{"id":31103,"date":"2022-07-25T14:10:38","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T21:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/?p=30000027530"},"modified":"2022-07-26T08:06:09","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T15:06:09","slug":"long-beach-filipino-festival-returns-with-food-music-and-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/long-beach-filipino-festival-returns-with-food-music-and-comedy","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach Filipino Festival returns with food, music and comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long Beach&#8217;s third annual Filipino Festival returns to St. Lucy Catholic School on Saturday, Aug. 6, in a day-long event celebrating Filipino history and culture through food, dance, music and community.<\/p>\n<p>The festival&#8217;s inaugural event in 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/in-pictures-inaugural-filipino-festivals-draws-thousands-to-silverado-park\/\">drew hundreds to Silverado Park<\/a>, and it&#8217;s now back again for the first time since the pandemic hit. This year&#8217;s event is set to return strong with over 50 retail, food and community vendors, two stages with performances and live music and appearances from Filipino celebrities.<\/p>\n<p>The headlining talent is Rex Navarrete, an internationally celebrated Filipino-American comedian perhaps most well-known for his 2003 special &#8220;Hella Pinoy.&#8221; Navarrete has toured across the U.S., Europe and Southeast Asia, appeared in &#8220;Lopez Tonight&#8221; and performed alongside comedians D.L. Hughley, Paul Mooney and more.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rex Navarrete on Lopez Tonight, May 2011\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0HOc6k3-O-Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Co-headlining is Filipino-American singer Jo Awayan, a popular rhythm and blues singer who rose to fame in the &#8217;90s. In addition to other music and dance performances all day, entertainment includes a magician, a short film screening, art demonstrations, karaoke and more.<\/p>\n<p>Some cultural performances to take note of feature a Filipino martial arts demonstration by Kali Kollective, dancing by Los Angeles-based urban fusion dance company Ancestral Vision Movement and a show by Cal State Long Beach&#8217;s &#8220;Tinikling Suite,&#8221; who perform a traditional dance known as Tinikling that uses bamboo reeds.<\/p>\n<p>Attendees will be able to try a number of traditional Filipino fare and fusion food, such as pork and chicken adobo, ensaymada, ube desserts, halo-halo and more.<\/p>\n<p>The festival, which is from noon to 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 6, costs $5 to attend. Children 12 years old or younger may attend for free. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/long-beach-filipino-festival-tickets-367830028517\">Click here<\/a> for more information and to purchase tickets.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Long Beach Filipino Festival will be at St. Lucy Catholic School at 2320 Cota Ave.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The popular festival celebrating Filipino history and culture is returning Aug. 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":72090,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[422],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[8767],"class_list":["post-31103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hi-lo","tag-long-beach-filipino-festival","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31103"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=31103"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=31103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}