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July 10 - October 28, 2010 San Francisco Main Library Cafe display case
100 Larkin St. San Francisco, CA
Artist Bren Bataclan recent stylized paintings are currently on display at the Library Cafe display case. The paintings are based on the severe flood that hit Manila and other provinces of the Philippines in September 2009. Baha, portrays the heroism, resilience and compassion of the Filipino people during this seemingly insurmountable ordeal.
PREVIOUS EVENTS
Civic Center to Little Saigon Larkin Street
Join Arkipelago Bookstore and visit our booth on May 15th, from 11am to 6pm, as we celebrate our heritage and culture at the 6th Annual Asian Heritage Street Celebration. Experience a fun field day full of exciting activities, such as shopping, wine tasting, food, Muay Thai Boxing, arts and crafts, musical live performances, cultural parade and a whole lot more! A festival made for all ages. We'll see there! For more information on the event please visit: www.asianfairsf.com
May 5 - July 9, 2010Ebmud Gallery, Oakland, CA Phone: (510) 287-0138
A FREE event
In celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, local artist Geri Zarate will present a photographic exhibition "Lost in Manila", at the East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) Gallery in Oakland. In more than 20 large scale photographs, Ms. Zarate shares impressions of her experience as a 'Balikbayan' - a Filipina who came back to her birthplace to reconnect with a culture that she believed would be familiar. Living in Manila for 6 months in 2008, everything she saw was new. Although Geri felt like a foreigner in her homeland, the experience of "going home" deepened her understanding of what it means to be an immigrant.
EBMUD GALLERY HOURS: Mon - Fri 8am - 4:30pm
A FREE event.
Featuring classical guitar performance by Theresa Calpotura
compositions by Bayani Mendoza de Leon
and poetry of B. Mendoza de Leon & Rhodora Peñaranda
Kanta Filipina blends a variety of styles from the Philippines, reflecting a musical microcosm in its driving indigenous tribal rhythms, traditional folk dances, chants, lullabies and love songs.
Theresa Calpotura has performed in numerous venues throughout the US and the Philippines. She has won a number of awards from
associations such as the National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts and the American String Teachers Association, and received
scholarships from the Oberlin Conservatory of which she is a graduate and the Yale School of Music. Ms. Calpotura has given master classes
in the US and in the Philippines and is currently on faculty at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Preparatory Division.
Bayani Mendoza de Leon is one of the most versatile Filipino-American artists. He is a composer, musician, writer, folklorist, ethnomusicologist,
cultural scholar and leader. As composer, he has written works that reflect his Philippine-Asian heritage. He was recipient of the 2008 PAMANA presidential award for outstanding Filipinos overseas from the Philippine Government and the 2008 Most Outstanding
Filipino-American Achiever in America award from the Filipino Heritage Foundation, Inc.
Sandy Mcintosh
Sandy McIntosh is the managing editor of the New York City poetry press, Marsh Hawk Press. His poetry collections include the just-released ERNESTA, IN THE STYLE OF FLAMENCO.
Eileen Tabios
Eileen Tabios' publications includes 18 poetry collections, including a flamenco-poetry collection in NOTA BENE EISWEIN. She just released THE THORN ROSARY: SELECTED PROSE POEMS 1998-2010, with essays by scholars Thomas Fink and Joi Barrios. She once took a flamenco class in New York City, and failed it with much enthusiasm.
Edwin Agustín Lozada
Edwin Agustín Lozada is the author of Sueños anónimos/Anonymous Dreams and Bosquejos/Sketches. He produced Field of Mirrors, PAWA’s 2008 anthology. He was a member of Rosa Montoya Bailes Flamencos from 1998-2003.
With special guest performers
Roberto Campos
flamenco guitar
Alicia
flamenco dance
Michelle Bautista
Michelle is a poet and kali martial artist. She has released a poetry collection entitled KALI'S BLADE (Meritage Press).
PAWA (Philippine American Writers and Artists) in conjunction with Arkipelago Books presents a book launch of
WHAT: Growing Up Filipino II: More Stories for Young Adults
Edited and Collected by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard
WHEN: Saturday, January 16, 2010, 2:00 – 5:00 PM
WHERE: Bayanihan Community Center,
1010 Mission St., San Francisco
Featuring Readers Rashaan Alexis Meneses, Veronica Montes, Tony Robles, and Marianne Villanueva.
BOOK DESCRIPTION: A welcome addition to Filipino American literature, Growing Up Filipino II: More Stories for Young Adults is the second volume of the Growing Up Filipino series by PALH. In this collection of 27 short stories, Filipino and Filipino American writers explore the universal challenges and experiences of Filipino teens after the historic events of 9/11. The modern demands do not hinder Filipino youth from dealing with the universal concerns of growing up: family, friends, love, home, budding sexuality, leaving home. The delightful stories are written by well known as well as emerging writers. While the target audience of this fine anthology is young adults, the stories can be enjoyed by adult readers as well.
