SABI-SABI, Pintig Cultural Group, at Greenview Arts Center. It’s the third anniversary of Lainie’s Filipino restaurant and karaoke club, but the merriment of friends and customers is only a mask for the sorrowful secrets that split families apart, sending unhappy children fleeing from their parents in search of love, identity, and a place to belong.
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Sabi is a term roughly equivalent to “hearsay”–as in “those things that everybody knows but nobody talks about.” But the Pintig Cultural Group thinks it’s high time to address these problems, which include mothers who force their daughters to fulfill their own frustrated ambitions and fathers who abuse their children, making them marry early or run away. Though some of the stories woven into Sabi-Sabi take only small steps toward exposing these issues, they do open the way to discussion and remedy.
