Queer Pin@y Conference 2008 at Berkeley September 30, 2008
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I am helping plan the 7th Annual Queer Pin@y Conference at UC Berkeley. I just launched the website and you can register now online! We are also accepting workshop proposals and artist submissions for our very first QPC Art Gallery.
Please come if you can. This will be an event to stimulate your senses, spirit, and consciousness. The last time the event was in the Bay Area was in 2005 and the response was overwhelmingly positive. Be part of the conference and community-building this year:
Registration for the 7th annual Queer Pin@y Conference: Illuminating the Queer Diaspora is now available online! QPC is a conference that brings together queer Pilipino and Pilipino Americans and their allies to discuss issues relevant to our communities.
Visit HERE to register now! Please register for the conference as soon as possible.You can also visit the NEW QPC 2008 website at qpc2008.wordpress.com for more details about the conference.
~WORKSHOPS~
Also, we are still seeking workshops for the conference! Please find the Workshop Application on our website if you or your organization would like to facilitate a workshop during the conference. Submit your proposals by October 3, 2008, to workshops.qpc08@gmail.com.~QPC ART GALLERY~
If you would like to submit artwork for the QPC Artist Gallery, please find the QPC Artist Submission Application also on our website. Email completed applications to ucb.qpc@gmail.comPlease email the planning committee at ucb.qpc@gmail.com if you have further questions.
Web: qpc2008.wordpress.com
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Barbara Jane Reyes at Pegasus Books Tuesday 10/07 September 30, 2008
Posted by Adrien in events, reflections.Tags: Barbara Jane Reyes, Poetry, political poetry
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EDIT: The event is next Tuesday, October 7.
Barbara Jane Reyes is a poet who was also incubated in Maganda Magazine like myself. She too was an Editor-in-Chief a ways before I came in and I look to her as an inspiration for the kind of work that is possible for artists like myself. Everytime I hear her poetry I am inspired at the nuance and depth of her craft. I admire her dedication to poetry.
She will be reading this Tuesday, October 7 at Pegasus Bookstore in Berkeley, with several other poets for an “Evening of ‘Political Poetry’”.
State of the Union: 50 Political Poems
When: Tuesday, October 7, 2008 7:30 PM
Location: Pegasus Books DowntownState of the Union: 50 Political Poems is an anthology gathered from the frontline of American poetics. Reading at this event are contributors Michael Palmer author of Company of Moths and Codes Appearing and recipient of the Wallace Stevens Award; Brenda Hillman, a peace wager with CodePink, a social justice group that fought for a resolution in the California State Assembly to bring home the National Guard from Iraq; Meg Hamill, the author of Death Notices, a book of obituaries for soldiers killed in Iraq; Juliana Spahr author of Fuck You-Aloha-I Love You, poetry on Hawaii’s politics of location; and Joe Wenderoth, author of The Holy Spirit of Life: Essays Written for John Ashcroft’s Secret Self.
Mr. Hyphen 2008 Contestants September 30, 2008
Posted by Adrien in events, sightings.Tags: Asian American, Hyphen Magazine, Mr. Hyphen
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The 3rd annual Mr. Hyphen competition, presented by Hyphen Magazine, will be taking place this Saturday, October 4, starting 7pm, at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center.
Comedienne/performer Samantha Chanse will be hosting the evening of talent, fashion, and competition. The event highlights Asian men who are committed to community causes, and the winner gets $1000 donated to their non-profit organization.
Check out the list of contestants:
Scott Chan Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics
Aristotle Garcia Filipino-American Arts & Exposition
Mike Liu Spring Buds / California Dragon Boat Association
Maurice Seaty Southeast Asian Student Coalition
Eric Tam Asian American Donor Program
Rockson Yan API Legal Outreach Youth Program
Maurice Seaty is a good friend of mine who is an inspiring community organizer and poet. Check him and the other contestants out (literally) at the showcase! Full event details at Hyphen.
Kularts Events this Weekend September 30, 2008
Posted by Adrien in events.Tags: Filipino arts, Filipino music, Filipino theatre, Kulintang
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Kularts is featuring new works in progress at the Bayanihan Center in San Francisco this weekend.
