Kundiman Asian American Poetry Retreat
June 22 - 27, 2010
Fordham University, Rose Hill Campus, New York City
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Experimental Hip Hop Theater.....: "UNIVERSAL FILIPINO" - PRESS RELEASE
Experimental Hip Hop Theater.....: "UNIVERSAL FILIPINO" - PRESS RELEASE
World Premiere of a Solo Hip Hop Theater Production, “UNIVERSAL FILIPINO” Written and Performed by Jeremy Tagle Bautista aka KILUSAN………March 2010
In March of 2010, at different locations throughout New York City, you are cordially invited to experience the world premiere solo Hip Hop Theater Production entitled, “UNIVERSAL FILIPINO”. Written and performed by Jeremy Tagle Bautista aka KILUSAN, a Bay Area, CA raised and New York City based performance artist.
“UNIVERSAL FILIPINO” cultivates the artistic aesthetics of Hip Hop Theater, Spoken Word Poetry, Emceeing and Interpretive Movement to offer a creative and cutting edge presentation. There is a battle underway deep within our minds and souls. “UNIVERSAL FILIPINO” is a new solo Hip Hop Theater production that brings to life the internal battles for Americanized children of immigrant parents. During his youth, Kilusan is haunted by a historic hater who wishes to destroy his self-esteem by influencing him into a helpless, violent and psychologically troubled state of existence. Malakas is an ancestral guardian spirit who exists to guide Kilusan in remembering his true self worth and connection to his people. It is now up to Kilusan to make the right choices as a youth of color in urban, working class America. Shall he fall victim to the statistics of growing up in a “high risk” environment, polluted with drugs, violence and crime? Or shall Kilusan find his Destiny and live a life that possesses knowledge of self?
Set within the 1980’s and 1990’s, Bay Area, CA, “UNIVERSAL FILIPINO” will take audiences on a journey of struggle and redemption. The challenge for youth of color in America is not just black and white. The stories for Americanized, so called “2nd generation”, children of immigrant parents are continuing to surface as a reminder of the need to balance, validate and make sense of all the cultural world’s represented in one’s identity.
Are you ready to experience a thought provoking, ‘Edu-tainment’ reality that brings you closer to the universal family living room?
Jeremy Tagle Bautista aka KILUSAN received his Bachelor of Arts degree in American Studies from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 2002. He has toured nationally with artist collectives such as 8th Wonder, Colored Ink and as a solo performance artist. For over 3 years, Jeremy taught Hip Hop Theater classes with Destiny Arts Center in Oakland and at the Walden House, a Young Women’s Foster Care Facility in San Francisco. He represents a national violence prevention organization known as the United Playaz, where Jeremy uses arts education and community organizing to support disenfranchised communities. He currently teaches a Pre-GED class for young adults with the Brooklyn Public Library to improve literacy skills in New York City.
For more information please call 347/499-0554 or email: kilusan1898@yahoo.com
World Premiere of a Solo Hip Hop Theater Production, “UNIVERSAL FILIPINO” Written and Performed by Jeremy Tagle Bautista aka KILUSAN………March 2010
In March of 2010, at different locations throughout New York City, you are cordially invited to experience the world premiere solo Hip Hop Theater Production entitled, “UNIVERSAL FILIPINO”. Written and performed by Jeremy Tagle Bautista aka KILUSAN, a Bay Area, CA raised and New York City based performance artist.
“UNIVERSAL FILIPINO” cultivates the artistic aesthetics of Hip Hop Theater, Spoken Word Poetry, Emceeing and Interpretive Movement to offer a creative and cutting edge presentation. There is a battle underway deep within our minds and souls. “UNIVERSAL FILIPINO” is a new solo Hip Hop Theater production that brings to life the internal battles for Americanized children of immigrant parents. During his youth, Kilusan is haunted by a historic hater who wishes to destroy his self-esteem by influencing him into a helpless, violent and psychologically troubled state of existence. Malakas is an ancestral guardian spirit who exists to guide Kilusan in remembering his true self worth and connection to his people. It is now up to Kilusan to make the right choices as a youth of color in urban, working class America. Shall he fall victim to the statistics of growing up in a “high risk” environment, polluted with drugs, violence and crime? Or shall Kilusan find his Destiny and live a life that possesses knowledge of self?
Set within the 1980’s and 1990’s, Bay Area, CA, “UNIVERSAL FILIPINO” will take audiences on a journey of struggle and redemption. The challenge for youth of color in America is not just black and white. The stories for Americanized, so called “2nd generation”, children of immigrant parents are continuing to surface as a reminder of the need to balance, validate and make sense of all the cultural world’s represented in one’s identity.
Are you ready to experience a thought provoking, ‘Edu-tainment’ reality that brings you closer to the universal family living room?
Jeremy Tagle Bautista aka KILUSAN received his Bachelor of Arts degree in American Studies from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 2002. He has toured nationally with artist collectives such as 8th Wonder, Colored Ink and as a solo performance artist. For over 3 years, Jeremy taught Hip Hop Theater classes with Destiny Arts Center in Oakland and at the Walden House, a Young Women’s Foster Care Facility in San Francisco. He represents a national violence prevention organization known as the United Playaz, where Jeremy uses arts education and community organizing to support disenfranchised communities. He currently teaches a Pre-GED class for young adults with the Brooklyn Public Library to improve literacy skills in New York City.
For more information please call 347/499-0554 or email: kilusan1898@yahoo.com
Asian CineVision: Call for Entries 33rd Asian American International Film Festival
33rd Asian American International Film Festival
July 15 - 24, 2010
Submit your film to the first and longest running festival to recognize the works of Asian and Asian American media makers. The 33rd Asian American International Film Festival (AAIFF10) is now accepting submissions in the following categories.
Final Deadline (postmarked): Feb. 24, 2010
(click here for submission details)
July 15 - 24, 2010
Submit your film to the first and longest running festival to recognize the works of Asian and Asian American media makers. The 33rd Asian American International Film Festival (AAIFF10) is now accepting submissions in the following categories.
- Narrative Features
- Documentary Features
- Short Films
- Music Video
- Screenplays
- Works-In-Progress
- Youth Films (by filmmakers under 20)
Final Deadline (postmarked): Feb. 24, 2010
(click here for submission details)
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
First Bindlehall of 2010!
First Bindlehall of 2010! - Bindlestiff Studio
Time: January 27, 2010 from 6:30pm to 7:30pm
Location: Bindlestiff Office in the Mint Mall
Street: 953 Mission Street #30
City/Town: San Francisco
Phone: (415) 255-0440
Read more.
Time: January 27, 2010 from 6:30pm to 7:30pm
Location: Bindlestiff Office in the Mint Mall
Street: 953 Mission Street #30
City/Town: San Francisco
Phone: (415) 255-0440
Read more.
From KSW: Visual Overture Magazine Opportunity for Emerging Artists
Visual Overture Magazine Opportunity for Emerging Artist
Opportunity for Emerging Artists
Visual Overture Magazine introduces emerging artists to galleries, curators, and collectors. We are now seeking submissions for the Summer 2010 edition. International emerging artists of any field are invited to apply. Juror, Kathy Stockman, will select 7 artists for feature in publication. Selected artists are presented on two pages of magazine and receive 3 complimentary copies of issue in which they are featured. This is an excellent opportunity for under-represented artists to connect with galleries, curators, and collectors!
Accepted Genres: Sculpture, Metals, Textiles, Photography, Mixed media, Painting, Drawing, Video art, Digital art, Printmaking, and Installations
Deadline: April 1, 2010
Online Application: www.visualoverture.com/artists.htm
Opportunity for Emerging Artists
Visual Overture Magazine introduces emerging artists to galleries, curators, and collectors. We are now seeking submissions for the Summer 2010 edition. International emerging artists of any field are invited to apply. Juror, Kathy Stockman, will select 7 artists for feature in publication. Selected artists are presented on two pages of magazine and receive 3 complimentary copies of issue in which they are featured. This is an excellent opportunity for under-represented artists to connect with galleries, curators, and collectors!
Accepted Genres: Sculpture, Metals, Textiles, Photography, Mixed media, Painting, Drawing, Video art, Digital art, Printmaking, and Installations
Deadline: April 1, 2010
Online Application: www.visualoverture.com/artists.htm
City Soulo at Off-Market Theaters
City Soulo
Opens January 17 - 31
Sundays @ 7pm - $20
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/95164 or 800-838-3006.
Off-Market Theaters is proud to kick off its Solo @ Off-Market 2010 line-up with an all new featuring a culturally diverse collection of the finest solo artists in the Bay Area performing excerpts from their own full length shows in City Soulo, Sunday evenings at 7:00pm, January 17 – 31, at the Off-Market Theaters, 965 Mission St. Tickets are $20 at the door and online at www.brownpapertickets.com. (PLEASE NOTE: City Soulo is weekly, but line-up of performers will change each month)
Read more.
Opens January 17 - 31
Sundays @ 7pm - $20
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/95164 or 800-838-3006.
Off-Market Theaters is proud to kick off its Solo @ Off-Market 2010 line-up with an all new featuring a culturally diverse collection of the finest solo artists in the Bay Area performing excerpts from their own full length shows in City Soulo, Sunday evenings at 7:00pm, January 17 – 31, at the Off-Market Theaters, 965 Mission St. Tickets are $20 at the door and online at www.brownpapertickets.com. (PLEASE NOTE: City Soulo is weekly, but line-up of performers will change each month)
Read more.
Monday, January 25, 2010
Sunday, January 24, 2010
7th annual Intergenerational Writers Lab
From KSW:
Applications are now available for the 2010 Intergenerational Writers Lab (IWL)
A program of Kearny Street Workshop, Intersection for the Arts and AMATE: Women Painting Stories with Ben Fong-Torres, Lorna Dee Cervantes and Leticia Hernandez
A unique program with three of SF’s community-based interdisciplinary arts organizations designed to thoroughly explore and develop your writing. Accepted applicants will participate in eight workshops led by accomplished writers and artists, engage in and be inspired by other artistic genres, perform their work at a public event, be published in online anthology, and have the opportunity to develop a communal network of writing peers.
