Bridge: Pilipinx Outreach & Retention

Hello Kammunity! 🥺
Have you ever wondered about the meaning of your favorite OPM songs and their lyrics? 🤔🎶

Do you want to learn more about the Filipino language? 🤓

If your answers to these questions are
"Yes!", BRIDGE and MK are hosting a series of workshops aimed towards the basics of Tagalog, the most commonly-spoken language of the Philippines. ☀️

ALL LEVELS ARE WELCOME!! This workshop is built to be accessible for everyone! 💟

These workshops will be taking place on May 7 and May 13. Locations and times are as follows:

May 7 | SRRC Lounge | 7:00 - 8:30 PM
May 13 | Wellman 212 | 7:00 - 8:30 PM

SEE YOU ALL THERE!! 😍

ACCESSIBILITY: The flyer has two characters doing the BRIDGE hand sign and an MK hand sign. The text says the dates, times, and locations of the workshop. The title is Tagalog Workshop Series.

Meet our 2025-2026 BRIDGE interns!! We want to recognize you all for your hard work and commitment you have provided for the Fil-Am community.
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WELCOME TO NO MUD, NO LOTUS 🪷
A UC DAVIS STUDENT PANEL
FOR SYSTEM-IMPACTED YOUTH ✊

DATE: MAY 8, 2026
TIME: 11AM - 12:30PM
APPLY AT: bit.ly/NoMudNoLotus26

This brave and affirming space aims to guide system-impacted* youth in high school (13 - 18 y/o) in their journey to higher education! 🙂‍↕️ Undergraduate UC Davis students will be talking about their lived experience as system-impacted students in university.

If you are from a continuation high school, underserved high school, or any youth restorative justice programs, please consider applying as these speakers and BRIDGE board aim to affirm you, your identity, and your place in higher education 🫶

*SYSTEM-IMPACTED is used as an umbrella term for students who have been affected by criminal legal, child-welfare, and immigration enforcement systems.

ACCESSIBILITY: The flyer shows how the event will be held in UC Davis and the room will be disclosed upon RSVP. It is a collaboration between SAFE and BRIDGE, and will be held on MAY 8, from 11-12:30PM. A panel of system-impacted
undergraduate UC Davis students to
provide guidance and show system-
impacted youth that we can both exist
and thrive in higher education—especially
within prestigious institutions and among
a privileged student population.

“System-impacted” ─ an umbrella term for
people and families affected by criminal
legal, child welfare, and immigration
enforcement systems. This includes
formerly incarcerated people, those with
incarcerated relatives, formerly gang-
affiliated individuals or families with gang
ties, undocumented students, families
affected by ICE, and those impacted by
foster care, family separation, or state
monitoring.

Parking passes are available upon request.

PAIN INTO POWER is a zine on erasure, power, and love infrastructure.

During the Pilipinx Youth Conference (PYC) 2026, with the theme HIMAGSIKAN: To Know is to Survive, over 70 Pilipinx youth expressed what love infrastructure meant to them through Ate Beni’s workshop.

The youth learned that in a world that was built to erase us, our love infrastructure is what supports us.

WHO’S READY TO EATTT??? 😏😏😏IT’S TIME FOR OUR FIRST KAMAYAN OF THE YEAR 😻

BRIDGE hosts our kamayan as a way to provide the Pilipinx community here at Davis a space to engage with our cultural practices and dishes, a gathering where we share a meal within the space while simultaneously sharing, learning, and engaging with each other. Kamayan being “by hand,” is the traditional practice of eating with your hands, a unique communal practice of eating cultural dishes with our hands over a table covered in banana leaves 🍃

Our theme will incorporate Filipino music, exploring the different purposes it serves as a way of connection, resistance, and resilience. In our current political climate, it can be very easy to be disillusioned by issues such as deportation, silencing, corruption, etc. However, through connecting over something universal such as music, we want to empower community members to utilize their voices and remind them of the music in their everyday lives. These simple joys serve as a reminder that we have agency in our lives and can continue to have hope.

