3 June 2024 | Nicole
The FiliFest Festival on Saturday 15th June is postponed
30 January 2023 | Rica
As FiliFest turns 3, I can't help but reflect on how much we've come since January 30th, 2019. Fast forward to today and we're currently planning our THIRD festival!
11 September 2022 | Jillian
As the summer ends, for many it’s time for a new chapter to start at a brand new educational setting in a completely different environment - university!
26 August 2022 | Danica Bea
Coffee Chats are conversation-style interviews with the FiliFest Community that take place over a cup of coffee. Today’s chat happened over Meet where Carol and Danica discussed their relationship with the Filipino language...
24 August 2022 | Danica Bea
Coffee Chats are conversation-style interviews with the FiliFest Community that take place over a cup of coffee. For today's chat, Mariah & Danica discuss their relationship with the Filipino language as Filipinos born and/or raised abroad.
14 August 2022 | Karla
Kwento ko - My mum is Cebuano and my dad was Ilocano, we lived in Rizal, so my mother tongue is Tagalog. My family moved to the UK when I was 10 and fortunately, between us, we kept speaking Tag...
12 June 2022 | Rica
FiliFest's flagship festival is back after a 2-year long pandemic! The only Filipino festival by young people for young people!
23 April 2022 | Rica
Catch this year's winners and sponsors of our FiliFest 2022 Awards!
7 February 2022 | Jillian
Chinese New Year has been one of the many traditional holidays passed down from generation to generation. I looked into the reasons behind these traditions and how it is still popularly used during this festive day in the Philippines.
8 January 2022 | Nicole
Let's take a look back at all the remarkable achievements of the FiliFest Committee in the first half of FiliFest 2022. This year, we spent ample time in restructuring, reorganising, and redirecting FiliFest to what we truly want it to be.
9 October 2021 | Angelli
There are many more barriers and difficulties to decolonise Filipino thought...if we are to take decolonisation as an act of not dismissing cultures and traditions but consciously adding using these to add to our knowledge, there is much to be celebrated.
18 July 2020 | UEA
Hi everyone! We are UEA Filipino Society, giving our fellow kapamilya (family) a home away from home! We love to share our loving and accepting culture and food to all people and show how much more fun it is in the...
26 October 2020 | Jessica
For the first Salaysay Series post, and in commemoration of Black History Month (UK) and National Indigenous People’s Month (PH), Jessica Manuel explores the idea of how the Filipino/a identity was constructed on the...
2 August 2020 | UoR
We’re committed to providing a welcoming space where anyone can have a good time, take their mind off of their stresses and at the same time educate them on our rich culture. While we may not be the biggest society...
28 March 2020 | Angel
With the outbreak of the Corona Virus pandemic, many of us (who are fortunate enough) are taking classes remotely or working from home, in hopes of flattening the curve. Here are some tips and tricks to succeed with...
11 May 2020 | Lia
It has been days in quarantine. Or weeks. Or months? Everything is a blur. These are extraordinary times, and everyone is coping with this Covid-19 pandemic in vastly different ways. Of course, we’re all trying our...
23 November 2020 | Angelli
‘OPM’ as a catchphrase is a term that Filipinos know all too well. But what makes these songs ‘original’ to the Philippines, as the acronym implies?
9 November 2020 | Jessica
From virtual art fairs, to online indie film festivals, Minecraft nightclub servers, and supporting creative initiatives, Jessica gives you the low-down on 7 Philippine art highlights this year.
2 December 2020 | Clarissa
Andrea Denise Lagmay, known as S o l i on YouTube, is a singer-songwriter whose recent covers include “Heather” and “Stereo Hearts”. Andrea is in her final year studying Digital Marketing.
6 January 2021 | Rica
A message reflecting on our year so far as FiliFest 2021 Committee, by our Chairperson. The pandemic meant that this year we couldn't hold our annual festival, so instead we adapted.
3 November 2020 | Clarissa
Lien Salcedo is a third year Medicine MBBS student at St. George’s University of London, where she is the Vice President of the campus Filipino Society as well as the VP of the SGUL History Society. In between her...
9 October 2020 | Clarissa
Katie Holopainen Hadaway is a second-year BASc Arts and Sciences student at UCL. She’s an intern at a social enterprise in the Philippines, as well as in Qube Gallery, where she produces podcasts. Katie is one of the...
21 September 2020 | Angelli
What do you notice about Filipinos when you spend time with them? We’ve all heard the saying ‘It’s more fun in the Philippines!’ Of course it is - there are so many characteristics and traits that are unique to...
13 May 2020 | Lia
Lockdown can feel a little upsetting sometimes. Don't feel bad if being stuck at home and watching the walls has been bringing you down, I promise you're not alone. After sitting in be all day, bookmarking all those...
