KULARTS PRESENTS @ HALLIDIE PLAZA
Kularts brings Pilipino American performances to Hallidie Plaza at Powell BART Station, a San Francisco hub for locals, tourists and shoppers
Sun Nov 21, 2-4PM
FREE!
Kulayan and Kulintronica
2-4PM
James (gaNyan) Garcia and Christopher de Leon, instructors of Kulayan, a Kularts and Filipino Community Center visual arts program, along with Miguel Bounce Perez will be live painting - an improvisational art-making process.
2:30-3PM
Ron Quesada’s Kulintronica melds melodic Kulintang gong music with folk rock in a live, electronic explosion. Kulintronica features a unique style of rapid and lyrical Kulintang playing, layered with the industrial sounds of electronica, tempered by Philippine guitars and Hawaiian ukulele.
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Friday, October 29, 2010
11/16/2010: The Practice of Poetry @ the A/P/A Institute, NYU
The Practice Of Poetry: A Conversation With Barbara Jane Reyes And Tamiko Beyer, Moderated By Suheir Hammad
Date: Tuesday, Nov 16th
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Location:
A/P/A Institute at NYU
41-51 East 11th Street
7th Floor Gallery
New York, NY 10003
Free and open to the public.
To RSVP: Email apa.rsvp@nyu.edu, or Call 212-992-9653
A conversation with Barbara Jane Reyes and Tamiko Beyer, moderated by Suheir Hammad. Reyes and Beyer will share original poetry, and enter a discussion worrying the dynamics of scholarship, canonization, research, and personal myth, as they engage with the poets' blank page.
Date: Tuesday, Nov 16th
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Location:
A/P/A Institute at NYU
41-51 East 11th Street
7th Floor Gallery
New York, NY 10003
Free and open to the public.
To RSVP: Email apa.rsvp@nyu.edu, or Call 212-992-9653
A conversation with Barbara Jane Reyes and Tamiko Beyer, moderated by Suheir Hammad. Reyes and Beyer will share original poetry, and enter a discussion worrying the dynamics of scholarship, canonization, research, and personal myth, as they engage with the poets' blank page.
Thursday, October 28, 2010
11/05/2010: An Arts Activism & S.T.I.T.C.H.E.D Workshop by Climbing PoeTree!
Arts Activism & S.T.I.T.C.H.E.D Workshop SF
11.05.10 to 11.05.10
4pm-6pm
San Francisco, CA, usa
An Arts Activism & S.T.I.T.C.H.E.D Workshop by Climbing PoeTree!
How can we transform our creative powers into meaningful change in our communities?
In this interactive workshop that will combine story-telling, slide-shows, creative writing, and poetic outbursts, the Brooklyn-based duo will share tactics and strategies on how art and cultural work can be used at the service of our visions for a more just and sustainable world. Be prepared to share struggles and solutions from your own communities, and to get creative, imaginative, and inspired!
Madrone Studios Workshop
1417 15th Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
$15-50
(A Hurricane Season Curriculum fundraiser!)
Advance Workshop Tickets! Click Here
related site
11.05.10 to 11.05.10
4pm-6pm
San Francisco, CA, usa
An Arts Activism & S.T.I.T.C.H.E.D Workshop by Climbing PoeTree!
How can we transform our creative powers into meaningful change in our communities?
In this interactive workshop that will combine story-telling, slide-shows, creative writing, and poetic outbursts, the Brooklyn-based duo will share tactics and strategies on how art and cultural work can be used at the service of our visions for a more just and sustainable world. Be prepared to share struggles and solutions from your own communities, and to get creative, imaginative, and inspired!
Madrone Studios Workshop
1417 15th Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
$15-50
(A Hurricane Season Curriculum fundraiser!)
Advance Workshop Tickets! Click Here
related site
11/06/2010: Free Writing Workshop FILIPINOTOWN, USA - Collected Stories and Neighborhood Maps, Los Angeles
SHOUT IT OUT!
We want stories about the quirky, heartbreaking, or maddening people you know or heard about--who live/lived/were somehow connected to the Filipino areas downtown Los Angeles.
YOU are invited to participate in the first community gathering to discuss and begin a community writing project (free writing workshop):
“FILIPINOTOWN, USA - Collected Stories and Neighborhood Maps, Los Angeles.”
This event is convened by a daughter and son of Los Angeles' Historic Filipinotown, Carlene Sobrino Bonnivier and Gerald G.Gubatan, hosted by Search to Involve Pilipino Americans (SIPA), and supported by the Filipino American National Historical Society - Los Angeles Chapter.
When: November 6, 2010 (Saturday) from 2:00 to 4:30.
Where: Search to Involve Pilipino Americans (SIPA)
SIPA Temple Gateway Youth & Community Center
3200 West Temple Street, Historic Filipinotown
Los Angeles, CA 90026 (parking on side & in rear lot)
View participation invitation on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVrMGzyH3qo
Contact: Carlene Sobrino Bonnivier cbonnivi@gmail.com or Gerald Gubatan gxgg@att.net
714-860-9275
We want stories about the quirky, heartbreaking, or maddening people you know or heard about--who live/lived/were somehow connected to the Filipino areas downtown Los Angeles.
YOU are invited to participate in the first community gathering to discuss and begin a community writing project (free writing workshop):
“FILIPINOTOWN, USA - Collected Stories and Neighborhood Maps, Los Angeles.”
This event is convened by a daughter and son of Los Angeles' Historic Filipinotown, Carlene Sobrino Bonnivier and Gerald G.Gubatan, hosted by Search to Involve Pilipino Americans (SIPA), and supported by the Filipino American National Historical Society - Los Angeles Chapter.
When: November 6, 2010 (Saturday) from 2:00 to 4:30.
Where: Search to Involve Pilipino Americans (SIPA)
SIPA Temple Gateway Youth & Community Center
3200 West Temple Street, Historic Filipinotown
Los Angeles, CA 90026 (parking on side & in rear lot)
View participation invitation on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVrMGzyH3qo
Contact: Carlene Sobrino Bonnivier cbonnivi@gmail.com or Gerald Gubatan gxgg@att.net
714-860-9275
Call for Submissions: Tidal Basin Review, Post-Black, Post-Racial
From Tidal Basin Review:
CALL: POST-BLACK, POST-RACIAL
Tidal Basin Review invites writers and critical thinkers to begin creative and critical dialogue regarding the terms, “Post-Black” and “Post-Racial.” We challenge you to make a fighting case for the appropriate use of the terms, post-black and/or post-racial, or to advocate for a world of academic and common thought, in which the terms are not used. As always, Tidal Basin Review wants to hear from America’s beautiful spectrum.
Tidal Basin Review will accept submissions for the Post-Black/Post-Racial Call from November 1st to December 31st, 2010. Any submissions received after this deadline will not be considered and will be discarded. The standard response time is two (2) months.
Tidal Basin Review considers work, in English, which has not been previously published. Tidal Basin Press, LLC acquires North American Serial Rights, First Electronic Rights, and Electronic Archival Rights. Publication rights revert back to the author upon publication of work in an issue of the Tidal Basin Review.
We accept simultaneous submissions, however, please notify us immediately upon acceptance of your work elsewhere via the Submission Manager.
For poetry submissions, submit 3-5 poems totaling no more than 7 pages in one single file in doc., rtf, or .pdf format.
For prose submissions, submit one (1) short story or one (1) stand alone novel chapter or creative non-fiction piece of no more than 2,500 words in one single file in doc., rtf, or .docx format.
For critical submissions, submit one (1) essay not to exceed 5,000 words.
Work accepted for this call is tentatively slated to appear in the Spring 2011 Issue of Tidal Basin Review.
CALL: POST-BLACK, POST-RACIAL
Tidal Basin Review invites writers and critical thinkers to begin creative and critical dialogue regarding the terms, “Post-Black” and “Post-Racial.” We challenge you to make a fighting case for the appropriate use of the terms, post-black and/or post-racial, or to advocate for a world of academic and common thought, in which the terms are not used. As always, Tidal Basin Review wants to hear from America’s beautiful spectrum.
Tidal Basin Review will accept submissions for the Post-Black/Post-Racial Call from November 1st to December 31st, 2010. Any submissions received after this deadline will not be considered and will be discarded. The standard response time is two (2) months.
Tidal Basin Review considers work, in English, which has not been previously published. Tidal Basin Press, LLC acquires North American Serial Rights, First Electronic Rights, and Electronic Archival Rights. Publication rights revert back to the author upon publication of work in an issue of the Tidal Basin Review.
We accept simultaneous submissions, however, please notify us immediately upon acceptance of your work elsewhere via the Submission Manager.
For poetry submissions, submit 3-5 poems totaling no more than 7 pages in one single file in doc., rtf, or .pdf format.
For prose submissions, submit one (1) short story or one (1) stand alone novel chapter or creative non-fiction piece of no more than 2,500 words in one single file in doc., rtf, or .docx format.
For critical submissions, submit one (1) essay not to exceed 5,000 words.
Work accepted for this call is tentatively slated to appear in the Spring 2011 Issue of Tidal Basin Review.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
10/29/2010: Kabambannuagan: Our Voices, Our Lives, A New Book by Filipino Youth Raised by Immigrant Ilokano Parents
For immediate release
October 27, 2010
Contact: Jeffrey Acido
Phone: (808) 295 6787
Email: jeffrey.acido@gmail.com
A Groundbreaking Book, Kabambannuagan: Our Voices, Ours Lives, Highlights
Experiences and Concerns of Filipino Youth Raised by Ilokano Immigrant Parents
(Honolulu, Hawaiʻi)—In celebration of Filipino-American History Month, a book launch and reading of Kabambannuagan: Our Lives, Our Voices will be held on Friday, October 29, 2010, at the University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa Spalding Auditorium from 6 to 8 p.m. The free event is open to the public and is sponsored by the UH Timpuyog Ilokano Student Organization, UH Ilokano Language and Literature Program, and Nakem Youth. The book culminates Nakem Youth’s efforts to reconnect Filipino teens and college students with their culture, and encourage them to actively participate in politics and education to create social change.
The 14 vignettes in the book reflect the individual and collective experiences of young adults of Ilokano descent whose immigrant parents settled in the Kalihi and Waipahu areas on the island of Oahu. The collected essays—which include translations in Ilokano—explore the complex dynamic of immigrant and local-born youth, their reflections on home and homeland, and the challenges they faced searching for identity and meaning in a new heartland.
Aurelio Solver Agcaoili, co-editor of the book and executive director of Nakem Youth, notes that while 85% of Hawaiʻi’s Filipino population can trace their heritage to the Ilocos region where Ilokano is widely spoken, “many are ashamed to speak it, favoring only the dominant languages of English and Filipino, which is the Tagalog-based national language of the Philippines.”
Agcaoili adds that the mistaken notion of Ilokano as an inferior language is quickly changing, with many global advocates for “cultural plurality, mother language education and linguistic justice.” He points to the publication of Kabambannuagan: Our Voices, Our Lives as a shining example of the growing critical mass of books written in Philippine languages other than Tagalog.
Jeffrey Tangonan Acido, program director of Nakem Youth and co-editor of the book says his youth group wants to emphasize the importance of pride in their Ilokano heritage. He asks that parents and grandparents to talk to their children and grandchildren in Ilokano to ensure future generations can speak and read Ilokano. “That’s why the book launch readings will be done in both English and Ilokano, with the Ilokano sections read by our Ilokano elders,” he says.
Acido explains that the Ilokano word “kabambannuagan” in the book’s title refers to the “essence of youth, that point in time which can never be captured again. It speaks to the critical consciousness you develop when you learn who you are, where you come from, discover knowledge about yourself in the context of ‘Ilokano-ness’ that no one can take away.”
Among the issues the book addresses are history, freedom, justice, and equality. In Charissa Isidro Fabia’s essay “Going Past the Route of the Butterfly,” she dreams of freedom from an oppressive job, which she must endure to pay for her college tuition. She ultimately realizes the bad experience makes her a stronger person, underscoring her determination to “give back to her parents.” Fabia wrote the story, she says, because she does not want others to be telling her story. “We want to be the ones writing our own narratives, using our own words.”
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
11/03/2010: Florante Aguilar's ASWANG at the Philippine Consulate of San Francisco
Greetings!
New Art Media and Kularts in cooperation with the Philippine Consulate of San Francisco wish to invite you to the kick-off fundraising event for a brand-new contemporary Filipino theatrical work titled ASWANG
What is 'Aswang'?
