Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Maiana Minahal: Oct 8 reading at Modern Times
Two new books from Civil Defense Poetry!
Legend Sondayo by Maiana Minahal &
The Woman You Write Poems About by Danielle Montgomery
Danielle Montgomery and Maiana Minahal are creating new images of strong women, breaking taboos and reclaiming culture. Ranging from the modern to the mythic, the murderers, thieves, and goddesses that populate these pages will reframe your ideas about spirituality, faith, and goodness.
Hear the authors and guest poets
Ananda Esteva and James Tracy
Oct 8, 7p at Modern Times Bookstore
888 Valencia Street, San Francisco
Ananda Esteva and James Tracy
Oct 8, 7p at Modern Times Bookstore
888 Valencia Street, San Francisco
www.maianaminahal.com/
civildefensepoetry.com
www.akpress.org
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
John Blanco AT The Center for Southeast Asia Studies, UC Berkeley 10/05/09
The Center for Southeast Asia Studies, UC Berkeley
presents a
LECTURE & BOOK EVENT
with John Blanco
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, UC San Diego
who will discuss his new book, "Frontier Constitutions: Christianity and Colonial Empire in the 19th Century Philippines", published this year by UC Press.
"Frontier Constitutions" is a path-breaking study of the cultural transformations arrived at by Spanish colonists, native-born mestizos and indigenous subjects in the colonial Philippines. Blanco argues that modernity at this time should not be understood as an imperfect version of a European model but as a unique set of expressions emerging out of the precariousness of Spanish rule. His examination shows how artists and writers struggled to synthesize various contradictions as they secured the colonial order or, conversely, pursued Philippine independence.
Copies of the book will be available for sale and signing after the event.
Monday, October 5, 2009
4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
IEAS Conference Room, 6th floor
2223 Fulton St. (at Kittredge), Berkeley CA
This event is free and open to the public.
presents a
LECTURE & BOOK EVENT
with John Blanco
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, UC San Diego
who will discuss his new book, "Frontier Constitutions: Christianity and Colonial Empire in the 19th Century Philippines", published this year by UC Press.
"Frontier Constitutions" is a path-breaking study of the cultural transformations arrived at by Spanish colonists, native-born mestizos and indigenous subjects in the colonial Philippines. Blanco argues that modernity at this time should not be understood as an imperfect version of a European model but as a unique set of expressions emerging out of the precariousness of Spanish rule. His examination shows how artists and writers struggled to synthesize various contradictions as they secured the colonial order or, conversely, pursued Philippine independence.
Copies of the book will be available for sale and signing after the event.
Monday, October 5, 2009
4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
IEAS Conference Room, 6th floor
2223 Fulton St. (at Kittredge), Berkeley CA
This event is free and open to the public.
Monday, September 28, 2009
PAWA Arkipelago Reading Series: Saturday 10/17/09 at 2 pm
Please join us for the next reading in the PAWA Arkipelago Reading SeriesWhere: The Bayanihan Center 1010 Mission Street @ 6th Street, San Francisco
When: Saturday, October 17, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Who: Writers Neelanjana Banerjee, Luis Francia, Alejandro Murguía, and Jean Vengua. Musical guests Chris Planas and Carlos Ziálcita.
This event is free and open to the public!
Neelanjana Banerjee’s poetry and fiction have appeared in the The Literary Review, Asian Pacific American Journal, Nimrod, A Room of One’s Own, Desilit and the anthology, Desilicious. She received an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University in 2007 and was a Hedgebrook fellow in 2008. Banerjee has worked in mainstream, ethnic and independent media for the past ten years. She edits the Books and Literature section for Hyphen (an Asian American magazine based in the San Francisco Bay Area) and is currently a teaching artist with the San Francisco WritersCorp. She is a co-editor for Indivisible: An Anthology of South Asian American Poetry (University of Arkansas Press, 2010).
Luis H. Francia is the author of, among other titles, the poetry collection Museum of Absences, the semiautobiographical Eye of the Fish: A Personal Archipelago, and the forthcoming chapbook The Beauty of Ghosts. He is the editor of Brown River, White Ocean, an anthology of Philippine literature in English. He teaches at New York University and Hunter College.
Alejandro Murguía is the author of two collections of short stories, both of which received The American Book Award, Southern Front (Bilingual Review Press 1991) and This War Called Love (City Lights Books, (2002). He is also the author of the non-fiction The Medicine of Memory: A Mexica Clan in California (University of Texas Press 2002). A long-time literary activists in the Bay Area, he is the co-editor of Volcán: Poetry from Central America (1984); the translator of Angel in the Deluge by Rosario Castellanos (1993), and the founder and editor of Tin-Tan Magazine (1975-79). He is currently a professor in Raza Studies at San Francisco State University.
Jean Vengua's poetry has been published in many print and online journals and anthologies, including Going Home to a Landscape, Babaylan, x-stream, Interlope, Returning a Borrowed Tongue, Fugacity 05, Sidereality, Moria, and Otoliths, and in her chapbook, The Aching Vicinities (Otoliths). With Mark Young, she is editor of The First Hay(na)ku Anthology and Hay(na)ku Anthology, Volume 2. Jean's essays, articles and reviews on literature and music have been published in many journals including Jouvert, Geopolitics of the Visual (Ateneo Univ. Press), Pinoy Poetics, Our Own Voice, Seattle's International Examiner (Pacific Reader), and CultureCatch.com.
Chris Planas, of Filipino and Mexican ancestry, grew up in Hawaii. He has been playing the guitar for over 30 years. Among many, his styles include jazz, blues, contemporary and salsa. In addition, he is also a vocalist, composer, writer and also has taught at UC Berkeley and at Berkeley City College.
Carlos Ziálcita, harmonica player and vocalist, has been part of the San Francisco Bay Area music scene for three decades as a performer, promoter, educator, and radio announcer. His recordings include Train Through Oakland in 2000, Evolution, released in 2004 and Soul Shadows, released in 2009 with the jazz fusion group Little Brown Brother. He is the Producer and Executive Director of the San Francisco Filipino American Jazz Festival.
R. Zamora Linmark at the Poetry Foundation blog
An excerpt:
I wanted to say a few things about R. Zamora Linmark’s energetic collection The Evolution of a Sigh (Hanging Loose Press, 2008) which I’ve read and reread, and which had me cracking up at some of what I enjoy best in Linmark’s work; he mines and dredges that space between languages and all of the weirdness of that space, which facilitates communication and miscommunication. As in his first book, one of my favorites, the novel Rolling the R’s, he writes unapologetically from a place of historically and culturally misused English. This misuse leads to the creation of new sets of definitions...Read more.
Sunday, September 27, 2009
From the Red Cross Blog re: Typhoon Ondoy
Hi all, in case you are wondering how to help Typhoon Ondoy victims, you can go to the Red Cross blog:
http://redcrosschat.org/2009/09/27/monsoon-in-philippines/
http://redcrosschat.org/2009/09/27/monsoon-in-philippines/
Thursday, September 24, 2009
STOP MAKING SENSE! With Luis Francia (Writing Workshop, SF)
STOP MAKING SENSE! Poetry Workshop with Luis Francia
Saturday, October 17, 2009
9:30am-12:30pm
Bayanihan Community Center
1010 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA
Mean without meaning to.
Chance upon delight, mystery, paradox,
and other linguistic revelations as, given free rein,
words can lead you to broad and unexpected spaces/places.
In approaching the writing of a poem,
this morning workshop emphasizes play, lyricism,
and an openness unbeholden to narrative.
Worry not about the latter: its texts are indelibly written in the everyday.
Worry not about your grandmother, your sexuality,
your roots, all the peculiarities of your life.
They will never leave you.
For those just starting to write poetry. All interested in exploring and writing welcome. Bring paper and be ready to do some writing exercises.
Student sliding scale $20-$30 / Regular sliding scale $35-$45
(Fee includes breakfast and snacks)
9:30 am: Welcome, Breakfast
10:00 am Workshop
2:00 pm (free event): PAWA Arkipelago author Reading Series featuring: Neela Banerjee, Luis Francia, Alejandro Murguía, Jean Vengua, & music performed by Chris Planas, Carlos Ziálcita
Luis H. Francia’s poetry collections include Museum of Absences and The Arctic Archipelago and Other Poems. His semiautobiographical Eye of the Fish: A Personal Archipelago won both the 2002 PEN Center Open Book and The 2002 Asian American Literary Award. His poetry theater piece, The Beauty of Ghosts, premiered at Topaz Arts in 2007. He edited Brown River, White Ocean: An Anthology of Twentieth Century Philippine Literature in English, and is co-editor of Flippin’: Filipinos on America, and Vestiges of War: The Philippine-American War and the Aftermath of an Imperial Dream, 1899-1999. He is the author of the Introduction to Penguin Classic’s Doveglion: Collected Poems by Jose Garcia Villa. He teaches at New York University’s Asian/Pacific/American Studies program.
For more information e-mail PAWA: pawa@pawainc.com
To register online:
http://app.formassembly.com/forms/view/52172
or go to the following sites and follow the links:
http://www.pawainc.com/events.html
or
http://pawainc.blogspot.com
Saturday, October 17, 2009
9:30am-12:30pm
Bayanihan Community Center
1010 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA
Mean without meaning to.
Chance upon delight, mystery, paradox,
and other linguistic revelations as, given free rein,
words can lead you to broad and unexpected spaces/places.
In approaching the writing of a poem,
this morning workshop emphasizes play, lyricism,
and an openness unbeholden to narrative.
Worry not about the latter: its texts are indelibly written in the everyday.
Worry not about your grandmother, your sexuality,
your roots, all the peculiarities of your life.
They will never leave you.
For those just starting to write poetry. All interested in exploring and writing welcome. Bring paper and be ready to do some writing exercises.
Student sliding scale $20-$30 / Regular sliding scale $35-$45
(Fee includes breakfast and snacks)
9:30 am: Welcome, Breakfast
10:00 am Workshop
2:00 pm (free event): PAWA Arkipelago author Reading Series featuring: Neela Banerjee, Luis Francia, Alejandro Murguía, Jean Vengua, & music performed by Chris Planas, Carlos Ziálcita
Luis H. Francia’s poetry collections include Museum of Absences and The Arctic Archipelago and Other Poems. His semiautobiographical Eye of the Fish: A Personal Archipelago won both the 2002 PEN Center Open Book and The 2002 Asian American Literary Award. His poetry theater piece, The Beauty of Ghosts, premiered at Topaz Arts in 2007. He edited Brown River, White Ocean: An Anthology of Twentieth Century Philippine Literature in English, and is co-editor of Flippin’: Filipinos on America, and Vestiges of War: The Philippine-American War and the Aftermath of an Imperial Dream, 1899-1999. He is the author of the Introduction to Penguin Classic’s Doveglion: Collected Poems by Jose Garcia Villa. He teaches at New York University’s Asian/Pacific/American Studies program.
For more information e-mail PAWA: pawa@pawainc.com
To register online:
http://app.formassembly.com/forms/view/52172
or go to the following sites and follow the links:
http://www.pawainc.com/events.html
or
http://pawainc.blogspot.com
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Poetry Workshop: Drawing the Boundaries of a Fire – Paolo Javier at the Poetry Project (NY)
Drawing the Boundaries of a Fire – Paolo Javier
October 10, 2009
12:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Paolo Javier will be teaching a ten-week long Saturday afternoon workshop, beginning October 10, 2009. The class will meet in the Parish Hall from 12-2 pm.
Since the advent of the modern cartoon strip, poets, artists, and poet-artists alike have turned to its language as a vital source for innovation in their own practice. We will explore such a tradition. The presence of the poetic in the modern comic book will be a focus of our writing and discussion, and we will experiment with its potential through a diverse practice. Collaboration between participants will be required for selected exercises, and encouraged throughout the workshop.
Paolo Javier is the author of LMFAO (OMG!), Goldfish Kisses (Sona Books), 60 lv bo(e)mbs (O Books), and the time at the end of this writing (Ahadada Books). He is currently working on OBB, a multimedia poetry comic, with artist Ernest Concepcion, and publishes 2nd Ave Poetry.
The workshop fee is $350, which includes a one year Sustaining Poetry Project membership and tuition for any and all spring and fall classes. Reservations are required due to limited class space, and payment must be received in advance. Caps on class sizes, if in effect, will be determined by workshop leaders. We will begin registering students officially on September 1st. If you would like to reserve a spot in this class, please send an email to info (at) poetryproject (dot) org or call 212-674-0910.
http://poetryproject.org/program-calendar/paolo-javier-workshop.html
October 10, 2009
12:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Paolo Javier will be teaching a ten-week long Saturday afternoon workshop, beginning October 10, 2009. The class will meet in the Parish Hall from 12-2 pm.
Since the advent of the modern cartoon strip, poets, artists, and poet-artists alike have turned to its language as a vital source for innovation in their own practice. We will explore such a tradition. The presence of the poetic in the modern comic book will be a focus of our writing and discussion, and we will experiment with its potential through a diverse practice. Collaboration between participants will be required for selected exercises, and encouraged throughout the workshop.