CONTRIBUTORS: Dean Francis Alfar, Katrina Ramos Atienza, Maria Victoria Beltran, M.G. Bertulfo, Cecilia Manguerra Brainard, Amalia B. Bueno, Max Gutierrez, Leslieann Hobayan, Jaime An Lim, Paulino Lim Jr., Rebecca Mabanglo-Mayor, Dolores de Manuel, Rashaan Alexis Meneses, Veronica Montes, Charlson Ong, Marily Ysip Orosa, Kannika Claudine D. Peña, Oscar Peñaranda, Edgar Poma, Tony Robles, Brian Ascalon Roley, Jonathan Jimena Siason, Aileen Suzara, Geronimo G. Tagatac, Marianne Villanueva
ISBN: 978-0-9719458- 2-1
ISBN: 978-0-9719458- 3-8
PUBLISHED BY:
PALH
P. O. Box 5099
Santa Monica, CA 90409
Tel/fax: 310-452-1195;
email: palh@aol.com
www.palhbooks.com
For more information on the event contact:
PAWA, Inc. at pawa@pawainc.com, www.pawainc. com
CounterPULSE and Arkipelago Books co-present "BIHAG"
WHAT:"BIHAG"
by Dulce Capadocia, Artistic Director of the Silayan Philippine-American Dance Company
as part of the Performing Diaspora Festival
WHEN: Nov. 19-22, Thurs.-Sun. at 8 pm
WHERE: CounterPULSE 1310 Mission Street San Francisco, CA 94103
Tickets: $15-25 pre-sale (Single evening tix), $18-25 at the door
$40-$60 Performing Diaspora Festival Pass
To purchase single evening ticket CLICK HERE
To purchase the Performing Diaspora Festival Pass CLICK HERE
Arkipelago Books teams up with CounterPULSE, one of the Bay Area's most exciting centers for ground breaking performance, to present "BIHAG" a new work by Dulce Capadocia as part of the three-week Performing Diaspora Festival.
Dulce Capadocia is one of the festival's thirteen California dance, music, theater, media, and interdisciplinary artists who are using traditional forms as a basis for experimentation and innovation, representing the modern California experience. Dulce Capadocia's new work will be shown as part of the showcase that runs from November 19-22. Kularts will be co-presenting the night of Friday, November 20.
The Tikling bird (goddess of legacy) trains her young to avoid deadly bamboo traps in the jungles of ancient Philippines. Fast-forward to the urban jungle of Los Angeles, where many Filipino teens are finding new expression in the phenomenon of “Hip Hop Tinikling,” a fusing of traditional rhythmical dances with bamboo poles and the pulsing beats of urban hip hop. With music by an award-winning sound design crew which includes a foley artist and a DJ, BIHAG is a journey through mythical and contemporary stories of personal entrapment and escape. A violent battle for territory and power is the exciting climax and centerpiece of this new work performed by members of the intergenerational Silayan Philippine-American Dance Company
Kularts Presents River, River by Merlinda Bobis
Nov. 13, Friday & Nov. 15, Sunday
ADMISSION: $16-$20 @ the door, $14 Advance, $ 12 Student/Senior
TICKETS: www.brownpapertickets.com/event/79728
Filipina-Australian writer and performance artist Merlinda Bobis performs her latest dramatic work, “River, River”, based on her 1994 short story, “Fish-Hair Woman,” a story of magical realism, terror, and sadness, as part of her 2009 world tour.
Synopsis:
Estrella Capili, the Fish-Hair Woman, uses her twelve-meter hair to pull corpses from the river in Iraya, a militarized village in the Philippines. The river has become the dumping ground of victims of summary executions. Each time a body is thrown into the river, the water changes flavour: from river sweetness to brine, then later, to lemon grass. Is this myth? A trick of memory? An attempt of the village to story itself out of grief? Estrella remembers a night with no moon but lit by fireflies. She is taken by the soldiers to the river to retrieve a body from the water.
VENUE: Bayanihan Community Center
1010 Mission St. San Francisco CA, 94103
For more information please call Arkipelago at 415.553.8185
Kularts is proud to present the PeliKULa Pin@y Film Series
WHAT: PeliKULa Pin@y Film Series featuring Romeo Candida's Ang Pamana: The Inheritance, as well as a series of short films, including No. 4 from director Benito Bautista! Before the long-awaited documentary Harana premieres, here is a great chance to see a great sample of his award-winning work as well as a few other films from the Filipino community!
WHEN: November 1st, Sunday 3:00 - 8:00 PM
WHERE: Bayanihan Community Center
1010 Mission St. San Francisco, CA 94103
Admission: $7 ($10 includes $3 donation to Typhoon Relief)
Tickets: https://www.brownpapertickets.com Join Kularts for its second PeliKULa! Pin@y Film Series.