The San Francisco Foundation has awarded Filipino-American guitarist-composer Florante Aguilar a commission to compose a new theatrical work based on Philippine ghosts and folk tales. Aguilar is the first Filipino American to receive a composition grant from the foundation.
Please join us on November 3rd for a wine and cheese gathering as we present the concept, staging, and production of this exciting new work. Composer Florante Aguilar will be joined by mezzo-soprano Kristine Sinajon performing a few numbers that reflect the spirit of the Aswang songs.
When: November 3, 2010 5:30 PM
Where:The Philippine Consulate of San Francisco
447 Sutter St # 600
San Francisco, CA 94108-4620
Admission is FREE.
The power of your sponsorship will give us the opportunity to make “Aswang” a reality on stage.
www.kularts.org | www.florante.org
Please RSVP by
October 31st 2010
If you are unable to attend but wish to make a tax-deductible donation, please go to:
http://www.florante.org/aswang.html
The San Francisco Foundation will match the amount you donate dollar for dollar!
New Art Media and Kularts in cooperation with the Philippine Consulate of San Francisco wish to invite you to the kick-off fundraising event for a brand-new contemporary Filipino theatrical work titled ASWANG
The San Francisco Foundation has awarded Filipino-American guitarist-composer Florante Aguilar a commission to compose a new theatrical work based on Philippine ghosts and folk tales. Aguilar is the first Filipino American to receive a composition grant from the foundation.
Please join us on November 3rd for a wine and cheese gathering as we present the concept, staging, and production of this exciting new work. Composer Florante Aguilar will be joined by mezzo-soprano Kristine Sinajon performing a few numbers that reflect the spirit of the Aswang songs.
When: November 3, 2010 5:30 PM
Where:The Philippine Consulate of San Francisco
447 Sutter St # 600
San Francisco, CA 94108-4620
Admission is FREE.
The power of your sponsorship will give us the opportunity to make “Aswang” a reality on stage.
www.kularts.org | www.florante.org
Please RSVP by
October 31st 2010
If you are unable to attend but wish to make a tax-deductible donation, please go to:
http://www.florante.org/aswang.html
The San Francisco Foundation will match the amount you donate dollar for dollar!
Review: Jessica Hagedorn's 'Toxicology'
A very early review of Jessica Hagedorn's forthcoming novel, Toxicology:
About midstream through this exceptional novel, I realized something obvious that maybe I should have noticed before. None of its central characters have to be at a desk at 9AM or on a factory floor at 8AM. Indeed, neither avant-film director Mimi nor her sometime estranged daughter Violet, nor the legendary, lesbian, new wave writer, Eleanor, reaching for the last chapter of her maturity, who is texted by everyone else as “Picasso”, nor Romeo Byron, who defines cinematic sexuality in our age and overtures this story already dead from an orgy of self-destruction, probably, is obliged to keep any commitment to anybody that they don’t have the impulse to keep in these near breathless, cocaine-powdered pages. But who the fuck cares? I couldn’t put this narrative down.
Read more.
About midstream through this exceptional novel, I realized something obvious that maybe I should have noticed before. None of its central characters have to be at a desk at 9AM or on a factory floor at 8AM. Indeed, neither avant-film director Mimi nor her sometime estranged daughter Violet, nor the legendary, lesbian, new wave writer, Eleanor, reaching for the last chapter of her maturity, who is texted by everyone else as “Picasso”, nor Romeo Byron, who defines cinematic sexuality in our age and overtures this story already dead from an orgy of self-destruction, probably, is obliged to keep any commitment to anybody that they don’t have the impulse to keep in these near breathless, cocaine-powdered pages. But who the fuck cares? I couldn’t put this narrative down.
Read more.
Monday, October 25, 2010
North Country Institute and Retreat for Writers of Color
Type: Conference
Location: Plattsburgh, New York
Event Date: July 11, 2011
Application Deadline: May 25, 2011
Financial Aid Deadline: May 25, 2011
Web site: www.centerforblackliterature.org
The 2011 North Country Institute and Retreat for Writers of Color will be held from July 11 to July 15, 2011 at the Valcour Educational Conference Center overlooking Lake Champlain in Plattsburgh, New York. Cosponsored by the Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, New York, and the Department of English at SUNY, Plattsburgh, the conference features workshops in fiction and creative nonfiction, as well as readings and one-on-one conferences with faculty members. The cost of the conference is $600, which includes lodging and meals. Scholarships are available. Teachers can earn professional development credits. Submit up to 20 pages of prose or a chapter of a novel or memoir, a project description, and contact information for two references by May 25, 2011. There is no application fee. Call or visit the Web site for more information.
2011 Winter NCI Workshop Leaders: Bernice L. McFadden and Willie Perdomo
Creative Writing Workshop for Mamas
Calling All Mamas!
A Writing Workshop Just For You!
Being a mama is hard and rewarding work, full of love and joy that we often cannot express in words. Whether you're a working or stay-at-home mama or someone in between, this is the opportunity to find your voice and articulate your experiences through stories and poems.
During this online course, you will express and explore the complicated chaos that comes with being a mama, from birth & adoption stories to parental challenges. Along the way, you'll learn the tools of craft and have the chance to share your work as well as receive feedback. As the class progresses, we'll work to build a community of support and encouragement.
Whether you're picking up a pen for the first time or you were born with one in your hand, this workshop is for you! Mamas from all stages (newborns, teens, grown children, grandchildren) are welcome!
This 6-week course begins online Wed, November 3, 2010. Space is limited.
For more info, go to: http://www.leslieannhobayan.com/workshops.html
About me:
Leslieann Hobayan is a poet-writer mama who currently teaches creative writing at Rutgers University's Writers House in New Brunswick, NJ. An educator for over 10 years, she has served as a writing mentor for youth at Urban Word NYC and has taught creative writing at UC-Santa Cruz and Montclair State University. Nominated for a Pushcart, her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The New York Quarterly, Growing Up Filipino II, Phati'tude, Babaylan: An Anthology of Filipina and Filipina-American Writers, and Pinoy Poetics, among others. She is currently at work on a manuscript of poems and a novel.
A Writing Workshop Just For You!
Being a mama is hard and rewarding work, full of love and joy that we often cannot express in words. Whether you're a working or stay-at-home mama or someone in between, this is the opportunity to find your voice and articulate your experiences through stories and poems.
During this online course, you will express and explore the complicated chaos that comes with being a mama, from birth & adoption stories to parental challenges. Along the way, you'll learn the tools of craft and have the chance to share your work as well as receive feedback. As the class progresses, we'll work to build a community of support and encouragement.
Whether you're picking up a pen for the first time or you were born with one in your hand, this workshop is for you! Mamas from all stages (newborns, teens, grown children, grandchildren) are welcome!
This 6-week course begins online Wed, November 3, 2010. Space is limited.
For more info, go to: http://www.leslieannhobayan.com/workshops.html
About me:
Leslieann Hobayan is a poet-writer mama who currently teaches creative writing at Rutgers University's Writers House in New Brunswick, NJ. An educator for over 10 years, she has served as a writing mentor for youth at Urban Word NYC and has taught creative writing at UC-Santa Cruz and Montclair State University. Nominated for a Pushcart, her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The New York Quarterly, Growing Up Filipino II, Phati'tude, Babaylan: An Anthology of Filipina and Filipina-American Writers, and Pinoy Poetics, among others. She is currently at work on a manuscript of poems and a novel.
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Review: Until Today at the I-Hotel
From KQED Arts:
Jerome Reyes' Until Today: Spectres for the International Hotel is a group of site-responsive works and a series of events that simultaneously offer a historical reading of the International Hotel's past, activate a community space for current tenants, and present a promising solo debut by a young visual artist. Working on the site of the original I-Hotel (now senior housing), Reyes and curator Julio César Morales transformed the ground-floor-level community center into a gallery space, which functions in both capacities throughout the run of the exhibition. Until Today includes a corner stage, a site-specific sculpture, three framed architectural renderings, an original video, and ephemera from the hotel's archive. The project's genuine dedication to the history of the site and its contemporary inhabitants situates it in the realm of social practice. However, the exhibition distinguishes itself from much community-based art through its commitment to visual autonomy within the realm of contemporary art making.
Reyes conducted significant research on the I-Hotel's freighted history in order to accurately represent the political symbolism of the building in the struggle against gentrification. In the 1960s, the I-Hotel, a low-income residential hotel in San Francisco's Manilatown, was slated for demolition by the city as a result of urban renewal efforts. The primarily Filipino American elderly residents, together with local activists, opposed the destruction. A decades-long struggle between the latter group and city officials ensued. In 1977, the residents were evicted, and in 1981, the building was demolished. The community activists never stopped fighting, however, and in 2005, a new building designated for senior citizen housing was constructed.
Through interviews with past tenants and activists, the artist also discovered that the I-Hotel had once housed a nightclub called the hungry i and Mabuhay Gardens, the premiere venue for punk rock in the '70s and '80s in San Francisco. The typography associated with punk rock posters and flyers is a strong influence in Reyes' installation, which otherwise eschews the messy aesthetic of the punk scene. Across the front and side windows of the building, Reyes has affixed bold orange block letters approximately two feet tall that spell out a quotation from I-Hotel activist Alan Robles: "they lived, as it were, in two worlds -- in a world they left behind, and in a dream before their eyes." The text unites the artist's dualistic approach to the subject matter: interpreting the past and looking to the future.
Read more.
Jerome Reyes' Until Today: Spectres for the International Hotel is a group of site-responsive works and a series of events that simultaneously offer a historical reading of the International Hotel's past, activate a community space for current tenants, and present a promising solo debut by a young visual artist. Working on the site of the original I-Hotel (now senior housing), Reyes and curator Julio César Morales transformed the ground-floor-level community center into a gallery space, which functions in both capacities throughout the run of the exhibition. Until Today includes a corner stage, a site-specific sculpture, three framed architectural renderings, an original video, and ephemera from the hotel's archive. The project's genuine dedication to the history of the site and its contemporary inhabitants situates it in the realm of social practice. However, the exhibition distinguishes itself from much community-based art through its commitment to visual autonomy within the realm of contemporary art making.
Reyes conducted significant research on the I-Hotel's freighted history in order to accurately represent the political symbolism of the building in the struggle against gentrification. In the 1960s, the I-Hotel, a low-income residential hotel in San Francisco's Manilatown, was slated for demolition by the city as a result of urban renewal efforts. The primarily Filipino American elderly residents, together with local activists, opposed the destruction. A decades-long struggle between the latter group and city officials ensued. In 1977, the residents were evicted, and in 1981, the building was demolished. The community activists never stopped fighting, however, and in 2005, a new building designated for senior citizen housing was constructed.
Through interviews with past tenants and activists, the artist also discovered that the I-Hotel had once housed a nightclub called the hungry i and Mabuhay Gardens, the premiere venue for punk rock in the '70s and '80s in San Francisco. The typography associated with punk rock posters and flyers is a strong influence in Reyes' installation, which otherwise eschews the messy aesthetic of the punk scene. Across the front and side windows of the building, Reyes has affixed bold orange block letters approximately two feet tall that spell out a quotation from I-Hotel activist Alan Robles: "they lived, as it were, in two worlds -- in a world they left behind, and in a dream before their eyes." The text unites the artist's dualistic approach to the subject matter: interpreting the past and looking to the future.
Read more.
Saturday, October 23, 2010
10/23/2010: Jo Canion CD Release Party
Jo Canion CD Release Party
Saturday October 23rd 8PM
Oak City Bar & Grill
1029 El Camino Real Menlo Park
(650)321-6882
www.oakcitybarandgrill.com
Ms. Canion was a major hit with the audience at the 3rd Annual SF Filipino American Jazz Festival on October 10th at Yoshi's SF where she debuted her CD, Lifelong Friends. It's an instant jazz classic by one of the Bay Area's very best. This is going to be quite a party! Many friends, former bandmates, and fans will be there to congratulate Ms. Canion on her new release. To hear some of her music visit her on MySpace at www.myspace.com/jocanion
Celebrate Pinoy Jazz and Filipino American Heritage Month
Little Brown Brother with Anna Maria Flechero
12 noon - 1:30 pm
and a presentation on the Buffalo Soldiers and the Philippine American War by Evangeline Buell, Jackie Morgan, Abe Ignacio, Oscar Penaranda
San Francisco Main Public Library
Saturday October 23, 2-4 pm
FREE ADMISSION | ALL AGES WELCOME
Koret Auditorium
SF Main Public Library
200 Larkin Street San Francisco
The San Francisco Filipino-American Jazz Festival needs your financial support to continue fulfilling our on-going mission which is to preserve, promote, and celebrate Filipino-American history and culture and to acknowledge contributions past and present by Filipino jazz artists. Most of the performances we present during the year are free to the public, accessible to everyone, and all ages are welcome.