Paolo Javier is the author of LMFAO (OMG!), Goldfish Kisses (Sona Books), 60 lv bo(e)mbs (O Books), and the time at the end of this writing (Ahadada Books). He is currently working on OBB, a multimedia poetry comic, with artist Ernest Concepcion, and publishes 2nd Ave Poetry.
The workshop fee is $350, which includes a one year Sustaining Poetry Project membership and tuition for any and all spring and fall classes. Reservations are required due to limited class space, and payment must be received in advance. Caps on class sizes, if in effect, will be determined by workshop leaders. We will begin registering students officially on September 1st. If you would like to reserve a spot in this class, please send an email to info (at) poetryproject (dot) org or call 212-674-0910.
http://poetryproject.org/program-calendar/paolo-javier-workshop.html
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Commentary on Finding God: True Stories of Spiritual Encounters, by Reme A. Grefalda
From the PALH blog:
In their preface to this book project (their third collaboration), the editors praise the courage of contributors in discussing their personal trajectories and private pain which led them to their awareness of God. Novelist, M. Evelina Galang (One Tribe) in faraway Iowa recounts the horror of watching the televised events in New York City on September 11. Susan Evangelista (Carlos Bulosan biographer) experienced an intense oneness with the world during a session in Zen meditation. Children’s literature writer, Tony Robles describes in Agapé, his early years in a Christian School where he was the lone Filipino. In City of Courtesy, Brian Ascalon Roley (American Son, A Novel) recalls in his letter to his son that “the center of [his] childhood religious life” was his lola. His return to his faith, his daily masses and prayers now reflect his grandmother’s rote piety, one which he arrogantly dismissed during his teenage years. But tantamount to his experience is Roley’s appreciation of his Mid-western church community in Cincinnati, so totally different from his Southern California roots.Read more.
New Chapbook from Achiote Press: An Anthology of West Coast Kundiman Poets
Dear Achiote Press Friends,
We are excited to announce Achiote Press' newest chapbook: Here is a Pen: An Anthology of West Coast Kundiman Poets, edited by Ching-in Chen, Margaret Rhee, and Debbie Yee.
Kundiman is a wonderful 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to providing a nurturing space for Asian American poets. Like many other arts organizations in these difficult times, Kundiman has suffered from budget cuts. To help, Achiote Press teamed up with three Kundiman poets to create a beautiful anthology featuring numerous Asian American writers.
We conducted a fundraising reading on the UC Berkeley campus on 9/17/09, and now we are continuing our efforts online.
Please click link to order your copy of this chapbook and to read the introduction (http://www.achiotepress.com/
Supplies are limited so please order soon.
Writers in the anthology Include:
Neil Aitken, Tamiko Beyer, Ching-In Chen, Marilyn Chin, Oliver de la Paz, Vanessa Huang, Janine Joseph, Joseph O. Legaspi, Ngoc Luu, Sally Wen Mao, Noel Pabillo Mariano, Soham Patel, Jai Arun Ravine, Margaret Rhee, Melissa Roxas, Brynn Saito, Sharon Suzuki-Martinez, Yael Villafranca, Andre Yang, and Debbie Yee
Sincerely,
The Editors
Monday, September 21, 2009
Luis Francia at the Jackson Heights Poetry Festival (NY)
The Jackson Heights Poetry Festival will offer three evenings of poetry workshops and panel discussions in its 2009-2010 season. These events are open to all ages, interests and skill levels, including beginners and non-poetry writing observers. Participation in workshops is not required to attend the panel discussions.
Theme:Political poetry
Date: September 27, 2009
Moderator: Richard Jeffrey Newman (bio)
Guest Panelist: Luis H. Francia (bio)
From the election of our first African-American president to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the health care crisis, the murder of Dr. Tiller, whether our roads are repaired and our schools function as they are supposed to, politics effects our lives every day in ways both big and small. What does it mean, then, to write political poetry? How does politics of a given time shape the poetry of that time? Is it possible to write a poem that is apolitical? Explore these and other questions with our guest poet Luis Francia.
http://www.jhpfest.org/v2/workshops.php
Filipino American History Month Celebration at the Asian Art Museum October 4, 2009 (SF)
Celebrating 422 Years
Filipino American History Month
Sunday, October 4
10:00 am–4:00 pm
Museum-wide
Free admission courtesy of Target Stores.
Celebrate Filipino American History Month with Filipino American artists, authors, and performers. Learn the richness and beauty of Filipino American culture and history through performances, special displays, talks, storytelling, and activities for children. Enjoy Filipino American dance and music as we commemorate the 422nd anniversary of the landing of Filipino sailors at California's Moro Bay.
The schedule of activities is subject to change without notice. Please check back here for updates.
See pictures of past celebrations.
program Schedule
Please note, the schedule of activities is subject to change without notice. Please check back here for updates. Space is limited and is first-come, first-served.
10:00 am to 4:00 pm: activities and displays in the Loggia and North Court
10:30 am: Introductions and Opening in Samsung Hall
11:00 am: Lecture on "Filipino Landing in Morro Bay" in Samsung Hall
11:30 am-12:30 pm: Filipino American History Panel Discussion in Samsung Hall
11:00 am-3:45 pm: book readings/signings in North Court (books for sale in the museum store)
More info.
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Scenes from the 9.19.09 PAWA Arkipelago Literary Series
YouTube videos from the 9.19.09 edition of the PAWA Arkipelago Literary Series featuring Oliver de la Paz, Mari L'Esperance, Theresa Calpotura and Joseph O. Legaspi can be found here.
Flickr photos from the 9.19.09 edition of the PAWA Arkipelago Literary Series featuring Oliver de la Paz, Mari L'Esperance, Theresa Calpotura and Joseph O. Legaspi can be found here.
Flickr photos from the 9.19.09 edition of the PAWA Arkipelago Literary Series featuring Oliver de la Paz, Mari L'Esperance, Theresa Calpotura and Joseph O. Legaspi can be found here.
10/02/09: Kristin Naca @ Gist Reading Series (PA)
October 2, 2009: Irina Reyn (fiction) / Kristin Naca (poetry)
Irina Reyn is the author of the novel, What Happened to Anna K. She is also the editor of the nonfiction anthology, Living on the Edge of the World: New Jersey Writers Take on the Garden State. Her work has appeared in One Story, Tin House, Post Road, Los Angeles Times, Town & Country Travel, and other publications and anthologies. She teaches creative writing at the University of Pittsburgh.
Born in Washington, D.C. and raised in northern Virginia, Kristin Naca earned her BA at University of Washington, her MFA at University of Pittsburgh, and, in 2008, her PhD at University of Nebraska. Her manuscript, Bird Eating Bird, was a recent selection for the National Poetry Series and winner of the mtvU Prize. It will be published by Harper Perennial in September 2009. Since 2002, Naca has been a member of Sandra Cisneros’ Macondo Workshop in San Antonio, where she resided for the past two years. This year, she teaches Asian American and Latino poetics at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. Her poems have appeared in Bloom, Indiana Review, North American Review, and Prairie Schooner.
Visit the Gist Reading Series website.
Irina Reyn is the author of the novel, What Happened to Anna K. She is also the editor of the nonfiction anthology, Living on the Edge of the World: New Jersey Writers Take on the Garden State. Her work has appeared in One Story, Tin House, Post Road, Los Angeles Times, Town & Country Travel, and other publications and anthologies. She teaches creative writing at the University of Pittsburgh.
Born in Washington, D.C. and raised in northern Virginia, Kristin Naca earned her BA at University of Washington, her MFA at University of Pittsburgh, and, in 2008, her PhD at University of Nebraska. Her manuscript, Bird Eating Bird, was a recent selection for the National Poetry Series and winner of the mtvU Prize. It will be published by Harper Perennial in September 2009. Since 2002, Naca has been a member of Sandra Cisneros’ Macondo Workshop in San Antonio, where she resided for the past two years. This year, she teaches Asian American and Latino poetics at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. Her poems have appeared in Bloom, Indiana Review, North American Review, and Prairie Schooner.
Visit the Gist Reading Series website.
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Kularts Presents: PeliKULa! Pin@y Film Series 10/04/09 (SF)
PeliKULa! Pin@y Film Series
First Sundays of the Month
Dim the lights, silence your cell phones, butter your popcorn, sit back and relax as Kularts presents its first Pin@y Film series featuring works by today's leaders in cutting-edge Pin@y cinema.
5pm, Sun OCT 4
Art for Social Change (Documentaries)
Admission: $7
Tickets: www.brownpapertickets.com/event/79743
Featuring:
Hip Hip Mestizaje: Racialization, Resonance, and Filipino American Knowledge of Self
Director: Mark Villegas
Why Filipinos, why hip hop? A coast-to-coast exploration of Filipinos immersion into the hip hop movement, highlighting the cultural and racial impact of colonization on Filipino artists.
Sounds of a New Hope
Director: Eric Tandoc
Co-presented by ALAY
Growing up around LAs neighborhood gangs in the 90s, a young Filipino-American named Kiwi (Jack DeJesus) became an MC and community organizer, using hip-hop to raise consciousness for genuine democracy. Through sharing life experiences, beats, and rhymes, youth from San Mateo to Metro Manila make connections across oceans that inspire the next generation to continue the ongoing struggle for freedom.
Showman Shaman
Director: Egay Navarro
Free-thinking independent artists catapulted Baguio into a vital art center of the Philippines in the late 80s such as Roberto Villanueva's art installation of his own cremation - outdoors, in the middle of Baguio City, mourners circled his funeral pyre, chanting and dancing to the beat of gangsa gongs.
Huna Huna
Director: Wilfred Galila
A haunting art film calling for environmental awareness and action in response to the largest oil spill in Philippine history.
Q&A Panel: Eric Tandoc, Suzanne Llamado (Baguio Arts Guild), and Wilfred Galila
Bayanihan Community Center
1010 Mission St @ 6th St, SF
Friday, September 18, 2009
Francis Estrada at the Last Supper Festival (NYC)
Francis Estrada will be showing work at the Last Supper Festival http://thought-processor.com/lastsupper/
Saturday, September 26, 2009 6pm-2am 3rd Ward, Brooklyn 195 Morgan Ave, Bushwick
The show will consist of art, music, and food. Tix are $15, but are cheaper when you buy at the door with 3 cans of food.
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/81171
The Last Supper is a multimedia, project-based collaborative festival that addresses the act of consumption. Viewing the creative process as a cyclical, communally interactive conversation between media, it is a non-profit benefit event for the Food Bank of New York City. The Last Supper is an indoor-outdoor salon of ideas occurring in NYC during the crux of seasonal change at the end of September. As a feast for the senses and a symposium of genres, the gathering kindles the creative miasma infused by the city’s autumnal shift, harvesting the cornucopia of media in our own backyard and sparking an atmosphere for open dialog and collaboration. Short films and works from emerging directors and artists, edible installations from creative culinarians, performance, design projects, writing and music from several local bands and DJ’s will grace the dinner table. Each year, the show sparks dialog about consumption by curating projects based on a theme of global and local import. This year, more than 50 creators and volunteers will discuss ideas about “Means” with an audience of peers to evaluate our state of consumption. The decay of Summer and the emergence of Winter will be celebrated at the Fifth annual Last Supper.
Saturday, September 26, 2009 6pm-2am 3rd Ward, Brooklyn 195 Morgan Ave, Bushwick
The show will consist of art, music, and food. Tix are $15, but are cheaper when you buy at the door with 3 cans of food.
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/81171
The Last Supper is a multimedia, project-based collaborative festival that addresses the act of consumption. Viewing the creative process as a cyclical, communally interactive conversation between media, it is a non-profit benefit event for the Food Bank of New York City. The Last Supper is an indoor-outdoor salon of ideas occurring in NYC during the crux of seasonal change at the end of September. As a feast for the senses and a symposium of genres, the gathering kindles the creative miasma infused by the city’s autumnal shift, harvesting the cornucopia of media in our own backyard and sparking an atmosphere for open dialog and collaboration. Short films and works from emerging directors and artists, edible installations from creative culinarians, performance, design projects, writing and music from several local bands and DJ’s will grace the dinner table. Each year, the show sparks dialog about consumption by curating projects based on a theme of global and local import. This year, more than 50 creators and volunteers will discuss ideas about “Means” with an audience of peers to evaluate our state of consumption. The decay of Summer and the emergence of Winter will be celebrated at the Fifth annual Last Supper.
POOR Magazine at City Lights Books 09/27/09 (SF)
From Tony Robles:
Sunday Sept. 27th at 5pm. POOR Press launches new books: Los Viajes ("The Journeys", which includes an excellent essay by Oscar Penaranda called "The Hijacking of America") and a collection of Short stories/poems by Tony Robles titled, "Filipino Building Maintenance Company".
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Catalina Cariaga at the Poetry Foundation blog
My post, Catalina Cariaga, Cultural Evidence (Subpress Collective, 1999), is up at the Poetry Foundation blog. Here’s an excerpt:
Of courseRead more.
they didn’t eat dogs.
They didn’t have dogs.
If they had dogs
they would have eaten them.
