WooHoo! Los Angeles Press Club Honors Janet Nepales (U.S. FWN100™ '12, Global FWN100™ '13) with National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Award
Janet Susan R. Nepales (U.S. FWN100™ '12, Global FWN100™ '13) won third place in the recently-held Los Angeles Press Club's Ninth Annual National Arts & Entertainment Journalism (NAEJ) Awards. Nepales won for her article titled "Jennifer Garner on her life and its miracles" that appeared in her Hollywood Bulletin column on March 16, 2016.
Birthdays in the Cemetery by Katinka Floro Rodriguez, A Memoir of a Filipina Woman’s World War II Childhood
Just after Pearl Harbor Day, a motherless six-year-old girl awakens when a bomb falls a block from her home, the beginning of years of shattering deprivation.
In World War II Manila, Katinka suffers starvation, illness, and cruelty and loses family in the infamous Bataan Death March. She survives the Japanese occupation and the Battle of Manila. By the end of the war, Manila is destroyed and a million Filipinos are dead, but Katinka has endured the worst and now experiences the American liberation and reconstruction.
Available now on Alford Marr Press.
New book by Marie Claire Lim Moore (Global FWN100™ '14)
Catch Marie Claire Lim Moore's (Global FWN100™ '14) new book "Don't Forget the Parsley", a continuation of her acclaimed memoir "Don't Forget the Soap and Other Reminders from my Fabulous Filipina Mother." The digital edition is now available on Amazon.
DOGEATERS in San Francisco's Magic Theater until February 28th
Magic Theatre literally transforms into Manila’s mythical Studio 54 – where you’ll find drag queens, beauty queens and movie stars alongside statesmen, activists and rebels. Welcome to the Philippines in 1982 and Jessica Hagedorn’s no-holds barred Dogeaters. Explore the inner workings of power, culture clash, sex and celebrity as a country unravels at the end of the Marcos regime. Dogeaters isn’t just a play to watch, it’s an experience to remember.
Catch the theater adaptation of Jessica Hagedorn's novel Dogeaters at Magic Theater in San Francisco from February 4th - February 28th. Tickets available now.
Congrats to Arlene Biala, the 2016-2017 Santa Clara County Poet Laureate!
Congrats Arlene Biala, the 2016-2017 Santa Clara County Poet Laureate! The Poet Laureate's role is to elevate Santa Clara County residents’ awareness of poetry, and to help celebrate and promote the literary arts.
Arlene Biala is an award-winning Filipino-American poet and performance artist who has been participating in poetry performances and workshops in the Bay Area for over 20 years.