All Donations are Tax-Deductible Make a Donation Today
Become A Sponsor - Support Pinoy Jazz!
Visit our website and click on the Donations page
www.sfpinoyjazzfest.com
Saturday October 23rd 8PM
Oak City Bar & Grill
1029 El Camino Real Menlo Park
(650)321-6882
www.oakcitybarandgrill.com
Ms. Canion was a major hit with the audience at the 3rd Annual SF Filipino American Jazz Festival on October 10th at Yoshi's SF where she debuted her CD, Lifelong Friends. It's an instant jazz classic by one of the Bay Area's very best. This is going to be quite a party! Many friends, former bandmates, and fans will be there to congratulate Ms. Canion on her new release. To hear some of her music visit her on MySpace at www.myspace.com/jocanion
Celebrate Pinoy Jazz and Filipino American Heritage Month
Little Brown Brother with Anna Maria Flechero
12 noon - 1:30 pm
and a presentation on the Buffalo Soldiers and the Philippine American War by Evangeline Buell, Jackie Morgan, Abe Ignacio, Oscar Penaranda
San Francisco Main Public Library
Saturday October 23, 2-4 pm
FREE ADMISSION | ALL AGES WELCOME
Koret Auditorium
SF Main Public Library
200 Larkin Street San Francisco
The San Francisco Filipino-American Jazz Festival needs your financial support to continue fulfilling our on-going mission which is to preserve, promote, and celebrate Filipino-American history and culture and to acknowledge contributions past and present by Filipino jazz artists. Most of the performances we present during the year are free to the public, accessible to everyone, and all ages are welcome.
All Donations are Tax-Deductible Make a Donation Today
Become A Sponsor - Support Pinoy Jazz!
Visit our website and click on the Donations page
www.sfpinoyjazzfest.com
Friday, October 22, 2010
11/06/2010: Turning Tides: A Symposium on Diasporic Literatures (NY)
From Kundiman News:
November 6, Turning Tides: A Symposium on Diasporic Literatures
Fordham University, November 6, 2010, 1 pm
http://turningtides.squarespace.com/
This creative and scholarly symposium which will highlight three different legacies of diaspora in the United States: Haiti, The Philippines and Puerto Rico. Each panel will feature a short scholarly talk, a reading by two writers followed by a moderated conversation. What do Filipino American writers take for granted, in terms of artistic freedom? In what political and aesthetic ways are Puerto Rican writers employing creative disobedience? Until January 2010, descendents of the Haitian diaspora could call Haiti their home-- that geography has been rent. What kind of scattering will result? And, how will it be told by writers?
The principle aim of Turning Tides is to involve prominent artists and scholars in an exchange of ideas for the purpose of proactively responding to the growing phenomena of American diaspora as it is in the making and to ground and contextualize this conversation within a critical understanding of a larger global history.
Free and Open to the Public.
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Location
Fordham University, Lincoln Center
McNally Auditorium
140 W. 62nd Street, Law School Entrance (Between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues)
Take A, B, C, D & 1 trains to Columbus Circle.
Exit at 60th Street & Broadway.
Upon entering the double glass doors and informing the security desk that you are attending the English Department event, walk up the stairs and take a quick left. After going through another pair of double doors, take the first right and enter the Atrium through its glass doors. The Auditorium will be ahead of you to your left.
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Program
1:00 - 1:15 pm Opening Remarks: Yvette Christiansë
1:15 - 2:15 pm Panel on Haiti: After the Earthquake
J. Michael Dash, Denize Lauture, Yolaine M. St. Fort
2:15 - 3:15 pm Panel on Puerto Rico: Creative Disobedience in New Nuyorican Writing
Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé, Willie Perdomo, Edwin Torres
3:15 - 3:30 pm Break
3:30 - 4:30 pm Panel on the Philippines: The Artist as Activist
Nerissa S. Balce, Bino Realuyo, Melissa Roxas. Moderated by Luis Francia.
4:30 - 6:00 pm Reading and Reception
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November 6, Turning Tides: A Symposium on Diasporic Literatures
Fordham University, November 6, 2010, 1 pm
http://turningtides.squarespace.com/
This creative and scholarly symposium which will highlight three different legacies of diaspora in the United States: Haiti, The Philippines and Puerto Rico. Each panel will feature a short scholarly talk, a reading by two writers followed by a moderated conversation. What do Filipino American writers take for granted, in terms of artistic freedom? In what political and aesthetic ways are Puerto Rican writers employing creative disobedience? Until January 2010, descendents of the Haitian diaspora could call Haiti their home-- that geography has been rent. What kind of scattering will result? And, how will it be told by writers?
The principle aim of Turning Tides is to involve prominent artists and scholars in an exchange of ideas for the purpose of proactively responding to the growing phenomena of American diaspora as it is in the making and to ground and contextualize this conversation within a critical understanding of a larger global history.
Free and Open to the Public.
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Location
Fordham University, Lincoln Center
McNally Auditorium
140 W. 62nd Street, Law School Entrance (Between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues)
Take A, B, C, D & 1 trains to Columbus Circle.
Exit at 60th Street & Broadway.
Upon entering the double glass doors and informing the security desk that you are attending the English Department event, walk up the stairs and take a quick left. After going through another pair of double doors, take the first right and enter the Atrium through its glass doors. The Auditorium will be ahead of you to your left.
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Program
1:00 - 1:15 pm Opening Remarks: Yvette Christiansë
1:15 - 2:15 pm Panel on Haiti: After the Earthquake
J. Michael Dash, Denize Lauture, Yolaine M. St. Fort
2:15 - 3:15 pm Panel on Puerto Rico: Creative Disobedience in New Nuyorican Writing
Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé, Willie Perdomo, Edwin Torres
3:15 - 3:30 pm Break
3:30 - 4:30 pm Panel on the Philippines: The Artist as Activist
Nerissa S. Balce, Bino Realuyo, Melissa Roxas. Moderated by Luis Francia.
4:30 - 6:00 pm Reading and Reception
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Thursday, October 21, 2010
10/28/2010: Walang Hiya Reading @ Saint Mary's College
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2010, 6:30
Walang Hiya Reading At Saint Mary's College, Moraga
Walang Hiya (No Shame)
A ground-breaking anthology of poetry and short fiction featuring Pilipino and Pilipino American writers
Thursday, October 28, 2010, 6:30PM
Reading begins at 7PM followed by Q&A
Hagerty Lounge, De La Salle Hall, Saint Mary's College
READINGS BY Joan Iva Cube, Roseli Ilano, David S. Maduli, Jen Palmares Meadows, and Elsa Orejudos Valmidiano
Free Filipino food from 6:30 -7:00PM!
Co-sponsored by Asian Pacific American Student Association of SMC, Ethnic Studies, English Composition, MFA, The Intercultural Center and Women's Resource Center
SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE, MORAGA
Directions to Saint Mary's College and campus map:
http://www.stmarys-ca.edu/community-and-visitors/getting-here-and-getting-around/campus-map.html
There is only one entrance to campus via Saint Mary's Parkway. Once you enter campus and pass the Public Safety kiosk, turn right onto De La Salle Drive and then turn right into the first parking lot. The reading will take place at Hagerty Lounge, which is on the first floor of De La Salle Hall located on K7 of the campus map:
http://www.stmarys-ca.edu/community-and-visitors/docs/campus_map.pdf
When you enter through the double doors in the center of the building, Hagerty Lounge will be straight ahead.
delphineic@stmarys-ca.edu
925-631-8317
Walang Hiya (No Shame)
A ground-breaking anthology of poetry and short fiction featuring Pilipino and Pilipino American writers
Thursday, October 28, 2010, 6:30PM
Reading begins at 7PM followed by Q&A
Hagerty Lounge, De La Salle Hall, Saint Mary's College
READINGS BY Joan Iva Cube, Roseli Ilano, David S. Maduli, Jen Palmares Meadows, and Elsa Orejudos Valmidiano
Free Filipino food from 6:30 -7:00PM!
Co-sponsored by Asian Pacific American Student Association of SMC, Ethnic Studies, English Composition, MFA, The Intercultural Center and Women's Resource Center
SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE, MORAGA
Directions to Saint Mary's College and campus map:
http://www.stmarys-ca.edu/community-and-visitors/getting-here-and-getting-around/campus-map.html
There is only one entrance to campus via Saint Mary's Parkway. Once you enter campus and pass the Public Safety kiosk, turn right onto De La Salle Drive and then turn right into the first parking lot. The reading will take place at Hagerty Lounge, which is on the first floor of De La Salle Hall located on K7 of the campus map:
http://www.stmarys-ca.edu/community-and-visitors/docs/campus_map.pdf
When you enter through the double doors in the center of the building, Hagerty Lounge will be straight ahead.
delphineic@stmarys-ca.edu
925-631-8317
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
11/03/2010: Regie Cabico Performs in San Francisco!
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 ONE NIGHT ONLY! Vetted Word is bringing back to San Francisco the Spoken Word Legend, Veteran Slam Champion extraordinaire REGIE CABICO! The man, the legend, the Filipino tornado is coming to San Francisco for this very special Vetted Word event DON'T MISS OUT ON THIS INCREDIBLE NIGHT NOVEMBER 3rd, 7:30pm @Viracocha 998 Valencia St in San Francisco $15 online tickets also sold at the door, limited seating available MUSICAL GUEST: Lily Taylor! http://www.lilytaylormusic.com/ Performances by Writers and Poets THE AMAZING Philip Huang Bob Siedle-Khan Charles Kruger and Blythe Baldwin REGIE CABICO is a former Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam Champion. He is a 3 time National Poetry Slam Finalist and has appeared on 2 seasons of HBO's Def Poetry Jam. His work appears in over 30 anthologies including The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry and Spoken Word Revolution. BUST magazine named him in the 100 Men We Love. He is the recipient of literary fellowships from The DC Commission for the Arts, The New York Foundation for the Arts and The 2006 Writers for Writers Award from Poets & Writers- past recipients include Amy Tan, Stephen King, Arthur Miller & Edward Albee. He has toured with Smashing Pumpkins, The Beastie Boys, Sister Spit and shared the stage with Patti Smith, Allen Ginsberg, DJ Lupe, Michael Ealy, Mos Def & Natalie Merchant, among others. He is on the 2010 faculty for Banff's Spoken Word Program, Kundiman & former NYU Asian Pacific American Studies Artist in Residence. His plays have been presented at The Humana Theater Festival, Kennedy Center Play Lab, The Asian American Theater Festival, NOTE: No one under 18 years old will be admitted. |
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| Viracocha is not Wheelchair accessible, we do apologize. No refunds. |
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
A History of the Body: a multidisciplinary show about colonization and the body
Join the Pagbabalik (Return) Project, a collective founded by writer/performer Aimee Suzara, as we develop our second multidisciplinary performance piece, A History of the Body. This piece will use poetry, theater, dance, and visual/stage design to explore the impacts of colonization on the body, examining the ways body images of immigrants, with special attention to Filipino women, have been affected by historical and media influences since the turn of the 20th century. For the Fall 2010 phase, we focus on conceptions of beauty, particularly the use of whitening cosmetics and our attitudes towards skin color. We will continue to research and develop the piece through the year, with the plan of sharing a full-length production in October 2011. HELP US MAKE THIS SHOW A REALITY!