–Catalina Cariaga
This poem, “Dogmeat,” is one of the opening poems to Catalina Cariaga’s Cultural Evidence (Subpress Collective). I really can’t think of a better way to start off a collection of poetry concerned with weighing the given anthropological, journalistic, statistical evidence of Filipinos in the world, versus evidence provided via experiential knowledge and memory. Right away, Cariaga is telling folks, don’t readily believe everything you’ve been told about us.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Aimee Suzara at APAture 09/19/09 (SF)
Kearny Stret Workshop APAture Literary Night
SAT, September 19 * 7 - 9 pm
SAT, September 19 * 7 - 9 pm
LITERARY NIGHT
Hotel Rex
562 Sutter St.
$10 - 15 Sliding Scale
Featured Artist: Aimee Suzara
Presenting Artists:
Jennifer S. Cheng
Mai Doan
Yasmine Gomez
Kenji Liu
Linda Park
Takeo Rivera
Elsa Valmidiano
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Kundiman - Achiote Press - PAWA Readings 9/17 and 9/19 (Berkeley & SF) FREE
Click on image for more info:
Readers:
Joseph O. Legaspi is the author of Imago (CavanKerry Press), winner of a 2008 Global Filipino Literary Award. Born in the Philippines, he currently resides in Manhattan and works at Columbia University. A graduate of New York University’s Creative Writing Program, recent works appeared in Callaloo, North American Review, Poets & Writers, New York Theater Review, Crab Orchard Review, Gay & Lesbian Review and the anthology Language for a New Century (W.W. Norton). A recipient of a poetry fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts and an Urban Artists grant, he co-founded Kundiman (www.kundiman.org), a non-profit organization serving Asian American poets. Visit him at www.josepholegaspi.com.
Oliver de la Paz is the author of three books of poetry, NAMES ABOVE HOUSES, FURIOUS LULLABY (Southern Illinois University Press), and the forthcoming book REQUIEM FOR THE ORCHARD which was selected by Martin Espada as the winner of the 2009 University of Akron Poetry Prize and will be available in the Spring of 2010. He is a recipient of grants from the Artist Trust of Washington and from the New York Foundation for the Arts. He teaches creative writing at Western Washington University and is the co-chair of the Advisory Board for Kundiman.
Debbie Yee is a trusts and estates attorney, Kundiman fellow, arts enthusiast and crafts explorer. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in 32 Poems, OCHO, Fence and The Best American Poetry 2009. She received her undergraduate and law degrees from UC Berkeley. Debbie blogs irregularly at www.debbieyee.com.
Neil Aitken is the founding editor of Boxcar Poetry Review and the author of The Lost Country of Sight, winner of the 2007 Philip Levine Prize. His poetry has appeared in Crab Orchard Review, The Drunken Boat, Ninth Letter, Sou'wester and many other literary journals. He lives in Los Angeles where he is currently pursuing a PhD in literature and creative writing at the University of Southern California.
Ching-In Chen is the author of The Heart's Traffic and a multi-genre, border-crossing writer. The daughter of Chinese immigrants, she is a Kundiman, Macondo and Lambda Fellow. A community organizer, she has worked in the Asian American communities of San Francisco, Oakland, and Boston. Her work has been recently published in journals such as BorderSenses, Rio Grande Review, Fifth Wednesday Journal, OCHO, Iron Horse Literary Review, Water~Stone Review, Boxcar Poetry Review, Verdad and the anthology Yellow as Turmeric, Fragrant as Cloves. A co-editor of The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Partner Abuse in Activist Communities, forthcoming from South End Press, Ching-In is currently in the process of editing an anthology on gender, militarism and war from the perspective of women and non-gender-conforming people of color. In Riverside, California, Ching-In is a member of the Save Our Chinatown Committee, a grassroots organization focused on the preserving the archaelogical heritage of Riverside Chinatown.
Generous Support from:
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Come & hear beautiful poetry, libate, and mingle with an all-star line up with Kundiman poets, the first time together on the West Coast! This special collaboration with Achiote Press and Kundiman is a special opportunity to fundraise for Kundiman, a dynamic arts organization dedicated to fostering Asian American poetry. As part of their mission, Kundiman provides a retreat for emerging Asian American poets at the University of Virginia every summer. This reading celebrates the publication of “Here is a Pen:” An Anthology of West Coast Kundiman Poets, a chapbook anthology published by Achiote Press, edited by Ching-In Chen, Margaret Rhee, and Debbie Yee. Chapbooks will be available for purchase. All proceeds go to Kundiman.
Come & hear beautiful poetry, libate, and mingle with an all-star line up with Kundiman poets, the first time together on the West Coast! This special collaboration with Achiote Press and Kundiman is a special opportunity to fundraise for Kundiman, a dynamic arts organization dedicated to fostering Asian American poetry. As part of their mission, Kundiman provides a retreat for emerging Asian American poets at the University of Virginia every summer. This reading celebrates the publication of “Here is a Pen:” An Anthology of West Coast Kundiman Poets, a chapbook anthology published by Achiote Press, edited by Ching-In Chen, Margaret Rhee, and Debbie Yee. Chapbooks will be available for purchase. All proceeds go to Kundiman.
We look forward to seeing you!
Where: UC Berkeley at the Barbara T. Christian Room, 554 Barrows Hall
When: Thursday, Sept 17th
Time: 11:30: Chapbook & Book Sale and Light Reception | 12 – 2: ReadingWhere: UC Berkeley at the Barbara T. Christian Room, 554 Barrows Hall
When: Thursday, Sept 17th
Readers:
Joseph O. Legaspi is the author of Imago (CavanKerry Press), winner of a 2008 Global Filipino Literary Award. Born in the Philippines, he currently resides in Manhattan and works at Columbia University. A graduate of New York University’s Creative Writing Program, recent works appeared in Callaloo, North American Review, Poets & Writers, New York Theater Review, Crab Orchard Review, Gay & Lesbian Review and the anthology Language for a New Century (W.W. Norton). A recipient of a poetry fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts and an Urban Artists grant, he co-founded Kundiman (www.kundiman.org), a non-profit organization serving Asian American poets. Visit him at www.josepholegaspi.com.
Oliver de la Paz is the author of three books of poetry, NAMES ABOVE HOUSES, FURIOUS LULLABY (Southern Illinois University Press), and the forthcoming book REQUIEM FOR THE ORCHARD which was selected by Martin Espada as the winner of the 2009 University of Akron Poetry Prize and will be available in the Spring of 2010. He is a recipient of grants from the Artist Trust of Washington and from the New York Foundation for the Arts. He teaches creative writing at Western Washington University and is the co-chair of the Advisory Board for Kundiman.
Debbie Yee is a trusts and estates attorney, Kundiman fellow, arts enthusiast and crafts explorer. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in 32 Poems, OCHO, Fence and The Best American Poetry 2009. She received her undergraduate and law degrees from UC Berkeley. Debbie blogs irregularly at www.debbieyee.com.
Neil Aitken is the founding editor of Boxcar Poetry Review and the author of The Lost Country of Sight, winner of the 2007 Philip Levine Prize. His poetry has appeared in Crab Orchard Review, The Drunken Boat, Ninth Letter, Sou'wester and many other literary journals. He lives in Los Angeles where he is currently pursuing a PhD in literature and creative writing at the University of Southern California.
Ching-In Chen is the author of The Heart's Traffic and a multi-genre, border-crossing writer. The daughter of Chinese immigrants, she is a Kundiman, Macondo and Lambda Fellow. A community organizer, she has worked in the Asian American communities of San Francisco, Oakland, and Boston. Her work has been recently published in journals such as BorderSenses, Rio Grande Review, Fifth Wednesday Journal, OCHO, Iron Horse Literary Review, Water~Stone Review, Boxcar Poetry Review, Verdad and the anthology Yellow as Turmeric, Fragrant as Cloves. A co-editor of The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Partner Abuse in Activist Communities, forthcoming from South End Press, Ching-In is currently in the process of editing an anthology on gender, militarism and war from the perspective of women and non-gender-conforming people of color. In Riverside, California, Ching-In is a member of the Save Our Chinatown Committee, a grassroots organization focused on the preserving the archaelogical heritage of Riverside Chinatown.
Generous Support from:
Achiote Press
UC Berkeley, Asian American Studies Program
UC Berkeley, Asian Pacific Islander Working Group
Donations for Kundiman gratefully accepted.
For more information, please visit:
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PAWA: http://pawainc.blogspot.com/ 2009/09/pawa-arkipelago-reading-series-saturday.html
UC Berkeley, Asian American Studies Program
UC Berkeley, Asian Pacific Islander Working Group
Donations for Kundiman gratefully accepted.
For more information, please visit:
Kundiman: http://www.
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Questions? Please email: kundimanwest@gmail.com
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Please join us for the next reading in the PAWA Arkipelago Reading Series
Where: The Bayanihan Center 1010 Mission Street @ 6th Street, San Francisco
When: Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Who: Oliver de la Paz, Joseph O. Legaspi, Mari L'Esperance, and Theresa Calpotura (guitar).
* Both readings are free and open to the public.
* Special book raffle drawing opportunity for those who go to both UC Berkeley and PAWA readings!
Where: The Bayanihan Center 1010 Mission Street @ 6th Street, San Francisco
When: Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Who: Oliver de la Paz, Joseph O. Legaspi, Mari L'Esperance, and Theresa Calpotura (guitar).
* Both readings are free and open to the public.
* Special book raffle drawing opportunity for those who go to both UC Berkeley and PAWA readings!
Diaspora Tale #2: 1969 at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center
Diaspora Tale #2: 1969
The Oakland Asian Cultural Center (OACC) in collaboration with Asian Improv aRts presents the premiere of Francis Wong’s “Diaspora Tale #2: 1969”!
Date: Saturday, October 17, 2009
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Doors open: 7:30 pm
Tickets:
This is a benefit for OACC's cultural arts programs and services.
Please note that though there will not be assigned seating, seats will be assigned a section based on the purchased ticket price.
General Admission: $100 (Section A) $75 (Section B) $50 (Section C)
Student (with ID): $25
Senior (65 years old + with ID): $25
To buy tickets, visit our brownpapertickets page or contact Jennifer Chu, Development Coordinator at (510) 637 - 0455 or jchu@oacc.cc.
Tickets will also be available at the door if not sold out.
Program Overview
OACC is proud to announce that we recently received a challenge grant of $5,000 from the East Bay Community Foundation’s East Bay Fund for Artists, to commission Francis Wong to complete and present “Diaspora Tale #2: 1969” at OACC this October.
“Diaspora Tale #2: 1969” is an interdisciplinary work featuring music by the Francis Wong Unit with spoken word artist A.K. Black and dancer/choreographer Lenora Lee. “1969” will commemorate the 40th anniversary of the UC Berkeley Third World Strike. “1969” centers on the experiences of Francis Wong’s brother Thomas, who entered UC Berkeley in 1969 during the Third World Strike. Thomas became politicized and active in both the martial arts community of the East Bay and the SF Chinatown community. Wong was only 12 years old at the time, he became aware through Thomas’ experience of Asian American cultural identity in the context of the turbulent late 60’s early 70’s Bay Area community. The piece ends in 1982 with the passing of Thomas from a drug overdose and Francis himself pursuing an activist path.
In addition to the performance there will be a short panel discussion about the legacy of the Strike and an exhibit featuring photos documenting the Strike. The Asian Improv aRts, whose mission is to produce, present and document artistic works that represent the Asian American experience, will serve as co-presenter of the work. Light refreshments will also be served.
More information.
The Oakland Asian Cultural Center (OACC) in collaboration with Asian Improv aRts presents the premiere of Francis Wong’s “Diaspora Tale #2: 1969”!
Date: Saturday, October 17, 2009
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Doors open: 7:30 pm
Tickets:
This is a benefit for OACC's cultural arts programs and services.
Please note that though there will not be assigned seating, seats will be assigned a section based on the purchased ticket price.
General Admission: $100 (Section A) $75 (Section B) $50 (Section C)
Student (with ID): $25
Senior (65 years old + with ID): $25
To buy tickets, visit our brownpapertickets page or contact Jennifer Chu, Development Coordinator at (510) 637 - 0455 or jchu@oacc.cc.
Tickets will also be available at the door if not sold out.
Program Overview
OACC is proud to announce that we recently received a challenge grant of $5,000 from the East Bay Community Foundation’s East Bay Fund for Artists, to commission Francis Wong to complete and present “Diaspora Tale #2: 1969” at OACC this October.
“Diaspora Tale #2: 1969” is an interdisciplinary work featuring music by the Francis Wong Unit with spoken word artist A.K. Black and dancer/choreographer Lenora Lee. “1969” will commemorate the 40th anniversary of the UC Berkeley Third World Strike. “1969” centers on the experiences of Francis Wong’s brother Thomas, who entered UC Berkeley in 1969 during the Third World Strike. Thomas became politicized and active in both the martial arts community of the East Bay and the SF Chinatown community. Wong was only 12 years old at the time, he became aware through Thomas’ experience of Asian American cultural identity in the context of the turbulent late 60’s early 70’s Bay Area community. The piece ends in 1982 with the passing of Thomas from a drug overdose and Francis himself pursuing an activist path.