Click here to download the application.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: RECEIVED BY 5PM, FEBRUARY 19, 2010.
NOT A POSTMARK DEADLINE. PHYSICAL APPLICATIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BY 5PM on 2/19/2010.
Read more.
Applications are now available for the 2010 Intergenerational Writers Lab (IWL)
A program of Kearny Street Workshop, Intersection for the Arts and AMATE: Women Painting Stories with Ben Fong-Torres, Lorna Dee Cervantes and Leticia Hernandez
A unique program with three of SF’s community-based interdisciplinary arts organizations designed to thoroughly explore and develop your writing. Accepted applicants will participate in eight workshops led by accomplished writers and artists, engage in and be inspired by other artistic genres, perform their work at a public event, be published in online anthology, and have the opportunity to develop a communal network of writing peers.
Click here to download the application.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: RECEIVED BY 5PM, FEBRUARY 19, 2010.
NOT A POSTMARK DEADLINE. PHYSICAL APPLICATIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BY 5PM on 2/19/2010.
Read more.
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Friday, January 22, 2010
How a Poem Happens: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Do you remember who you were reading when you wrote this poem? Any influences you’d care to disclose?
Confession: I almost never read poetry when I am writing poetry. At the time I was savoring all of Diane Ackerman’s Natural History books and probably reading a Margaret Atwood novel of some sort. Almost certainly reading a bird guide or three. I read poetry on days when I don’t plan on writing, especially when I travel. So poetry is always with me when I write, just not directly in front of me.
Read more.
Confession: I almost never read poetry when I am writing poetry. At the time I was savoring all of Diane Ackerman’s Natural History books and probably reading a Margaret Atwood novel of some sort. Almost certainly reading a bird guide or three. I read poetry on days when I don’t plan on writing, especially when I travel. So poetry is always with me when I write, just not directly in front of me.
Read more.
Rocky Rivera: Save the Date: February 3rd @ MILK SF
Thursday, January 21, 2010
fabric8: call for submissions
fabric8: call for submissions
This April we will be having our first juried show, called SuperNatural and themed around fauna, flora, and nature-related things + beyond. If you or someone you know would be ideal for this show, please consider submitting artwork.
See the fabric8 blog for more info.
This April we will be having our first juried show, called SuperNatural and themed around fauna, flora, and nature-related things + beyond. If you or someone you know would be ideal for this show, please consider submitting artwork.
See the fabric8 blog for more info.
Sasha Pimentel Chacón: Insides She Swallowed
Now available from West End Press:
Insides She Swallowed by Sasha Pimentel Chacón
A pomengranate
is opened like this:
gutted like a fish,
its entrails glow.
Spill out the millions
of seeds who crouch
and hurt like your mother—
Suck them dry
and your tongue
will grow small
as you learn to shrink
before children, waving your hands
before their glossy eyes.
This is the taste
of memory, sweet pluck of
death. Later, teach them
to eat as you have, the broken
fruit flesh of your own
body, its hard growths tart
in your mouth, nervous and rising.
— “Learning to Eat”
Passionate and sensuous, these poems address both the mind and body of the reader.
A verbal magician, a show-stopping performer, the author educates, stimulates and moves us, through her realization and empowerment of images.
Her love of family, familiarity with death, sexualization of everyday life, politics of liberation—these themes are transformed before our eyes into kindling and fed to a flame of such intensity as is rarely found in contemporary poetry.
6 x 9 inches • 80 pages • ISBN 978-0-9816693-8-0 • $13.95
Insides She Swallowed by Sasha Pimentel ChacónA pomengranate
is opened like this:
gutted like a fish,
its entrails glow.
Spill out the millions
of seeds who crouch
and hurt like your mother—
Suck them dry
and your tongue
will grow small
as you learn to shrink
before children, waving your hands
before their glossy eyes.
This is the taste
of memory, sweet pluck of
death. Later, teach them
to eat as you have, the broken
fruit flesh of your own
body, its hard growths tart
in your mouth, nervous and rising.
— “Learning to Eat”
Passionate and sensuous, these poems address both the mind and body of the reader.
A verbal magician, a show-stopping performer, the author educates, stimulates and moves us, through her realization and empowerment of images.
Her love of family, familiarity with death, sexualization of everyday life, politics of liberation—these themes are transformed before our eyes into kindling and fed to a flame of such intensity as is rarely found in contemporary poetry.
6 x 9 inches • 80 pages • ISBN 978-0-9816693-8-0 • $13.95
call for submissions: Mandala Journal
Mandala Journal celebrates diversity by publishing diverse voices, experiences, and aesthetics.
2010 Theme: Cosmopolitanism
Call for submissions: previously unpublished and original poetry, nonfiction, fiction, and art for its first online issue to be published in late spring 2010.
GUIDELINES
1) 3-5 poems or up to 2500 words of prose, attached as an MSWord .doc w/ "[Genre] Submission: [your name]" as the subject (for example, Poetry Submission: Gwendolyn Brooks) or art, attached as a .jpg file w/ "Art Submission: [your name]" as the subject (for example, Art Submission: Basquiat)
2) in the body of your email, include: name of your attachment, name of your work, your contact info., and a brief bio.
3) do not include your name on the work in your attachment.
4) send your submission to mandala.journal@gmail.com.
5) no more than one submission per genre per reading period.
Email Deadline: 11:59 p.m., February 15, 2010
Mandala Journal is an online student-run multicultural journal for poets, writers, artists, and thinkers published by the Institute for African American Studies at The University of Georgia.
2010 Theme: Cosmopolitanism
Call for submissions: previously unpublished and original poetry, nonfiction, fiction, and art for its first online issue to be published in late spring 2010.
GUIDELINES
1) 3-5 poems or up to 2500 words of prose, attached as an MSWord .doc w/ "[Genre] Submission: [your name]" as the subject (for example, Poetry Submission: Gwendolyn Brooks) or art, attached as a .jpg file w/ "Art Submission: [your name]" as the subject (for example, Art Submission: Basquiat)
2) in the body of your email, include: name of your attachment, name of your work, your contact info., and a brief bio.
3) do not include your name on the work in your attachment.
4) send your submission to mandala.journal@gmail.com.
5) no more than one submission per genre per reading period.
Email Deadline: 11:59 p.m., February 15, 2010
Mandala Journal is an online student-run multicultural journal for poets, writers, artists, and thinkers published by the Institute for African American Studies at The University of Georgia.
CFP: Everyday Life in the Segmented City
CFP: Everyday Life in the Segmented City:
Everyday Life in the Segmented City
Florence Conference, July 22-25, 2010
For the first time in human history, a majority of the world's population lives in urban areas, and by 2050 more than 2/3 will live in metropolitan regions across the globe. At the same moment metropolitan regions confront unprecedented economic, social, and political challenges, the meanings of everyday life are put into question because of the changing structure and interdependence of urban economies. North American cities register the largest number of foreign-born persons in their history, while cities in Europe confront issues of social integration with emergent minority populations in the suburbs and inner city neighborhoods. The rapidly growing urban regions in China and India confront the continuing pressures of rural to urban migration that will produce the largest urban populations in human history. While the focus on the global city often emphasizes similarities in the development of metropolitan regions and neo-liberal regimes, we are interested in better understanding how individuals and groups respond to and create dynamic change in everyday life within the ever changing urban environment.
We invite contributions for a conference on everyday life in the segmented city to be held in Florence this July 22-25, 2010. The presentations will be grouped into the following subject areas:
Cinematic urbanism: Images and representation of the segmented city; emergent symbolic economics of consumption and production; tourism and visual consumption of the city.
Governance and planning: Multicultural cities and ethnic spaces; strategies to govern the multicultural city; citizenship and participation in the segmented city.
Suburbanization and the post-urban city: Suburban growth and urban sprawl; revolt of the banlieues; social exclusion in the inner suburbs; urbanity and urbanism in the suburban fringe
Appropriations of urban space: Emerging patterns of social exclusion and personal security; privatization and surveillance of urban space; reclaiming public space
The right to the city: Migration and immigration in the 21st century metropolis; social participation in the segmented city; contested urban spaces.
We invite submissions for papers on these and related topics. Please send abstract of your paper or presentation by March 15, 2010 to the address listed below.
More info here.
Everyday Life in the Segmented City
Florence Conference, July 22-25, 2010
For the first time in human history, a majority of the world's population lives in urban areas, and by 2050 more than 2/3 will live in metropolitan regions across the globe. At the same moment metropolitan regions confront unprecedented economic, social, and political challenges, the meanings of everyday life are put into question because of the changing structure and interdependence of urban economies. North American cities register the largest number of foreign-born persons in their history, while cities in Europe confront issues of social integration with emergent minority populations in the suburbs and inner city neighborhoods. The rapidly growing urban regions in China and India confront the continuing pressures of rural to urban migration that will produce the largest urban populations in human history. While the focus on the global city often emphasizes similarities in the development of metropolitan regions and neo-liberal regimes, we are interested in better understanding how individuals and groups respond to and create dynamic change in everyday life within the ever changing urban environment.
We invite contributions for a conference on everyday life in the segmented city to be held in Florence this July 22-25, 2010. The presentations will be grouped into the following subject areas:
Cinematic urbanism: Images and representation of the segmented city; emergent symbolic economics of consumption and production; tourism and visual consumption of the city.
Governance and planning: Multicultural cities and ethnic spaces; strategies to govern the multicultural city; citizenship and participation in the segmented city.
Suburbanization and the post-urban city: Suburban growth and urban sprawl; revolt of the banlieues; social exclusion in the inner suburbs; urbanity and urbanism in the suburban fringe
Appropriations of urban space: Emerging patterns of social exclusion and personal security; privatization and surveillance of urban space; reclaiming public space
The right to the city: Migration and immigration in the 21st century metropolis; social participation in the segmented city; contested urban spaces.