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11/02/2010: Poetry Performance Workshop with Regie Cabico (SF)
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 HIGH WATTAGE a Vetted Word Performance Poetry Workshop HIGH WATTAGE: ELEMENTS OF PERFORMING THE POEM for beginners, performance poets and slam poets, all are invited! Lead by Regie Cabico November 2nd at 8pm "Through Cabico's workshops - I learned the artistry of spoken word poetry, Regie stands as pillar for avant-garde poetry, his work cleverly articulates emotion in a way that is immediately accessible while leaving a prolonged stinging sensation." -Danielle Evennou, Lamba Literary How do we make performance choices that heighten the poem's life? How do we "live" the poem and not simply "read" the poem? A slam text is your show stopper, your three minute solo play. We will explore the vocal & physical techniques for audiences to "see" the poem. From the professional slammer to the virginal journal poet, we will stretch your interpretation of your over-performed texts, and we will prepare you to kick your verses in the squint of the spotlight in a nurturing environment. We will also generate new poems by writing together as attention will also be given to the page i.e. language, imagery and craft. Bring a poem, no more than a page long, comfortable shoes & clothes, your body and a packet of your emotional colors. About the Poet REGIE CABICO is a former Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam Champion. He is a 3 time National Poetry Slam Finalist and has appeared on 2 seasons of HBO's Def Poetry Jam. His work appears in over 30 anthologies including The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry and Spoken Word Revolution. BUST magazine named him in the 100 Men We Love. He is the recipient of literary fellowships from The DC Commission for the Arts, The New York Foundation for the Arts and The 2006 Writers for Writers Award from Poets & Writers- past recipients include Amy Tan, Stephen King, Arthur Miller & Edward Albee. He has toured with Smashing Pumpkins, The Beastie Boys, Sister Spit and shared the stage with Patti Smith, Allen Ginsberg, DJ Lupe, Michael Ealy, Mos Def & Natalie Merchant, among others. He is on the 2010 faculty for Banff's Spoken Word Program, Kundiman & former NYU Asian Pacific American Studies Artist in Residence. His plays have been presented at The Humana Theater Festival, Kennedy Center Play Lab, The Asian American Theater Festival, Howl FestivalH & Contact Theater in Manchester, England. He is co-director of CAPTURING FIRE: A NATIONAL QUEER SPOKEN WORD SLAM and artistic executive director of SOL & SOUL, an arts and activist organization in Washington, DC.NOTE: No one under 18 years old will be admitted. |
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| Please bring a notebook and 1 poem, dress comfortably and be ready to move. |
Monday, October 18, 2010
Report Back: On Eastwind Books of Berkeley Reading
Thank you to Veronica Montes for her report back on this past weekend's Diwata/Angelica's Daughters/Legend Sondayo reading at Eastwind Books of Berkeley.
An excerpt:
I went next, and I was super surprised when I maneuvered around the podium, turned around, and saw that we had a capacity crowd. Mostly students, from the look of it, and soooo quiet. I had been trying to figure out exactly what to read and in the end, I hope I chose well. I started off by confessing that I’d had to call my Dad that morning just to make sure I was pronouncing “dugtungan” correctly. I introduced my (sadly) absent co-authors and shared this definition that one of them had found:
Read more.
An excerpt:
I went next, and I was super surprised when I maneuvered around the podium, turned around, and saw that we had a capacity crowd. Mostly students, from the look of it, and soooo quiet. I had been trying to figure out exactly what to read and in the end, I hope I chose well. I started off by confessing that I’d had to call my Dad that morning just to make sure I was pronouncing “dugtungan” correctly. I introduced my (sadly) absent co-authors and shared this definition that one of them had found:
dugtungan: to add, expand, build on. In a cultural context this has become an event, an activity, a contest in which stories are told with successive participants adding a paragraph, a sentence, or even a specified number of words, until one by one, the writers falter and drop out.I described the novel as a story about a modern-day Filipina-American, Tess, who finds solace in the life of one of her foremothers (Angelica) who has, until this point, maintained a mythical standing within the family. Tess has the opportunity to move beyond the myth and discover the realities of Angelica’s difficult life via letters and journal entries. I read a few pages from the beginning of the book that I felt were a good introduction to both main characters.
Read more.
Sunday, October 17, 2010
10/30/2010: Stories from a Haunted Forest (San Francisco)
From Bindlestiff's website:
Stories from a Haunted Forest:
Time:10/30/2010 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Join Bindlestiff Studio as we present a very unique evening of experimental Filipino American theater at the historic Log Cabin in San Francisco's Presidio. This event is FREE!
STORIES FROM A HAUNTED FOREST
Do you fear what lurks in your darkness? Experience three stories based on traditional Filipino folklore unfold before your eyes as Bindlestiff Studio uses theatrical devices of shadow play, stilt walking, and glow play to dazzle during this one-night only performance.
WHEN: Saturday, October 30th at 7pm
Stories from a Haunted Forest:
Time:
Location:
The Log Cabin, 1299 Storey Ave. in San Francisco's Presidio STORIES FROM A HAUNTED FOREST
Do you fear what lurks in your darkness? Experience three stories based on traditional Filipino folklore unfold before your eyes as Bindlestiff Studio uses theatrical devices of shadow play, stilt walking, and glow play to dazzle during this one-night only performance.
WHEN: Saturday, October 30th at 7pm
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Publication: UCLA AAPI Nexus Journal Releases Special Issue on "Praxis and Power in the Intersections of Education" and Education Series Special Offer, 3 for $30
AAPI Nexus Journal Releases Special Issue on "Praxis and Power in the Intersections of Education"
For Immediate Release
October 12, 2010
Editorial contact: Melany De La Cruz-Viesca, melanyd@ucla.edu, 310-825-2974
Review copies: Ming Tu, aascpress@aasc.ucla.edu, 310-825-2968
Los Angeles—AAPI Nexus Journal has released its final issue of the special three-part series focusing on education. In this issue, guest editors Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales, Peter Nien-chu Kiang, and Samuel D. Museus present a series of articles that urge researchers, policy-makers, and practitioners to connect their work more intentionally across the domains of K-12 and higher education in order to have impact on a range of critical educational issues in AAPI communities. According to the editors, "When the roads of K-12 schooling and higher education converge…we discover glimpses of possibility for improvements in access, retention, and curricular matters."
For Immediate Release
October 12, 2010
Editorial contact: Melany De La Cruz-Viesca, melanyd@ucla.edu, 310-825-2974
Review copies: Ming Tu, aascpress@aasc.ucla.edu, 310-825-2968
Los Angeles—AAPI Nexus Journal has released its final issue of the special three-part series focusing on education. In this issue, guest editors Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales, Peter Nien-chu Kiang, and Samuel D. Museus present a series of articles that urge researchers, policy-makers, and practitioners to connect their work more intentionally across the domains of K-12 and higher education in order to have impact on a range of critical educational issues in AAPI communities. According to the editors, "When the roads of K-12 schooling and higher education converge…we discover glimpses of possibility for improvements in access, retention, and curricular matters."
Call for Submissions: Storyboard, a Multilingual Journal with Focus on Pacific Writing
From the Asia Writes blog:
Deadline: 11 November 2010
Storyboard 11: Navigating the Future
As the Pacific Islands brace themselves for yet another tidal wave of change, it is our stories that will help us to navigate our way. Storyboard, the University of Guam's literary journal, is seeking short stories, poems, essays, art, and photography, which address the theme, "Navigating the Future."
Storyboard is a multilingual journal with a focus on Pacific writing. We welcome submissions from published and unpublished writers in and from the region or writings about the region.
All submissions must be e-mailed to Storyboard11@gmail.com on or before November 11, 2010. Please e-mail Storyboard11@gmail.com or contact P.K. Harmon at (671) 735-3038 or Leslie Reynolds at (671) 735-3039 for more information.
More information here.
Deadline: 11 November 2010
Storyboard 11: Navigating the Future
As the Pacific Islands brace themselves for yet another tidal wave of change, it is our stories that will help us to navigate our way. Storyboard, the University of Guam's literary journal, is seeking short stories, poems, essays, art, and photography, which address the theme, "Navigating the Future."
Storyboard is a multilingual journal with a focus on Pacific writing. We welcome submissions from published and unpublished writers in and from the region or writings about the region.
All submissions must be e-mailed to Storyboard11@gmail.com on or before November 11, 2010. Please e-mail Storyboard11@gmail.com or contact P.K. Harmon at (671) 735-3038 or Leslie Reynolds at (671) 735-3039 for more information.
More information here.
Article: “Universal Filipino” and Kilusan
From Fil Am Ako:
“Indigenous warrior, oh warrior, I summon thee. Raise your voice to the sky and walk with pride.”
It’s not in every production, in which one hears the singing evocation of the Filipino indigenous past; which later turns into a bumpin’ dance number rousing the spirit of Tupac Shakur’s California. But Jeremy “Kilusan” Bautista does just that.
In “Universal Filipino” Bautista gives a coming-of-age Filipino American story a modern twist as a solo hip-hop theater production. He uses hip hop, dance, interpretive movement and spoken word to take us on a whirlwind trip to his youth in the Bay Area and the Philippines. He portrays a myriad of characters from his past, including a father fallen into addiction and a young Bautista coming to grips with being an American-born Filipino, drug and alcohol abuse in the family, gangs, street life and, of course, his love for hip hop.
He connects the subconscious with reality by weaving family wisdom with the historical and indigenous facets of the Philippines. His spiritual representations of his inner struggle between good and evil include the folkloric character Malakas and the Hater, Bautista’s creation that likely embodies the negative effects of imperialism in the Philippines.
“I wanted to tell my story as a Filipino-American who is in a process of reclaiming his history and culture,” says Bautista. “So these ideas with the character of Malakas or the Hater, it’s like a historic battle that’s being played out in the spirit-world and that influences our every day reality. As an artist, I question where do these things come from. The only way I could make sense out of it is to incorporate them within my play.”
Read more.
“Indigenous warrior, oh warrior, I summon thee. Raise your voice to the sky and walk with pride.”
It’s not in every production, in which one hears the singing evocation of the Filipino indigenous past; which later turns into a bumpin’ dance number rousing the spirit of Tupac Shakur’s California. But Jeremy “Kilusan” Bautista does just that.
In “Universal Filipino” Bautista gives a coming-of-age Filipino American story a modern twist as a solo hip-hop theater production. He uses hip hop, dance, interpretive movement and spoken word to take us on a whirlwind trip to his youth in the Bay Area and the Philippines. He portrays a myriad of characters from his past, including a father fallen into addiction and a young Bautista coming to grips with being an American-born Filipino, drug and alcohol abuse in the family, gangs, street life and, of course, his love for hip hop.
He connects the subconscious with reality by weaving family wisdom with the historical and indigenous facets of the Philippines. His spiritual representations of his inner struggle between good and evil include the folkloric character Malakas and the Hater, Bautista’s creation that likely embodies the negative effects of imperialism in the Philippines.
“I wanted to tell my story as a Filipino-American who is in a process of reclaiming his history and culture,” says Bautista. “So these ideas with the character of Malakas or the Hater, it’s like a historic battle that’s being played out in the spirit-world and that influences our every day reality. As an artist, I question where do these things come from. The only way I could make sense out of it is to incorporate them within my play.”
Read more.
Friday, October 15, 2010
10/25/2010: Luis Francia @ the Philippine Center (NY)
October is Filipino American History Month!
FROM INDIOS BRAVOS TO FILIPINOS
Fil-Am historian Luis H. Francia and his new book in focus.
The Philippine Consulate General New York and Overlook Press invite the public to an evening with author Luis H. Francia. He will be interviewed about his new book by Dorian Merina, Filipino-American journalist and poet.
25 October, Monday, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Philippine Center
556 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10036
No Admission Fees, Open to the Public
FROM INDIOS BRAVOS TO FILIPINOS
Fil-Am historian Luis H. Francia and his new book in focus.
The Philippine Consulate General New York and Overlook Press invite the public to an evening with author Luis H. Francia. He will be interviewed about his new book by Dorian Merina, Filipino-American journalist and poet.
25 October, Monday, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Philippine Center
556 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10036
No Admission Fees, Open to the Public
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Documentary: POWER STRUGGLE
From Mass Movement TV:
POWER STRUGGLE documentary: A new documentary on the life and music of Nomi from the hip-hop group POWER STRUGGLE. From Africa to the Midwest to the Philippines, this film chronicles Nomi's life journey and personal transformation through political awakening.
Shot and edited by Eric Tandoc
Interviewed by Tadashi Nakamura
You can purchase POWER STRUGGLE's new album 'REMITTANCES' at:
beatrockmusic.com
iTunes
CD Baby
POWER STRUGGLE documentary: A new documentary on the life and music of Nomi from the hip-hop group POWER STRUGGLE. From Africa to the Midwest to the Philippines, this film chronicles Nomi's life journey and personal transformation through political awakening.
Shot and edited by Eric Tandoc
Interviewed by Tadashi Nakamura
You can purchase POWER STRUGGLE's new album 'REMITTANCES' at:
beatrockmusic.com
iTunes
CD Baby
Call for Submissions: Mandala Journal
http://www.mandala.uga.edu
Mandala Journal Call for Submissions: poetry, nonfiction, fiction & art
Mandala Journal, 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, is accepting submissions for the 2011 issue: Reconciliation.
To submit poetry, nonfiction, fiction, or art:
1) Read the current issue: Cosmopolitanism mandala.uga.edu
2) Follow the guidelines on the submissions page of the website.
