Philippine Culture Night (PCN)
FCA has a 30-year-old history of hosting its annual PCN – Philippine Culture Night – every Spring semester. The organization will showcase their 31st annual show in the Spring 2013 semester. The event started out as a simple showcase of Filipino culture; highlighting cultural and modern dancing, singing, and comedy skits. Often, the organization would bring in local talent (singers/singing groups, folk dance troupes, martial artists, etc.) to perform, but as the years progressed, FCA began to pull resources from within their growing membership – many of whom had participated in their local community Fil-Am organizational dance troupes and schools. During the 1994-1995 PCN, the show took on a form that was modeled after the PCN of UC Berkeley after then president, Paolo Macabenta, got the idea from one of his home visits to San Francisco. The show incorporated cultural (ethnic and pop-cultural) dances and songs into a full-length production in the form of a play. Often the topics of its plays depicts the true-to-life experiences of Fil-Am youth, and how they clash-but-learn with the culture of their parents.
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