We invite submissions for papers on these and related topics. Please send abstract of your paper or presentation by March 15, 2010 to the address listed below.
More info here.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
{m}aganda magazine Last Call 1/20/09!
This is a LAST CALL for Maganda Magazine submissions!
Maganda Magazine is still accepting submissions for the 23rd issue until MIDNIGHT OF TODAY, JANUARY 20TH!
Do you have any spoken word pieces just waiting to be published? Poetry? Scholarly articles? Pictures? Original music? Paintings? ANY ART related to our theme: Our Resilience?
Please submit by MIDNIGHT OF JANUARY 20TH.
Email all .jpg, .doc(x), .mp4, .avi submissions to m23submissions@gmail.com!
Please spread the word and get your friends to submit also. All chosen contributors get a free copy of the magazine. Thanks everyone!
More information: magandamagazine.wordpress.com
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Trishia Salindong, Sherelle Villacorta, Sandy Ngo
Public Relations & Marketing Team
m23.prandm@gmail.com
magandamagazine.wordpress.com
LTS: LISTEN TO THE SILENCE 2010
LTS: LISTEN TO THE SILENCE 2010
Conference and workshops at Stanford this weekend. See above link for information.
Conference and workshops at Stanford this weekend. See above link for information.
Movie Review of "Babae Sa Breakwater" BY ALLEN GABORRO
Call it a revealing indictment of the poor’s troubled and exploited lives and of their Sisyphean struggle to survive in the Philippines. Director Mario O’Hara’s intense and absorbing film, “Babae sa Breakwater,” is a cinematic enterprise that displaces any fixed and idyllic models of Philippine society. Rather than a superficial articulation of the poor’s predominantly devastated existence, O’Hara’s movie cultivates a squalid and provocative portrait of the lower classes in Manila’s bustling and overcrowded metropolis.
All of the characters in “Babae sa Breakwater” find that their lives are adrift in a decomposing human ecosystem that is symbolically erected along a small patch of land where Manila’s Roxas Boulevard meets Manila Bay. The impoverished lives of the movie’s destitute characters are contrasted against the modern backdrop of the boulevard’s skyline and against the gorgeous sunsets that transform Manila Bay into a golden, shimmering body of water.
O’Hara is not exactly big on character development in his film, but his cast of characters are primarily responsible for whatever merit his work deserves. “Babae sa Breakwater” as a work of cinematic humanism is enhanced by its three main characters, Basilio (Kristoffer King), Buboy (Alcris Galura), and Paquita (Katherine Luna). Basilio and Buboy are brothers who hail from a small provincial town. Like so many other Filipino provincianos, they have come to Manila—a place that has always held a powerful symbolic value for many anticipative but credulous Filipinos—in search of greener pastures.
With an assist from the conjunction of the best and the worst of what life in Manila can be like, O’Hara, in what should be regarded as a compelling movie, sweeps up in microcosm the lives of those numberless provincianos as they discover that the city is both a source of inspiration and tribulation.
In “Babae sa Breakwater,” O’Hara renders life in Manila as a strikingly-explicit reality to be apprehended and interpreted. In this context, the director does that by engaging the audience’s attention with the suppressed narratives of Manila’s downtrodden. Viewers will easily make a direct connection between this theme and Buboy’s and Basilio’s exhaustive pursuit of a familiar dream among Filipinos, the dream that is generally identified as a rags-to-riches motif.
Coming to Manila is a fateful occasion for the brotherly bumpkins. We can be sure that one way or another, the big city will leave an indelible mark on them as their hopes and dreams collide with the state of moral decay and degeneration they come across. Ultimately, other than Basilio’s romantic relationship and cohabitation with Paquita, the movie’s overused and abused prostitute, the two brothers will not have much reason to feel grateful for being in Manila, a city which, to put it in ironic and figurative terms, proves to be too much of a good thing.
The emotions that are provoked by Basilio’s and Paquita’s love, emotions that few other people in their predicament are fortunate to share, touches the limit of what Manila’s contradictory impulses and qualities will allow. Their budding relationship awakens Basilio and Paquita out of the stupor of their narrow and indolent lives. But Manila’s volatility, disorder, and vertiginous compulsions hang like a dagger over them, thereby emphasizing that any notion of permanence and stability in their relationship is built on pretense and artifice.
Dave, a small-time hoodlum played by actor Gardo Versoza, looks on jealously and resentfully as Basilio and Paquita try to act on their desire to escape from the morally-toxic and sybaritic morass of Manila. Dave makes his malevolent presence felt in the movie, thus creating another unneeded obstacle to Basilio’s and Paquita’s hopes. Finding out that Dave is a former policeman and a physically-handicapped person does nothing to persuade the viewer to see him outside the sphere of malicious intent and behavior.
Mario O’Hara’s relentless representation in “Babae sa Breakwater” on the tortured lives that are stretched across Manila’s scattered slums stands out for having a profound impact on Philippine independent cinema and for the consequent effect it will have on how the lower classes are perceived by those who are outside of it. Clearly, the movie’s artistic and social dimensions are intimately related to one another as it rigorously explores Manila’s sullied social and existential landscape.
ALLEN GABORRO
All of the characters in “Babae sa Breakwater” find that their lives are adrift in a decomposing human ecosystem that is symbolically erected along a small patch of land where Manila’s Roxas Boulevard meets Manila Bay. The impoverished lives of the movie’s destitute characters are contrasted against the modern backdrop of the boulevard’s skyline and against the gorgeous sunsets that transform Manila Bay into a golden, shimmering body of water.
O’Hara is not exactly big on character development in his film, but his cast of characters are primarily responsible for whatever merit his work deserves. “Babae sa Breakwater” as a work of cinematic humanism is enhanced by its three main characters, Basilio (Kristoffer King), Buboy (Alcris Galura), and Paquita (Katherine Luna). Basilio and Buboy are brothers who hail from a small provincial town. Like so many other Filipino provincianos, they have come to Manila—a place that has always held a powerful symbolic value for many anticipative but credulous Filipinos—in search of greener pastures.
With an assist from the conjunction of the best and the worst of what life in Manila can be like, O’Hara, in what should be regarded as a compelling movie, sweeps up in microcosm the lives of those numberless provincianos as they discover that the city is both a source of inspiration and tribulation.
In “Babae sa Breakwater,” O’Hara renders life in Manila as a strikingly-explicit reality to be apprehended and interpreted. In this context, the director does that by engaging the audience’s attention with the suppressed narratives of Manila’s downtrodden. Viewers will easily make a direct connection between this theme and Buboy’s and Basilio’s exhaustive pursuit of a familiar dream among Filipinos, the dream that is generally identified as a rags-to-riches motif.
Coming to Manila is a fateful occasion for the brotherly bumpkins. We can be sure that one way or another, the big city will leave an indelible mark on them as their hopes and dreams collide with the state of moral decay and degeneration they come across. Ultimately, other than Basilio’s romantic relationship and cohabitation with Paquita, the movie’s overused and abused prostitute, the two brothers will not have much reason to feel grateful for being in Manila, a city which, to put it in ironic and figurative terms, proves to be too much of a good thing.
The emotions that are provoked by Basilio’s and Paquita’s love, emotions that few other people in their predicament are fortunate to share, touches the limit of what Manila’s contradictory impulses and qualities will allow. Their budding relationship awakens Basilio and Paquita out of the stupor of their narrow and indolent lives. But Manila’s volatility, disorder, and vertiginous compulsions hang like a dagger over them, thereby emphasizing that any notion of permanence and stability in their relationship is built on pretense and artifice.
Dave, a small-time hoodlum played by actor Gardo Versoza, looks on jealously and resentfully as Basilio and Paquita try to act on their desire to escape from the morally-toxic and sybaritic morass of Manila. Dave makes his malevolent presence felt in the movie, thus creating another unneeded obstacle to Basilio’s and Paquita’s hopes. Finding out that Dave is a former policeman and a physically-handicapped person does nothing to persuade the viewer to see him outside the sphere of malicious intent and behavior.
Mario O’Hara’s relentless representation in “Babae sa Breakwater” on the tortured lives that are stretched across Manila’s scattered slums stands out for having a profound impact on Philippine independent cinema and for the consequent effect it will have on how the lower classes are perceived by those who are outside of it. Clearly, the movie’s artistic and social dimensions are intimately related to one another as it rigorously explores Manila’s sullied social and existential landscape.
ALLEN GABORRO
Monday, January 18, 2010
SF Thomassons Performance Tour – this Saturday!
From KSW:
SF Thomassons Performance Tour – this Saturday!
THIS SATURDAY – SF Thomassons Performance Tour
Don’t miss this one-of-a-kind performance project / bus tour presented by Kearny Street Workshop and Kaya Press!
January 23, 12noon – 2pm
Tickets: $10 advance; $12 at the bus
Tour begins at 953 Mission St. @ 5th St (Mint Mall, lower level)
Have you ever noticed a third floor door opening into the air? Useless pipes or poles jutting out from the sidewalk or the sides of buildings? Join KSW and a group of performing artists for a bus tour to discover some of these overlooked Thomassons around SF. This unique tour will feature local artists including Allan Manalo, Philip Huang, Anthem Salgado, Kennedy Kabasares, Adderly Bigelow, Christina Miglino, Dennis Rodis, Rob Trinidad and others, doing a variety of on-site interpretive acts ranging from dance to comedy to aerial performance. Afterwards, you will see your everyday surroundings in a whole new way.
Click here to learn more about the participating artists.
SF Thomassons is a collaboration between KSW, API Diaspora publisher Kaya Press and Bay Area artists Allan Manalo and Seng Chen, responding to conceptual artist Gempei’s historic book Hyperart: Thomasson. Kaya Press recently published the first English language translation of the book, which opened up an opportunity to revive interest in this historic intersection between art and urbanism. Check out the project’s dedicated website for more information and to see Thomassons that our community has discovered in the Bay Area and beyond!