The open submissions period runs from Oct 1, 2010 through January 15, 2011. We look forward to experiencing your work.
Mandala Journal Call for Submissions: poetry, nonfiction, fiction & art
Mandala Journal, 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, is accepting submissions for the 2011 issue: Reconciliation.
To submit poetry, nonfiction, fiction, or art:
1) Read the current issue: Cosmopolitanism mandala.uga.edu
2) Follow the guidelines on the submissions page of the website.
The open submissions period runs from Oct 1, 2010 through January 15, 2011. We look forward to experiencing your work.
Artist Spotlight: Amazing Grace of 8X10 Collective
X-posted from MV's Fil Am Funk blog:
When and why did you get into painting?
I started drawing when I was a child. My sister told me I knew how to write my name in cursive, then started drawing everywhere around the house. Fast-forward to when I was around 5-7 years old, I walked into my brother Leo's room rockin' a graffiti piece. That experience alone influenced me to keep flowin' with Art.
'Flutist Dreams'Why do you believe painting is the best way for you to express yourself?
Any expression of the soul is communication from God to the world. We are His conduits. Its just up to the person on how they convey that energy to the world. Making Art for me is what I know best. Its what resonates within me & flows out of me. Its like breath. If I don't share it, I feel as if I am not allowing humanity to feel what it's like to be truly alive. To not do it, I feel as if I am dying.
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Article: Tony Robles on Filipino American History Month (Poor Magazine)
From Poor Magazine:
At that moment I realized I was Filipino and it would be many years before I understood what that meant. I learned about Filipinos that came to the US in the early days, like my grandparents, who arrived as workers, performing backbreaking labor in agriculture, working in the fields or in the canneries—often exploited and pitted against fellow workers—to maintain a system of cheap labor with no regard to worker’s rights. I often think of a picture—a famous picture—taken of Filipinos working in the asparagus fields, performing stoop labor. It was thought that Filipinos were better suited for this type of work since—in the eyes of the growers—they were short and, thus, closer to the ground. The stoop laborers bodies were bent, stooped and twisted—gnarled with dreams planted into the ground—seeds planted in anticipation of harvest. Then I think about pulling those lousy weeds over a summer in Florida. The Filipinos who came to this country in the early days did hard work all their lives.Read more.
I learned that Filipinos had been coming to the US since October 18, 1587–landing in Moro Bay—off the California coast— as part of the Manila Galleon Trade from Manila to Acapulco—which started in 1565 and lasted until 1815. By the time the Mayflower landed on the continent, there were conceivably a thousand or more Filipinos living on the West Coast. I didn’t learn of these things on my own but through my elders. I listened to the words of Filipino poets and activists like Al Robles, Oscar Penaranda, Bill Sorro, Lou Syquia, Norman Jayo, Jeff Tagami and Shirley Ancheta. They followed our elders—the manongs—trailing their footsteps to places like Watsonville, Salinas, Delano, Isleton, Imperial Valley, Stockton—seeking out the stories written in the hearts of our people. And they found it in small rooms where the only thing they had to do was sit and eat a warm bowl of rice and fish with our elders. What else is there? Asks the poet Al Robles.
10/28/2010: Poetry Flash with Barbara Jane Reyes and Javier O. Huerta (Berkeley)
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2010, 7:30
Poetry Flash at Moe’s Books
BARBARA JANE REYES & JAVIER O. HUERTA
Barbara Jane Reyes’s new book of poems is Diwata, which works back and forth between the Book of Genesis and the Tagalog creation myth of the muse. Nick Carbó calls it “…a book that would have raised the hairs on the nape of Emily Dickinson’s head upon recognition of its poetic backbone. She injects Filipino words like calamansi, kastoy, and pananaghoy into the sinew of American poetry with panache and fearless abandon.” Born in Manila and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Reyes has published two previous books of poetry, Gravities of Center and Poeta en San Francisco, which won the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets.
Javier Huerta’s debut book, Some Clarifications y otros poemas, received the Chicano/Latino Literary Prize from UC Irvine. A native of Nuevo Laredo, Tamualipas, Mexico, Javier Huerta became a legal resident under the amnesty of 1986 and became a U.S. citizen in 2000. He studies the laughter of poetry in the English PhD Program at UC Berkeley. He is currently at work on his second poetry manuscript, “American Copia,” a book-length poem on going to the grocery store.
MOE’S BOOKS, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, (510) 849-2087, moesbooks.com.
Parking at the Durant/Channing Garage, close to Telegraph. Channing is one block north.
Poetry Flash: (510) 525-5476.
Poetry Flash at Moe’s Books
BARBARA JANE REYES & JAVIER O. HUERTA
Barbara Jane Reyes’s new book of poems is Diwata, which works back and forth between the Book of Genesis and the Tagalog creation myth of the muse. Nick Carbó calls it “…a book that would have raised the hairs on the nape of Emily Dickinson’s head upon recognition of its poetic backbone. She injects Filipino words like calamansi, kastoy, and pananaghoy into the sinew of American poetry with panache and fearless abandon.” Born in Manila and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Reyes has published two previous books of poetry, Gravities of Center and Poeta en San Francisco, which won the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets.
Javier Huerta’s debut book, Some Clarifications y otros poemas, received the Chicano/Latino Literary Prize from UC Irvine. A native of Nuevo Laredo, Tamualipas, Mexico, Javier Huerta became a legal resident under the amnesty of 1986 and became a U.S. citizen in 2000. He studies the laughter of poetry in the English PhD Program at UC Berkeley. He is currently at work on his second poetry manuscript, “American Copia,” a book-length poem on going to the grocery store.
MOE’S BOOKS, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, (510) 849-2087, moesbooks.com.
Parking at the Durant/Channing Garage, close to Telegraph. Channing is one block north.
Poetry Flash: (510) 525-5476.
10/16/2010: Angus Lorenzen Book Talk, A 30-minute Movie and Book signing
Book Talk, A 30-minute Movie and Book signing
Saturday, October 16, 2010
2:30pm -4:30 p.m.
Long Beach Main Library Conference Room
There will be a 30-minute movie that will be shown about the Battle of Manila, made by the U.S. Army Signal Corps for release to movie theaters. It was believed that Gen MacArthur did not allow it to be shown publicly because the war had already ended by the time that the film was ready for showing, and thus, few people had actually seen it. It was hidden away in the National Archives until a researcher found it 5 or 6 years ago.
For those who will not be able to attend the event but would like an autographed copy of the book,please place your order via email with no later thanOct 15. Or you can call (310) 514-9139. The book costs $24.95 plus appropriate sales tax for California residents plus $5.00 shipping. Part of the proceeds from sales will help fund this photo exhibit. Please read the review of the book: http://estellabooks.blogspot.com/2009/03/lovely-little-war.htmlcom/2009/03/lovely-little-war.html and relive the experiences of the author and other internees at Santo Tomas.
Mr. Angus Lorenzen
Author, A Lovely Little War: Life in a Japanese prison camp through the eyes of a child.
History Publishing Co., N.Y. 2008.
Angus Lorenzen, at age 7, fled Japanese-occupied North China with his sister and mother, just days before the attack on Pearl Harbor, only to be captured in Manila and held in Santo Tomas Internment Camp for more than three years. The Santo Tomas Internment Camp was liberated when Angus was l0, and the internees were caught in the middle of the Battle of Manila.
"The narrative in A Lovely Little War graphically describes the horrible razing of Manila, as this amazing story leads you through the build-up to war, the years of imprisonment, and the liberation followed by the devastation of the Battle of Manila". -- Joe Hiseler, US Naval Officer, World War ll.
"The children in Santo Tomas were subjected to ever-increasing trauma while they were prisoners. A Lovely Little War tells their tale with compassion and survival humor unique to children. The book describes well, the sad loss of childhood to war." - Joan Paris is a psychologist and counselled WWll, Korea, Vietnam, and Gulf War combat veterans.
Please check this link:
http://estellabooks.blogspot.com/2009/03/lovely-little-war.htmlcom/2009/03/lovely-little-war.html
Saturday, October 16, 2010
2:30pm -4:30 p.m.
Long Beach Main Library Conference Room
There will be a 30-minute movie that will be shown about the Battle of Manila, made by the U.S. Army Signal Corps for release to movie theaters. It was believed that Gen MacArthur did not allow it to be shown publicly because the war had already ended by the time that the film was ready for showing, and thus, few people had actually seen it. It was hidden away in the National Archives until a researcher found it 5 or 6 years ago.
For those who will not be able to attend the event but would like an autographed copy of the book,please place your order via email with
Mr. Angus Lorenzen
Author, A Lovely Little War: Life in a Japanese prison camp through the eyes of a child.
History Publishing Co., N.Y. 2008.
Angus Lorenzen, at age 7, fled Japanese-occupied North China with his sister and mother, just days before the attack on Pearl Harbor, only to be captured in Manila and held in Santo Tomas Internment Camp for more than three years. The Santo Tomas Internment Camp was liberated when Angus was l0, and the internees were caught in the middle of the Battle of Manila.
"The narrative in A Lovely Little War graphically describes the horrible razing of Manila, as this amazing story leads you through the build-up to war, the years of imprisonment, and the liberation followed by the devastation of the Battle of Manila". -- Joe Hiseler, US Naval Officer, World War ll.
"The children in Santo Tomas were subjected to ever-increasing trauma while they were prisoners. A Lovely Little War tells their tale with compassion and survival humor unique to children. The book describes well, the sad loss of childhood to war." - Joan Paris is a psychologist and counselled WWll, Korea, Vietnam, and Gulf War combat veterans.
Please check this link:
http://estellabooks.blogspot.com/2009/03/lovely-little-war.htmlcom/2009/03/lovely-little-war.html
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
10/16/2010: TASTE BETTER WIT featuring Hot Nutz Burlesque
TASTE BETTER WIT featuring Hot Nutz Burlesque: "
As part of the AATC ComedyFest, Bindlestiff Studio's sketch comedy group, TASTE BETTER WIT will be performing during sketch week at the Thick House. Come checkout the laughs and mayhem! Join TBdub will be the burlesque duo HOT NUTZ along with our good friend, Dan Weil.
WHEN: Saturday, October 16th at 8pm
WHERE: The Thick House
1695 18th Street (near Arkansas)
Potrero Hill District, San Francisco
TIX: $10 in advance; $15 at the door
Time: 10/16/2010 - 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: The Thick House, 1695 18th Street @Arkansas in San Francisco's Potrero Hill Dist. WHEN: Saturday, October 16th at 8pm
WHERE: The Thick House
1695 18th Street (near Arkansas)
Potrero Hill District, San Francisco
TIX: $10 in advance; $15 at the door
Article: Ladies Delight: Rocky Rivera and the Female Hip-Hop Movement
From Hyphen magazine:
In the video for “Mrshmlo,” the lead single off Rocky Rivera's eponymous debut LP released earlier this year, the emcee stares down the camera behind flowing lashes, her cropped faux hawk bobbing to the beat as she waves a manicured nail with a no-you-didn’t bravado.
Leaning against a car and sporting sky-high stilettos and a necklace strung with bullets, the 27-year-old Filipina flashes a gold grill between ruby red lips, from which come the lyrics: “I’m a 5-foot, I’m a looker/Good enough to eat but I’ve never been a sucka.”Even a trait as seemingly straightforward as “sexy” is executed with studied complexity — a sustained tension between video-vixen come-ons and tomboy swagger that practically defines the personas of some of the most prominent female emcees in hip-hop today.
Rocky Rivera, born Krishtine de Leon and also known by the emcee alias EyeASage, is part of a rare breed: the Asian American female emcee in the hypermasculine and predominantly black world of contemporary hip-hop.
If one Filipina spitting on a mic is a political statement, imagine four. In the mid-2000s, de Leon was part of a Filipina American emcee collective in San Francisco called the Rhapsodistas, which fused community and activism with music.
Read more.
In the video for “Mrshmlo,” the lead single off Rocky Rivera's eponymous debut LP released earlier this year, the emcee stares down the camera behind flowing lashes, her cropped faux hawk bobbing to the beat as she waves a manicured nail with a no-you-didn’t bravado.
Leaning against a car and sporting sky-high stilettos and a necklace strung with bullets, the 27-year-old Filipina flashes a gold grill between ruby red lips, from which come the lyrics: “I’m a 5-foot, I’m a looker/Good enough to eat but I’ve never been a sucka.”Even a trait as seemingly straightforward as “sexy” is executed with studied complexity — a sustained tension between video-vixen come-ons and tomboy swagger that practically defines the personas of some of the most prominent female emcees in hip-hop today.
