Clarissa Gines

Opening June 1st, the Diwa Film Festival, held at the Seattle Center, will feature independent short films from the Philippines and the Filipino diaspora that celebrate the Filipino “diwa”, or spirit in Tagalog. The...

In an unassuming strip mall in Auburn, lives a new Lao/Thai restaurant called Sweet Rice. The fast-casual restaurant, started by two childhood friends, 37-year-old Eric Douangmany and 36-year-old Robert Saysana, features both Lao and...

In her directorial debut, Los Angeles-based writer and comedian Kulap Vilaysack embarks on a personal, and emotionally vulnerable journey to find her biological father in Origin Story – the opening night feature film at...

San-Francisco-based poet and musician PC Muñoz brings his sound-and-text based performance, Half-Breed, to Seattle for the first time to Hugo House on Monday, October 22. The event will open up with a reading from...

In Sharon H. Chang’s Hapa Tales and Other Lies, she takes a critical eye to her identity as a mixed race, Asian American woman through the lens of visiting Hawaii as a tourist, with...

Inspired by her upbringing in Texas, experience attending a Catholic school, and her religious immigrant family, Sanpaku, written by writer and illustrator Kate Gavino, depicts the story of the impressionable 12-year-old Marcine, who becomes...

Seattle-based trans, genderfluid, hard-of-hearing, Ilokano, queer femme ritualist and singer-songwriter Julz Bolinayen (stage name: Julz Ilang-Bulan) evokes raw, tender emotion through vulnerable lyrics and melancholic melodies on their debut album, Equinox Rising

Motivated by her frustration as a first-time mother navigating the nuances of pregnancy and motherhood, Seattle-based writer Angela Garbes embarked on a passionate journey to better understand this new world of physical, mental and emotional chaos. After writing an article in Seattle’s alternative paper, The Stranger titled “The More I Learn About Breast Milk, The More Amazed I Am” which turned viral, she quickly realized that many women wanted unbiased information and advice on pregnancy.

Angel ‘Moonyeka’ Alviar-Langley, the energetic 22-year old queer, femme street styles performing artist, educator, and activist of color, was recently selected as one of four individuals who make up 4Culture’s first cohort of Arc...

Awareness by design – this concept fuels Silong Chhun, the Tacoma-based man behind Red Scarf Revolution, a clothing brand and platform that uses creative design as a conduit for education. Started in 2013, he...