Category Archives: Asian Americans

Emil Amok’s Latest….Be on a Zoom Meeting This Weekend?

We’re practicing social distancing and being ZoomFunny these days, telling stories.  Go to Facebook to my Emil Guillermo page donate to the Filipino American National Historical Society Museum fundraiser, and come to a story telling workshop Sunday, April 26th at 2pm Pacific.  Special guests!

Then send me an email here or an FB message and I will send you the Zoom details. 

We’ll tell stories  to each other about being Filipino American!

For 25 years I’ve written my “Amok” column from an Asian American perspective in the ethnic media, starting in Asian Week, and now home-based at the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund website.

Read the latest here

Twitter @emilamok

How are you holding up in the pandemic?

I’m also a WFPB-TV (Whole Foods Plant Based-True Vegan) Coach.

Let me answer your questions on how diet can reverse diabetes, heart disease, and help you feel and live a better life.

I host The PETA PODCAST — LISTEN HERE>  (Program on how the race for a vaccine is actually saving animals lives as scientists realize they can bypass useless animal testing).

And there’s Emil Amok’s Takeout…. On Filipino and Asian American Issues…LISTEN HERE TO THE TAKEOUT.

VIRTUAL TOWN HALL–WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 2020 Filipinos in the US and COVID-19

Join in this virtual Town Hall to find out how Filipino Americans are faring under Covid-19

FREE REGISTRATION HERE.

I’ll be joining a good panel from the frontlines and Washington.

 

One of the guests was a recent guest on my podcast. Gem Scorp is a nurse on the front lines at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, NY.

LIsten here NOW :  EMIL AMOK’S TAKEOUT

See Emil Amok’s latest columns here.

For 25 years I’ve written my “Amok” column from an Asian American perspective in the ethnic media, starting in Asian Week, and now home-based at the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund website.

Read the latest here

Twitter @emilamok

How are you holding up in the pandemic?

I’m also a WFPB-TV (Whole Foods Plant Based-True Vegan) Coach.

Let me answer your questions on how diet can reverse diabetes, heart disease, and help you feel and live a better life.

I host The PETA PODCAST LISTEN HERE>  (Program on how the race for a vaccine is actually saving animals lives as scientists realize they can bypass useless animal testing).

 

And I host “Emil Amok’s Takeout”  here: (Listen how Trump’s use of “Chinese Virus” phrase made Asian Americans scapegoats in the Covid-19 era).

Find all the podcasts on Apple or your favorite podcast app.

“Emil Amok! Married to PETA and Other Love Stories”: Coming to SF SoloFest Feb. 1, 2020–Two shows only. Get discount code for tix here!

It’s happening …

“Emil Amok! Married to PETA and other Love Stories.”

at the SF Solofest, two nights only.

 

Come to the Potrero Stage – 1695 18th Street, San Francisco, CA 94107

Get your tickets with this  special amok insiders’ code:

SPF3EG$10.

Go to:  https://playground-sf.org/solofest

Here’s what critics have said about  Emil Amok’s performances:

“Charismatic…Guillermo’s life is one worth exploring.”–DC Metro Arts

“A refreshing experience in more ways than one. At the end of the hour, when Emil thanks the audience for seeing him as his authentic, non-invisble self–well, that’s what makes theatre so worthwhile, isnt’ it?” –DC Theatre Scene

“Was this standup, a monologue, a rant? …Enjoy trying to keep pace with Guillermo’s brilliant mind.” –Orlando Weekly.

“Excellent…Emil Guillermo knows how to tell a story and that ability sets “Amok Monologues” above other solo shows.” –San Diego Story

Get your tickets with this  special amok insiders’ code:

SPF3EG$10.

Go to:  https://playground-sf.org/solofest

It’s “Emil Amok: Married to PETA and other Love Stories.”

The fruit bat flies again!

Emil Guillermo is an award -winning journalist and commentator whose “Amok” columns have appeared for the last 25 years in print and on the web in both mainstream and ethnic media. Home based at the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund website , he’s also read in Filipino American web and print publications in the U.S. and Hawaii.  Inspired by his columns, Emil takes to the stage to make his stories come alive, A former NPR host,TV broadcaster, and talk show host, he is the host and producer of “The PETA Podcast.” Listen here.

Don’t miss out:

Get your tickets with this  special amok insiders’ code:

SPF3EG$10.

Go to:  https://playground-sf.org/solofest

It’s “Emil Amok: Married to PETA and other Love Stories.”