Rocky Rivera, born Krishtine de Leon and also known by the emcee alias EyeASage, is part of a rare breed: the Asian American female emcee in the hypermasculine and predominantly black world of contemporary hip-hop.
If one Filipina spitting on a mic is a political statement, imagine four. In the mid-2000s, de Leon was part of a Filipina American emcee collective in San Francisco called the Rhapsodistas, which fused community and activism with music.
Read more.
Review: Sounds of a New Hope
From Hyphen magazine:
Eric Tandoc’s 40-minute documentary captures Filipino American rapper Kiwi’s transformation from a gangbanger to a community organizer.Directed by Eric Tandoc
soundsofanewhope.blogspot.com
Political exile Jose Maria Sison said, “A song is three to five minutes, but if it has nice content and [is] sung by a good singer, it can spread very fast.” Hope and participatory change is what Filipino American rapper Kiwi (Jack de Jesus) attempts to spread through music. Eric Tandoc’s 40-minute documentary captures Kiwi’s transformation from a gangbanger in Los Angeles to San Francisco Bay Area community organizer. Tandoc borrows the title from the first episode of Star Wars, where the young Jedi transforms from an unknowing and uninvolved individual into a force in the dismantling of a malevolent empire. Footage from the United States and Philippines demonstrates Kiwi’s struggle to build community and break down Western imperialism in the hopes that national democracy can exist in his native land. Seeing Kiwi struggle while conducting rap workshops with youth in the Philippines gives the audience a glimpse into the existing Filipino American and Filipino disconnect, but it is folks like Kiwi who understand the importance of making connections. The film ultimately inspires the viewer to understand the potential social force of music by showing how hip-hop can affect youth from San Francisco’s Excelsior District to Metro Manila’s Caloocan City.
TRADITION(S) VICE-VERSA ISSUE NO. 6
TRADITION(S)
VICE-VERSA ISSUE NO. 6
http://www.hawaii.edu/vice-versa
VICE-VERSA ISSUE NO. 6
http://www.hawaii.edu/vice-versa
Dear Friends and Creative Forces!
We are proud to proclaim that Vice-Versa Issue No.6 is now alive and ready for readership. Our latest issue takes on the theme of TRADITION(S). What are they and what does it mean to “pass them on” or “protect” them? How do we create new traditions or adopt old ones into new contexts? What happens when traditions get translated across language and cultural borders? What do they allow us to do and prevent us from doing?
Our writers and artists responded to our call with a hugely diverse range of perspectives—focusing on family, religion, language, culture, and more. We trust you’ll find these words and images as sticky, complicated, and utterly invested as we do.
We hope you take some time to visit these vibrant pages, and feel provoked to share your own thoughts and responses with the inspiring people in this issue. Our writers and artists look forward to your comments!
Me ke aloha,
Aiko Yamashiro, Anjoli Roy, and Mark Guillermo
Vice-Versa Editors
Vice-Versa Editors
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Call for Submissions: BETTER: queer writers speak on their survival
All GLBTIQ-identified poets are invited to submit up to 5 poems or short autobiographical stories to a new anthology,* BETTER: queer writers speak on their survival.*
Submission deadline: December 1, 2010 (early submissions encouraged)
Submit work to: whatgetsbetter@gmail.com
The recent "It Gets Better" campaign responding to the epidemic of bullying and the recent spate of suicides by gay youth begs, to us, the larger question of what it means and what is required of us for things to "get better."
We're looking for poems and autobiographical stories about what it was like growing up, and what it is like now that we're older. What kept us going then, and what drives us now. We're not necessarily looking for happy endings, but an honest statement about who we are as people, and how we got here, whether that experience is filled with rage, joy, confusion, or anything in between.
We would love to receive poems and autobiographical stories that address more than one time period in the writer's life, and are more likely to select more than one piece by a writer who does so.
We know what the issues are -- HIV, bullying, suicide, drug and alcohol abuse, marriage inequality, stress -- we take these issues personally, and expect the poems in the anthology to do so as well. The primary intent of this book is not to change the political landscape, but to give hope to those who need it. We are also not looking for stories about friends or historical figures, we want to know what kept YOU going, what keeps you going still.
All submissions will be accepted electronically; please send your submission as a Word document attachment, and include your name, contact information and a brief bio. You may submit up to five unpublished poems or stories (each 4,000 words or less).
We will also consider work whose rights have reverted back to the author. There are no specific language restrictions, but our goal is for the book to be a resource to youth centers and schools, so keep this in mind when choosing poems for submission.
Edited by Adam Stone and Marty McConnell.
Submission deadline: December 1, 2010 (early submissions encouraged)
Submit work to: whatgetsbetter@gmail.com
The recent "It Gets Better" campaign responding to the epidemic of bullying and the recent spate of suicides by gay youth begs, to us, the larger question of what it means and what is required of us for things to "get better."
We're looking for poems and autobiographical stories about what it was like growing up, and what it is like now that we're older. What kept us going then, and what drives us now. We're not necessarily looking for happy endings, but an honest statement about who we are as people, and how we got here, whether that experience is filled with rage, joy, confusion, or anything in between.
We would love to receive poems and autobiographical stories that address more than one time period in the writer's life, and are more likely to select more than one piece by a writer who does so.
We know what the issues are -- HIV, bullying, suicide, drug and alcohol abuse, marriage inequality, stress -- we take these issues personally, and expect the poems in the anthology to do so as well. The primary intent of this book is not to change the political landscape, but to give hope to those who need it. We are also not looking for stories about friends or historical figures, we want to know what kept YOU going, what keeps you going still.
All submissions will be accepted electronically; please send your submission as a Word document attachment, and include your name, contact information and a brief bio. You may submit up to five unpublished poems or stories (each 4,000 words or less).
We will also consider work whose rights have reverted back to the author. There are no specific language restrictions, but our goal is for the book to be a resource to youth centers and schools, so keep this in mind when choosing poems for submission.
Edited by Adam Stone and Marty McConnell.
Call for Submissions: Secrety Identities Volume 2!
You wanted more.
You got it.
SI Universe Media is proud to announce — the hotly anticipated followup to SECRET IDENTITIES: THE ASIAN AMERICAN SUPERHERO ANTHOLOGY — SECRET IDENTITIES VOLUME 2: SHATTERED!After 18 months of much-needed downtime, we’re excited to announce that work is now underway on a second volume of all-new tales set in the grand tradition of heroic graphical fiction: SECRET IDENTITIES VOLUME 2: SHATTERED, targeting a 2012 publication date.
Thanks to a generous development grant from the Vilcek Foundation, we’ve begun the monumental task of putting together a sequel to Secret Identities — one that we hope will be even bigger, better and more boundary-breaking than the original. Shattered will take readers to the darker side of the Secret Identities universe, exploring the nefarious, sinister and menacing side of the good guy/bad guy equation in order to upend, reenvision, reimagine — to shatter — the distorted and negative images that have shadowed Asian Americans since the earliest days of our arrival in this country.
This time out, we’re looking for stories that showcase strong and vivid interactions between heroes and villains — even stories with the 'villain' as protagonist — as a way to question the power of perception to shape reality. We’re also looking to incorporate a broader range of comic genres — superheroes, and more..
And we’re looking for you to contribute.
WRITERS: Send us your pitches (NOT completed scripts). ARTISTS: Email us your sample art — or point us to an online portfolio.
DOWNLOAD THE MEDIA ALERT HERE!
DOWNLOAD THE CONTRIBUTORS’ GUIDELINES HERE!
10/16/2010: {M}aganda Magazine Arts Showcase (Berkeley)
{m}aganda magazine
invites you to our
second annual arts showcase!
saturday, october 16
2-5 pm
at the multicultural community center,
2nd floor, mlk student union
featuring a SASC-sponsored art gallery,
photography by christy yang,
films by manuela yim & brian adrias,
acting by theater rice,
spoken word by cal slam,
breakdancing by illest villains,
musical performances by jaron liclican
& more!
(PLUS there will be delicious food!)
we'll see you there!
invites you to our
second annual arts showcase!
saturday, october 16
2-5 pm
at the multicultural community center,
2nd floor, mlk student union
featuring a SASC-sponsored art gallery,
photography by christy yang,
films by manuela yim & brian adrias,
acting by theater rice,
spoken word by cal slam,
breakdancing by illest villains,
musical performances by jaron liclican
& more!
(PLUS there will be delicious food!)
we'll see you there!
10/23/2010: TAYO Release Party 6:00pm-8:30pm (Los Angeles)
TAYO RELEASE PARTY
Join TAYO Literary Magazine supporters, artists and writers at our annual release party at Ragazzi Room in Los Angeles on Saturday, October 23rd from 6:00pm - 8:30pm. After a successful inaugural year empowering our artistic community through our 1st annual issue, online community, and events/workshops, TAYO is extremely proud to be releasing its 2nd annual issue.
Along with showcasing the 2nd issue of TAYO, the event will feature open mic performances, a silent art auction, and refreshments. Admission price also includes one complimentary issue and light hors d'oeuvres. Pre-sale admission is $15, door-sale admission is $20.
BUY YOUR TICKETS HERE:
http://tayoreleaseparty.eventbrite.com/
INTERESTED IN PERFORMING OR SHOWCASING YOUR WORK?
Fill out this form here: www.tayoliterarymag.com/TAYO/participate
ABOUT TAYO
TAYO Literary Magazine aims to empower and bring together Filipino American youth through the many different forms of creative art. By gathering differing expressions of Filipino American identity, from high school students to full-fledge adults, TAYO paints an intricate anthology of the Filipino culture and community. Sponsorship and advertisement opportunities are still available.
In solidarity,
Team TAYO
TAYO Literary Magazine
Issue 02 | 2010-2011
www.tayoliterarymag.com
Join TAYO Literary Magazine supporters, artists and writers at our annual release party at Ragazzi Room in Los Angeles on Saturday, October 23rd from 6:00pm - 8:30pm. After a successful inaugural year empowering our artistic community through our 1st annual issue, online community, and events/workshops, TAYO is extremely proud to be releasing its 2nd annual issue.
Along with showcasing the 2nd issue of TAYO, the event will feature open mic performances, a silent art auction, and refreshments. Admission price also includes one complimentary issue and light hors d'oeuvres. Pre-sale admission is $15, door-sale admission is $20.
BUY YOUR TICKETS HERE:
http://tayoreleaseparty.eventbrite.com/
INTERESTED IN PERFORMING OR SHOWCASING YOUR WORK?
Fill out this form here: www.tayoliterarymag.com/TAYO/participate
ABOUT TAYO
TAYO Literary Magazine aims to empower and bring together Filipino American youth through the many different forms of creative art. By gathering differing expressions of Filipino American identity, from high school students to full-fledge adults, TAYO paints an intricate anthology of the Filipino culture and community. Sponsorship and advertisement opportunities are still available.
In solidarity,
Team TAYO
TAYO Literary Magazine
Issue 02 | 2010-2011
www.tayoliterarymag.com
Sunday, October 10, 2010
10/30/2010: The Forbidden Book Relaunch at Eastwind Books of Berkeley
Authors Event: Abe Ignacio, Enrique de la Cruz & Jorge Emmanuel
Saturday, October 30th, 3:30 PM at Eastwind Books of Berkeley.
Back in a third printing, The Forbidden Book uses over 200 political cartoons from the period between late 1800’s to early 1900’s, chronicling the little known war between the United States and the Philippines. The war lasted more than 15 years and killed hundreds of thousands of Filipinos beginning in 1899. Today, very few Americans know about the brutal suppression of Philippine independence or the anti-war movement led at that time by the likes of Mark Twain, Jane Addams, Joseph Pulitzer, and Andrew Carnegie.
“The Philippine American War occupies a central place in the rise of the U.S. to become a superpower and was a clear example of the intertwining of big business interests, racism,disinformation, and empire-building,” explained co-author Enrique Delacruz, professor emeritus of Asian American Studies at California State University at Northridge.
What will shock some readers are the blatant racist cartoons glorifying manifest destiny, demonizing the leader of the Filipino resistance President Emilio Aguinaldo, and portraying Filipinos, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Hawaiians, Chamorros, and other colonials as dark-skinned savages, slaves, or animals. As the authors point out, these images were used to justify a war at a time when an average of three African Americans a week were lynched across the south and when the Supreme Court approved the "separate but equal" doctrine disenfranchising an entire minority of the U.S. population.