Led by Asian American artists, SF Thomassons continues KSW’s ongoing practice of hands-on, audience participatory art-making and response to community change and displacement. Affected repeatedly by San Francisco’s boom-and-bust real estate cycles, KSW has always been directly involved in neighborhood activism and demographic change through: neighborhood mural projects of the seventies and eighties; our activism in the I-Hotel eviction struggle and rebuilding; innumerable site-specific performance collaborations; our 2001 artists mapping exhibition; and literary workshops on writing place.
RESERVE YOUR SEAT NOW!
This program is supported by the San Francisco Foundation.
SF Thomassons Performance Tour – this Saturday!
THIS SATURDAY – SF Thomassons Performance Tour
Don’t miss this one-of-a-kind performance project / bus tour presented by Kearny Street Workshop and Kaya Press!
January 23, 12noon – 2pm
Tickets: $10 advance; $12 at the bus
Tour begins at 953 Mission St. @ 5th St (Mint Mall, lower level)
Have you ever noticed a third floor door opening into the air? Useless pipes or poles jutting out from the sidewalk or the sides of buildings? Join KSW and a group of performing artists for a bus tour to discover some of these overlooked Thomassons around SF. This unique tour will feature local artists including Allan Manalo, Philip Huang, Anthem Salgado, Kennedy Kabasares, Adderly Bigelow, Christina Miglino, Dennis Rodis, Rob Trinidad and others, doing a variety of on-site interpretive acts ranging from dance to comedy to aerial performance. Afterwards, you will see your everyday surroundings in a whole new way.Click here to learn more about the participating artists.
SF Thomassons is a collaboration between KSW, API Diaspora publisher Kaya Press and Bay Area artists Allan Manalo and Seng Chen, responding to conceptual artist Gempei’s historic book Hyperart: Thomasson. Kaya Press recently published the first English language translation of the book, which opened up an opportunity to revive interest in this historic intersection between art and urbanism. Check out the project’s dedicated website for more information and to see Thomassons that our community has discovered in the Bay Area and beyond!
Led by Asian American artists, SF Thomassons continues KSW’s ongoing practice of hands-on, audience participatory art-making and response to community change and displacement. Affected repeatedly by San Francisco’s boom-and-bust real estate cycles, KSW has always been directly involved in neighborhood activism and demographic change through: neighborhood mural projects of the seventies and eighties; our activism in the I-Hotel eviction struggle and rebuilding; innumerable site-specific performance collaborations; our 2001 artists mapping exhibition; and literary workshops on writing place.
RESERVE YOUR SEAT NOW!
This program is supported by the San Francisco Foundation.
Friday, January 15, 2010
Lola: A Ghost Story at onipress.com
Written by J. Torres; Art by Elbert Or
Jesse sees dead people, monsters, demons, and lots of other things that go bump in the night that no one else can see. No one except his ailing grandmother — a woman who used her visions to help those living in her small town. The same rural community in all the scary stories Jesse's heard as a child. Man-eating ogres in trees. Farmhouses haunted by wraiths. Even pigs possessed by the devil. Upon his grandmother's passing, Jesse has no choice but to face his demons and whatever else might be awaiting him at grandma's house.
Genres: Supernatural, Mystery
Help Rating: Y
Pages: 112
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 978-1-932664-24-9
Diamond Code: JUL09 1012
Preview at Comic Book Resources.
Read a review at Comic Book Resources, and at School Library Journal.
Amazon link.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Call for Submissions: Kweli Journal
"A journal named for 'truth' in Swahili invites its readers and contributors to seek for the same." Nelly Rosario
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Kweli Journal's premiere issue featured the poetry of Patricia Spears Jones, the prose of Nelly Rosario and a photo essay by Thomas Sayers Ellis.
We are now calling for submissions to our Spring/Summer 2010 issue. The theme is "silences." Visit www.kwelijournal.com.
Add your voice. Share your visions. Join us.
Kweli Journal is a new online literary journal established to identify, promote and nurture emerging writers of color. We also seek to expand the audience of authors of color who already have a foothold in the industry. Our mission, as editors and publishers, is to find a broad, international audience for the artists that we publish and the work that we find engaging and uncompromising.
As a biannual publication, Kweli plans to publish Fall/Winter and Spring/Summer editions. We encourage new and emerging artists, as well as established voices, to submit their work for consideration. Kweli is particularly interested in short stories, poetry, and essays. We seek high quality literary work that is beautiful and sustaining, profound and powerful.
THE SUBMISSION PROCESS:
Please provide the following:
A cover letter telling us something about yourself. Please include current contact information (full name, mailing address, telephone number(s), e-mail address) and title(s) of submitted work.
Two printed copies of your unpublished work(s).
Fiction: Send one prose piece. We primarily look for short stories, but novel excerpts are acceptable if self-contained. Prose should be double-spaced on one side.
Nonfiction: Send one prose piece. We primarily look for personal essays, but memoir excerpts are acceptable if self-contained. Prose should be double-spaced on one side.
Poetry: Send up to three poems at a time. Single-space, please; set your poem as you want it to appear on the printed page.
Simultaneous submissions are acceptable as long as they are indicated as such. Authors must immediately notify the submissions manager if said work has been selected for publication in another periodical, either in print or online.
Spring/Summer Submission Deadline: March 15, 2010.
Mail required material to:
Kweli Journal, Inc.
P.O. Box 693
New York, New York 10021
ATTN: William E. Berry, Jr.
Submissions Manager
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Kweli Journal's premiere issue featured the poetry of Patricia Spears Jones, the prose of Nelly Rosario and a photo essay by Thomas Sayers Ellis.
We are now calling for submissions to our Spring/Summer 2010 issue. The theme is "silences." Visit www.kwelijournal.com.
Add your voice. Share your visions. Join us.
Kweli Journal is a new online literary journal established to identify, promote and nurture emerging writers of color. We also seek to expand the audience of authors of color who already have a foothold in the industry. Our mission, as editors and publishers, is to find a broad, international audience for the artists that we publish and the work that we find engaging and uncompromising.
As a biannual publication, Kweli plans to publish Fall/Winter and Spring/Summer editions. We encourage new and emerging artists, as well as established voices, to submit their work for consideration. Kweli is particularly interested in short stories, poetry, and essays. We seek high quality literary work that is beautiful and sustaining, profound and powerful.
THE SUBMISSION PROCESS:
Please provide the following:
A cover letter telling us something about yourself. Please include current contact information (full name, mailing address, telephone number(s), e-mail address) and title(s) of submitted work.
Two printed copies of your unpublished work(s).
Fiction: Send one prose piece. We primarily look for short stories, but novel excerpts are acceptable if self-contained. Prose should be double-spaced on one side.
Nonfiction: Send one prose piece. We primarily look for personal essays, but memoir excerpts are acceptable if self-contained. Prose should be double-spaced on one side.
Poetry: Send up to three poems at a time. Single-space, please; set your poem as you want it to appear on the printed page.
Simultaneous submissions are acceptable as long as they are indicated as such. Authors must immediately notify the submissions manager if said work has been selected for publication in another periodical, either in print or online.
Spring/Summer Submission Deadline: March 15, 2010.
Mail required material to:
Kweli Journal, Inc.
P.O. Box 693
New York, New York 10021
ATTN: William E. Berry, Jr.
Submissions Manager
February 16 Deadline (Extended): The Kundiman Poetry Prize
The Kundiman Poetry Prize
Kundiman and Alice James Books will be accepting submissions of poetry manuscripts for The Kundiman Poetry Prize. The deadline has been extended to February 16, 2010.
The Kundiman Poetry Prize welcomes submissions from emerging as well as established Asian American poets. Entrants must reside in the United States.
The winner receives $2000, book publication and a feature New York City reading.
For application guidelines on The Kundiman Poetry Prize, go to http://kundiman.org/%5BCLB%5D_Brightside/1.Source/prize.html
For more on Alice James Books, go to http://www.alicejamesbooks.org/
Kundiman and Alice James Books will be accepting submissions of poetry manuscripts for The Kundiman Poetry Prize. The deadline has been extended to February 16, 2010.
The Kundiman Poetry Prize welcomes submissions from emerging as well as established Asian American poets. Entrants must reside in the United States.
The winner receives $2000, book publication and a feature New York City reading.
For application guidelines on The Kundiman Poetry Prize, go to http://kundiman.org/%5BCLB%5D_Brightside/1.Source/prize.html
For more on Alice James Books, go to http://www.alicejamesbooks.org/
mapid now accepting group submissions for osoji
From angry asian man:
mapid now accepting group submissions for osoji
Ken Choy and Mavericks of Asian Pacific Islander Descent (MAPID) announce an open call for submissions for OSOJI, an innovative theater experience which will premiere at Breaking the Bow 2 in October 2010.
Artistic groups will develop individual pieces which will then be weaved together to create a larger theatrical extravaganza exploring spiritual, political, cultural, and physical cleansing. Based on the Japanese ritual of housecleaning prior to the start of the new year, OSOJI will implement a multitude of artistic forms and genres.
Asian Pacific Islander groups, organizations, companies, troupes, collectives, and ad hoc formations working in theater, dance, improvisation, comedy, music, API cultural expressions, and performance are encouraged to submit general proposals. Large and small; established and new are desired to collaborate on the work.
Groups should be able to create short pieces that can be performed by 3-4 representatives of the group; representatives must be able to attend full rehearsals with the larger collective in order to blend the pieces together. Representatives also must be willing to share and teach artistic form to the larger collective, if applicable, as well as be open to learn other techniques and artistic expressions.
Due to venue size, a maximum of 25 individuals will participate in this endeavor.
Full details on focus of individual pieces will be released once participating companies are chosen, but a general idea surrounds the 108 sins. Artistic tone is both highly comedic, dramatic, and theatrical; more relatable than esoteric; socially significant. There will be pay.