In addition to the performance there will be a short panel discussion about the legacy of the Strike and an exhibit featuring photos documenting the Strike. The Asian Improv aRts, whose mission is to produce, present and document artistic works that represent the Asian American experience, will serve as co-presenter of the work. Light refreshments will also be served.
More information.
Monday, September 14, 2009
Joël Barraquiel Tan, Jaime Cortez, Michael Luis Medrano at Galeria de la Raza's Lunada 10/03/09
LUNADA: Literary Lounge & Open Mic
Featuring Joël Barraquiel Tan, Jaime Cortez, Michael Luis Medrano
Saturday, October 3, 2009 | 7:30 pm
Curated and hosted by Norman Zeleya
October’s LUNADA features three highly literary, award winning writers with numerous publishing credits under their belts. The mission’s own, Norman Zelaya, curates and guest hosts this special ultra-literary LUNADA featuring Joël B. Tan, author of Type O Negative (Red Hen), Monster and El Canto de Animal (Noice Press); Jaime Cortez ,graphic novelist and illustrator of Sexile and the upcoming Bang; and from Fresno, Michael Luis Medrano, who’s first book of poetry Born in the Cavity of Sunsets comes out this month from Bilingual Press.
Joël Barraquiel Tan was born in Manila in 1968. He is the author of the poetry collections Type O Negative (Red Hen), Monster, and El Canto de Animal (Noice Press). He is also the editor of three volumes of sexual storytelling as well as having written plays, performances, and a libretto. Joël is the Director of Community Engagement at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
Jaime Cortez is a cultural worker based in the San Francisco Bay Area. His short stories and essays have appeared in over a dozen anthologies. Jaime’s visual art has been exhibited at numerous Bay Area galleries and museums. He was the editor of the anthology Virgins, Guerrillas & Locas and the arts-based HIV journal Corpus. Jaime wrote and illustrated Sexile, a groundbreaking graphic novel about a transgender refugee from Cuba. Cortez has worked as a high school teacher in Japan and served as the education coordinator for the AIDS Memorial Quilt during the largest HIV awareness event in U.S. History, the 1996 display of the quilt on the Washington Mall. He was also the program manager at the Galería De La Raza. Jaime has lectured on art and activism in classes at Stanford, Berkeley, UC Santa Barbara, University of Pennsylvania, California College of the Arts, and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. He is currently working on "Bang," an anti-violence comic book, and teaching art at UC Berkeley.
Michael Luis Medrano was born and raised in Fresno, California, the heart of the San Joaquin Valley. He holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, and he has performed his work at Stanford University, The Loft Literary Arts Center in Minneapolis, and the University of Colorado, Boulder. He served as poetry editor for the literary journal Flies, Cockroaches, & Poets, is featured on the spoken word CD "The Central Chakrah Project" (Metamorfosis Productions), and has taught writing workshops in Fresno and Minneapolis. Once again based in Fresno, Medrano is teaching, hosting a literary radio show, and writing a novel and a second collection of poetry.
$5 or FREE with food dish
Galería de la Raza
2857 24th Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Featuring Joël Barraquiel Tan, Jaime Cortez, Michael Luis Medrano
Saturday, October 3, 2009 | 7:30 pm
Curated and hosted by Norman Zeleya
October’s LUNADA features three highly literary, award winning writers with numerous publishing credits under their belts. The mission’s own, Norman Zelaya, curates and guest hosts this special ultra-literary LUNADA featuring Joël B. Tan, author of Type O Negative (Red Hen), Monster and El Canto de Animal (Noice Press); Jaime Cortez ,graphic novelist and illustrator of Sexile and the upcoming Bang; and from Fresno, Michael Luis Medrano, who’s first book of poetry Born in the Cavity of Sunsets comes out this month from Bilingual Press.
Joël Barraquiel Tan was born in Manila in 1968. He is the author of the poetry collections Type O Negative (Red Hen), Monster, and El Canto de Animal (Noice Press). He is also the editor of three volumes of sexual storytelling as well as having written plays, performances, and a libretto. Joël is the Director of Community Engagement at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
Jaime Cortez is a cultural worker based in the San Francisco Bay Area. His short stories and essays have appeared in over a dozen anthologies. Jaime’s visual art has been exhibited at numerous Bay Area galleries and museums. He was the editor of the anthology Virgins, Guerrillas & Locas and the arts-based HIV journal Corpus. Jaime wrote and illustrated Sexile, a groundbreaking graphic novel about a transgender refugee from Cuba. Cortez has worked as a high school teacher in Japan and served as the education coordinator for the AIDS Memorial Quilt during the largest HIV awareness event in U.S. History, the 1996 display of the quilt on the Washington Mall. He was also the program manager at the Galería De La Raza. Jaime has lectured on art and activism in classes at Stanford, Berkeley, UC Santa Barbara, University of Pennsylvania, California College of the Arts, and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. He is currently working on "Bang," an anti-violence comic book, and teaching art at UC Berkeley.
Michael Luis Medrano was born and raised in Fresno, California, the heart of the San Joaquin Valley. He holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, and he has performed his work at Stanford University, The Loft Literary Arts Center in Minneapolis, and the University of Colorado, Boulder. He served as poetry editor for the literary journal Flies, Cockroaches, & Poets, is featured on the spoken word CD "The Central Chakrah Project" (Metamorfosis Productions), and has taught writing workshops in Fresno and Minneapolis. Once again based in Fresno, Medrano is teaching, hosting a literary radio show, and writing a novel and a second collection of poetry.
$5 or FREE with food dish
Galería de la Raza
2857 24th Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Sunday, September 13, 2009
FINDING GOD: TRUE STORIES OF SPIRITUAL ENCOUNTERS (Cecilia Brainard and Marily Orosa, Eds.)
PRESS RELEASE
PALH FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 9/09
PO Box 5099
Santa Monica, CA 90409
USA
Email: palhbooks@gmail.com
RELIGIOUS BOOK, FINDING GOD: TRUE STORIES OF SPIRITUAL ENCOUNTERS LAUNCHED
The anthology, Finding God: True Stories of Spiritual Encounters, was launched last August, in Makati, Metro Manila, and in Cebu. The Makati book launching was held on August 14, 2009 at the National Bookstore in Glorietta. The Cebu book launching was held a week later on August 21, 2009 at Powerbooks in SM, Cebu City. The anthology drew a large crowd and the high volume of sales prompted National Bookstore to include the title in their bestseller list.
In Makati, the contributors who participated in the program were: Mila D. Aguilar, Raquel Villavicencio Balagtas, Liza B. Martinez, Felice Sta. Maria, Marlinda Angbetic Tan, as well as coeditors Marily Orosa and Cecilia Brainard In Cebu, contributors who attended were Raquel Villavicencio Balagtas, Marlinda Angbetic Tan, Evelyn Regner Seno, and the two editors.
Published by Anvil Publishing, Inc. the book is a collection of 18 essays about how people’s true-to-life experiences of encountering God. Contributors have written honestly about their spiritual encounter after the death of a family member, or illness of self or of family members, or infidelity of a spouse, or difficulties with family members. Others write of experiencing God’s presence during childbirth, in school, during a zen-moment, and during pilgrimages to Lourdes and Medjugorje. The experiences are varied; some writers are Catholics, some are Born-Again Christians. Eleven of the contributors are based in the United States, while seven are based in the Philippines. The book thus provides a Filipino and Filipino American points of view.
The conbributors of the book are: Mila D. Aguilar, Evelyn Regner Seno, M. G. Bertulfo, Tony Robles, Edgar Poma, Aileen Ibardaloza, Paulino Lim Jr., M. Evelina Galang, Raquel Villavicencio Balagtas, Brian Ascalon Roley, Marlinda Angbetic Tan, Liza B. Martinez, Felice Prudente Sta. Maria, C. Sophia Ibardaloza, Susan Evangelista, and Remé A. Grefalda.
Noted Manila critic, Isagani Cruz writes, “Our puny minds often cannot understand how all our sufferings can be good for us, but if we look back at our lives, we see how everything eventually works out well in the end. This is the faith that underlies the essays in this book. It is a simple faith, but a profound one.”
Jocely Gerra, a Lay Dominican, who is the Executive Director of the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation, comments: “This book, a collection of narratives on finding God will surely uplift our faith as we learn from the experiences of others.”
And Josefina Lichuaco, columnist and former Secretary of the Department of Transportation and Communications writes, “Finding God on earth, next to entering heaven in eternal life is, to my mind, the greatest gift one can experience. I know that not everyone can be aware that he or she is finding God at precisely the moment this experience is happening, but all the contributors are to be envied, for finding God can be such an awesome moment whether it happens when one is in great physical pain or in deep spiritual anguish.”
The editors of the anthology are familiar figures in the Philippine literary scene. Friends since college days, the editors have collaborated on two other notable books: Behind the Walls: Life of Convent Girls, and Ala Carte Food & Fiction, which won International and Philippine Gourmand Awards.
Cecilia Manguerra Brainard is the award-winning author and editor of fourteen books, including the recently released how-to-write book, Fundamentals of Creative Writing. Marily Orosa is president of Studio 5 one of the leading graphic firms in the Philippines. Studio 5 has also published award-winning coffee table books.
The book, Finding God: True Stories of Personal Encounters, is available in the Philippines in National Bookstores and Powerbooks. It is also available online from http://www.anvilpublishing.com and http://www.palhbooks.com.
For further information, contact anvilpublishing@yahoo.com or palh@aol.com.
PALH FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 9/09
PO Box 5099
Santa Monica, CA 90409
USA
Email: palhbooks@gmail.com
RELIGIOUS BOOK, FINDING GOD: TRUE STORIES OF SPIRITUAL ENCOUNTERS LAUNCHED
The anthology, Finding God: True Stories of Spiritual Encounters, was launched last August, in Makati, Metro Manila, and in Cebu. The Makati book launching was held on August 14, 2009 at the National Bookstore in Glorietta. The Cebu book launching was held a week later on August 21, 2009 at Powerbooks in SM, Cebu City. The anthology drew a large crowd and the high volume of sales prompted National Bookstore to include the title in their bestseller list.
In Makati, the contributors who participated in the program were: Mila D. Aguilar, Raquel Villavicencio Balagtas, Liza B. Martinez, Felice Sta. Maria, Marlinda Angbetic Tan, as well as coeditors Marily Orosa and Cecilia Brainard In Cebu, contributors who attended were Raquel Villavicencio Balagtas, Marlinda Angbetic Tan, Evelyn Regner Seno, and the two editors.
Published by Anvil Publishing, Inc. the book is a collection of 18 essays about how people’s true-to-life experiences of encountering God. Contributors have written honestly about their spiritual encounter after the death of a family member, or illness of self or of family members, or infidelity of a spouse, or difficulties with family members. Others write of experiencing God’s presence during childbirth, in school, during a zen-moment, and during pilgrimages to Lourdes and Medjugorje. The experiences are varied; some writers are Catholics, some are Born-Again Christians. Eleven of the contributors are based in the United States, while seven are based in the Philippines. The book thus provides a Filipino and Filipino American points of view.
The conbributors of the book are: Mila D. Aguilar, Evelyn Regner Seno, M. G. Bertulfo, Tony Robles, Edgar Poma, Aileen Ibardaloza, Paulino Lim Jr., M. Evelina Galang, Raquel Villavicencio Balagtas, Brian Ascalon Roley, Marlinda Angbetic Tan, Liza B. Martinez, Felice Prudente Sta. Maria, C. Sophia Ibardaloza, Susan Evangelista, and Remé A. Grefalda.
Noted Manila critic, Isagani Cruz writes, “Our puny minds often cannot understand how all our sufferings can be good for us, but if we look back at our lives, we see how everything eventually works out well in the end. This is the faith that underlies the essays in this book. It is a simple faith, but a profound one.”
Jocely Gerra, a Lay Dominican, who is the Executive Director of the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation, comments: “This book, a collection of narratives on finding God will surely uplift our faith as we learn from the experiences of others.”
And Josefina Lichuaco, columnist and former Secretary of the Department of Transportation and Communications writes, “Finding God on earth, next to entering heaven in eternal life is, to my mind, the greatest gift one can experience. I know that not everyone can be aware that he or she is finding God at precisely the moment this experience is happening, but all the contributors are to be envied, for finding God can be such an awesome moment whether it happens when one is in great physical pain or in deep spiritual anguish.”
The editors of the anthology are familiar figures in the Philippine literary scene. Friends since college days, the editors have collaborated on two other notable books: Behind the Walls: Life of Convent Girls, and Ala Carte Food & Fiction, which won International and Philippine Gourmand Awards.
Cecilia Manguerra Brainard is the award-winning author and editor of fourteen books, including the recently released how-to-write book, Fundamentals of Creative Writing. Marily Orosa is president of Studio 5 one of the leading graphic firms in the Philippines. Studio 5 has also published award-winning coffee table books.
The book, Finding God: True Stories of Personal Encounters, is available in the Philippines in National Bookstores and Powerbooks. It is also available online from http://www.anvilpublishing.com and http://www.palhbooks.com.
For further information, contact anvilpublishing@yahoo.com or palh@aol.com.