Eastwind Books of Berkeley
2066 University Avenue; Berkeley, CA 94704
phone: 510 548-2350 fax: 510 548-3697
www.asiabookcenter.com
http://www.facebook.com/eastwind.books
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Review: Growing Up Filipino II at Cha Asian Literary Journal
From Cha:
Fortunately, the best stories in this collection wiggle skillfully out of the various boxes crafted for them, viewfinder attached. The girlish, juvenile fluff suggested by the cover and the ponderous analysis of the introduction have little to do with offerings of Growing Up Filipino II. Instead, the book offers a selection of pieces that use young central characters and unfussy English as ways of entering into the complications inherent in subjects such as religion, cultural identity, immigration, death and family. Oversimplification and condescension, the two banes of fiction "for" the young, are thankfully the exception rather than the norm. While there are some exceedingly dissatisfying entries in this volume, as a whole the stories reflect artistic philosophies close to that of Maurice Sendak, who has said of his work on picture books such as Where the Wild Things Are, "I never set out to write books for children."
Read more.
Fortunately, the best stories in this collection wiggle skillfully out of the various boxes crafted for them, viewfinder attached. The girlish, juvenile fluff suggested by the cover and the ponderous analysis of the introduction have little to do with offerings of Growing Up Filipino II. Instead, the book offers a selection of pieces that use young central characters and unfussy English as ways of entering into the complications inherent in subjects such as religion, cultural identity, immigration, death and family. Oversimplification and condescension, the two banes of fiction "for" the young, are thankfully the exception rather than the norm. While there are some exceedingly dissatisfying entries in this volume, as a whole the stories reflect artistic philosophies close to that of Maurice Sendak, who has said of his work on picture books such as Where the Wild Things Are, "I never set out to write books for children."
Read more.
Friday, October 8, 2010
Film Screenings: DUKOT in the Bay Area
http://dukot.com/tour-dates/
Friday, October 8, 2010, 6:30 PM
June Jordan School for Equity
325 La Grande Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94112
Saturday, October 9, 2010, 6:30 PM
Skyline College, Main Theater (Building 1)
3300 College Drive
San Bruno, CA 94066
Sunday, October 10, 2010, 6:30 PM
University of California, Berkeley
145 Dwinelle Hall (Bancroft and Telegraph)
Berkeley, CA 94704
Q&A in-house following each screening with lead actor Allen Dizon and cultural worker/activist Melissa Roxas, Filipina American torture survivor. Students*: $8 pre-sale/$10 door. General Admission: $10 pre-sale/$12 door. *Note: tickets purchased for student rate, please provide identification at the door.
Friday, October 8, 2010, 6:30 PM
June Jordan School for Equity
325 La Grande Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94112
Saturday, October 9, 2010, 6:30 PM
Skyline College, Main Theater (Building 1)
3300 College Drive
San Bruno, CA 94066
Sunday, October 10, 2010, 6:30 PM
University of California, Berkeley
145 Dwinelle Hall (Bancroft and Telegraph)
Berkeley, CA 94704
Q&A in-house following each screening with lead actor Allen Dizon and cultural worker/activist Melissa Roxas, Filipina American torture survivor. Students*: $8 pre-sale/$10 door. General Admission: $10 pre-sale/$12 door. *Note: tickets purchased for student rate, please provide identification at the door.
Article: Artists James (gaNyan) Garcia and Chris de Leon brings social awareness through the Kulayan Arts Program
From Asian Journal:
COLORING THE REAL WORLD.
ART is often a source of truth, order, harmony and meaning. It can unlock our imagination and make us pause, think and reflect. This critical role of the arts in our lives enables us to see the world and the human condition differently. Through this, we can view reality in a particular work of art, and see a truth that we might not have understood before.
This is why the Kulayan Arts Program offers more than basic drawing and coloring activities. Funded through the Kularts Visual Arts Program, which received a Cultural Equity Grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission to bring Filipino arts programming to the Excelsior district, Kulayan partnered with the Filipino Community Center (FCC). Kularts Director Alleluia Panis approached artist James Garcia, also known as gaNyan in the art world with the idea of creating a visual arts program that incorporated Filipino folklore into the curriculum. James then asked a fellow artist, Christopher de Leon, to join as a co-instructor. In cooperation with the FCC, James and Christopher aligned Kulayan with issues that are culturally relevant, as well as create a dialogue bridging the struggles in the Philippines and the Filipino community here in the Bay Area.
"Christopher and I have developed projects that integrate foundation building skills (i.e., value studies, color theory and basic perspective) that include prompts that challenge the student to create narratives around a particular theme and/or issue," said James then added, "For example, the current project revolves around the issue of ‘landlessness,’ with focus on the indigenous peoples in the rural countryside of the Philippines who are being subjected to displacement due to modernization." He explained that through this activity, students are tasked to illustrate this issue and incorporate Filipino folklore characters in their piece.
Read more.
COLORING THE REAL WORLD.
ART is often a source of truth, order, harmony and meaning. It can unlock our imagination and make us pause, think and reflect. This critical role of the arts in our lives enables us to see the world and the human condition differently. Through this, we can view reality in a particular work of art, and see a truth that we might not have understood before.
This is why the Kulayan Arts Program offers more than basic drawing and coloring activities. Funded through the Kularts Visual Arts Program, which received a Cultural Equity Grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission to bring Filipino arts programming to the Excelsior district, Kulayan partnered with the Filipino Community Center (FCC). Kularts Director Alleluia Panis approached artist James Garcia, also known as gaNyan in the art world with the idea of creating a visual arts program that incorporated Filipino folklore into the curriculum. James then asked a fellow artist, Christopher de Leon, to join as a co-instructor. In cooperation with the FCC, James and Christopher aligned Kulayan with issues that are culturally relevant, as well as create a dialogue bridging the struggles in the Philippines and the Filipino community here in the Bay Area.
"Christopher and I have developed projects that integrate foundation building skills (i.e., value studies, color theory and basic perspective) that include prompts that challenge the student to create narratives around a particular theme and/or issue," said James then added, "For example, the current project revolves around the issue of ‘landlessness,’ with focus on the indigenous peoples in the rural countryside of the Philippines who are being subjected to displacement due to modernization." He explained that through this activity, students are tasked to illustrate this issue and incorporate Filipino folklore characters in their piece.
Read more.
Call for Submissions: Kritika Kultura
From the Asia Writes blog:
New Deadline: 6 November 2010
We have called and we have received but sadly they are still not enough!
Contributions are still welcome for the first special exclusively literary issue of Kritika Kultura, the international online journal of language, literary and cultural studies published by the Ateneo de Manila University and indexed by Thomson Reuters (formerly ISI), MLA, Scopus, EBSCO, and DOAJ. This particular issue is intended to be an anthology of new Philippine writing.
The Philippine literary community has a relatively longstanding tradition of releasing anthologies focusing on young writers. However, it can be gleaned that the notion of the “new” remains unarticulated, as recent anthologies simply focus on the “young,” and what becomes apparent is the persistent maintenance of an aesthetics solidified in various creative writing institutions and workshops, a notion that is rapidly rendered inaccurate by a healthy production of writing that these anthologies do not include.
What this issue of Kritika Kultura intends to accomplish is to represent the kind of writing that is rarely published, the kind that is not often legitimized by mainstream publications. The kind of writing that we, as editors, can confidently call “new.”
New Deadline: 6 November 2010
We have called and we have received but sadly they are still not enough!
Contributions are still welcome for the first special exclusively literary issue of Kritika Kultura, the international online journal of language, literary and cultural studies published by the Ateneo de Manila University and indexed by Thomson Reuters (formerly ISI), MLA, Scopus, EBSCO, and DOAJ. This particular issue is intended to be an anthology of new Philippine writing.
The Philippine literary community has a relatively longstanding tradition of releasing anthologies focusing on young writers. However, it can be gleaned that the notion of the “new” remains unarticulated, as recent anthologies simply focus on the “young,” and what becomes apparent is the persistent maintenance of an aesthetics solidified in various creative writing institutions and workshops, a notion that is rapidly rendered inaccurate by a healthy production of writing that these anthologies do not include.
What this issue of Kritika Kultura intends to accomplish is to represent the kind of writing that is rarely published, the kind that is not often legitimized by mainstream publications. The kind of writing that we, as editors, can confidently call “new.”
10/22 - 10/23/2010: An Apo & A Nurse: Stories from the Womb - Two Filipina American Women Reflect on Healing, Loss, and Love
From Kularts:
An Apo & A Nurse: Stories from the Womb
Two Filipina American Women Reflect on Healing, Loss, and Love.
Fri-Sat Oct 22-23, 8PM
Bayanihan Community Center
1010 Mission St. San Francisco, CA 94103
Admission: $15-20 @ the Door, $12 Advance, $11 Student/Senior
Tickets: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/125052
Two of SF's fastest rising Pinay solo performers share the stage to reflect on healing, loss, and love. These universal stories, told through the eyes of a granddaughter and healthcare provider, employ language, humor, and dance to move our spirits toward greater understanding of the raw, human experience.
I Heart Lola by Nicole Maxali
In "I Heart Lola", Nicole realizes that life with grandma is suddenly not the same...for Nicole and for her grandma. This piece pays tribute to all of those who suffer from Alzheimer's by reminding us that their dementia does not define who they are. Did I mention, it's funny too?
"I Heart Lola was funny, heartfelt and then funny again. I’ve never seen a one person show done like that before. It’s an adventure!" - Dave Chappelle
Bathala Na! by Meldy Hernandez
Bathala Na! is a daughter and a mother's story that only a healthcare provider can tell. Travelling from a birthing hut in Africa to a deathbed in the Philippines, it is one woman's history of the body, breast cancer, and the live-giving beat of the ancestral drums that can save her. Can our tri-lingual nurse jump through heartbreak and dance toward a daughter of her own?
This unique and universal experience is told through West African dance, spoken word storytelling, and the rhythmic tongues of the Mali and Mindanao. An intensely personal and unexpectedly hilarious tale that will leave you dancing!
An Apo & A Nurse: Stories from the Womb
Two Filipina American Women Reflect on Healing, Loss, and Love.
Fri-Sat Oct 22-23, 8PM
Bayanihan Community Center
1010 Mission St. San Francisco, CA 94103
Admission: $15-20 @ the Door, $12 Advance, $11 Student/Senior
Tickets: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/125052
Two of SF's fastest rising Pinay solo performers share the stage to reflect on healing, loss, and love. These universal stories, told through the eyes of a granddaughter and healthcare provider, employ language, humor, and dance to move our spirits toward greater understanding of the raw, human experience.
I Heart Lola by Nicole Maxali
In "I Heart Lola", Nicole realizes that life with grandma is suddenly not the same...for Nicole and for her grandma. This piece pays tribute to all of those who suffer from Alzheimer's by reminding us that their dementia does not define who they are. Did I mention, it's funny too?
"I Heart Lola was funny, heartfelt and then funny again. I’ve never seen a one person show done like that before. It’s an adventure!" - Dave Chappelle
Bathala Na! by Meldy Hernandez
Bathala Na! is a daughter and a mother's story that only a healthcare provider can tell. Travelling from a birthing hut in Africa to a deathbed in the Philippines, it is one woman's history of the body, breast cancer, and the live-giving beat of the ancestral drums that can save her. Can our tri-lingual nurse jump through heartbreak and dance toward a daughter of her own?
This unique and universal experience is told through West African dance, spoken word storytelling, and the rhythmic tongues of the Mali and Mindanao. An intensely personal and unexpectedly hilarious tale that will leave you dancing!
Thursday, October 7, 2010
10/15/2010: Red Horse Reading at the Asian American Writers' Workshop (NY)
Friday, October 15, 2010 @ 7 PM
Red Horse Reading: Hossannah Asuncion, Joseph O. Legaspi, Bino Realuyo, Lara Stapleton, and R.A. Villanueva
Five Filipino New Yorkers, Hossannah Asuncion, Joseph O. Legaspi, Bino Realuyo, Lara Stapleton, and R.A. Villanueva, read poetry and prose. From the Philippines and across the United States, these award-winning poets and novelists share their work as we imbibe Red Horse beer. Will the horse on the bottle wink at you by the end of the night?
Bino A. Realuyo is the author of The Umbrella Country, a novel, and The Gods We Worship Live Next Door, a poetry collection. His works have appeared in The Nation, The Kenyon Review, The Literary Review, New Letters, and several anthologies. For the past fifteen years, he has worked as an Adult Educator and Community Organizer in underserved communities in New York City. He recently founded a social enterprise for low-skilled, low-wage immigrant workers, We Speak America, and can also be found on the web here.
