Flip Da Skript

            I attend an event on campus called “Flip Da Skript”  Thursday Night. LFS (League of Filipino Students) was the organization that advertise the event. They allow students from all ethnicity to do sketches like poems and songs. I appreciate how many people were open to come up in front of an audience and speak their mind out. I can tell that the audiences were into the performances. I wasn’t getting into it but I was paying attention what the performance were.

            The event was to get students to fund raise money for the students to go to the Philippine in the summer. They were selling souvenirs and showing photos what to expect during the trip. It was also to talk about the budget cuts that California is going through with the colleges. LFS is an organization on campus that been around since 1977.

            How I would tie the performance to what I learn from any Asian American Studies courses involving Filipino? I see a connection to the video of Kiwi and the other activism involve in the Philippines. The reason I would connect it with Kiwi to Flip Da Skript was because of open mic. Kiwi would educate young people while LFS aware students about the budget crises that the CSU are having. LFS is a activism organization that fights for their rights. Both are educating people the struggle that it going on.

            One of the performances that I like was one of the coordinator singing. She sang a song that was great (it was in Tagalog). Her high notes were like opera. There were also other people that were involve in the organization that perform. Some did sing and did some poems. There was one person that got the crowd moving. His name was Joal Vargas singing about “National Democratic Movement”. It was touching and it does mention what is going on with the Filipinos in the Philippines are suffering from and including the budget crises that the colleges are going through.

            Out of all Flip Da Skript turn out to be a great event. It allow people to speak their mind and also allowed the audience to join in. Hopefully LFS can hold another event that allow people to speak their mind.