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Gina Apostol: The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata
New from Anvil Publishing:
The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata
By Gina Apostol
Edward Said wrote that the role of the intellectual is to present altenative narratives on history other than those provided by the “combatants” who claim entitlement to official memory and national identity-who propagate “ heroic anthems sung in order to sweep all before them.” In this fearlessly intellectual novel, Gina Apostol takes on the keepers of official memory and creates a new, atonal anthem that defies single ownership and, in fact, can only be performed by the many- by multiple voices in multiple readings Raymundo Mata, appropriately blind, exists in a parallel universe where perception is always in question, and memory and the Filipino identity are turned inside out.-Eric Gamalinda
ISBN 97127-22417
Details
Edition: 2009
Book size: 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 inches
Book type: Newsprint
Number of Pages: 308
Friday, September 11, 2009
Kristin Naca at Octopus Magazine
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Everybody lives in a house. The same house but with different trees. Each house finishes at the roof, with a chimney, and antenna for feeding pictures into the t.v. Inside is a living room with a wooden floor, or maybe some carpet. And outside, grass sits in the yard thick as carpet. Every house has two or more beds, depending on how many children, or how many relatives live there, how big the beds are. There’s also a kitchen, a bathroom, and a place beside the grass to park the car.
A house has houses all around it. You can drive on a street between the houses until you reach the highway, or into the next town Arlington, Virginia where houses are dotted between Miller’s Music Spot and Whitey’s Broasted Chicken Restaurant. In Arlington people sit on their steps outside of their houses, or on folding chairs along their small grassy carpets. And I say, “Look at the people in those houses,” and my father says, “Those aren’t houses, Sweetie. They’re shacks.”
Luis Francia, “The Strange Case of Citizen de la Cruz,” Reviewed by Marianne Villanueva
Last Saturday, my niece and I went to see Luis Francia’s play, “The Strange Case of Citizen de la Cruz,” which was receiving a staged reading by the excellent actors and actresses of Bindlestiff, in the San Francisco Main Library’s Koret Auditorium.
What a beautiful space that is! Of course, Luis Francia is the eminent poet, nonfiction writer, editor and journalist, whose eloquence stuns me over and over again when I read anything he has written.
I can’t emphasize enough how special the occasion was. For, as Luis said later in the Question & Answer section, this was a play he had written in the dark Marcos years. And that means it’s taken over two decades to reach his audience. Which is in a way sad, or depressing, but also inspiring. All those things at once.
And so, to the play itself. There is a lot of skewering of the cruder aspects of the Filipino personality (and come on, Marcos may have been the biggest Filipino contrabida of all time, but let’s not let ourselves off the hook entirely: he plugged in to a lot of our fears and anxieties, at least in the very early days), a great depiction of a First Lady, a sweet Maria Clara-type heroine (played with affecting vulnerability by Esperanza Catubig), a sardonic psychiatrist (one of my favorite characters: he was played by Rob Trinidad) and such a cast of characters, everyone from low to lower, even a very suplada maid (played by Jamie Nallas, who has a very expressive face), and a military officer with hemorrhoids. There was this singular line of dialogue, which has lingered in my mind all week:
“People need eccentricities to cope, especially in these times.”
Well and truly spoken, Luis!
The play was beguiling (and also thought-provoking), and the theatre was about half full. The production was free. Someone asked if there was a chance that the play would ever receive a full staging. Luis said he had hope.
Thursday, September 10, 2009
PAWA Arkipelago Reading Series: Saturday September 19 at 2 pm
Please join us for the next reading in the PAWA Arkipelago Reading Series
Where: The Bayanihan Center 1010 Mission Street @ 6th Street, San Francisco
When: Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Who: Oliver de la Paz, Joseph O. Legaspi, Mari L'Esperance, and Theresa Calpotura (guitar).
This event is free and open to the public!
Theresa Calpotura has won a number of awards from associations such as the National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts and the American String Teachers Association, and has received scholarships from the Oberlin Conservatory and the Yale School of Music. Ms. Calpotura studied with the renown guitar pedagogue Scott Cmiel of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory where she studied with guitarist Stephen Aron. She then continued at the Yale School of Music with guitarist and composer Benjamin Verdery. Ms. Calpotura has given concerts and masterclasses in the US and in the Philippines.
Oliver de la Paz is the author of three books of poetry: Names Above Houses and Furious Lullaby (Southern Illinois University Press), and Requiem for the Orchard, a winner of the 2009 University of Akron Poetry Prize which will be available in the Spring of 2010. He is the co-chair of the advisory board for Kundiman, and he is a recipient of grants from the Artist Trust of Washington and the New York Foundation for the Arts. He teaches at Western Washington University.
Joseph O. Legaspi is the author of Imago (CavanKerry Press), winner of a 2008 Global Filipino Literary Award. Born in the Philippines, he currently resides in Manhattan and works at Columbia University. A graduate of New York University’s Creative Writing Program, recent works appeared in Callaloo, North American Review, Poets & Writers, New York Theater Review, Crab Orchard Review, Gay & Lesbian Review and the anthology Language for a New Century (W.W. Norton). A recipient of a poetry fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts and an Urban Artists grant, he co-founded Kundiman (www.kundiman.org), a non-profit organization serving Asian American poets. Visit him at www.josepholegaspi.com.
Mari L’Esperance’s first full-length collection The Darkened Temple was awarded the 2007 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry and published by University of Nebraska Press in September 2008. An earlier collection Begin Here was awarded the 1999 Sarasota Poetry Theatre Press Chapbook Prize and published in 2000. L’Esperance’s work has appeared in several literary journals, including the Beloit Poetry Journal, Many Mountains Moving, Poetry Kanto, and Salamander; in Writing the Life Poetic: An Invitation to Read and Write Poetry by Sage Cohen (Writer’s Digest Books); and is forthcoming in the anthology When the Muse Calls: Poems for the Creative Life, edited by Kathryn Ridall.
Where: The Bayanihan Center 1010 Mission Street @ 6th Street, San Francisco
When: Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Who: Oliver de la Paz, Joseph O. Legaspi, Mari L'Esperance, and Theresa Calpotura (guitar).
This event is free and open to the public!
Theresa Calpotura has won a number of awards from associations such as the National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts and the American String Teachers Association, and has received scholarships from the Oberlin Conservatory and the Yale School of Music. Ms. Calpotura studied with the renown guitar pedagogue Scott Cmiel of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory where she studied with guitarist Stephen Aron. She then continued at the Yale School of Music with guitarist and composer Benjamin Verdery. Ms. Calpotura has given concerts and masterclasses in the US and in the Philippines.
Oliver de la Paz is the author of three books of poetry: Names Above Houses and Furious Lullaby (Southern Illinois University Press), and Requiem for the Orchard, a winner of the 2009 University of Akron Poetry Prize which will be available in the Spring of 2010. He is the co-chair of the advisory board for Kundiman, and he is a recipient of grants from the Artist Trust of Washington and the New York Foundation for the Arts. He teaches at Western Washington University.
Joseph O. Legaspi is the author of Imago (CavanKerry Press), winner of a 2008 Global Filipino Literary Award. Born in the Philippines, he currently resides in Manhattan and works at Columbia University. A graduate of New York University’s Creative Writing Program, recent works appeared in Callaloo, North American Review, Poets & Writers, New York Theater Review, Crab Orchard Review, Gay & Lesbian Review and the anthology Language for a New Century (W.W. Norton). A recipient of a poetry fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts and an Urban Artists grant, he co-founded Kundiman (www.kundiman.org), a non-profit organization serving Asian American poets. Visit him at www.josepholegaspi.com.
Mari L’Esperance’s first full-length collection The Darkened Temple was awarded the 2007 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry and published by University of Nebraska Press in September 2008. An earlier collection Begin Here was awarded the 1999 Sarasota Poetry Theatre Press Chapbook Prize and published in 2000. L’Esperance’s work has appeared in several literary journals, including the Beloit Poetry Journal, Many Mountains Moving, Poetry Kanto, and Salamander; in Writing the Life Poetic: An Invitation to Read and Write Poetry by Sage Cohen (Writer’s Digest Books); and is forthcoming in the anthology When the Muse Calls: Poems for the Creative Life, edited by Kathryn Ridall.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
From LOL: Literature in Other Languages
Kinaray-a in an American playRead more.
A play, entitled Ruby, Tragically Rotund, by Boni B. Alvarez, produced by Playwrights’ Arena in association with the Latino Theater Company, is currently showing at the Los Angeles Theatre Center. In an interview by Ruben V. Nepales, the playwright says:
"I have flashback scenes in Ruby which are written in Kinaray-a, a Visayan dialect [should be language - IRC]. It’s my parents’ language. I feel that, compared to Tagalog, Kinaray-a is a more musical language. In these flashbacks, I wanted a very hopeful and romantic mood, so I decided to write them in Kinaray-a.
“Ruby is a very Filipino play because it is infused with Pinoy culture — my experience of it, specifically. Ruby has a Filipino family, but she also has a blossoming relationship with her African-American boyfriend that could lead to a family of her own. At the same time, she has a very diverse group of friends whom she also considers family.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Francis Estrada: Floating Through Time and Space
Floating through space and time
Propaganda and anthropological display.
By Francis Estrada / New York
Monday, September 7, 2009
This visual essay is a response to the process of expatriation and application for U.S. citizenship, and explores early representations of Filipinos as viewed in the United States.
[Click here to view the slideshow.]
Propaganda and anthropological display.
By Francis Estrada / New York
Monday, September 7, 2009
This visual essay is a response to the process of expatriation and application for U.S. citizenship, and explores early representations of Filipinos as viewed in the United States.
[Click here to view the slideshow.]
FPAC: Festival of Philippine Arts and Culture (So Cal)
From Hip Hop Lives:
It's that time of year again! The 18th Annual Festival of Philippine Arts and Culture (FPAC) is happening this weekend, September 12-13, in San Pedro, CA. And yes, amigos, there will be lotsa hip hop.
Read more.
It's that time of year again! The 18th Annual Festival of Philippine Arts and Culture (FPAC) is happening this weekend, September 12-13, in San Pedro, CA. And yes, amigos, there will be lotsa hip hop.
Read more.
Monday, September 7, 2009
Filipino Film Night Benefit for the Babaylan Conference
Filipino Film Night Benefit for the Babaylan Conference
Saturday October 10
Doors open 6:30; films start 7:15
Magic & the Moon. When her mother leaves the Philippines to find work in the U.S., Magic wanders away from her lola for an adventure of remembering herself. As she braves the fields of Isidria in search of the mysterious daytime moon, she encounters doubt, fear, hope and finally, love. 2008 9 minutes. Queer Women of Color Film Festival 2008. Written and directed by Pia Infante, a cultivator of luminosity who moonlights as an organizational development consultant and coach.
Perfumed Nightmare is a film classic. With quiet strength and sharp wit it leads the viewer through a humorous and incisive fable that explores American cultural domination. Perfumed Nightmare provokes the laughter of recognition, bringing home important truths about our lives under consumerism. 1978. 91minutes. Winner of the Berlin Film International Critics Award and a Blue Ribbon at the American Film Festival. Written and directed by Kidlat Tahimik, a Filipino filmmaker and a Babaylan (Filipino indigenous healer) who has been honored as a National Artist in the Philippines for his lifetime achievement and contributions to Philippine cinema and independent filmmaking and for his leadership in the preservation of Filipino indigenous arts and culture heritage.
Please join us for this evening of stimulating films. Enjoy them in a home environment (projected on large screen with a digital projector). Join in conversation with filmmaker Pia Infante and conference organizer Leny Strobel after the showing.
For more information on the Babaylan conference, see http://www.babaylan.net/
Suggested donation $10 – $25 (no one turned away)
RSVP required – Seating limited
Phone or email for address and directions
helfand@well.com
707- 833-1890
Saturday October 10
Doors open 6:30; films start 7:15
Magic & the Moon. When her mother leaves the Philippines to find work in the U.S., Magic wanders away from her lola for an adventure of remembering herself. As she braves the fields of Isidria in search of the mysterious daytime moon, she encounters doubt, fear, hope and finally, love. 2008 9 minutes. Queer Women of Color Film Festival 2008. Written and directed by Pia Infante, a cultivator of luminosity who moonlights as an organizational development consultant and coach.
Perfumed Nightmare is a film classic. With quiet strength and sharp wit it leads the viewer through a humorous and incisive fable that explores American cultural domination. Perfumed Nightmare provokes the laughter of recognition, bringing home important truths about our lives under consumerism. 1978. 91minutes. Winner of the Berlin Film International Critics Award and a Blue Ribbon at the American Film Festival. Written and directed by Kidlat Tahimik, a Filipino filmmaker and a Babaylan (Filipino indigenous healer) who has been honored as a National Artist in the Philippines for his lifetime achievement and contributions to Philippine cinema and independent filmmaking and for his leadership in the preservation of Filipino indigenous arts and culture heritage.
Please join us for this evening of stimulating films. Enjoy them in a home environment (projected on large screen with a digital projector). Join in conversation with filmmaker Pia Infante and conference organizer Leny Strobel after the showing.