Deadline for proposals is January 31 but earlier submissions are encouraged. Proposals should include biographical, artistic focus, and previous work information and ideas on how the project will benefit from the submitting organization. High consideration will also be given to those who demonstrate the ability and willingness for the business side of the project such as advertising, promotion, and audience attainment. If sending work samples, please send either link or attachments in a separate email. Only general concepts of pieces are asked for at this time.
For more information, please contact Ken Choy at ken@mapid.us.
mapid now accepting group submissions for osoji
Ken Choy and Mavericks of Asian Pacific Islander Descent (MAPID) announce an open call for submissions for OSOJI, an innovative theater experience which will premiere at Breaking the Bow 2 in October 2010.
Artistic groups will develop individual pieces which will then be weaved together to create a larger theatrical extravaganza exploring spiritual, political, cultural, and physical cleansing. Based on the Japanese ritual of housecleaning prior to the start of the new year, OSOJI will implement a multitude of artistic forms and genres.
Asian Pacific Islander groups, organizations, companies, troupes, collectives, and ad hoc formations working in theater, dance, improvisation, comedy, music, API cultural expressions, and performance are encouraged to submit general proposals. Large and small; established and new are desired to collaborate on the work.
Groups should be able to create short pieces that can be performed by 3-4 representatives of the group; representatives must be able to attend full rehearsals with the larger collective in order to blend the pieces together. Representatives also must be willing to share and teach artistic form to the larger collective, if applicable, as well as be open to learn other techniques and artistic expressions.
Due to venue size, a maximum of 25 individuals will participate in this endeavor.
Full details on focus of individual pieces will be released once participating companies are chosen, but a general idea surrounds the 108 sins. Artistic tone is both highly comedic, dramatic, and theatrical; more relatable than esoteric; socially significant. There will be pay.
Deadline for proposals is January 31 but earlier submissions are encouraged. Proposals should include biographical, artistic focus, and previous work information and ideas on how the project will benefit from the submitting organization. High consideration will also be given to those who demonstrate the ability and willingness for the business side of the project such as advertising, promotion, and audience attainment. If sending work samples, please send either link or attachments in a separate email. Only general concepts of pieces are asked for at this time.
For more information, please contact Ken Choy at ken@mapid.us.
Bamboo Ridge Press Deadline for Submissions
From Bamboo Ridge Press:
Submissions will be accepted through January 31st for publication in BAMBOO RIDGE Issue #98, scheduled for release in late 2010. See guidelines for details.
Submissions will be accepted through January 31st for publication in BAMBOO RIDGE Issue #98, scheduled for release in late 2010. See guidelines for details.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
City of San Jose Public Art Program requests applications - Kearny Street Workshop
From KSW:
City of San Jose Public Art Program requests applications -
DEADLINE: Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 10:59 p.m. Pacific Time
This is an online application process only and the deadline cannot be extended
The City of San Jose Public Art Program seeks to commission site-specific artworks in several different locations throughout San Jose. Some of the projects are community-focused and others will be integrated into Capital Improvement Projects. Artists can be considered for more than one project, but will not be commissioned for simultaneous projects with the City of San Jose.
For information on the individual projects go to the complete RFQ at http://www.sanjoseculture.org/downloads/Many%20Projects_RFQ%20Final.pdf.
BUDGETS: Range from $25,000 to $100,000
ARTIST ELIGIBILITY: The calls are open to artists who live and/or work in the following California counties Alameda, Santa Clara,San Francisco, Santa Cruz, San Mateo, Contra Costa, Napa, Sonoma, Marin and Solano, and Monterey. Proof of residency or work relationship will be required if short listed for a project.
Artists must be eligible to work in the United States and have a valid U.S. Social Security or Tax Identification Number by the application deadline.
Artists who are currently under contract with the City of San Jose Public Art Program are not eligible to apply.
Read more.
City of San Jose Public Art Program requests applications -
DEADLINE: Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 10:59 p.m. Pacific Time
This is an online application process only and the deadline cannot be extended
The City of San Jose Public Art Program seeks to commission site-specific artworks in several different locations throughout San Jose. Some of the projects are community-focused and others will be integrated into Capital Improvement Projects. Artists can be considered for more than one project, but will not be commissioned for simultaneous projects with the City of San Jose.
For information on the individual projects go to the complete RFQ at http://www.sanjoseculture.org/downloads/Many%20Projects_RFQ%20Final.pdf.
BUDGETS: Range from $25,000 to $100,000
ARTIST ELIGIBILITY: The calls are open to artists who live and/or work in the following California counties Alameda, Santa Clara,San Francisco, Santa Cruz, San Mateo, Contra Costa, Napa, Sonoma, Marin and Solano, and Monterey. Proof of residency or work relationship will be required if short listed for a project.
Artists must be eligible to work in the United States and have a valid U.S. Social Security or Tax Identification Number by the application deadline.
Artists who are currently under contract with the City of San Jose Public Art Program are not eligible to apply.
Read more.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
January 16, 2010: PAWA Arkipelago Reading for Growing Up Filipino II
Please come out for our first event of the new year!
PAWA (Philippine American Writers and Artists)
in conjunction with Arkipelago Books
presents a book launch of
Growing Up Filipino II:
More Stories for Young Adults
Edited and Collected by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard
Saturday, January 16, 2010
2:00 – 5:00 PM
Bayanihan Community Center, 1010 Mission St., San Francisco
Featuring Readers Rashaan Alexis Meneses, Veronica Montes, Tony Robles, and Marianne Villanueva.
BOOK DESCRIPTION: A welcome addition to Filipino American literature, Growing Up Filipino II: More Stories for Young Adults is the second volume of the Growing Up Filipino series by PALH. In this collection of 27 short stories, Filipino and Filipino American writers explore the universal challenges and experiences of Filipino teens after the historic events of 9/11. The modern demands do not hinder Filipino youth from dealing with the universal concerns of growing up: family, friends, love, home, budding sexuality, leaving home. The delightful stories are written by well known as well as emerging writers. While the target audience of this fine anthology is young adults, the stories can be enjoyed by adult readers as well.
CONTRIBUTORS: Dean Francis Alfar, Katrina Ramos Atienza, Maria Victoria Beltran, M.G. Bertulfo, Cecilia Manguerra Brainard, Amalia B. Bueno, Max Gutierrez, Leslieann Hobayan, Jaime An Lim, Paulino Lim Jr., Rebecca Mabanglo-Mayor, Dolores de Manuel, Rashaan Alexis Meneses, Veronica Montes, Charlson Ong, Marily Ysip Orosa, Kannika Claudine D. Peña, Oscar Peñaranda, Edgar Poma, Tony Robles, Brian Ascalon Roley, Jonathan Jimena Siason, Aileen Suzara, Geronimo G. Tagatac, Marianne Villanueva
ISBN: 978-0-9719458-2-1
ISBN: 978-0-9719458-3-8
PUBLISHED BY:
PALH
P. O. Box 5099
Santa Monica, CA 90409
Tel/fax: 310-452-1195; email: palh@aol.com; http://www.palhbooks.com
For more information on the event contact:
PAWA, Inc. at pawa@pawainc.com, http://www.pawainc.com
in conjunction with Arkipelago Books
presents a book launch of
Growing Up Filipino II:
More Stories for Young Adults
Edited and Collected by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard
Saturday, January 16, 2010
2:00 – 5:00 PM
Bayanihan Community Center, 1010 Mission St., San Francisco
Featuring Readers Rashaan Alexis Meneses, Veronica Montes, Tony Robles, and Marianne Villanueva.
BOOK DESCRIPTION: A welcome addition to Filipino American literature, Growing Up Filipino II: More Stories for Young Adults is the second volume of the Growing Up Filipino series by PALH. In this collection of 27 short stories, Filipino and Filipino American writers explore the universal challenges and experiences of Filipino teens after the historic events of 9/11. The modern demands do not hinder Filipino youth from dealing with the universal concerns of growing up: family, friends, love, home, budding sexuality, leaving home. The delightful stories are written by well known as well as emerging writers. While the target audience of this fine anthology is young adults, the stories can be enjoyed by adult readers as well.
CONTRIBUTORS: Dean Francis Alfar, Katrina Ramos Atienza, Maria Victoria Beltran, M.G. Bertulfo, Cecilia Manguerra Brainard, Amalia B. Bueno, Max Gutierrez, Leslieann Hobayan, Jaime An Lim, Paulino Lim Jr., Rebecca Mabanglo-Mayor, Dolores de Manuel, Rashaan Alexis Meneses, Veronica Montes, Charlson Ong, Marily Ysip Orosa, Kannika Claudine D. Peña, Oscar Peñaranda, Edgar Poma, Tony Robles, Brian Ascalon Roley, Jonathan Jimena Siason, Aileen Suzara, Geronimo G. Tagatac, Marianne Villanueva
ISBN: 978-0-9719458-2-1
ISBN: 978-0-9719458-3-8
PUBLISHED BY:
PALH
P. O. Box 5099
Santa Monica, CA 90409
Tel/fax: 310-452-1195; email: palh@aol.com; http://www.palhbooks.com
For more information on the event contact:
PAWA, Inc. at pawa@pawainc.com, http://www.pawainc.com
Monday, January 11, 2010
BaybayinArt.com Gallery presents “2010″
BaybayinArt.com Gallery presents “2010″
It’s 2010! What does 2010 mean to you? What will will it hold?
7 Artists tell you what they think in Baybayin
The lineup includes
Arlene Guerrero
Christine Balza
Christian Cabuay
David Lazaro
Michelle Ruschman
Norman de los Santos
Ray Haguisan
Coming 2.1.10
It’s 2010! What does 2010 mean to you? What will will it hold?
