The journey
Southville, migration, hospitality, entrepreneurship and developing a Filipino culinary voice in Australia.
14 SEPTEMBER 2026 · SOUTHVILLE / SISFU · KULTURA IN MOTION
A return to
where it began.
In 2011, Fhred studied at Southville. Fifteen years later, he returns as Chef Fhred — not simply to revisit the past, but to speak with the generation shaping what Filipino food and culture can become next.
2011
15 YEARS
2026
01
The Return
SOUTHVILLE · 2011 → 2026
A student then.
A chef returning now.
Southville belongs to Fhred’s story before Australia — before the restaurants, collaborations, events and the growing platform around Filipino food.
Kultura in Motion brings him back to that starting point with a different question: when you return with experience gained elsewhere, how do you use it to create possibility for the people coming after you?
This is less about nostalgia than continuity. The campus becomes the bridge between who he was in 2011, the chef he became abroad, and the students imagining their own paths today.
“Culture does not stay still.
It travels with us, changes with us,
and becomes something we can carry forward.”
02
The Conversation
Filipino food deserves
to feel like it belongs.
A two-hour keynote-style conversation grounded in lived experience — from Southville to Australia, from professional kitchens to building spaces where Filipino culture can be expressed with confidence.
Kultura in Motion
Food as a living cultural language — shaped by memory, place, technique, collaboration and the Filipino experience today.
Belonging
Why Filipino food should feel worthy of serious culinary, creative and global conversations both overseas and at home.
The next generation
An invitation for students to see culinary, hospitality and creative careers as places where Filipino identity can be built, challenged and carried forward.
WHY SOUTHVILLE
Coming back should mean more than being remembered.
The ambition is to leave students with a stronger sense that Filipino culinary culture has room for them — and that their ideas can help shape its future.
The session can also open a thoughtful conversation around renewed interest in culinary education at Southville. It is an aspiration and invitation to dialogue, not an announcement that a formal culinary-program relaunch has been approved.
03
The Session
TWO HOURS · ONE ROOM · ONE OPEN CONVERSATION
From personal story
to shared possibility.
- 01
Welcome
Why this return matters and what Kultura in Motion is asking of the room.
- 02
2011 → now
Southville, leaving the Philippines, Australia and building a career through hospitality.
- 03
Kultura in Motion
How culture moves through food, people, places, technique and collaboration.
- 04
Filipino food + belonging
Confidence, representation and creating space for our cuisine without flattening its diversity.
- 05
Southville + what comes next
A conversation about culinary ambition, education and the students who could shape the next chapter.
- 06
Q&A + conversations
Student questions, open discussion, photos and informal networking after the talk.
04
Documentary
BEFORE THE ROOM FILLS
The return begins
in the quiet.
Before the live conversation, Dishes & Dialogues follows Fhred back through Southville as a personal documentary chapter.
Campus arrival. Familiar spaces. Empty classrooms. Memories of studying here in 2011. Leaving for Australia. Returning fifteen years later with a body of work centred on Filipino food.
The live session then shifts that story outward — from one person’s return to the students sitting in the room.
Campus filming, archival material and student capture remain subject to Southville approval and consent requirements.
A QUIET PARTNER MOMENT
Calamansi.
Cold. Familiar.
Saint C Calamansi Soda
Housemade calamansi syrup, soda water and ice. A simple Filipino refreshment integrated naturally into the experience rather than treated as a separate activation.
CALAMANSI+HOUSEMADE SYRUP+SODA
Final service timing, quantities and presentation are still to be confirmed with Southville and Saint C.
05
Event Details
Southville / SISFU
× Kultura in Motion
- Date
- Monday, 14 September 2026
- Format
- Two-hour keynote-style Kultura in Motion session
- Audience
- SISFU students + wider school community to be confirmed
- Venue
- Southville / SISFU exact room to be confirmed
- Documentary
- Pre-session campus chapter by Dishes & Dialogues subject to approval
- Refreshment
- Saint C Calamansi Soda
Final event title, room, audience headcount, registration information, AV and Southville-approved wording will be updated once confirmed.
KULTURA IN MOTION · MANILA 2026
Return with purpose.
Carry something forward.
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