Aaron Nabus achieves his dream, creating an event to celebrate, support, and empower San Diego’s Filipino American creative community.
Artists Mary Jhun and Patrick Ballesteros with FilAm Creator Con founder Aaron Nabus and KPBS arts reporter Beth Accomando at the KPBS studio on Sept. 11, 2024.
As a San Diego resident, Nabus recognized that Filipinos are the largest Asian American group in the San Diego region, and this Saturday, he launches the inauguralThe convention has been a dream project for Nabus for years. He wanted to create something to highlight the artistic achievements of Filipino American creators across all mediums – from poets to comic book creators, chefs to filmmakers, musicians to tattoo artists.
“It wasn't until I looked at the picture and we have Scott Lost, an awesome Filipino American comic book creator and then we have Kirin, who's really active in the Fil-Am community as a community organizer. And I had my, and I was getting to know all these creators, and I said, what if we put all our abilities together to put on a convention? And it was that moment when I saw the picture, and my mind shifted to a more 'yes we can' attitude,” Nabus said.
“That sort of pushed me in the direction of speaking through a different type of language, which is art and painting,” Jhun said. “And through the experiences of different stages of my life, I sort of realized that the clearest way of bridging the gap between me and everyone else, no matter where they came from, was showing my experience through a surrealist lens, having it be more about trying to convey a feeling with different images and different symbols.
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