FIL-I-AM Benefit Showcase a Success!

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On October 29, 2009, Quest Crew performed at the “FIL-I-AM: Benefit Showcase” for Typhoon Relief. The benefit took place at Pitzer College in Claremont, CA and was in response to the tragedy Typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng have brought to the Philippines. The Center for Asian Pacific American Students (CAPAS), the Pilipino Club, and the Asian Pacific American Coalition arranged this wonderful event.

The event featured Quest Crew, as well as a live concert featuring the Claremont Legacy Martial Arts, 5C dance company, UCLA Samahang Modern, and the award winning violinist Paul Dateh, with guitarist Ken Belcher. A speaker from ‘Search to Involve Pilipino Americans (SIPA)’ also took center stage to update the audience on the current situation, as well as ongoing relief efforts. The event helped raise almost $2000 and all proceeds will go directly to the Philippine Red Cross.

As a special thank you for their particpation, Quest received the following message:

On behalf of CAPAS, APAC, and the Pilipino Club at the Claremont Colleges, thank you all for being a part of our second annual Fil-I-Am Benefit showcase. We are so grateful for your willingness to give back to the community and those affected by the typhoons in the Philippines. As a result of your talented performance, we were able to raise over $2000!!!

The volunteers and most of all the Questie’s still couldn’t believe all of you were here. It means more to us than you know.

It was a pleasure working with you and it would be an honor to have the Crew here again. Attached is a small note of appreciation from all of us.

Maraming Salamat & Mahalo!
Stephanie Velasco Poserio & the Fil-I-Am Family:
Amber Ariate, Marissa Kitazawa, Matt Manotoc, Kevin Lee, Evelyn Cheung, Talia Dotson, Yasi Razvan, Maryan Samson, & Kadija Amba

Quest would like to thank all of you, as well, for the opportunity to help support this incredibly important relief effort. We enjoyed performing and spending time with such wonderful people. Thank you, also, to all who came out to see our performance, as well as our fellow artists, and helping making this event a success!

You can watch the Quest performance videos at Pitzer College here!