MEDIA ADVISORY

Contact:

Aquilina Soriano 213-422-3341

Angelique Uy 213-250-4353

WHAT:

The Pilipino Workers Center of Southern California (PWC), Pdub Production, Council President Eric Garcetti, Remapping Los Angeles, and Hypercities will hold a press conference that will introduce the Hi Fi Jeepney publicly and discuss the multi-media walking and Jeepney tours and their relevance to uplifting the issues and faces of both Historic Filipinotown and the Filipino American community. The Press Conference will end with the send off of the first Hi Fi Jeepney Tour with a special tour guide, Eric Garcetti.

WHEN:

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Press Conference-12:30pm, Garcetti Jeepney Tour-1:00pm, Special Press Tour-2:00

WHERE:

Pilipino Workers Center of Southern California
153 Glendale Blvd., 2^nd Floor (Enter from rear of building)

Los Angeles, CA 90026

WHO:

Aquilina Soriano, Executive Director, Pilipino Workers’ Center

Carol Almeda, BOD President, Pilipino Workers Center

Jeff Burke, UCLA Remapping Los Angeles

Eric Garcetti, Council President, Los Angeles City Council

Dianne Pascual and Tina , Youth Participants, Pdub Productions

Gerald Gubatan, Community Member (invited)

WHY:

In August of 2002, the City of Los Angeles designated the neighborhood just south of the 101 Freeway between Glendale Boulevard and Virgil Avenue as Historic Filipinotown, a.k.a “Hi Fi.” And what makes Filipinotown Filipino? The Pilipino Workers Center (PWC), Public Matters, UCLA’s Center for Remap and Hypercities Los Angeles recently partnered to engage neighborhood youth in multi-media documentation project that mines local narratives to bring the rich Hi Fi culture to the surface. The youth participants of PDUB Productions compiled immigrant perspectives from different time periods to produce mobile Hi Fi Tours.

This project will culminate on Saturday, September 26, with the walking and Jeepney tours, PDUB Production screenings and a “barrio fiesta” style fundraiser for the Pilipino Workers Center aptly themed “Historic Filipinotown: Yesterday, Today + Tomorrow.”  Tour-goers will use the GPS-enabled Nokia tablets to access audio, photos and maps that comprise these Immigrant’s Guides while walking around the neighborhood. This event will also mark the official unveiling of PWC’s original World War II jeepney that will provide tour rides of the historic neighborhood.

More information at:                 http://hypercities.com/pdub/

                                                    http://www.pwcsc.org/

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