7 Artists tell you what they think in Baybayin
The lineup includes
Arlene Guerrero
Christine Balza
Christian Cabuay
David Lazaro
Michelle Ruschman
Norman de los Santos
Ray Haguisan
Coming 2.1.10
Split This Rock Poetry Contest Deadline Extended
Extended Deadline!
Split This Rock is pleased to announce the deadline extension of the Third Annual Split This Rock Poetry Contest. Submissions by January 22nd 2010 will have the opportunity of receiving $1000 for poems of provocation and witness. Judged by Chris Abani. First prize $500; 2nd and 3rd place will receive $250 each. Entries should share the spirit of Split This Rock. The $25 entry fee will help put on this year's March 10th to the 13th Split This Rock Poetry Festival!
For further details or other information on Split This Rock Poetry Contest and festival please visit www.SplitThisRock.org.
Split This Rock is pleased to announce the deadline extension of the Third Annual Split This Rock Poetry Contest. Submissions by January 22nd 2010 will have the opportunity of receiving $1000 for poems of provocation and witness. Judged by Chris Abani. First prize $500; 2nd and 3rd place will receive $250 each. Entries should share the spirit of Split This Rock. The $25 entry fee will help put on this year's March 10th to the 13th Split This Rock Poetry Festival!
For further details or other information on Split This Rock Poetry Contest and festival please visit www.SplitThisRock.org.
Persona poem anthology extends deadline
Editors Stacey Lynn Brown and Oliver de la Paz are pleased to announce a call for submissions for A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry.
We are seeking poems that work within the literary tradition of persona poetry: poems written as dramatic monologues, whose speakers employ masks, or whose character and voice are different from the poet's own.
Please submit up to 5 unpublished poems. We will also consider poems whose rights have reverted back to the author.
All submissions will be accepted electronically. Please send an email to the editors at facesanthology@gmail.com. with the poet's name and "Submission for Persona Anthology" as the subject line, with the poems as an attachment.
The submission deadline has been extended to February 15th. We look forward to reading your work!
We are seeking poems that work within the literary tradition of persona poetry: poems written as dramatic monologues, whose speakers employ masks, or whose character and voice are different from the poet's own.
Please submit up to 5 unpublished poems. We will also consider poems whose rights have reverted back to the author.
All submissions will be accepted electronically. Please send an email to the editors at facesanthology@gmail.com. with the poet's name and "Submission for Persona Anthology" as the subject line, with the poems as an attachment.
The submission deadline has been extended to February 15th. We look forward to reading your work!
A Kali poetry reading (Santa Cruz)
A New Cadence Poetry Series presents Michelle Bautista and Joseph T. Oliva Arriola reading from their works
January 30th, 2010 @ 7:30
Felix Kulpa Gallery
107 Elm Street, Santa Cruz, CA
Free
Michelle Bautista is a poet, performer, and martial arts teacher. Her first book, Kali's Blade, based on her Pinoy Poetics (Meritage Press, 2004) essay on the intersection of Filipino martial arts and poetry, was released in December 2006 from Meritage Press. Her work can also be seen in TMP Irregular, Muse Apprentice Guild, Babaylan (Aunt Lute, 2001), and Going Home to a Landscape (Calyx, 2003).
Tuhan Joseph T. Oliva Arriola is a practicing attorney in the area personal-finance and is the master of the Arriola School of Kamatuuran Kali Jin. He was a farm worker and grew up in a pool hall. He has written extensively for such magazines as Black Belt Magazine and Inside Kung Fu. He has taught Filipino stick fighting and kamatuuran philosophy in seminars in North America and Europe. His short story "The Pool Hall" was published in the book "Seven Card Stud with Seven Manangs Wild". He will be reading from his novel "Journeys Within: the Princess Arisen."
January 30th, 2010 @ 7:30
Felix Kulpa Gallery
107 Elm Street, Santa Cruz, CA
Free
Michelle Bautista is a poet, performer, and martial arts teacher. Her first book, Kali's Blade, based on her Pinoy Poetics (Meritage Press, 2004) essay on the intersection of Filipino martial arts and poetry, was released in December 2006 from Meritage Press. Her work can also be seen in TMP Irregular, Muse Apprentice Guild, Babaylan (Aunt Lute, 2001), and Going Home to a Landscape (Calyx, 2003).
Tuhan Joseph T. Oliva Arriola is a practicing attorney in the area personal-finance and is the master of the Arriola School of Kamatuuran Kali Jin. He was a farm worker and grew up in a pool hall. He has written extensively for such magazines as Black Belt Magazine and Inside Kung Fu. He has taught Filipino stick fighting and kamatuuran philosophy in seminars in North America and Europe. His short story "The Pool Hall" was published in the book "Seven Card Stud with Seven Manangs Wild". He will be reading from his novel "Journeys Within: the Princess Arisen."
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Estranghero Press News and Submission Guidelines
From Rocket Kapre:
Estranghero Press News:
Our friends over at Estranghero Press have been busy lately, so I thought it might be best to gather some relevant updates in this post.
First off, everyone remembers that the deadline for story submissions for their Demons of the New Year anthology is on January 15 right? Well if you didn’t remember, now you do, so no excuses. Procastinators and crammers (I think that covers about 90% of the people I know) have around five days to polish up those horror stories and send them to co-editors Joseph Nacino and Karl R. De Mesa.
Estranghero Press News:
Our friends over at Estranghero Press have been busy lately, so I thought it might be best to gather some relevant updates in this post.
First off, everyone remembers that the deadline for story submissions for their Demons of the New Year anthology is on January 15 right? Well if you didn’t remember, now you do, so no excuses. Procastinators and crammers (I think that covers about 90% of the people I know) have around five days to polish up those horror stories and send them to co-editors Joseph Nacino and Karl R. De Mesa.
Third, head honcho Joseph Nacino has posted the digital press’ guidelines to shed some light on how it will be run and how often they plan to release new titles.
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Call for Entries: Asian American International Film Festival
Attention all filmmakers! Want an opportunity to screen your film in the heart of New York City? Submit your film to the 33rd Asian American International Film Festival, presented by Asian CineVision.
AAIFF, the first and longest running festival dedicated to showcasing works by Asian/Asian American filmmakers and about the Asian communities, is now accepting submissions in the following categories:
Narrative Features
Documentary Features
Short Films
Music Video
Screenplays
Works-In-Progress
Youth Films (by filmmakers under 20)
But you have to quick. The Early Deadline (postmarked) is January 27. The Final Deadline (postmarked) is February 24. For the full submission guidelines, visit the Asian CineVision website here.
AAIFF, the first and longest running festival dedicated to showcasing works by Asian/Asian American filmmakers and about the Asian communities, is now accepting submissions in the following categories:
Narrative Features
Documentary Features
Short Films
Music Video
Screenplays
Works-In-Progress
Youth Films (by filmmakers under 20)
But you have to quick. The Early Deadline (postmarked) is January 27. The Final Deadline (postmarked) is February 24. For the full submission guidelines, visit the Asian CineVision website here.
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Artist Call: 100 Performances for the Hole -- Take Two @ SOMArts
Artist Call: 100 Performances for the Hole -- Take Two @ SOMArts
Call for Submissions
Exhibition Title: 100 Performances for the Hole - Take Two
Opening: March 6, 2010
Exhibition Dates: March 6 – March 26, 2010
Submission Deadline: January 31
Read more.
Call for Submissions
Exhibition Title: 100 Performances for the Hole - Take Two
Opening: March 6, 2010
Exhibition Dates: March 6 – March 26, 2010
Submission Deadline: January 31
Read more.
Green Grows the Story Seeks Teachers
From Eth-Noh-Tec:
Eth-Noh-Tec (www.ethnohtec.org) is looking for 5-6 San Francisco public/charter school teachers 4th grade through 12th grade with a passion about climate change and youth empowerment. We seek your participation in at the most three meetings regarding the feasibility of our in-school environmental/storytelling project now in its planning stage and funded by SF Arts Commission. Our project, entitled Green Grows the Story, will provide each teacher a free storytelling performance for your school plus a $100 gift certificate for your classroom. More detailed information is on our webpage about the project at http://www.ethnohtec.org/activism/.
Please contact Nancy Wang at Eth-Noh-Tec by 1/30/10 at 415-282-8705 or nancy@ethnohtec.org. Please include your school name and location, which grade you teach, why you are interested, and your contact information.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
Sincerely,
Nancy Wang
Robert Kikuchi-Yngojo
Co-Directors, Eth-Noh-Tec
Eth-Noh-Tec (www.ethnohtec.org) is looking for 5-6 San Francisco public/charter school teachers 4th grade through 12th grade with a passion about climate change and youth empowerment. We seek your participation in at the most three meetings regarding the feasibility of our in-school environmental/storytelling project now in its planning stage and funded by SF Arts Commission. Our project, entitled Green Grows the Story, will provide each teacher a free storytelling performance for your school plus a $100 gift certificate for your classroom. More detailed information is on our webpage about the project at http://www.ethnohtec.org/activism/.
Please contact Nancy Wang at Eth-Noh-Tec by 1/30/10 at 415-282-8705 or nancy@ethnohtec.org. Please include your school name and location, which grade you teach, why you are interested, and your contact information.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
Sincerely,
Nancy Wang
Robert Kikuchi-Yngojo
Co-Directors, Eth-Noh-Tec
2009 Meritage Press Holiday Poetry Contest Results
From Eileen Tabios:
Dear All,
Meritage Press (http://meritagepress.com) is delighted to announce the winner of the 2009 Meritage Press Holiday Poetry Contest for Filipino Poets, judged this year by Aileen Ibardaloza.
"Butiki" by Michelle A. Peñaloza
"Butiki" may be viewed at http://meritagepress.com/babaylan/?p=25
ABOUT THE WINNING POET: Michelle Peñaloza graduated from Vanderbilt University and is currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Oregon. She is a carnivore and a sometimes omnivore. Her work has been published in Kartika Review.
