About Us

Ube Arte is a Southern California-based collective of professional musicians, dancers, and academics with a shared mission to advance Philippine cultural research and education in the Pilipinx/Filipino American community.

Click our links to contact us about workshops, lecture-demonstrations, performances, and master classes! See events for our upcoming performance.

Ube Arte’s founding members are

  • Eleanor Lipat-Chesler (Independent Scholar)
  • Dr. Mary Talusan Lacanlale (President of Filipino Cultural School and Assistant Professor at CSU Dominguez Hills)
  • Dr. Bernard Ellorin (Artistic Director of Pakaraguian Kulintang Ensemble)
  • Peter de Guzman (Artistic Director of Malaya Filipino American Dance Arts)

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