BUTTERFLY KICKS: A WEEKEND OF WORKS IN PROGRESS
Friday – Sunday, October 3-5, 2008
Advance Tickets: $10
Sliding Scale at the Door: $12-15
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Featuring compelling works-in-development by Poet Joel Tan, Composer Dwayne Calizo,
Composer Florante Aguilar, writers Josef Anolin, Allan Manalo and Marianne Villanueva.
The weekend is a part of a series of events coming up through November at the Bayanihan Center.
View the full schedule of fall events at the Kularts website.
‘Romance of Magno Rubio’ preview this Wednesday September 29, 2008
Posted by Adrien in events, sightings.Tags: Carlos Bulosan, Filipino American, Filipino literature, Filipino theater, Romance of Magno Rubio
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Lonnie Carter’s play The Romance of Magno Rubio, starring the 2007 New York cast (including Prince Charming himself, Paolo Montalban), will be showing this month October 4-5 in Stockton and October 9-12 in San Bruno.
The play is based off of a Carlos Bulosan short story by the same name, and tells the story of Filipino immigrant life in the 1930s.
This Wednesday, October 1, a panel discussion about Carlos Bulosan’s work will take place at the SF Library, featuring UC Berkeley lecturer, Dr. Joi Barrios, and will feature a performance by the cast of the play. Check out the event, and visit www.littlemanila.net for full details on play dates and tickets. (more…)
APAture Festival Closes Sunday September 26, 2008
Posted by Adrien in events.Tags: Adriel Luis, APAture, Asian American art, Bay Area Art, DJ Phatrick, Hellen Jo
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The APAture festival closes this Sunday. The day-long series of events features a Comics & Zine Expo featuring Hellen Jo and a round-table discussion on Asian American Hip-Hop featuring Adriel Luis and DJ Phatrick. Full schedule of events after the jump. (more…)
Silicon Valley tongues takin’ over September 26, 2008
Posted by Adrien in reflections.Tags: immigration, San Jose news, Santa Clara news
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The San Jose Mercury news reported earlier this week that a majority of Santa Clara residents speak a language other than English at home.
Numbers are catching up to the lived reality of former ESL kids like me who grow up with a language that isn’t English. We are no longer the exception. This is the changing face of America.
Two festivals in Berkeley/North Oakland this weekend September 26, 2008
Posted by Adrien in events.Tags: Berkeley festivals, Oakland festivals
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This Sunday, September 28, the 13th Annual “How Berkeley Can You Be” Festival will be taking place in MLK Park.
The same day will also be Out and About in Rockridge street festival in the Rockridge district of Oakland.
Check it:
How Berkeley Can You Be? Parade & Festival
12pm-5pm
Come and help Berkeley celebrate itself in one of the most colorful, irreverent, and fun events on the west coast. The Annual “How Berkeley Can You Be!?” Parade kicks the event off, starting at the corner of California and University Avenue and ending in Civic Center Park.The Festival begins at 12:00 P.M. in Civic Center Park, (Martin Luther King Park) in the heart of downtown Berkeley. Included in the Festival is an outdoor stage with wonderful live music and dance, food and drink booths, crafts, non-profits, and children’s activities.
Out and About in Rockridge street festival
11am-6pm
Come celebrate community with the merchants and residents of Rockridge at Out and About in Rockridge! the festival is centered around College Avenue, and features hundreds of artisans, craft and commnity booths, live music and dance, alternative health exhibitors, fashion shows, a green living expo, cooking demos, food vendors and more.
DC Stupid-heads update and Gay Aiken September 26, 2008
Posted by Adrien in events, news, reflections, signs and fortunes.Tags: bailout, Clay Aiken, economy, Elections, McCain, Obama, Wall Street
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Washington Mutual just collapsed, signaling the largest bank failure in American history.
The congressional talks over the multi-billion dollar bailout plan imploded last night, leaving the plan still floating in the ether.
Joe Klein for Time has a good review of what’s happened:
Please, just stop it. September 24, 2008
Posted by Adrien in news, signs and fortunes.Tags: economy, Treasury
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Ripped from DailyKos:
Remember when kos asked:
I want to know why $700 billion. Why not $100 billion, with Treasury going back to Congress when/if it needs more? Why $700 billion?
Well, now we know:
“It’s not based on any particular data point,” a Treasury spokeswoman told Forbes.com Tuesday. “We just wanted to choose a really large number.”
