[ah-teh vahybs] noun

  1. PR + outreach and consultation shaped by Ate — the Philippine word for older sister — where care and strategy supports artists and honor their stories.

  2. The emotional and operational labor behind visibility: building relationships, and creating the conditions for connection + impact.

  3. A way of working where the campaign becomes a gathering space — where storytelling, and community meet; and the outcome is not only reach, but kalipay…shared joy.

  • The Ford  |  Los Angeles, CA

    Not a concert. Not a rally. Not exactly a meeting. If you know what it means to build something from the ground up, you’ll recognize yourself in this room.

    Inspired by spirit of his album Party Worker, Bambu flips the live hip hop show into a grassroots organizing session. This isn’t a night to sit back with your arms folded. It’s a night to nod in recognition, laugh at the jokes, call and respond, feel the bass of the beat the same way you feel the weight of the work.

    This is about the mechanics of working to serve the people: the strategy, the discipline, the contradictions, the humor, the urgency, and the love.

    Presented by The Ford, in partnership with AKB Media

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  • The 46th Hawai‘i International Film Festival presented by Halekulani (HIFF46) runs October 21–November 5 on Oʻahu and through November 15 across the Neighbor Islands. This year’s program features 84 feature films and 86 shorts, anchored by 55 World, International, North American, and U.S. Premieres alongside major festival breakthroughs from Cannes, Sundance, Berlin, and Busan.

    Key Lineup Highlights

    • Opening Night (World Premiere): THE NAVIGATOR, directed by Jordan Manley. Follows legendary Native Hawaiian navigator Nainoa Thompson nearly 50 years after his historic voyage to Tahiti as he embarks on a final 2,400-mile journey with a new generation of wayfinders. Opening Night also marks HIFF’s return to the historic Hawai‘i Theatre Center.

    • Centerpiece (Hawai‘i Premiere): DRIFTER, the feature directorial debut of actor-filmmaker Sung Kang (Fast & Furious franchise), who also writes, produces, and stars.

    • Global Festival Buzz & Auteurs: Major titles from Cannes and Sundance, including Ryuichi Hamaguchi’s ALL OF A SUDDEN, Lukas Dhont’s COWARD, Paweł Pawlikowski’s FATHERLAND, Beth de Araújo’s JOSEPHINE, and Jesse Eisenberg’s THE DEBUT.

    • Made in Hawai‘i & Pacific Focus: 30 films made in Hawai‘i, alongside signature showcases highlighting Indigenous, Asian, and Pacific Islander storytelling.

    • HIFILM Industry Conference: Panels and fireside chats featuring Destin Daniel Cretton (Short Term 12, Shang-Chi), Walter Hamada (Paramount's 18Hz), and Dana Ledoux Miller (Moana 2).

  • Recently completed shows in Japan and current Europe tour includes stops: in London, Brussels, and Paris.

    Vicki Huang is a Taiwanese-American musician, DJ, and sound archivist based in Kaohsiung, whose practice centers on diasporic memory and the reactivation of collective memory through sound. Drawing from a growing private archive of rare Taiwanese vinyl spanning post-war folk recordings, Hokkien pop, and early electronic experiments, Vicki reimagines these materials through contemporary downtempo and electronic production, creating music that feels both ancestrally grounded and entirely alive in the present. Their sonic practice has taken root across continents: vinyl listening sessions in New York, a Japan tour with performances at Tokyo Beer Lab and pure vinyl sets at Ella Records and Room303Radio, and a featured mix for the globally distributed HER 他 Transmission series dedicated to an all-femme lineup of Taiwanese and diaspora artists.

    ‍The new release 埕區長全新十吋黑膠 SDM-001 was part of Record Store Day Taiwan, a limited 10" debut EP reimagining Tainan folk songs through electronic downtempo.

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  • On view now at Pacific Island Ethnic Art Museum

    Lucille Montelongo
    Old to Me | Owed to Me
    An Exploration of Culture and Self
    Youth Artist In-Residence

    The exhibition includes a few contemporary artworks created when Lucille was only 15 years old.  Now, at 21 she presents a fuller portfolio that spans acrylic on canvas, textiles, and collage;  all serving as channels reconnecting her to the Republic of Belau.

    “Old to me | Owed to me” claims the right to access her heritage across distance. Her work is a reminder to us to look to the knowledge keepers, who hold this lineage; especially in this era of AI.

    ABOUT THE ARTIST
    Lucille Montelongo is a multi-racial Belauan visual artist based in Long Beach, CA (unceded Tongva Land), whose genealogy also traces Mexican and German roots. Her developing body of work focuses on exploring her Belauan heritage. She views each work as a form of documentation that she hopes carries itself through the future generations in her lineage. She currently studies Drawing and Painting at California State University, Long Beach; and she’s an artist informed by Belauan traditional knowledge.
     
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  • Kappa Psi Epsilon — 30th Anniversary
    One of the most influential Filipina American organizations on the West Coast, Kappa Psi Epsilon enters its 30th year with a history rooted in its Five Cornerstones: Academic, Community Action, Cultural Awareness, Sisterhood, and Social Networking. Since forming in the mid ’90s—a profound era for progressive politics and artistic expression—the sorority has cultivated generations of leaders to “find their inner strength,” shaping fields from public policy to the arts.

    Notable alumnae include Juslyn Manalo, Councilwoman of Daly City and the city’s first Filipina mayor (2017), and Gayle Romasanta, Executive Director of the Filipino-American Development Foundation and Writer/Executive Producer Larry the Musical. The Kappa anniversary can lend itself to larger features around women’s history, Asian American stories.

    Press inquiry here

  • Documentary Feature directed by Diane Ventura.
    Streaming on Netflix May 2026
    A hopeful, behind-the-curtain look at the Eraserheads — a band that, like Oasis or The Beatles, didn’t just make hits; they made generations. It’s the story of the love between a band and its fans: the joy, the fracture, and the healing that comes when music becomes legacy.

    Trailer here
    Spring 2026 Screenings here
    Screener + interview request here

  • Set in 1966, Riverbend stars action icon Steve James as one of three Black Vietnam soldiers who flee a corrupt court-martial, take refuge in a segregated Georgia town, and—at the urging of a local widow (Margaret Avery)—train the terrorized Black community to violently revolt against a brutal sheriff. Independently produced and directed by action veteran Sam Firstenberg, this incendiary 1989 film was buried following a modest 1990 VHS release, surviving for decades only through bootlegs until Reelblack founder Michael J. Dennis and MissingMovies.org unearthed the original elements. Restored from a never-before-projected 35mm print, the film finally received its long-overdue big-screen premiere at the Aero Theatre with its creators in attendance.