Pusod in the News

Click to hear Michelle Louis of San Francisco Chronicle Pinoy Pod  interview the California Academy of Sciences (Part 1) and Pusod/BWF’s Malou Babilonia (Part 2) on the new aquarium and Philippine reefs and communities.
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Past Coverage of Pusod

Mango Mic is ripe for success in Berkeley

Filipino Dreamweavers' Craft Comes Stateside
Sacred weavings of the T'boli people of the Philippines. Asian Week article on the Fu Dalu the spirit of the T'nalak exhibit at Pusod.

Exposing a "Toxic Legacy" with art by a 6-year old
San Francisco Chronicle's article on Pusod's exhibit about toxic waste left at former US Military Bases in the Philippines, focusing on the life, struggle and artwork of a young leukemia victim from the Clark area, Crizel Valencia

Butterflies and Benzene
Drawings Crizel, photos by Kim Komenich, and educational material created by FACES activists Aimee Suzara and Christina Leano to memorialize Crizel's brief life and to call attention to the cause of her death: toxic waste from the Clark and Subic military bases.

Imaging the Enemy
Filipino exhibit extended due to renewed relevance

Images of racism - How 19th century U.S. media depicted Filipinos, other nonwhites as savages.
SF Chronicle's review on Pusod's "Colored: Black n' White Filipinos in American Popular Media 1896-1907" exhibit.

Exhibit revisits racism - Philippines News Review

"If These Walls Could Talk, They'd Purr: House in Berkeley has environmental mission"
Read Chronicle Staff Writer, Benjamin Pimentel's take on Pusod!

"Why Filipinos Return to Volcano"
Read Journalist Howie Severino's essay as published in the San Francisco Chronicle!