For more information on the Babaylan conference, see http://www.babaylan.net/
Suggested donation $10 – $25 (no one turned away)
RSVP required – Seating limited
Phone or email for address and directions
helfand@well.com
707- 833-1890
Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center presents INSPIRE/ASPIRE Workshop
Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center presents
INSPIRE/ASPIRE Workshop
Creative Constructioning with Claudine Naganuma
Saturday, September 12, 2-5 pm – Dance Studio
Somarts Cultural Center, 934 Brannan Street, 2nd Floor, SF $25-$50 sliding scale
This INSPIRE workshop will employ the use of organic forest materials and fabric, journaling and sounding to create phrases that can serve as seeds for new work. Naganuma creates a playful yet safe environment to provide an opportunity to explore sticky subjects. Workshop participants will be encouraged to use their draped and/or sculpted materials to be used as costume, prop and set.
Claudine Naganuma (M.F.A.) is a native San Franciscan who founded her ensemble danceNAGANUMA in 2001. The company is in residence at Danspace, where she serves as Director. She was selected as a Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Hong Kong/San Francisco exchange artist in 1999 and received a Jack Loftis and Vibeke Strand Honorary Fellowship while at the Djerassi Artist in Residence Program. She served as the Artistic Director of Asian American Dance Performances from 1992 to 2004.
Email claudine@dancenaganuma.com for more information. RSVP by September 10 to info@apiculturalcenter.org
More INSPIRE/ASPIRE Workshops presented by APICC
• Saturday, October 24, 2-5 pm, Collage-making – Lucien Kubo - Studio A
We will start with a brief introduction to the technique, with some examples, but the "story" is something inside you the artist! You will bring your memories, found objects, photographs, special mementos to collage/assemblage. Prior to the class, please place aside these items to bring to class. At the workshop, you will be prepared to then create a collage on a canvas or make a "shrine/memory box" (cigar box format).
Ideas: Shrine or collage of a family member, friend, dog, cat, a photographs/ drawing/painting. We will use various papers, new & recycled (origami, comic, newspapers, food wrappers, stamps, tissue & rice papers, even your art work, prints, drawings can be used.) For assemblage add your figurines, 3-D items and various found objects( coins, plastic, ceramic) The collage will be on a 12" x 12" canvas; the assemblage/ shrine boxes will be in a 6" x 8" cigar box. Plan ahead and start collecting now!
Please bring your own scissors, special photographs (you can Xerox originals), figurines, spe cial tokens and special papers and mementoes. Either a Cigar box or canvas (12"x12" ) various adhesives, variety of papers will be provided.
Lucien Kubo has created "narrative" collage and assemblage artwork that have been shown around the Bay Area. Sometime her artwork will question/address issues such as war, immigration, internment, but at other times celebrates culture, one's heritage and joys of life.
If you have any questions, email Lucien at: Lucienk@aol.com, or call (415) 464-8845
• Wednesday, November 18, 6:30-9 pm, Personal Narratives – Flo Oy Wong - Drawing Studio
Come join artist Flo Oy Wong at the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center’s INSPIRE Personal Narratives Workshop. Flo is highly experienced at creating installations about self, family, and community, using images, text, found objects, old suitcases, and other materials to tell her visual stories. She will lead workshop participants in creating transformative artwork based on little-known or unknown personal narratives.
• Saturday, January 16, 1-4 pm, Mandala-making – Flo Oy Wong - Dance Studio
A mandala is a schematic representation of the cosmos consisting of geometric shapes concentrically organized. Come join artist Flo Oy Wong in this workshop of exploration, using food to create a non-permanent mandala. Flo will guide you in a deep breathing practice to access the creative exploration and making of a mandala with rice, tea leaves, wood ear fungus, dried tofu and other foods. Bring your cameras to record the food mandala that you will be creating collaboratively with other workshop participants.
What people have said about the INSPIRE/ASPIRE workshops:
"(Flo), the time we spent together was exactly what I needed. I believe you also helped the other artists open doors and encouraged them in just the right way to walk through. I noticed that I was learning to let things go, bust the envelope, not follow the rules with little guilt and create art that was for me. These are all concepts I work on processing daily, but don't often take the next step creatively. The breathing exercises helped so much..." – P. W.
"Thank you so much for a wonderful afternoon. I haven't felt so relaxed and satisfied in such, if not in too long a time. It was wonderful. Nothing like doing art slowly, lovingly, and with like-minded individuals. It was grand!" - N. W.
“I want to tell you how valuable and important the APICC workshops have been.…The workshops serve the needs of both professional artists and newcomers. I have particularly enjoyed working with people from 8 to 80, many of them new to the arts. It has also been valuable to watch established arts professionals exploring new concepts and media. I'm looking forward to Claudine, Anna and Lucien's upcoming workshops.” – S. S.
INSPIRE/ASPIRE Workshop
Creative Constructioning with Claudine Naganuma
Saturday, September 12, 2-5 pm – Dance Studio
Somarts Cultural Center, 934 Brannan Street, 2nd Floor, SF $25-$50 sliding scale
This INSPIRE workshop will employ the use of organic forest materials and fabric, journaling and sounding to create phrases that can serve as seeds for new work. Naganuma creates a playful yet safe environment to provide an opportunity to explore sticky subjects. Workshop participants will be encouraged to use their draped and/or sculpted materials to be used as costume, prop and set.
Claudine Naganuma (M.F.A.) is a native San Franciscan who founded her ensemble danceNAGANUMA in 2001. The company is in residence at Danspace, where she serves as Director. She was selected as a Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Hong Kong/San Francisco exchange artist in 1999 and received a Jack Loftis and Vibeke Strand Honorary Fellowship while at the Djerassi Artist in Residence Program. She served as the Artistic Director of Asian American Dance Performances from 1992 to 2004.
Email claudine@dancenaganuma.com for more information. RSVP by September 10 to info@apiculturalcenter.org
More INSPIRE/ASPIRE Workshops presented by APICC
• Saturday, October 24, 2-5 pm, Collage-making – Lucien Kubo - Studio A
We will start with a brief introduction to the technique, with some examples, but the "story" is something inside you the artist! You will bring your memories, found objects, photographs, special mementos to collage/assemblage. Prior to the class, please place aside these items to bring to class. At the workshop, you will be prepared to then create a collage on a canvas or make a "shrine/memory box" (cigar box format).
Ideas: Shrine or collage of a family member, friend, dog, cat, a photographs/ drawing/painting. We will use various papers, new & recycled (origami, comic, newspapers, food wrappers, stamps, tissue & rice papers, even your art work, prints, drawings can be used.) For assemblage add your figurines, 3-D items and various found objects( coins, plastic, ceramic) The collage will be on a 12" x 12" canvas; the assemblage/ shrine boxes will be in a 6" x 8" cigar box. Plan ahead and start collecting now!
Please bring your own scissors, special photographs (you can Xerox originals), figurines, spe cial tokens and special papers and mementoes. Either a Cigar box or canvas (12"x12" ) various adhesives, variety of papers will be provided.
Lucien Kubo has created "narrative" collage and assemblage artwork that have been shown around the Bay Area. Sometime her artwork will question/address issues such as war, immigration, internment, but at other times celebrates culture, one's heritage and joys of life.
If you have any questions, email Lucien at: Lucienk@aol.com, or call (415) 464-8845
• Wednesday, November 18, 6:30-9 pm, Personal Narratives – Flo Oy Wong - Drawing Studio
Come join artist Flo Oy Wong at the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center’s INSPIRE Personal Narratives Workshop. Flo is highly experienced at creating installations about self, family, and community, using images, text, found objects, old suitcases, and other materials to tell her visual stories. She will lead workshop participants in creating transformative artwork based on little-known or unknown personal narratives.
• Saturday, January 16, 1-4 pm, Mandala-making – Flo Oy Wong - Dance Studio
A mandala is a schematic representation of the cosmos consisting of geometric shapes concentrically organized. Come join artist Flo Oy Wong in this workshop of exploration, using food to create a non-permanent mandala. Flo will guide you in a deep breathing practice to access the creative exploration and making of a mandala with rice, tea leaves, wood ear fungus, dried tofu and other foods. Bring your cameras to record the food mandala that you will be creating collaboratively with other workshop participants.
What people have said about the INSPIRE/ASPIRE workshops:
"(Flo), the time we spent together was exactly what I needed. I believe you also helped the other artists open doors and encouraged them in just the right way to walk through. I noticed that I was learning to let things go, bust the envelope, not follow the rules with little guilt and create art that was for me. These are all concepts I work on processing daily, but don't often take the next step creatively. The breathing exercises helped so much..." – P. W.
"Thank you so much for a wonderful afternoon. I haven't felt so relaxed and satisfied in such, if not in too long a time. It was wonderful. Nothing like doing art slowly, lovingly, and with like-minded individuals. It was grand!" - N. W.
“I want to tell you how valuable and important the APICC workshops have been.…The workshops serve the needs of both professional artists and newcomers. I have particularly enjoyed working with people from 8 to 80, many of them new to the arts. It has also been valuable to watch established arts professionals exploring new concepts and media. I'm looking forward to Claudine, Anna and Lucien's upcoming workshops.” – S. S.
Jose F. Lacaba: PILIPINO FOREVER! Or, The Decline And Foreseeable Fall Of English In the Philippines.
PILIPINO FOREVER!Read more.
Or, The Decline And Foreseeable Fall Of English In the Philippines.
by Jose F. Lacaba
Staff Member
Philippines Free Press, August 29, 1970, pp. 6-7
SEVEN YEARS ago, just before I dropped out of college, I liked to annoy some of my friends—intense young writers who dreamt of crashing the New Yorker or the Free Press with labored Nabokov or Nolledo imitations, and who were all under the delusion that they were destined to write what we called the GFN, or the Great Filipino Novel—by telling them they were wasting their time mastering the niceties of English prose, for there was no future in their efforts, posterity would be able to appreciate them only in translation. English in the Philippines was on the way out, I said, and would surely go the way of Spanish. Its days were numbered. I gave it fifty years or less.
Today I am inclined to say “less.” I’m giving English in the Philippines a decade at the most. That’s a fearless forecast based on a concrete analysis of concrete conditions.
Seven years ago, being myself afflicted with the GFN Complex, I wrestled with The Language Problem. In what tongue was I to express my Filipino soul? In what language was I to write the GFN that I thought was struggling to get out of my skin? Part of the reason I became a college dropout—aside from the usual “sensitive adolescent” compound of existential angst, the alienation bit, the crisis-of-faith thing, the complete De Profundis Syndrome—was the conviction I had arrived at, that the language of my GFN could never be English. The characters I wanted to write about were people who spoke no English at all, or spoke it only when drunk. How could I make a jeepney driver curse the cop at the corner in English? I wrote about a housemaid once, and though the story was accepted for publication in this magazine, I thought it was funny to have a maid speak like a Maryknoll coed. None of the attempts made by established writers to render the native speech in English could satisfy me. The narrative portions of stories by the best Filipino writers in English were almost letter-perfect, but dialogue was something else. My ear always told me something was wrong.
Saturday, September 5, 2009
Kundiman - Achiote Press - PAWA Readings 9/17 and 9/19 (Berkeley & SF)
Click on image for more info:
Readers:
Joseph O. Legaspi is the author of Imago (CavanKerry Press), winner of a 2008 Global Filipino Literary Award. Born in the Philippines, he currently resides in Manhattan and works at Columbia University. A graduate of New York University’s Creative Writing Program, recent works appeared in Callaloo, North American Review, Poets & Writers, New York Theater Review, Crab Orchard Review, Gay & Lesbian Review and the anthology Language for a New Century (W.W. Norton). A recipient of a poetry fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts and an Urban Artists grant, he co-founded Kundiman (www.kundiman.org), a non-profit organization serving Asian American poets. Visit him at www.josepholegaspi.com.
Oliver de la Paz is the author of three books of poetry, NAMES ABOVE HOUSES, FURIOUS LULLABY (Southern Illinois University Press), and the forthcoming book REQUIEM FOR THE ORCHARD which was selected by Martin Espada as the winner of the 2009 University of Akron Poetry Prize and will be available in the Spring of 2010. He is a recipient of grants from the Artist Trust of Washington and from the New York Foundation for the Arts. He teaches creative writing at Western Washington University and is the co-chair of the Advisory Board for Kundiman.
Debbie Yee is a trusts and estates attorney, Kundiman fellow, arts enthusiast and crafts explorer. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in 32 Poems, OCHO, Fence and The Best American Poetry 2009. She received her undergraduate and law degrees from UC Berkeley. Debbie blogs irregularly at www.debbieyee.com.
Neil Aitken is the founding editor of Boxcar Poetry Review and the author of The Lost Country of Sight, winner of the 2007 Philip Levine Prize. His poetry has appeared in Crab Orchard Review, The Drunken Boat, Ninth Letter, Sou'wester and many other literary journals. He lives in Los Angeles where he is currently pursuing a PhD in literature and creative writing at the University of Southern California.
