Tag Archives: American Filipinos

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.

See Emil Guillermo’s “Amok Monologues: All Pucked UP” next show up! Aug. 17th ONE NIGHT ONLY. SF’s I-HOTEL/Manilatown. Get Tickets now

On the 90th year after his father arrived from the Philippines to San Francisco, Emil Guillermo goes back to Manilatown to perform his “Amok Monologues” about growing up American Filipino in San Francisco.

Here’s what the critics are saying about Emil Guillermo’s “Amok Monologues: All Pucked Up”

“Stand-up, monologue, rant?….Enjoy trying to keep pace with Guillermo’s brilliant mind… Funny, poignant.”— Orlando Weekly.
 
“Keeps audience engaged.” — Orlando Sentinel
 
“Charismatic…Guillermo’s life is one worth exploring.” — DC Metro Theater Arts
 
“Excellent…Emil Guillermo knows how to tell a story and that ability sets “Amok Monologues above other solo shows.”  — San Diego Story
 

See it one-night only in a special benefit for the Manilatown Center/I-Hotel, Aug.17, 7:30p

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See the latest review from the Orlando Fringe Festival here.

Can’t make it Aug. 17th? Invite me to your town, barrio, neighborhood, living room!

Don’t Miss Emil… “Amok Monologues: All Pucked Up” 3.0 coming to the Orlando Fringe Festival, May 16-25. 2018– Get your tickets now! And if you can’t make it to Florida, bring the show to your town! SEE A CLIP HERE!

GET YOUR TICKETS HERE!

A new version of the full hour show! Coming to  Orlando May 16-25!

See a clip of the Orlando show here!

It’s an Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Treat.

This is the 90th year of my father’s arrival to America!

And they said:

“The Filipinos are coming! The Filipinos are coming!”

And they were.  And they did.  Now you come.

And if not, bring me to your town, school, barrio, point-point joint!

CLICK HERE FOR BEST TICKETS!

READ EMIL’S LATEST COLUMNS and LISTEN TO HIS PODCASTS:

The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund website   Emil’s news and comments on the issues of the day from an Asian American perspective. He goes “Amok”!

HEAR EMIL HOST “THE PETA PODCAST”
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mil hosts the show about the leading animal rights organization in the world.

Listen to  “Emil Amok’s Takeout”

It’s Emil. Get his take now!

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AND GET YOUR TICKETS HERE!

 

 

Emil Guillermo: Giving a workshop and performance at the Filipino American National Historical Society Conference in NYC, June 24.

I’m giving a storytelling  workshop and performing an excerpt of my “Amok” monologue, “All Pucked Up: A short history of the American Filipino,” at the Filipino American National Historical Society conference  in New York City on June 24.

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Read about it here, on my blog post on the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund site.

 

Also, I reflect on  Vincent Chin, 34  years later.

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 Read the column on Remembering Vincent Chin.