Randy Gener Conferred Legacy of the Filipino Nation Presidential Award

Randy Gener will be conferred with the 2010 Philippine Presidential Award "Pamana Ng Pilipino (Legacy of the Filipino Nation)" by the President of the Philippines in a ceremony to be held in December.

The Pamana Ng Pilipino Presidential Award is conferred "on Filipinos overseas, who, in exemplifying the talent and industry of the Filipino, have brought the country honor and recognition through excellence, dedication and distinction in the pursuit of their work and the advancement of their profession. They have displayed social consciousness in terms of manifesting strong community spirit, or leading and actively participating in projects and activities for The Common good," says the Commission on Filipino Overseas, which administers the Awards.

Gener joins seven Filipino organizations, one foreign group, three foreigners and 13 Filipinos who are the recipients of the 2010 Presidential Awards for Filipino Individuals and Organizations Overseas. The recipients come from United States, Hong Kong, South Korea, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Australia, Germany and Canada.

The Presidential Awards is a biennial awards system which was institutionalized through Executive Order 498 signed by former President Corazon C. Aquino in 1991. The Awards recognize the achievements and significant contributions of Filipino individuals and organizations overseas to communities here and abroad. It is also a part of the activities in celebration of the Month of Overseas Filipinos and International Migrants Day this December.

From 2003 to 2008, there were 314 individuals and organizations from 42 countries and territories who were conferred the award.

This year, the Commission on Filipinos Overseas, being the Awards Secretariat, has received 110 nominations from 23 countries. The nominees underwent screening of three different committees with representatives from government agencies, media, academe, religious and business sectors.

The Commission on Filipinos Overseas is an agency under the Office of the President which was established on 16 June 1980 through Batas Pambansa (Republic Act) 79 to strengthen ties with Filipinos overseas and promote their interests in the Philippines and abroad.

The awardees will be honored by His Excellency President Benigno S. Aquino III at the Malacanang Palace on 14 December 2010.

For more information, please contact the CFO Awards Secretariat at (02) 561-8160, 561-8291 or 561-8321 local 600-604.

Randy Gener is a Nathan Award-winning writer, editor, drama critic, playwright and visual artist. He has published criticism, articles, essays and reviews in The New York Times, New York Magazine, The International Herald Tribune, Time Out New York and other publications in Europe, Asia and the U.S. His plays include "Love Seats for Virginia Woolf," "What Remains of a Rembrandt Torn into Four Pieces," among others. His visual-art installations include "in the garden of One World" and "Positively No Filipinos Allowed", among others. He is the author of scholarly essays in the encyclopedia "Cambridge Guide to the American Theater"; the anthologies "Theater and Humanism in a World of Violence" and "roMANIA After 2000," among others. He is a contributor to "The American Theatre Reader: Essays and Conversation from American Theatre Magazine," edited by the magazine's staff. In his capacity as the senior editor of American Theatre magazine, published by Theatre Communications Group, Gener is the magazine's lead staff writer and is responsible for writing news, features and criticism, as well as preparing and curating theme issues on all aspects of the professional U.S. theatre. He has been the recipient of 2010 Deadline Club Award for Best Arts Reporting in New York and 2010 Journalist of the Year from the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association. Gener was the 2009 winner of the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism, the highest award for dramatic criticism in the U.S. and one of the most distinguished awards in the American theater.

List of 2010 Philippine Presidential Awardees:
http://www.cfo.gov.ph/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=388%3A24-recipients-for-the-2010-presidential-awards-for-filipino-individuals-and-organizations-overseas&catid=1%3Anews&Itemid=56

Lingkod ng Kapwa Pilipino Award (Service to the Filipino People)
- conferred on Filipino associations or individuals for their exceptional or significant contribution to reconstruction, progress and development in the Philippines
1. Alarcon, Teresita R. - United States of America
2. Martinez, Ruth C. - Australia
3. North Central Virginia Association of Philippine Physicians (NCVAPP) - United States of America
4. Philippine American Association of Connecticut (PAAC) - United States of America
5. Philippine German Community Oberberg e.V. - Germany

Kaanib ng Bayan Award (Affiliate of the Nation)
- conferred on foreign individuals or organizations for their exceptional or significant contribution to Philippine reconstruction, progress and development, or have significantly benefited a sector or community in the Philippines, or advanced the cause of overseas Filipino communities
1. Caritas Lebanon Migrants Center (CLMC) - Lebanon
2. Lam Bik Che, Phoebe - Hong Kong
3. Lam Kai Chor, Sunny - Hong Kong
4. Salpeter, Simha - Israel

Banaag Award (Early Morning Light)
- conferred on Filipino individuals or associations for their contributions which have significantly benefited a sector or community in the Philippines, or advanced the cause of overseas Filipino communities
1. Abagat, Dr. Emely D. - South Korea
2. Computer Society of Filipinos International (COMSOFIL) - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
3. Congress of Visayan Organizations (COVO) - United States of America
4. Federation of Filipino Communities in Israel (FFCI) - Israel
5. Gange, George G. - United States of America
6. Kasimieh, Marilyn R. - United Arab Emirates
7. Kinding Sindaw - United States of America
8. Olalia, Sr. Lucia C. - South Korea
9. Ybo, Evangeline V. - Jordan

Pamana ng Pilipino Award (Legacy of the Filipino Nation)
- conferred on Filipinos overseas, who, in exemplifying the talent and industry of the Filipino, have brought the country honor and recognition through excellence and distinction in the pursuit of their work and the advancement of their profession
1. Caña, Lilac L. - Canada
2. David, Angelito D. - United States of America
3. De Asis, Fred S. - United States of America
4. Gener, Randy G. - United States of America
5. Navarro, Lilibeth E. - United States of America
6. Totengco, Ramon Felix - United States of America

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