This year, the annual commemoration of Asian Pacific Islander Month will be expanded from May, through June 2016.
The first 3 of proposed future panels that present API Heritage and culture are prominently displayed in the Lower Mall (LM) Lobby of the Main Library at CSUEB's Hayward Campus.
We invite you to drop by and enjoy the cultures of Samoa, Indonesia, and the Philippines as presented by members of the campus' API Heritage Groups.
Library Producers: Richard Apple, Jared Mariconi
Asian Pacific Heritage Group Producers: Corey Gin, Arvin Garcia, Bernard Juan Putra, Siolotoi Ti
Poster Layout: Richard Apple
Text and Graphics: Arvin Garcia, Bernard Juan Putra, Siolotoi Ti
Copyright 2016
The Asian Pacific Islander exhibit for 2016 was produced with contributions from 3 of the CSUEB Campus' API Heritage Groups: Samoan, Filipino, and Indonesian.
Under the direction of Corey Gin, the Director of the CSUEB LEEP Program (Leadership and Employment Enrichment Program), the API Heritage Community - in conjunction with the University Libraries - will produce a new group of 3 or more posters each spring to commemorate Asian and Pacific Islander cultures.
This inaugural year, there was not enough time to bring all the contributors' projects to fruition, and as a result, new posters for Fiji and Pakistan will be included in the next API exhibit.
The API producers for this year's panels - Arvin Garcia, Bernard Juan Putra, and Siolotoi Ti - scrambled under a tight deadline to create the materials you see here (left).
The CSUEB Library was responsible for the overall assembly, layout, and printing. It was a great team effort, and we look forward to the next API outing!
- DA
Title Poster:
[logo]: Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month
CELEBRATE OUR ASIAN & PACIFIC HERITAGE GROUPS at CAL-STATE, EAST BAY
Beginning this year Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage Groups on campus will be sharing their cultures through an annual API exhibit in the University Library.
For 2016, members of the campus’ Samoan, Filipino, and Indonesian communities have produced large wall panels to share their heritage.
Samoa Poster
[logo]: Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month
[poster title] Samoa
[poster sub-title #1]: [country of] Samoa:
[official graphic seal of country adjacent - Image by Simitukidia under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license]
At the outbreak of WWI in 1914, New Zealand occupied then-German territory - Western Samoa. New Zealand continued to administer the islands until 1962 when Western Samoa became the first Polynesian nation to reestablish its independence through the historic efforts of the Mau Movement. In 1997, Western Samoa dropped “western” from its name, renaming the country to Samoa, as it is formally known today. Source: World Factbook.
[Maps of Samoa and its location the Pacific Ocean: (1) Map: US National Park Service -public domain image (2) Globe image by TUBS - Own work. CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15127561].
[poster sub-title #2]: TERITORI O AMERIKA SAMOA:
[official graphic seal of country/territory adjacent - Image in public domain]
American Samoa (AS), which is made up of mainly the Tutuila and Manu’a Islands, is an unincorporated and unorganized territory of the United States. American Samoa is located in the South Pacific, approximately 5,000 miles from the U.S. mainland and 3,000 miles from Hawai’i. The latter half of the 19th Century saw the division of the Samoan islands due to the international rivalries among 3 colonial powers: United States, Great Britain, and Germany. In 1900, as a result of the Tripartite Convention of 1899, the U.S. occupied its portion of a smaller group of eastern Samoan islands with the exceptional harbor of Pago Pago, the capital of American Samoa. Source: World Factbook.
[Images of Samoa - captions]:
[poster sub-title #3]: Samoan Student Community at CSUEB
The Samoan community at Cal State East Bay is almost nonexistent, as evidenced by a very low enrollment of Samoan students (less than 100), and fewer than a handful of Samoan staff and faculty employed at CSUEB. Fortunately, campus programs such as the Student Service Operation for Success (SSOS) and the Pacific Islander Student Club (PISC) foster awareness of underrepresented Polynesian groups, which includes the Samoan culture. Samoan heritage at CSUEB is made more visible through the art of traditional dances and performances at luaus, and is also promoted in workshops that introduce the Samoan heritage to the campus. These workshops take place each year at the API Festival during Asian Pacific Heritage Month here at Cal State East Bay.
Poster text and images produced by Siolotoi Ti
Philippines Poster:
[logo]: Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month
[poster title] Philippines
[poster sub-title #1]: Republic of the Philippines
[official graphic seal of country/territory adjacent - Image by Roel Balingit, J-Ronnt].
Random Facts
[Maps of the Philippines and its place in the Pacific Ocean. Map source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA): http://www.unocha.org/. Image modified to fit page].
[Images of the Philippines - captions]:
FILIPINO STUDENT COMMUNITY at CSUEB
The Filipino community at CSUEB is very diverse, ranging from those who have recently immigrated from the Philippines, to those 2nd generation and above. The Bay Area itself is home to one of the largest Filipino communities in the United States. There any many of those of Filipino ethnic origin at Cal-State East Bay who participate in every part of the campus’ civic life: From Greek Life, academic
societies, to campus administration, you’ll find many Filipinos at CSUEB. Pilipino culture, social issues, and identity are expressed at the Pilipino American Student Association (PASA), which hosts its annual production PCN - this year being Pilipinx Consciousness Night: The I-Hotel. Wherever they are here at East Bay, Filipinos find different ways to express their identity.
Poster text and images produced by Arvin Garcia
Indonesian Poster:
[logo]: Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month
[poster title] Indonesia
[poster sub-title #1]: Republic of Indonesia:
[official graphic seal of country/territory adjacent - Image public domain in Indonesia].
[Maps of Indonesia and its place in the Pacific Ocean: (1) Map by Gunawan Kartapranata - Own work based on the map in Ethnography Room, National Museum of Indonesia, Jakarta, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11485259; (2) Use permitted under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.
[Images of Indonesia - captions]:
INDONESIAN STUDENT COMMUNITY at CSUEB
The San Francisco East Bay is one of the most diverse areas on the West Coast. Here you can meet a lot of Asian Pacific Islanders (APIs) from different parts of the world. Although each of our cultures is unique, at the same time we share many similarities as APIs. At CSUEB, I find that the API Community is extremely helpful to the students, and the events it sponsors are very informative. Even though I only recently joined the API Committee, I’m given the opportunity to represent my own nationality, which is Indonesian. The API community at Cal-State East Bay is active, productive, engaging, and educational.
Poster text and images produced by Bernard Juan Putra