Ching-In Chen is the author of The Heart's Traffic and a multi-genre, border-crossing writer. The daughter of Chinese immigrants, she is a Kundiman, Macondo and Lambda Fellow. A community organizer, she has worked in the Asian American communities of San Francisco, Oakland, and Boston. Her work has been recently published in journals such as BorderSenses, Rio Grande Review, Fifth Wednesday Journal, OCHO, Iron Horse Literary Review, Water~Stone Review, Boxcar Poetry Review, Verdad and the anthology Yellow as Turmeric, Fragrant as Cloves. A co-editor of The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Partner Abuse in Activist Communities, forthcoming from South End Press, Ching-In is currently in the process of editing an anthology on gender, militarism and war from the perspective of women and non-gender-conforming people of color. In Riverside, California, Ching-In is a member of the Save Our Chinatown Committee, a grassroots organization focused on the preserving the archaelogical heritage of Riverside Chinatown.
Generous Support from:
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Come & hear beautiful poetry, libate, and mingle with an all-star line up with Kundiman poets, the first time together on the West Coast! This special collaboration with Achiote Press and Kundiman is a special opportunity to fundraise for Kundiman, a dynamic arts organization dedicated to fostering Asian American poetry. As part of their mission, Kundiman provides a retreat for emerging Asian American poets at the University of Virginia every summer. This reading celebrates the publication of “Here is a Pen:” An Anthology of West Coast Kundiman Poets, a chapbook anthology published by Achiote Press, edited by Ching-In Chen, Margaret Rhee, and Debbie Yee. Chapbooks will be available for purchase. All proceeds go to Kundiman.
Come & hear beautiful poetry, libate, and mingle with an all-star line up with Kundiman poets, the first time together on the West Coast! This special collaboration with Achiote Press and Kundiman is a special opportunity to fundraise for Kundiman, a dynamic arts organization dedicated to fostering Asian American poetry. As part of their mission, Kundiman provides a retreat for emerging Asian American poets at the University of Virginia every summer. This reading celebrates the publication of “Here is a Pen:” An Anthology of West Coast Kundiman Poets, a chapbook anthology published by Achiote Press, edited by Ching-In Chen, Margaret Rhee, and Debbie Yee. Chapbooks will be available for purchase. All proceeds go to Kundiman.
We look forward to seeing you!
Where: UC Berkeley at the Barbara T. Christian Room, 554 Barrows Hall
When: Thursday, Sept 17th
Time: 11:30: Chapbook & Book Sale and Light Reception | 12 – 2: ReadingWhere: UC Berkeley at the Barbara T. Christian Room, 554 Barrows Hall
When: Thursday, Sept 17th
Readers:
Joseph O. Legaspi is the author of Imago (CavanKerry Press), winner of a 2008 Global Filipino Literary Award. Born in the Philippines, he currently resides in Manhattan and works at Columbia University. A graduate of New York University’s Creative Writing Program, recent works appeared in Callaloo, North American Review, Poets & Writers, New York Theater Review, Crab Orchard Review, Gay & Lesbian Review and the anthology Language for a New Century (W.W. Norton). A recipient of a poetry fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts and an Urban Artists grant, he co-founded Kundiman (www.kundiman.org), a non-profit organization serving Asian American poets. Visit him at www.josepholegaspi.com.
Oliver de la Paz is the author of three books of poetry, NAMES ABOVE HOUSES, FURIOUS LULLABY (Southern Illinois University Press), and the forthcoming book REQUIEM FOR THE ORCHARD which was selected by Martin Espada as the winner of the 2009 University of Akron Poetry Prize and will be available in the Spring of 2010. He is a recipient of grants from the Artist Trust of Washington and from the New York Foundation for the Arts. He teaches creative writing at Western Washington University and is the co-chair of the Advisory Board for Kundiman.
Debbie Yee is a trusts and estates attorney, Kundiman fellow, arts enthusiast and crafts explorer. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in 32 Poems, OCHO, Fence and The Best American Poetry 2009. She received her undergraduate and law degrees from UC Berkeley. Debbie blogs irregularly at www.debbieyee.com.
Neil Aitken is the founding editor of Boxcar Poetry Review and the author of The Lost Country of Sight, winner of the 2007 Philip Levine Prize. His poetry has appeared in Crab Orchard Review, The Drunken Boat, Ninth Letter, Sou'wester and many other literary journals. He lives in Los Angeles where he is currently pursuing a PhD in literature and creative writing at the University of Southern California.
Ching-In Chen is the author of The Heart's Traffic and a multi-genre, border-crossing writer. The daughter of Chinese immigrants, she is a Kundiman, Macondo and Lambda Fellow. A community organizer, she has worked in the Asian American communities of San Francisco, Oakland, and Boston. Her work has been recently published in journals such as BorderSenses, Rio Grande Review, Fifth Wednesday Journal, OCHO, Iron Horse Literary Review, Water~Stone Review, Boxcar Poetry Review, Verdad and the anthology Yellow as Turmeric, Fragrant as Cloves. A co-editor of The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Partner Abuse in Activist Communities, forthcoming from South End Press, Ching-In is currently in the process of editing an anthology on gender, militarism and war from the perspective of women and non-gender-conforming people of color. In Riverside, California, Ching-In is a member of the Save Our Chinatown Committee, a grassroots organization focused on the preserving the archaelogical heritage of Riverside Chinatown.
Generous Support from:
Achiote Press
UC Berkeley, Asian American Studies Program
UC Berkeley, Asian Pacific Islander Working Group
Donations for Kundiman gratefully accepted.
For more information, please visit:
Kundiman: http://www.kundiman.org/ index.html’
Achiote Press: www.achiotepress.com.
PAWA: http://pawainc.blogspot.com/ 2009/09/pawa-arkipelago-reading-series-saturday.html
UC Berkeley, Asian American Studies Program
UC Berkeley, Asian Pacific Islander Working Group
Donations for Kundiman gratefully accepted.
For more information, please visit:
Kundiman: http://www.
Achiote Press: www.achiotepress.com.
PAWA: http://pawainc.blogspot.
Questions? Please email: kundimanwest@gmail.com
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Please join us for the next reading in the PAWA Arkipelago Reading Series
Where: The Bayanihan Center 1010 Mission Street @ 6th Street, San Francisco
When: Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Who: Oliver de la Paz, Joseph O. Legaspi, Mari L'Esperance, and Theresa Calpotura (guitar).
* Both readings are free and open to the public.
* Special book raffle drawing opportunity for those who go to both UC Berkeley and PAWA readings!
Where: The Bayanihan Center 1010 Mission Street @ 6th Street, San Francisco
When: Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Who: Oliver de la Paz, Joseph O. Legaspi, Mari L'Esperance, and Theresa Calpotura (guitar).
* Both readings are free and open to the public.
* Special book raffle drawing opportunity for those who go to both UC Berkeley and PAWA readings!
Babaylan Conference of 2010: CALL FOR PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS
*CALL FOR PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS*
Please email in word doc form to admin@babaylan.net
Center for Babaylan Studies
*Babaylan Conference of 2010*
April 17 – 18, 2010
Sonoma State University
Rohnert Park CA
http://www.babaylan.net/callforpapers.html
Deadline for Abstracts: Nov. 15
Notification of Acceptance: Jan 30
RATIONALE AND VISION: We believe in the power of the Indigenous Soul and the Indigenous World View, as embodied by primary/land-based babaylans in the Philippines and contemporary babaylan/culture-bearers in the Philippines and in the diaspora, to provide a narrative that restores a sense of wholeness, beauty, and integrity to our pagka-Pilipino. In a world that aches for peace, justice, and healing from the violent effects of colonial and imperial histories, our Babaylan and our indigenous knowledge systems and practices (IKSP) offer a path to re-membering and remembering the sacredness, strength, beauty, and the creativity of our Filipino Loob.Those who have done the deep work of reconnecting with the spirit of the Babaylan would like to share this experience with our communities. We would like to reflect together and celebrate this wealth from our spiritual and cultural heritage so that it might nourish and nurture the work that we do to heal and bless, to make peace, to create justice, to teach our kin and communities the values of Kapwa, Kagandahang Loob, Pakikiramdam, and Panagtagbo.
*CALL TO PRESENTERS: *
If you are a scholar/educator, artist (visual, literary, performance), culture-bearer/advocate/activist and if you deem that your work is Babaylan-inspired and Babaylan-informed, please submit a 250-500 word abstract describing the content of your paper and a paragraph about how you think it fits into the conference themes mentioned above. If you are an artist and would rather submit a video sample of your work, please do so but also include a 250-500 word abstract of your presentation and how it fits into the conference themes.
*There will be two tracks to the Conference/Gathering:*
*Main track: *
Key resources from the Philippines on Babaylan and Kapwa Psychology (Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Practices)
*Bridging track: *
How the Babaylan practice is appropriated in the U.S. by those in search of a Filipino practice that is all at once spiritual, creative, and politically and socially conscious. Areas: Arts, Spiritual Communities, Academic research, Craftmaking, Education, Cultural Activism, Political Activism, Social Justice
If you are a scholar/educator, artist (visual, literary, performance), culture-bearer/advocate/activist, and if you deem that your work is Babaylan-inspired and Babaylan-informed, and would like to present your work at the conference, please see below:
For Paper Presentation, please submit a 250-500 word abstract describing the content of your paper and explain how you think it fits into the conference themes. Paper presentations are usually 20minutes each and if you are submitting individually, we may assign you to an appropriate panel with a moderator.
For Creative Work presentation, e.g. film, video, visual art, performance, please submit a 250-500 word proposal of your presentation and how it fits into the conference themes. You may also submit a sample of your work, if you like.
For Workshops on a specific topic relevant to the conference themes, please specify the number of hours you require for the workshop and/or if you are team-teaching. Workshop blocks of 2-4 hours will be allocated.
For Panel presentation, please submit the names of the members of the panel, the title and 250-500 word abstract for each presentations, and the name of the panel moderator.
For all of the above, please include:
1. One paragraph bio for each presenter including moderators.
2. Equipment that you will need for your presentation.
*Deadline for Abstracts: Nov. 15
Notification of Acceptance: Jan 30*
Please email in word doc form to admin@babaylan.net
Center for Babaylan Studies
*Babaylan Conference of 2010*
April 17 – 18, 2010
Sonoma State University
Rohnert Park CA
http://www.babaylan.net/
Deadline for Abstracts: Nov. 15
Notification of Acceptance: Jan 30
RATIONALE AND VISION: We believe in the power of the Indigenous Soul and the Indigenous World View, as embodied by primary/land-based babaylans in the Philippines and contemporary babaylan/culture-bearers in the Philippines and in the diaspora, to provide a narrative that restores a sense of wholeness, beauty, and integrity to our pagka-Pilipino. In a world that aches for peace, justice, and healing from the violent effects of colonial and imperial histories, our Babaylan and our indigenous knowledge systems and practices (IKSP) offer a path to re-membering and remembering the sacredness, strength, beauty, and the creativity of our Filipino Loob.Those who have done the deep work of reconnecting with the spirit of the Babaylan would like to share this experience with our communities. We would like to reflect together and celebrate this wealth from our spiritual and cultural heritage so that it might nourish and nurture the work that we do to heal and bless, to make peace, to create justice, to teach our kin and communities the values of Kapwa, Kagandahang Loob, Pakikiramdam, and Panagtagbo.
*CALL TO PRESENTERS: *
If you are a scholar/educator, artist (visual, literary, performance), culture-bearer/advocate/
*There will be two tracks to the Conference/Gathering:*
*Main track: *
Key resources from the Philippines on Babaylan and Kapwa Psychology (Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Practices)
*Bridging track: *
How the Babaylan practice is appropriated in the U.S. by those in search of a Filipino practice that is all at once spiritual, creative, and politically and socially conscious. Areas: Arts, Spiritual Communities, Academic research, Craftmaking, Education, Cultural Activism, Political Activism, Social Justice
If you are a scholar/educator, artist (visual, literary, performance), culture-bearer/advocate/
For Paper Presentation, please submit a 250-500 word abstract describing the content of your paper and explain how you think it fits into the conference themes. Paper presentations are usually 20minutes each and if you are submitting individually, we may assign you to an appropriate panel with a moderator.
For Creative Work presentation, e.g. film, video, visual art, performance, please submit a 250-500 word proposal of your presentation and how it fits into the conference themes. You may also submit a sample of your work, if you like.
For Workshops on a specific topic relevant to the conference themes, please specify the number of hours you require for the workshop and/or if you are team-teaching. Workshop blocks of 2-4 hours will be allocated.
For Panel presentation, please submit the names of the members of the panel, the title and 250-500 word abstract for each presentations, and the name of the panel moderator.
For all of the above, please include:
1. One paragraph bio for each presenter including moderators.
2. Equipment that you will need for your presentation.
*Deadline for Abstracts: Nov. 15
Notification of Acceptance: Jan 30*
Randall Mann, John Casteen, and Will Dowd: 09/17/09 @ Chin Music (NY)
Chin Music: The Pacific Standard Poetry Reading Series
Featuring Randall Mann, John Casteen, and Will Dowd
Thursday, September 17th 2009 @ 7:00 PM
Pacific Standard Bar
82 Fourth Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
(between St. Marks and Bergen Streets)
Please join us for opening night of Chin Music’s Autumn/Winter 2009 season. On September 17th, we are excited to feature three fine poets: Randall Mann, John Casteen, and Will Dowd.
