Friday, August 7, 2009

Barrio Fiesta: A way Maui's Filipino Immigrants Preserve and Share their Culture

Just by googling, you can find what Ilokanos on Maui are doing. The Barrio Fiesta is a way that Filipinos on Maui share their cultural practices. This event began in the 1970s as way for Filipino immigrants to come together as a community, to preserve their culture, and transmit it to the younger generations born on Maui.

The early Barrio Fiesta organizers would go to Hana and harvest bamboos, to build the bahay kubos at the War Memorial Stadium, where the Barrio Fiesta would be held. Today, you will see the martial arts that young Filipinos and others are learning, as an example of Filipino cultural preservation on Maui.



Check out other websites where Filipino cultural preservation is happening on Maui!

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