The Youth Empowerment Program YEP is a youth community project of the Philippine Festival Council of Alberta (PFCA), the organization behind the annual Fiesta Filipino in Calgary, in partnership with Arts Commons.

       The Youth Empowerment Program YEP is about youth engagement program through hands-on experience of Filipino-Canadian culture. It gives emphasis to young Filipinos integrating and settling in the Canadian setting through

• Hands-on experience of Filipino arts and culture.
• Increase the youth sense of belongingness in the Canadian culture and sense of identity of being Filipino-Canadian as well as;
• Promote leadership, diversity, professionalism and creativity.
  Our Vision for all!

  To empower youth.

  Our Mission is Possible!

  To develop and to support youth in leadership, in arts and in community.