🎹WHEN: Friday, March 13th from 5-7 pm
🎤WHERE: SRRC Lounge (Student Recruitment & Retention Center inside the SCC)
🎵RSVP REQUIRED: tinyurl.com/winterkamayan26

*There is limited capacity seating so please RSVP as soon as you can to secure your spot! If you are no longer able to attend, please let us know by emailing [email protected] or [email protected] or dming us here .bridge :)

INGAT & ISANG BAGSAK,
BRIDGE Board ‘25-‘26 🤟🏽♥️

Hi KAmmunity! We hope you are working hard and diligently preparing for the rest of your midterms and finals 🙈! We would like to invite you to our end-of-quarter de-stressor event “Study Break: Shaping Success” on Wednesday, March 4th from 5:30-7:30 at the SRRC Lounge. We will be going over resources the school offers to support your academic needs as we approach the final stretch of winter quarter 📚🏋️! Additionally, we will be making trinket dishes using air-dry clay as on opportunity to ground ourselves, relax, and express our creativity 🎨🧘. Food and drinks will be provided and we hope to see you there 🧋🍚!

Ingat!
BRIDGE 🌉

Hello Kammunity! 👋😚

We hope you are having a wonderful winter quarter! ❄️

In order to prepare for the rest of the school year, please complete this survey to share what kind of programming you would like to see from us 🙂‍↕️ We hope to see you soon ! 🙈

If you want to be involved with BRIDGE, feel free to come at PYC worknights which are ongoing until Feb 14! We have a worknight tomorrow night (Jan 27, 5-8PM), next week (Feb 4, 5-8PM), and two weeks from now (Feb 13, 4-8PM) in the SRRC Lounge! As always feel free to pop in and out and leave anytime :>> 🌉❤️

HI KAMMUNITY!!! ⚔️🧠👁️ IT'S ALMOST PYC! We'd like to invite you all to PYC WORKNIGHTS, a warm space where we can work together in making the Pilipinx Youth Conference a reality 🫶

PYC is an annual conference hosted by BRIDGE in UC Davis, and this year over 70 YOUTH are coming!!! Take part in this meaningful event that aims to empower and uplift the generations that come after us 💕

Feel free to message us on instagram if you all have any questions! 💌

It’s that time, KAmmunity! Taking place on Feb. 14th - Feb. 15th, the 2026 Pilipinx Youth Conference theme is “Himagsikan - To Know is To Survive” ⚔️🧠 🖤

Under a regime that continues to defund education, “Himagsikan: To Know is To Survive”, calls upon the pressing need for education as resistance. Where systems of authority rely on the ignorance they produce, their powers continue to thrive off our silence and disconnection from the issues that should unite us. At the root of transformative change is our collective capacity for care—an act strengthened by critical consciousness and sustained through the commitment we carry to one another within our community.

Rooted in Western ideals of objectivity and education, these Eurocentric frameworks often discipline us into ways of thinking that sustain the very systems we seek to dismantle. To be truly educated is to unlearn those inherited logics and reclaim knowledge as a communal, liberatory act. It is learning through the care, dialogue, and collective memory of our people—a memory that extends back to our precolonial ancestors who lived, created, and resisted long before the world subjugated us. It means learning to exist within the afterlife of colonialism where violence is not past but present, and survival itself becomes resistance. To be educated is to live within this paradox: to create from what was meant to destroy us and to keep building life in a world that insists on our erasure.

To awaken, to unlearn, to know, to fight, to create: these are not just words, but ways of living, of resisting, and of remembering who we are. We want our youth to move with purpose and recognize their knowledge as power in the ongoing struggle for true liberation. Every act of truth is an act of defiance; it is our refusal to disappear and conform. In a system built to erase us—to censor, subjugate, and divide—to know is to survive.

In KAmmunity & Resistance,
Beni Sanchez — High School Outreach Coordinator
Nicole Yanuaria — Community Youth Development Coordinator
BRIDGE Board ‘25-‘26

YOUTH, MENTOR, & VOLUNTEER APPLICATIONS OUT NOW! 🖤✊🏽⚔️ CLICK THE LINK IN OUR BIO!

See you all at PYC 2026 ⚔️🧠✊🏽