About us

All Things Filipino, a division of ATF1898, Inc., specializes in multimedia expressions of Filipino Arts and Culture in modern times. Whether it be creative arts, culinary arts, fine arts, graphic arts, martial arts, media arts, modern arts, performing arts, theater arts, visual arts, wearable arts or written arts, as long as it's something positive for our Filipino community, we want to be involved.

Though we can appreciate all of the indigenous arts from our native country, our primary focus has always been in the ancient Filipino Martial Arts, generally known today as Kali, Eskrima and Arnis. According to the 2000 U.S. Census, there are 1,850,314 Filipinos living in North America today. Here are the numbers: California (918,678), Hawaii (170,635), Illinois (86,298), New Jersey (85,245), New York (81,681), Washington (65,373), Texas (58,340), Florida (54,310), Virginia (47,609) and Nevada (40,529).

While we're not trying to change anything, as there really is more than enough business out there for everyone to succeed, we're just merely trying to do our part, or at least meet like-minded businesses, individuals and organizations halfway.

Believe it or not, we initially started as a clothing company back in 1998 with about $500 in change and an unprecedented idea - to sell cool Filipino-related t-shirts that promoted the ancient Filipino Martial Arts in order to fund our own building one day to continue doing what we loved to do. It's been an interesting ride (no building yet!) but we still do recognize that art, artists and the business of art are vital to the social and economic development of our communities.

Maintaining our level as a global citizen, we are proud to be affiliated, either directly or indirectly, with the following organizations and projects: Association for the Advancement of Filipino American Arts & Culture (FilAm ARTS), Filipino American Heritage Institute (FAHI), Filipino American National Historical Society (FANHS), Filipino American Network (FAN), Martial Arts History Museum (MAHM), Pilipino Alumni Association (PAA), Pilipino Workers' Center (PWC), Search to Involve Pilipino Americans (SIPA) and Visual Communications (VC).

For more information, please do not hesitate to contact us.

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