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“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.”

 

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Emil Amok Now 2

Emil Amok’s procrastination tool: A mini-podcast!

And this is one about a vegan Filipino restaurant in the Bay Area.

Emil Amok—Emil in a minute or so. He says what’s on your mind and his!

 

You can shove the big yellow thing off the pancake and use a light dousing of the maple syrup to limit calories.  These are the ube pancakes at Nick’s on Grand, a legit Filipino VEGAN place.  Weekends only for the pancakes (served with vegan bacon). Check out the vegan lechon and vegan sissig! Fat still an issue. But no animal fat. You’ll get all the Filipino flavor without the cruelty. Worth checking out if you’re near South San Francisco.

Check out Emil’s columns on http://www.aaldef.org and on amok.com. Twitter @emilamok

Emil Amok Now 2

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Emil Guillermo: Thank you for “Amok Monologues” at Manilatown; See future shows, workshops. And where to read Emil

Thank you all for the great response at to “Amok Monologues” at SF’s Manilatown Last Friday!

Check back here to see where I’ll be popping up next.

Or sign up! Send me an email and get on the list.

Next scheduled Amok excerpt and workshop is Sept. 2nd in Stockton at the FANHS National Museum at 2pm.  Learn to how to tell your story.

And keep reading my regular  Amok columns at the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund.

Also at inquirer.net.

And diverseeducation.com.

And listen to my podcasts:

The PETA PODCAST

and

Emil Amok’s Takeout

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Emil Guillermo: Mourning historian and scholar Dawn Mabalon, Filipino American activist and friend; My Manilatown show on Aug. 17th dedicated to her memory.

I’m crestfallen, recovering from the news that my friend Dawn Mabalon, a tenured professor and scholar in U.S. History at San Francisco State University, specializing in Filipinos in the American Labor movement, has died.

Dawn was a bright, energetic ball of fire who took American Filipinos and U.S. history and fused it with an activist’s passion that empowered the ignored and enlightened the ignorant.

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If you didn’t know the story, you finally got it.
If you were heretofore invisible, you were finally seen.

She didn’t bother with the veritable first draft of history, a/k/a “the news.” Dawn, who originally set out to be a journalist, looked to make a lasting impact.  She got her Ph.D at Stanford and scaled the high bar of the academy. She produced legit scholarship about us in the United States, as if we really mattered.

Dawn Mabalon’s 2013 book, “Little Manila is in the Heart: The Making of the Filipino/a American Community in Stockton, California,” presented the forgotten Filipinos of America in an historical context that could not be shoved under any old rock.

It was there for all to see: A brilliant, personal, yet accessible scholarly work.

As I pondered what Dawn meant to Filipino Americans and the telling of the broader Asian American story, someone found a Facebook post of me and Dawn from her 2013 book launch. It was ten years after I first met her when I worked the diversity beat in Stockton. Along with Dillon Delvo, her Little Manila Foundation co-founder, Dawn was a key source as I wrote stories about their successful effort to preserve the blighted blocks of Stockton’s “Little Manila” into an historical district.

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Reading it now five years later just made me cry.

If all the dogeared pages of my copy are any proof, I’ve used that book she handed me like a bible. I compared my father’s story of coming to the U.S.  as a colonized American Filipino with the facts from Dawn’s scholarly work. While writing my one man show, “The Amok Monologues,” I often consulted Dawn’s book to make sure I wasn’t just true to heart, but true to history as well.

It’s the reason my Friday performance at San Francisco’s Manilatown  on Aug. 17th at 7:30 pm will be dedicated to her memory.
See the rest of my post at http://www.aaldef.org/blog