Meritage Press congratulates Michelle, while thanking all of the poets who sent in entries. This year's contest was among the toughest to judge in the history of this contest, with many submitted poems deserving of praise. It is wonderful to see so many wonderful Filipino poets at work.
All Best,
Eileen Tabios
Publisher, Meritage Press
*****
FIRST PLACE WINNERS of the MERITAGE PRESS HOLIDAY POETRY CONTESTS:
2009: Michelle A. Penaloza (Judge: Aileen Ibardaloza)
2008: Rodrigo V. Dela Pena Jr. (Judge: Bino A. Realuyo)
2007: Naya S. Valdellon & Marcel L. MiIliam (Judge: Eric Gamalinda)
2006: Joel M. Toledo (Judge: Michelle Bautista)
2005: Arkaye Velasquez Kierulf (Judge: Jean Vengua)
2004: Joel H. Vega (Judge: Sarah Gambito)
2003: Luisa A. Igloria (Judge: Patrick Rosal)
2002: Naya S. Valdellon & Michella Rivera-Gravage (Judge: Oliver de la Paz)
2001: Carlomar Arcangel Daoana (Judge: Nick Carbo)
Dear All,
Meritage Press (http://meritagepress.com) is delighted to announce the winner of the 2009 Meritage Press Holiday Poetry Contest for Filipino Poets, judged this year by Aileen Ibardaloza.
"Butiki" by Michelle A. Peñaloza
"Butiki" may be viewed at http://meritagepress.com/babaylan/?p=25
ABOUT THE WINNING POET: Michelle Peñaloza graduated from Vanderbilt University and is currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Oregon. She is a carnivore and a sometimes omnivore. Her work has been published in Kartika Review.
Meritage Press congratulates Michelle, while thanking all of the poets who sent in entries. This year's contest was among the toughest to judge in the history of this contest, with many submitted poems deserving of praise. It is wonderful to see so many wonderful Filipino poets at work.
All Best,
Eileen Tabios
Publisher, Meritage Press
*****
FIRST PLACE WINNERS of the MERITAGE PRESS HOLIDAY POETRY CONTESTS:
2009: Michelle A. Penaloza (Judge: Aileen Ibardaloza)
2008: Rodrigo V. Dela Pena Jr. (Judge: Bino A. Realuyo)
2007: Naya S. Valdellon & Marcel L. MiIliam (Judge: Eric Gamalinda)
2006: Joel M. Toledo (Judge: Michelle Bautista)
2005: Arkaye Velasquez Kierulf (Judge: Jean Vengua)
2004: Joel H. Vega (Judge: Sarah Gambito)
2003: Luisa A. Igloria (Judge: Patrick Rosal)
2002: Naya S. Valdellon & Michella Rivera-Gravage (Judge: Oliver de la Paz)
2001: Carlomar Arcangel Daoana (Judge: Nick Carbo)
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Doin The Robot: Pilipino Culture Night without Traditional Dance
Doin The Robot: Pilipino Culture Night without Traditional Dance
Academic Presentation by Lorenzo Lozo Perillo, UCLA Department of World Arts & Cultures
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
160 Kaufman Hall
UCLA Campus
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Given that the terrain of Popular Dance has often existed at the periphery of Dance Studies, popular dances are usually mapped outside the jurisdiction of performing subjectivity, identity, and history. In April 2000, UC Berkeley’s Pilipino Culture Night (PCN) presented Home, which featured the strategic deployment of the popular dance, “The Robot”. Through popular dance, second-generation Pilipino Americans metaphorically exposed the nuts and bolts of mechanically re-producing “Cultural Shows.” Since the late 1970s, similar folks across mostly West Coast college universities have been developing Culture Nights, like PCN. They are typically three-hour theatrical productions of standardized folk music and dances. By completely un-charting these dances and inscribing popular dance as a migration away from the PCN genre formula, Home presents the following question: What does PCN look like when “traditional” dances are removed?
Read more.
Academic Presentation by Lorenzo Lozo Perillo, UCLA Department of World Arts & Cultures
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
160 Kaufman Hall
UCLA Campus
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Given that the terrain of Popular Dance has often existed at the periphery of Dance Studies, popular dances are usually mapped outside the jurisdiction of performing subjectivity, identity, and history. In April 2000, UC Berkeley’s Pilipino Culture Night (PCN) presented Home, which featured the strategic deployment of the popular dance, “The Robot”. Through popular dance, second-generation Pilipino Americans metaphorically exposed the nuts and bolts of mechanically re-producing “Cultural Shows.” Since the late 1970s, similar folks across mostly West Coast college universities have been developing Culture Nights, like PCN. They are typically three-hour theatrical productions of standardized folk music and dances. By completely un-charting these dances and inscribing popular dance as a migration away from the PCN genre formula, Home presents the following question: What does PCN look like when “traditional” dances are removed?
Read more.
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Tahanan Homecoming Anthology: Call For Submissions
ATTN: ALL FILIPINO WRITERS LIVING ABROAD
The journey home is full of adventure and self-discovery. Tahanan Books invites you to contribute to its upcoming anthology:
Hanggang sa Muli: Homecoming Stories for the Filipino Soul
The call for submissions is open to all Filipinos residing outside of the Philippines. We welcome both published and first-time writers.
Write to us about your own personal homecoming story, whether it be in the form of a memoir, essay, or poem.
If your entry is selected, you will be paid a flat fee of Fifty Dollars (USD$50), two complimentary books, and a 25% discount on the book.
Email your submission/queries to: reni@tahananbooks.com
Deadline for entries is March 1st, 2010.
Amor Fati: Opening This Friday (Oakland)
Joyce Gordon Gallery proudly presents
Amor Fati
January 8 - February 8, 2010
Opening Reception: January 8, 2010, Friday, 6pm-9pm
Kwatro-Kantos (England Hidalgo, Marcius Noceda, Carlo Ricafort, Mel Vera Cruz) with Malaquias Montoya, Miju (Michele Muennig & Juan Carlos Quintana), Favianna Rodriguez, Carlos Villa
Amor Fati, love of fate, represents works that have passion towards life. Parallel to turmoil, history and progress - is a creative process of color, narrative and subjectivity. This is when an artist comes in to deliberate, paint, and tell stories of justice, torment, truth or even chaos - to the devotion to " what is ." Curated by Lian Ladia.
The Joyce Gordon Gallery is a commercial fine art gallery located at 406 14th Street Oakland, California. The gallery exhibits art and photography that reflects the social and cultural diversity of the Bay Area and international artists. The aim of the gallery is to respect the creative pursuits of the individual and seeks to make such work accessible to a broad audience. The gallery is open to the public Wednesday through Friday 12pm - 6pm and Saturday-Sunday 1pm-4pm. The gallery is also available by appointment for private events and showings.
Joyce Gordon Gallery
http://www.joycegordongallery.com
Amor Fati
January 8 - February 8, 2010
Opening Reception: January 8, 2010, Friday, 6pm-9pm
Kwatro-Kantos (England Hidalgo, Marcius Noceda, Carlo Ricafort, Mel Vera Cruz) with Malaquias Montoya, Miju (Michele Muennig & Juan Carlos Quintana), Favianna Rodriguez, Carlos Villa
Amor Fati, love of fate, represents works that have passion towards life. Parallel to turmoil, history and progress - is a creative process of color, narrative and subjectivity. This is when an artist comes in to deliberate, paint, and tell stories of justice, torment, truth or even chaos - to the devotion to " what is ." Curated by Lian Ladia.
The Joyce Gordon Gallery is a commercial fine art gallery located at 406 14th Street Oakland, California. The gallery exhibits art and photography that reflects the social and cultural diversity of the Bay Area and international artists. The aim of the gallery is to respect the creative pursuits of the individual and seeks to make such work accessible to a broad audience. The gallery is open to the public Wednesday through Friday 12pm - 6pm and Saturday-Sunday 1pm-4pm. The gallery is also available by appointment for private events and showings.
Joyce Gordon Gallery
http://www.joycegordongallery.com
Kearny Street Workshop: SF Thomassons Performance Tours
An original performance project / bus tour presented by Kearny Street Workshop and Kaya Press
Saturday January 23, 12noon – 2pm and 3 – 5pm
Tickets: $10 advance; $12 at the bus
Tour begins at 953 Mission St. @ 5th St (Mint Mall, lower level)
Have you ever noticed a third floor door opening into the air? Useless pipes or poles jutting out from the sidewalk or the sides of buildings? Join KSW and a group of performing artists for a bus tour to discover some of these overlooked Thomassons around SF. This unique tour will feature local artists including Allan Manalo, Philip Huang, Anthem Salgado, Kennedy Kabasares, Adderly Bigelow, Christina Miglino, Dennis Rodis, Rob Trinidad and others, doing a variety of on-site interpretive acts ranging from dance to comedy to aerial performance. Afterwards, you will see your everyday surroundings in a whole new way.
Read more.
Saturday January 23, 12noon – 2pm and 3 – 5pm
Tickets: $10 advance; $12 at the bus
Tour begins at 953 Mission St. @ 5th St (Mint Mall, lower level)
Have you ever noticed a third floor door opening into the air? Useless pipes or poles jutting out from the sidewalk or the sides of buildings? Join KSW and a group of performing artists for a bus tour to discover some of these overlooked Thomassons around SF. This unique tour will feature local artists including Allan Manalo, Philip Huang, Anthem Salgado, Kennedy Kabasares, Adderly Bigelow, Christina Miglino, Dennis Rodis, Rob Trinidad and others, doing a variety of on-site interpretive acts ranging from dance to comedy to aerial performance. Afterwards, you will see your everyday surroundings in a whole new way.
Read more.
Online Journal Seeks Submissions: Diverse Voices Quarterly
Diverse Voices Quarterly is a new online literary journal looking for submissions from all walks of life.
About DVQ: There are many fantastic literary journals out there, looking specifically for submissions from women, feminists, gays/lesbians, Jewish, Christian, African-American, et al. In creating this online literary journal, we're providing an outlet for AND by everyone: every age, race, gender, sexual orientation, and religious background. This journal will, in essence, celebrate and unify diversity.
