festival, Master Choreographer, Sydney Loyola, has been commissioned to lead an international collaboration of Philippine folkloric dance practitioners in the Philippines and the diaspora to create Sayaw Sa Ilaw / Dancing in the Light video featuring:
Bayanihan Philippine National Folk Dance Company-Alumni
from the Philippines and Canada
Haraya Dance Project, San Francisco, CA
Barangay Dance Company, San Francisco, CA
Kariktan Dance Company, Concord, CA
Palawan Dance Ensemble, Palawan, Philippines
PASACAT, San Diego, CA
Sining Bulakenyo, Bulacan, Philippines
Dance Artists from San Francisco Bay Area, CA
About Sydney Loyola
For more than three decades, Sydney Loyola has created dance works performed by cultural groups in the US, Philippines, Asia, and Europe. She toured internationally as a principal dancer of the Bayanihan Philippine National Folk-Dance Company.
She is the founding artistic director for the American Center of Philippine Arts and co-founder of Haraya Dance Project—an ensemble that encourages initiative and participation among Filipino-American trans artists in San Francisco.
She has received commissioning grant awards from National Endowment for the Arts (2012), Creative Work Fund (2012 and 2020), East Bay Community Foundation (2011), and Zellerbach Family Foundation (2011).
She has been a commissioned artist for several Kularts productions including Huni ng Tandikan-Palau’an Bird Call and Ba-e Makiling.
About Haraya Dance Project
Haraya Dance Project traces its conception to encourage initiative and participation among the Filipino-American trans, non-binary, and genderqueer community. Through dance, we honor the gender-neutral deities of the Philippines, we pay respect to the once-revered transgender priestesses that were eradicated in the era of colonization. Through Haraya we are able to share our authentic selves and be part of the diverse cultural landscape of San Francisco.
Kumukutikutitap
Flickering
by aureen almario
december 11, 2020
In a socially distanced world, two children find solace through each other under the flickering light of a parol.
Bindlestiff Artistic Director, shadowgrapher and puppeteer, Aureen Almario creates a special shadow play on video for this year’s Parol Lantern Festival.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Aureen Almario in her shadowplay Sigaw (Scream, Shout, Cry) and as a superhero character in the comic book Isugid Pinoy!
Aureen has been a resident artist at Bindlestiff, having performed in productions such as A Pinoy Midsummer, directed by Lorna Velasco; A. Rey Pamatmat’s Thunder Above, Deeps Below, and staged readings for Lysley Tenorio’s Monstress directed by Sean San Jose and Jeannie Barroga’s Aurora. She co-founded Pinays Maintaining Sisterhood Through Art (P.M.S.T.A) and Granny Cart Gangstas, an all womxn Asian American sketch comedy group. a member of Brownout Shadowplay Collective, she is also a national touring performer with ShadowLight Productions for the show Feathers of Fire created by Hamid Rahmanian in collaboration with Larry Reed, which has been performed at Fort Mason Center, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Harvard University, UCLA, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Aureen holds a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies and a Masters of Arts in Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University. She is an adjunct professor in the Ethnic Studies department at Laney College, where she teaches Asian American Studies.