Joseph O. Legaspi is the author of Imago. He co-founded Kundiman, a non-profit organization serving Asian American poetry.
R.A. Villanueva's writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Virginia Quarterly Review, AGNI, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Indiana Review, DIAGRAM, The Collagist, Bellevue Literary Review, and elsewhere. A Kundiman Fellow, he is currently a Language Lecturer at New York University.
Hossannah Asuncion is a Kundiman fellow. Her most recent work has appeared in The Collagist, Lungfull!, and Tuesday: An Art Project. Kimiko Hahn selected her manuscript for one of The Poetry Society's 2010 National Chapbook Fellowships. She currently lives in Brooklyn via Los Angeles via Manila.
Lara Stapleton is the author of The Lowest Blue Flame Before Nothing, an Open Book Committee Selection and an Independent Booksellers Selection. She has edited two anthologies: Juncture and Thirdest World. She was born and raised in East Lansing, Michigan but New York City is her beloved home, and the Philippines her motherland.
@The Asian American Writers' Workshop
110-112 West 27th Street, 6th Floor
Between 6th and 7th Avenues
Buzzer 600
$5 suggested donation
open to the public
Red Horse Reading: Hossannah Asuncion, Joseph O. Legaspi, Bino Realuyo, Lara Stapleton, and R.A. Villanueva
Five Filipino New Yorkers, Hossannah Asuncion, Joseph O. Legaspi, Bino Realuyo, Lara Stapleton, and R.A. Villanueva, read poetry and prose. From the Philippines and across the United States, these award-winning poets and novelists share their work as we imbibe Red Horse beer. Will the horse on the bottle wink at you by the end of the night?
Bino A. Realuyo is the author of The Umbrella Country, a novel, and The Gods We Worship Live Next Door, a poetry collection. His works have appeared in The Nation, The Kenyon Review, The Literary Review, New Letters, and several anthologies. For the past fifteen years, he has worked as an Adult Educator and Community Organizer in underserved communities in New York City. He recently founded a social enterprise for low-skilled, low-wage immigrant workers, We Speak America, and can also be found on the web here.
Joseph O. Legaspi is the author of Imago. He co-founded Kundiman, a non-profit organization serving Asian American poetry.
R.A. Villanueva's writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Virginia Quarterly Review, AGNI, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Indiana Review, DIAGRAM, The Collagist, Bellevue Literary Review, and elsewhere. A Kundiman Fellow, he is currently a Language Lecturer at New York University.
Hossannah Asuncion is a Kundiman fellow. Her most recent work has appeared in The Collagist, Lungfull!, and Tuesday: An Art Project. Kimiko Hahn selected her manuscript for one of The Poetry Society's 2010 National Chapbook Fellowships. She currently lives in Brooklyn via Los Angeles via Manila.
Lara Stapleton is the author of The Lowest Blue Flame Before Nothing, an Open Book Committee Selection and an Independent Booksellers Selection. She has edited two anthologies: Juncture and Thirdest World. She was born and raised in East Lansing, Michigan but New York City is her beloved home, and the Philippines her motherland.
@The Asian American Writers' Workshop
110-112 West 27th Street, 6th Floor
Between 6th and 7th Avenues
Buzzer 600
$5 suggested donation
open to the public
10/16/2010: Barbara Jane Reyes, Maiana Minahal and Veronica Montes @ Easwind Books of Berkeley
EASTWIND BOOKS in Berkeley presents
Author Reading Event:
Barbara Jane Reyes, Maiana Minahal and Veronica Montes
presenting Diwata, Legend Sondayo and Angelica's Daughters.
October 16, 2010 @ 3:00 pm
Eastwind Books, 2066 University Ave., Berkeley, CA.
Barbara Jane Reyes will be reading Diwata. In her book, Reyes frames her poems between the Book of Genesis creation story, and the Tagalog creation myth of the muse, placing her work somewhere culturally in between both traditions. Also setting the tone for her poems is the death and large shadow cast by her grandfather, a World War II veteran and Bataan Death March survivor, who has passed onto her the responsibility of remembering. Reyes’ voice is grounded in her community’s traditions and histories, despite war and geographical dislocation.
Reyes was born in Manila, Philippines, and received her B.A. in Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley and her M.F.A. at San Francisco State University. She has taught Creative Writing at Mills College, and Philippine Studies at University of San Francisco. She lives in Oakland where she is co-editor of Doveglion Press.
Maiana Minahal will be reading Legend Sondayo, a story that remixes an ancient Filipino myth with queer sensibilities, lyrical precision, and a sense of yearning that is at once specific and universal.
Maiana Minahal, a queer Filipina American poet and teacher, born in Manila, raised in Los Angeles, and currently living in San Francisco. She studied with June Jordan's Poetry for the People program, is a recipient of an Artist Award Grant from the Serpent Source Foundation, and is one of the founding members of the Queer Pin@y Kreatibo collective.
Veronica Montes will be reading from ANGELICA'S DAUGHTERS, A Dugtungan Novel by Cecilia Brainard, Erma Cuizon, Susan Evangelista, Veronica Montes, Nadine Sarreal. Anvil Publishing, 2010
The novel is suitable for high school and college students, as well as the general public.
Veronica Montes lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work has appeared in literary journals including Bamboo Ridge, Prism International, and Achiote Seeds, as well as in several anthologies including Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America, Growing Up Filipino, and Going Home to a Landscape: Writings by Filipinas. Her essays have appeared in Filipinas Magazine and online at McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. She maintains a blog, Nesting Ground, at vmontes.blogspot.com.
Eastwind Books of Berkeley
2066 University Avenue; Berkeley, CA 94704
phone: 510 548-2350 fax: 510 548-3697
www.asiabookcenter.com
http://www.facebook.com/eastwind.books
Author Reading Event:
Barbara Jane Reyes, Maiana Minahal and Veronica Montes
presenting Diwata, Legend Sondayo and Angelica's Daughters.
October 16, 2010 @ 3:00 pm
Eastwind Books, 2066 University Ave., Berkeley, CA.
Barbara Jane Reyes will be reading Diwata. In her book, Reyes frames her poems between the Book of Genesis creation story, and the Tagalog creation myth of the muse, placing her work somewhere culturally in between both traditions. Also setting the tone for her poems is the death and large shadow cast by her grandfather, a World War II veteran and Bataan Death March survivor, who has passed onto her the responsibility of remembering. Reyes’ voice is grounded in her community’s traditions and histories, despite war and geographical dislocation.
Reyes was born in Manila, Philippines, and received her B.A. in Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley and her M.F.A. at San Francisco State University. She has taught Creative Writing at Mills College, and Philippine Studies at University of San Francisco. She lives in Oakland where she is co-editor of Doveglion Press.
Maiana Minahal will be reading Legend Sondayo, a story that remixes an ancient Filipino myth with queer sensibilities, lyrical precision, and a sense of yearning that is at once specific and universal.
Maiana Minahal, a queer Filipina American poet and teacher, born in Manila, raised in Los Angeles, and currently living in San Francisco. She studied with June Jordan's Poetry for the People program, is a recipient of an Artist Award Grant from the Serpent Source Foundation, and is one of the founding members of the Queer Pin@y Kreatibo collective.
Veronica Montes will be reading from ANGELICA'S DAUGHTERS, A Dugtungan Novel by Cecilia Brainard, Erma Cuizon, Susan Evangelista, Veronica Montes, Nadine Sarreal. Anvil Publishing, 2010
The novel is suitable for high school and college students, as well as the general public.
Veronica Montes lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work has appeared in literary journals including Bamboo Ridge, Prism International, and Achiote Seeds, as well as in several anthologies including Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America, Growing Up Filipino, and Going Home to a Landscape: Writings by Filipinas. Her essays have appeared in Filipinas Magazine and online at McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. She maintains a blog, Nesting Ground, at vmontes.blogspot.com.
Eastwind Books of Berkeley
2066 University Avenue; Berkeley, CA 94704
phone: 510 548-2350 fax: 510 548-3697
www.asiabookcenter.com
http://www.facebook.com/eastwind.books
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
10/18/2010: Michael Arcega @ Worth Rider Gallery (UC Berkeley)
The Department of Art Practice invites 6-8 notable artists to the Berkeley campus each year. All lectures are on Monday nights, beginning at 7:30 pm, in 155 Kroeber Hall (unless otherwise specified).
October 18 • Michael Arcega
An avid sense of humor, combined with a poignant interest in social control, decay, and violence, characterize the work of San Francisco-based artist Michael Arcega. Upon receiving an MFA from Stanford University in 2009, Arcega was awarded the Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant, as well as the Headlands Center for the Arts Graduate Fellowship. Recent solo exhibitions include Misusefulness, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York; The Collaspe, Marx & Zavattero, San Francisco; and omg, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles. His Valencia Street Posts, produced by the San Francisco Arts Commission, were permanently installed along San Francisco's Valencia Street in June 2010. Arcega is currently a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Sculpture and Extended Media at Virginia Commonwealth University.
October 18 • Michael Arcega
An avid sense of humor, combined with a poignant interest in social control, decay, and violence, characterize the work of San Francisco-based artist Michael Arcega. Upon receiving an MFA from Stanford University in 2009, Arcega was awarded the Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant, as well as the Headlands Center for the Arts Graduate Fellowship. Recent solo exhibitions include Misusefulness, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York; The Collaspe, Marx & Zavattero, San Francisco; and omg, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles. His Valencia Street Posts, produced by the San Francisco Arts Commission, were permanently installed along San Francisco's Valencia Street in June 2010. Arcega is currently a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Sculpture and Extended Media at Virginia Commonwealth University.
10/16/2010: Philippine Basket and Textile Weaving at the De Young Museum, Koret Auditorium
From Fides Enriquez and Ramon Silvestre:
Dear Friends,
In conjunction with the ongoing Fil-Am Heritage Month Celebrations and in partnership with the Textile Art Council at the De Young Museum, I am delighted to invite you to Pacific Ethnographic's presentation at the De Young - "Carriers of Tradition in the Philippines: Kalinga Baskets and T'boli Textiles".
Details:
Location: De Young Musuem, Koret Auditorium
Address: 50 Hagiwara Tea Drive, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco
Date/Time: Saturday Oct 16, 10-11:30am
Fides Enriquez and Dr. Ramon Silvestre, co-directors of Pacific Ethnographic, a Heritage Preservation Research Trust will discuss the juxtapositions of artisans among the indigenous Kalinga tribe weaving baskets on the northern island of Luzon, with the T’boli tribeswomen weaving banana fiber textiles on the southern island of Mindinao. Both of these rich traditions are threatened by the encroachments of modern technology and the economic pressures faced by indigenous peoples.
We will present the short documentary "Weaving Tnalak" and there will be exquisite examples of Kalinga baskets and T'boli T'nalak on display.
For more information visit:
http://deyoung.famsf.org/deyoung/calendar/lecture-carriers-tradition-philippines-kalinga-baskets-and-t-boli-textiles
Sincerely,
Fides Enriquez
Dr Ramon Silvestre
Co-Directors
Pacific Ethnographic, A Heritage Preservation Research Trust
www.pacificethnographic.org
Dear Friends,
In conjunction with the ongoing Fil-Am Heritage Month Celebrations and in partnership with the Textile Art Council at the De Young Museum, I am delighted to invite you to Pacific Ethnographic's presentation at the De Young - "Carriers of Tradition in the Philippines: Kalinga Baskets and T'boli Textiles".
Details:
Location: De Young Musuem, Koret Auditorium
Address: 50 Hagiwara Tea Drive, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco
Date/Time: Saturday Oct 16, 10-11:30am
Fides Enriquez and Dr. Ramon Silvestre, co-directors of Pacific Ethnographic, a Heritage Preservation Research Trust will discuss the juxtapositions of artisans among the indigenous Kalinga tribe weaving baskets on the northern island of Luzon, with the T’boli tribeswomen weaving banana fiber textiles on the southern island of Mindinao. Both of these rich traditions are threatened by the encroachments of modern technology and the economic pressures faced by indigenous peoples.
We will present the short documentary "Weaving Tnalak" and there will be exquisite examples of Kalinga baskets and T'boli T'nalak on display.
For more information visit:
http://deyoung.famsf.org/deyoung/calendar/lecture-carriers-tradition-philippines-kalinga-baskets-and-t-boli-textiles
Sincerely,
Fides Enriquez
Dr Ramon Silvestre
Co-Directors
Pacific Ethnographic, A Heritage Preservation Research Trust
www.pacificethnographic.org
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