Featuring Randall Mann, John Casteen, and Will Dowd
Thursday, September 17th 2009 @ 7:00 PM
Pacific Standard Bar
82 Fourth Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
(between St. Marks and Bergen Streets)
Please join us for opening night of Chin Music’s Autumn/Winter 2009 season. On September 17th, we are excited to feature three fine poets: Randall Mann, John Casteen, and Will Dowd.
Friday, September 4, 2009
Joseph O. Legaspi @ readwritepoem
“I want to create a narrative of the self. I believe every life is worth mythologizing.”
read write prompt #91: the self as memory, or vice versa, by celebrity guest poet joseph o. legaspi
read write prompt #91: the self as memory, or vice versa, by celebrity guest poet joseph o. legaspi
A "micro-review" of Randall Mann
Despite the title, it's less the late poet Thom Gunn who haunts these pages than the same old unknowable gods - love, fate, and lust among them - of which Gunn wrote so beautifully. So does Mann; this, his second book, is set in gay social scenes in Florida and California.--Dave Lucas
Thursday, September 3, 2009
American Poetry Review
New poems by Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Patrick Rosal can be found in the September/October 2009 issue of the American Poetry Review here.
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Luis Francia's The Strange Case of Citizen del la Cruz 09/05 (SF)
Bindlestiff Studios (San Francisco, CA)
The Strange Case of Citizen del la Cruz
a new play by Luis H. Francia
Saturday, Sept 5 at 2 pm
Koret Auditorium, SF Main Public Library
Bindlestiff Studio in partnership with the Filipino Center of the San Francisco Main Public Library and Arkipelago Books is excited to present this staged reading.
A plague seems to be affecting the virile young men of a police state, and a patriot can’t figure out if he ought to be a lover or a warrior. Is his bedroom the nation in microcosm? And why does he get turned on by the flag? Shrinks, spies, and betrayals figure in The Strange Case of Citizen de la Cruz. In this absurdist tale Bayani de la Cruz, civil servant extraordinaire, turns uncivil by deciding to live up to his name—and regain his manhood.
Bindlestiff Studio in collaboration with The Filipino Center of the SF Main Library and Arkipelago Books presents a full-staged reading of this new play by celebrated Filipino American author, Luis H. Francia. This event is FREE.
JUST CONFIRMED: Luis H. Francia will be in attendance!
Saturday, Sept 5 at 1pm
Koret Auditorium
San Francisco Main Public Library
100 Larkin St. @ Grove St.
near Civic Center BART
Directed by Allan S. Manalo
Featuring Apollo Madayag, Esperanza Catubig, Jamie Nallas, Franz Judis and more....
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Luis H. Francia is a New York-based poet, nonfiction writer, journalist, and playwright. His poetry collections include Museum of Absences and The Arctic Archipelago and Other Poems. His semiautobiographical Eye of the Fish: A Personal Archipelago (2001) won both the 2002 PEN Center Open Book and the 2002 Asian American Writers literary awards. He is the editor of Brown River, White Ocean: An Anthology of Twentieth Century Philippine Literature in English, and co-editor of Fiippin’: Filipinos on America, and Vestiges of War: The Philippine-American War and the Aftermath of an Imperial Dream, 1899-1999. He is included in the Library of America anthology of immigrant writing, due out in late 2009. Among the works he has written for the stage are a poetry theater piece, The Beauty of Ghosts, which premiered at New York’s Topaz Arts in 2007, and The Strange Case of Citizen de la Cruz, his first full-length play. He teaches at New York University’s Asian/Pacific/American Studies program.
The Strange Case of Citizen del la Cruz
a new play by Luis H. Francia
Saturday, Sept 5 at 2 pm
Koret Auditorium, SF Main Public Library
Bindlestiff Studio in partnership with the Filipino Center of the San Francisco Main Public Library and Arkipelago Books is excited to present this staged reading.
A plague seems to be affecting the virile young men of a police state, and a patriot can’t figure out if he ought to be a lover or a warrior. Is his bedroom the nation in microcosm? And why does he get turned on by the flag? Shrinks, spies, and betrayals figure in The Strange Case of Citizen de la Cruz. In this absurdist tale Bayani de la Cruz, civil servant extraordinaire, turns uncivil by deciding to live up to his name—and regain his manhood.
Bindlestiff Studio in collaboration with The Filipino Center of the SF Main Library and Arkipelago Books presents a full-staged reading of this new play by celebrated Filipino American author, Luis H. Francia. This event is FREE.
JUST CONFIRMED: Luis H. Francia will be in attendance!
Saturday, Sept 5 at 1pm
Koret Auditorium
San Francisco Main Public Library
100 Larkin St. @ Grove St.
near Civic Center BART
Directed by Allan S. Manalo
Featuring Apollo Madayag, Esperanza Catubig, Jamie Nallas, Franz Judis and more....
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Luis H. Francia is a New York-based poet, nonfiction writer, journalist, and playwright. His poetry collections include Museum of Absences and The Arctic Archipelago and Other Poems. His semiautobiographical Eye of the Fish: A Personal Archipelago (2001) won both the 2002 PEN Center Open Book and the 2002 Asian American Writers literary awards. He is the editor of Brown River, White Ocean: An Anthology of Twentieth Century Philippine Literature in English, and co-editor of Fiippin’: Filipinos on America, and Vestiges of War: The Philippine-American War and the Aftermath of an Imperial Dream, 1899-1999. He is included in the Library of America anthology of immigrant writing, due out in late 2009. Among the works he has written for the stage are a poetry theater piece, The Beauty of Ghosts, which premiered at New York’s Topaz Arts in 2007, and The Strange Case of Citizen de la Cruz, his first full-length play. He teaches at New York University’s Asian/Pacific/American Studies program.
PAWA Arkipelago Reading Series: Saturday September 19 at 2 pm
Please join us for the next reading in the PAWA Arkipelago Reading Series
Where: The Bayanihan Center 1010 Mission Street @ 6th Street, San Francisco
When: Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Who: Oliver de la Paz, Joseph O. Legaspi, Mari L'Esperance, and Theresa Calpotura (guitar).
This event is free and open to the public!
Theresa Calpotura has won a number of awards from associations such as the National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts and the American String Teachers Association, and has received scholarships from the Oberlin Conservatory and the Yale School of Music. Ms. Calpotura studied with the renown guitar pedagogue Scott Cmiel of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory where she studied with guitarist Stephen Aron. She then continued at the Yale School of Music with guitarist and composer Benjamin Verdery. Ms. Calpotura has given concerts and masterclasses in the US and in the Philippines.
Oliver de la Paz is the author of three books of poetry: Names Above Houses and Furious Lullaby (Southern Illinois University Press), and Requiem for the Orchard, a winner of the 2009 University of Akron Poetry Prize which will be available in the Spring of 2010. He is the co-chair of the advisory board for Kundiman, and he is a recipient of grants from the Artist Trust of Washington and the New York Foundation for the Arts. He teaches at Western Washington University.
Joseph O. Legaspi is the author of Imago (CavanKerry Press), winner of a 2008 Global Filipino Literary Award. Born in the Philippines, he currently resides in Manhattan and works at Columbia University. A graduate of New York University’s Creative Writing Program, recent works appeared in Callaloo, North American Review, Poets & Writers, New York Theater Review, Crab Orchard Review, Gay & Lesbian Review and the anthology Language for a New Century (W.W. Norton). A recipient of a poetry fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts and an Urban Artists grant, he co-founded Kundiman (www.kundiman.org), a non-profit organization serving Asian American poets. Visit him at www.josepholegaspi.com.
Mari L’Esperance’s first full-length collection The Darkened Temple was awarded the 2007 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry and published by University of Nebraska Press in September 2008. An earlier collection Begin Here was awarded the 1999 Sarasota Poetry Theatre Press Chapbook Prize and published in 2000. L’Esperance’s work has appeared in several literary journals, including the Beloit Poetry Journal, Many Mountains Moving, Poetry Kanto, and Salamander; in Writing the Life Poetic: An Invitation to Read and Write Poetry by Sage Cohen (Writer’s Digest Books); and is forthcoming in the anthology When the Muse Calls: Poems for the Creative Life, edited by Kathryn Ridall.
Where: The Bayanihan Center 1010 Mission Street @ 6th Street, San Francisco
When: Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Who: Oliver de la Paz, Joseph O. Legaspi, Mari L'Esperance, and Theresa Calpotura (guitar).
This event is free and open to the public!
Theresa Calpotura has won a number of awards from associations such as the National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts and the American String Teachers Association, and has received scholarships from the Oberlin Conservatory and the Yale School of Music. Ms. Calpotura studied with the renown guitar pedagogue Scott Cmiel of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory where she studied with guitarist Stephen Aron. She then continued at the Yale School of Music with guitarist and composer Benjamin Verdery. Ms. Calpotura has given concerts and masterclasses in the US and in the Philippines.
Oliver de la Paz is the author of three books of poetry: Names Above Houses and Furious Lullaby (Southern Illinois University Press), and Requiem for the Orchard, a winner of the 2009 University of Akron Poetry Prize which will be available in the Spring of 2010. He is the co-chair of the advisory board for Kundiman, and he is a recipient of grants from the Artist Trust of Washington and the New York Foundation for the Arts. He teaches at Western Washington University.
Joseph O. Legaspi is the author of Imago (CavanKerry Press), winner of a 2008 Global Filipino Literary Award. Born in the Philippines, he currently resides in Manhattan and works at Columbia University. A graduate of New York University’s Creative Writing Program, recent works appeared in Callaloo, North American Review, Poets & Writers, New York Theater Review, Crab Orchard Review, Gay & Lesbian Review and the anthology Language for a New Century (W.W. Norton). A recipient of a poetry fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts and an Urban Artists grant, he co-founded Kundiman (www.kundiman.org), a non-profit organization serving Asian American poets. Visit him at www.josepholegaspi.com.
Mari L’Esperance’s first full-length collection The Darkened Temple was awarded the 2007 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry and published by University of Nebraska Press in September 2008. An earlier collection Begin Here was awarded the 1999 Sarasota Poetry Theatre Press Chapbook Prize and published in 2000. L’Esperance’s work has appeared in several literary journals, including the Beloit Poetry Journal, Many Mountains Moving, Poetry Kanto, and Salamander; in Writing the Life Poetic: An Invitation to Read and Write Poetry by Sage Cohen (Writer’s Digest Books); and is forthcoming in the anthology When the Muse Calls: Poems for the Creative Life, edited by Kathryn Ridall.
Call for Submissions from Writers of Color: Mythium Literary Magazine
MYTHIUM: A Journal of Contemporary Literature Celebrating Writers of Color and the Cultural Voice SEEKS POETRY, FICTION, AND CREATIVE NONFICTION SUBMISSIONS FOR SPRING 2010 ISSUE
Submissions should be sent via snail mail to:
Poetry or Fiction/CNF Editor
Mythium Literary Journal
1428 N. Forbes Rd
Lexington, Ky 40511
Address manuscripts appropriately with attn: poetry editor for poetry submissions or attn: fiction editor for fiction/CNF manuscripts.
Emailed submissions are now being accepted as doc/text files only.
Do not send manuscripts or poems in the body of your email.
Mail all electronic poetry submissions to poetry@mythiumlitmag.com
Mail all electronic fiction/creative non-fiction submissions to fiction@mythiumlitmag.com
Please expect 2 to 3 months, at least, for the evaluation of your manuscript; notification will be emailed to you when the reviewing process is complete.
Direct all other questions/non-submissions to editor@mythiumlitmag.com
http://mythiumlitmag.com
- All submissions should be original, unpublished work.
- Manuscripts must be typed or printed in proper format on white paper, in English, one side only, double-spaced for prose. Cover letters should be brief.
- Fiction and creative nonfiction manuscripts must be limited to 5,000 words. Novel and memoir excerpts are acceptable.
- Poetry submissions will be limited to up to five poems, twenty pages total.
- Simultaneous submissions are acceptable. Please notify us immediately if something has been accepted elsewhere.
- Entrants may submit only one submission per category until you have been notified of acceptance or non-acceptance of submitted material.
- Please note genre of your submission in the cover letter (fiction, poetry or CNF).
- Please include a SASE for results. Manuscripts will be recycled and will not be returned.
- Payment is in two copies of the issue in which the author's work appears.
Submissions should be sent via snail mail to:
Poetry or Fiction/CNF Editor
Mythium Literary Journal
1428 N. Forbes Rd
Lexington, Ky 40511
Address manuscripts appropriately with attn: poetry editor for poetry submissions or attn: fiction editor for fiction/CNF manuscripts.
Emailed submissions are now being accepted as doc/text files only.
Do not send manuscripts or poems in the body of your email.
Mail all electronic poetry submissions to poetry@mythiumlitmag.com
Mail all electronic fiction/creative non-fiction submissions to fiction@mythiumlitmag.com
Please expect 2 to 3 months, at least, for the evaluation of your manuscript; notification will be emailed to you when the reviewing process is complete.
Direct all other questions/non-submissions to editor@mythiumlitmag.com
http://mythiumlitmag.com
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