Al Robles Express
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About this campaign
The Manilatown Heritage Foundation and the International Hotel Manilatown Center need your help!
We are thrilled to have received funding from the San Francisco Arts Commission to produce the “Al Robles Express” documentary, a film that will follow five friends of the beloved activist poet Al Robles as they take a tribute journey to the Philippines to explore the places and the metaphors that infused the late poet’s literary work.
Your generous donation of $25 will help offset the production costs of artists Oscar Penaranda, Tony Robles, Lou Syquia, Tony Remington and Lauren Benetua as they take their journey, create the film and present it to the community in June 2019.
The Manilatown Heritage Foundation was founded in 2003 to preserve the legacy of the historic Manilatown district of San Francisco and to commemorate the 1977 International Hotel Eviction. We currently produce family-friendly, working-class affordable educational programs in the areas of Arts & Culture, Historic Manilatown and Community Advocacy.
The Al Robles Express documentary is one of our Historic Manilatown projects, preserving and presenting the stories of our Manilatown neighborhood, our International Hotel legacy and our current I-Hotel community so that our voices will always be accessible to future generations.
Designed by Bayani Art, the Al Robles Shirt is our Thank You Gift to you for supporting this very special project. Just as Manong Al’s words are timeless and nourish our soul to this day, we hope that this commemorative design also captures for you the empowering heart-centered mentor that Manong Al continues to be for so many of us.
Long live Al Robles at the I-Hotel!!
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I love storytelling and am excited to hear and see this story!
Because Long Live I-Hotel! Long live Al Robles!
I am supporting this campaign because the 1st poem I ever read out loud in the U.S. was an excerpt from Rappin with ten Thousand Carabaos in the Dark. Manong Al always said hi to me when he saw me, he always made kwento with me about his day.