Our second issue is available for download here.
Deadline for submissions is 02/15/2010.
Submission guidelines here.
About DVQ: There are many fantastic literary journals out there, looking specifically for submissions from women, feminists, gays/lesbians, Jewish, Christian, African-American, et al. In creating this online literary journal, we're providing an outlet for AND by everyone: every age, race, gender, sexual orientation, and religious background. This journal will, in essence, celebrate and unify diversity.
Our second issue is available for download here.
Deadline for submissions is 02/15/2010.
Submission guidelines here.
Monday, January 4, 2010
7th annual Intergenerational Writers Lab
Applications are now available for the 2010 Intergenerational Writers Lab (IWL)
A program of Kearny Street Workshop, Intersection for the Arts and AMATE: Women Painting Stories
with Ben Fong-Torres, Lorna Dee Cervantes and Leticia Hernandez
A unique program with three of SF’s community-based interdisciplinary arts organizations designed to thoroughly explore and develop your writing. Accepted applicants will participate in eight workshops led by accomplished writers and artists, engage in and be inspired by other artistic genres, perform their work at a public event, be published in online anthology, and have the opportunity to develop a communal network of writing peers.
Click here to download the application.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: RECEIVED BY 5PM, FEBRUARY 19, 2010.
NOT A POSTMARK DEADLINE. PHYSICAL APPLICATIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BY 5PM on 2/19/2010.
SF-based arts organizations, Kearny Street Workshop, Intersection for the Arts and Amate: Women Painting Stories. are seeking applications for, the 7th annual Intergenerational Writers Lab (IWL), a literary program for emerging writers, scheduled to take place April 3 – May 22, 2010. Twelve students will be selected to participate in the literary program which will involve a series of workshops, a public reading, and an online anthology publication. IWL workshops will be led by Lorna Dee Cervantes, Leticia Hernandez, Ben Fong-Torres and another instructor yet to be determined (check kearnystreet.org or theintersection.org in January for the final instructor list). The IWL will conclude with a public reading in early July at Intersection for the Arts.
The goals of the IWL program include the following:
TO APPLY:
Please submit the following:
The tuition for accepted IWL participants is $425, (two full or four partial scholarships are available). Tuition levels will be determined on a case-by-case basis, based on individual participant needs. If you wish to be considered for a partial or full scholarship, please submit an additional description of your circumstances and why you believe you deserve a scholarship.
Please submit all materials and application fee to:
Intersection for the Arts
Attention: IWL 2009
446 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
For more information, please contact:
Ellen Oh, Executive Director
Kearny Street Workshop
415.503.0520
ellen@kearnystreet.org
www.kearnystreet.org
Rebeka Rodriguez Program Director
Intersection for the Arts
415.626.2787 ext108
rebeka@theintersection.org
www.theintersection.org
Leticia Hernandez, Director
AMATE: Women Painting Stories
amatepoetry@gmail.com
A program of Kearny Street Workshop, Intersection for the Arts and AMATE: Women Painting Stories
with Ben Fong-Torres, Lorna Dee Cervantes and Leticia Hernandez
A unique program with three of SF’s community-based interdisciplinary arts organizations designed to thoroughly explore and develop your writing. Accepted applicants will participate in eight workshops led by accomplished writers and artists, engage in and be inspired by other artistic genres, perform their work at a public event, be published in online anthology, and have the opportunity to develop a communal network of writing peers.
Click here to download the application.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: RECEIVED BY 5PM, FEBRUARY 19, 2010.
NOT A POSTMARK DEADLINE. PHYSICAL APPLICATIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BY 5PM on 2/19/2010.
SF-based arts organizations, Kearny Street Workshop, Intersection for the Arts and Amate: Women Painting Stories. are seeking applications for, the 7th annual Intergenerational Writers Lab (IWL), a literary program for emerging writers, scheduled to take place April 3 – May 22, 2010. Twelve students will be selected to participate in the literary program which will involve a series of workshops, a public reading, and an online anthology publication. IWL workshops will be led by Lorna Dee Cervantes, Leticia Hernandez, Ben Fong-Torres and another instructor yet to be determined (check kearnystreet.org or theintersection.org in January for the final instructor list). The IWL will conclude with a public reading in early July at Intersection for the Arts.
The goals of the IWL program include the following:
- to provide twelve local emerging writers/artists with the opportunity to challenge, develop, and expand their practice by working with established writers in a variety of genres;
- to contribute to the development of new literary forms and language that incorporate multiple forms of creative expression;
- to provide emerging artists with the opportunity to create community by connecting and working with each other and with established writers in the literary world;
- to provide the larger community with an opportunity to engage with new work and new explorations of form and language;
- to publish an online anthology that highlights work by exciting new writers committed to exploring new forms and voices.
TO APPLY:
Please submit the following:
- An IWL 2010 application form;
- Writing sample, 12 point & double-spaced, not to exceed 7 pages;
- A description of why you want to enroll in the IWL program, not to exceed 500 words.
- A submission fee of $10 (check or money order made out to Intersection for the Arts). Please note: submission fees are used to cover artist fees, the online publication, and partial and full scholarships. Submission fees may be waived on as-need basis, and per applicant request. To request a submission fee waiver, please contact KSW at info@kearnystreet.org.
The tuition for accepted IWL participants is $425, (two full or four partial scholarships are available). Tuition levels will be determined on a case-by-case basis, based on individual participant needs. If you wish to be considered for a partial or full scholarship, please submit an additional description of your circumstances and why you believe you deserve a scholarship.
Please submit all materials and application fee to:
Intersection for the Arts
Attention: IWL 2009
446 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
For more information, please contact:
Ellen Oh, Executive Director
Kearny Street Workshop
415.503.0520
ellen@kearnystreet.org
www.kearnystreet.org
Rebeka Rodriguez Program Director
Intersection for the Arts
415.626.2787 ext108
rebeka@theintersection.org
www.theintersection.org
Leticia Hernandez, Director
AMATE: Women Painting Stories
amatepoetry@gmail.com
Elma Stuckey Liberal Arts and Sciences Emerging Poet-in-Residence
Elma Stuckey Liberal Arts and Sciences Emerging Poet-in-Residence:
Columbia College Chicago is an urban institution of over 12,000 undergraduate and graduate students emphasizing arts, media, and communications in a liberal arts setting. The Department of English is seeking applications for an annual, one-year, non-renewable position to start in August 2010. Poets from underrepresented communities and/or those who bring diverse cultural, ethnic, theoretical, and national perspectives to their writing and teaching are particularly encouraged to apply. Position is named for Elma Stuckey, a poet born in Memphis who lived in Chicago for more than 40 years. Author of The Big Gate (1976) and The Collected Poems of Elma Stuckey (1987), she has been described as 'the A.E. Housman of slavery'-a poet who recast for contemporary readers 'those things that were kept from the ears of the unknowing slavemasters.'
The Creative Writing, Poetry Program has a commitment to excellence in teaching and is founded upon strong ties between the study of literature and the practice of creative expression. An active reading series brings well-known poets to campus monthly; faculty and students also produce two national literary magazines: Court Green and Columbia Poetry Review.
Successful candidate will teach one course per semester (undergraduate workshop, craft, and/or literature seminars), give a public reading, and possibly supervise a small number of graduate theses. Qualified candidates will have received an MFA in poetry or PhD in English (with creative dissertation) or other relevant terminal degree in past five years, demonstrate experience and excellence in college-level teaching, and have strong record of publication in national literary magazines.
Columbia College Chicago encourages female, Deaf, LGBTQ, disabled, international, and minority individuals to apply for all positions. Position is contingent on funding. Salary: $30,000, benefits not included. Application deadline: 02/05/10. To be considered, please send cover letter, CV, 5-page sample of published poetry, sample syllabus for undergraduate or graduate-level poetry workshop or literature course, three letters of recommendation (at least one should address teaching), and statement of teaching philosophy as Word or PDF files to Dr. Lisa Fishman at: EnglishPoet@colum.edu.
Columbia College Chicago is an urban institution of over 12,000 undergraduate and graduate students emphasizing arts, media, and communications in a liberal arts setting. The Department of English is seeking applications for an annual, one-year, non-renewable position to start in August 2010. Poets from underrepresented communities and/or those who bring diverse cultural, ethnic, theoretical, and national perspectives to their writing and teaching are particularly encouraged to apply. Position is named for Elma Stuckey, a poet born in Memphis who lived in Chicago for more than 40 years. Author of The Big Gate (1976) and The Collected Poems of Elma Stuckey (1987), she has been described as 'the A.E. Housman of slavery'-a poet who recast for contemporary readers 'those things that were kept from the ears of the unknowing slavemasters.'
The Creative Writing, Poetry Program has a commitment to excellence in teaching and is founded upon strong ties between the study of literature and the practice of creative expression. An active reading series brings well-known poets to campus monthly; faculty and students also produce two national literary magazines: Court Green and Columbia Poetry Review.
Successful candidate will teach one course per semester (undergraduate workshop, craft, and/or literature seminars), give a public reading, and possibly supervise a small number of graduate theses. Qualified candidates will have received an MFA in poetry or PhD in English (with creative dissertation) or other relevant terminal degree in past five years, demonstrate experience and excellence in college-level teaching, and have strong record of publication in national literary magazines.
Columbia College Chicago encourages female, Deaf, LGBTQ, disabled, international, and minority individuals to apply for all positions. Position is contingent on funding. Salary: $30,000, benefits not included. Application deadline: 02/05/10. To be considered, please send cover letter, CV, 5-page sample of published poetry, sample syllabus for undergraduate or graduate-level poetry workshop or literature course, three letters of recommendation (at least one should address teaching), and statement of teaching philosophy as Word or PDF files to Dr. Lisa Fishman at: EnglishPoet@colum.edu.
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