Honoring All Soul's Day by exploring the dark corners of the human psyche...
Shorts Program
3:00 - 5:00 pm
San Francisco Veterans Equity Center
Marks a Decade of Serving the Community
WHAT: A Walk to Remember: VEC 10th Year Anniversary
WHEN: November 6, Friday at 6:30pm
WHERE: Fort Mason Center, Golden Gate Room
Landmark Bldg. A San Francisco, CA 94123
Tickets: $50 Cocktail/Reception
For more information please call 415.255.2347 or email VEC at sfvec2000@yahoo.com
PAWA Arkipelago Reading Series
November 7, 2009
Featuring Justin Chin, Sarah Gambito, Maiana Minaham and Marianne Villanueva. Please visit our website again for more information.
Please join us for the next reading in the PAWA Arkipelago Reading Series
Where: The Bayanihan Center 1010 Mission Street @ 6th Street, SF
When: Saturday, October 17, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Who: Writers Neelanjana Banerjee, Luis Francia, Alejandro Murguía, and Jean Vengua. Musical guests Chris Planas and Carlos Ziálcita
This event is FREE and open to the public!
Neelanjana Banerjee’s poetry and fiction have appeared in the The Literary Review, Asian Pacific American Journal, Nimrod, A Room of One’s Own, Desilit and the anthology, Desilicious. She received an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University in 2007 and was a Hedgebrook fellow in 2008. Banerjee has worked in mainstream, ethnic and independent media for the past ten years. She edits the Books and Literature section for Hyphen (an Asian American magazine based in the San Francisco Bay Area) and is currently a teaching artist with the San Francisco WritersCorp. She is a co-editor for Indivisible: An Anthology of South Asian American Poetry (University of Arkansas Press, 2010).
Luis H. Francia is the author of, among other titles, the poetry collection Museum of Absences, the semiautobiographical Eye of the Fish: A Personal Archipelago, and the forthcoming chapbook The Beauty of Ghosts. He is the editor of Brown River, White Ocean, an anthology of Philippine literature in English. He teaches at New York University and Hunter College.
Alejandro Murguía is the author of two collections of short stories, both of which received The American Book Award, Southern Front (Bilingual Review Press 1991) and This War Called Love (City Lights Books, (2002). He is also the author of the non-fiction The Medicine of Memory: A Mexica Clan in California (University of Texas Press 2002). A long-time literary activists in the Bay Area, he is the co-editor of Volcán: Poetry from Central America (1984); the translator of Angel in the Deluge by Rosario Castellanos (1993), and the founder and editor of Tin-Tan Magazine (1975-79). He is currently a professor in Raza Studies at San Francisco State University.
Jean Vengua's poetry has been published in many print and online journals and anthologies, including Going Home to a Landscape, Babaylan, x-stream, Interlope, Returning a Borrowed Tongue, Fugacity 05, Sidereality, Moria, and Otoliths, and in her chapbook, The Aching Vicinities (Otoliths). With Mark Young, she is editor of The First Hay(na)ku Anthology and Hay(na)ku Anthology, Volume 2. Jean's essays, articles and reviews on literature and music have been published in many journals including Jouvert, Geopolitics of the Visual (Ateneo Univ. Press), Pinoy Poetics, Our Own Voice, Seattle's International Examiner (Pacific Reader), and CultureCatch.com.
Chris Planas, of Filipino and Mexican ancestry, grew up in Hawaii. He has been playing the guitar for over 30 years. Among many, his styles include jazz, blues, contemporary and salsa. In addition, he is also a vocalist, composer, writer and also has taught at UC Berkeley and at Berkeley City College.
Carlos Ziálcita, harmonica player and vocalist, has been part of the San Francisco Bay Area music scene for three decades as a performer, promoter, educator, and radio announcer. His recordings include Train Through Oakland in 2000, Evolution, released in 2004 and Soul Shadows, released in 2009 with the jazz fusion group Little Brown Brother. He is the Producer and Executive Director of the San Francisco Filipino American Jazz Festival.
Filipino American History Month Celebration at the Asian Art Museum
Date: Sunday, October 4, 2009
Start Time: 10:00 am End Time: 4:00 pm
Time Zone: US/Pacific)
Location: Museum Wide at Asian Art Museum
Category: Special Events
Description
Celebrating 422 Years
Celebrate Filipino American History Month with Filipino American artists, authors, and performers. Learn therichness and beauty of Filipino American culture and history through presentations and activities for children. Enjoy Filipino American dance and music as we commemorate the 422nd anniversary of the landing of Filipino sailors at California's Moro Bay.
A detailed schedule of activities is to come. Please check back.
Free admission courtesy of Target Stores.
More Info: http://www.asianart.org/filamhistory.htm
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