TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: PICTURES - HOT OFF THE PRESS Literary Reading, Sat. Oct, 19, 2013

Saturday, October 19, 2013

PICTURES - HOT OFF THE PRESS Literary Reading, Sat. Oct, 19, 2013

We had the Saturday Literary Reading, HOT OFF THE PRESS, this afternoon from 1:45-2:45 p.m. at the San Francisco Main Library, with Jon Pineda, Lysley Tenorio, Dawn Mabalon, Ben Pimentel, Luisa Igloria, Angela Naricso Torres, Evelyn Ibatan Rodriguez, and Elenita Strobel. Here are some pics. If you click on the image, it should get bigger. Special thanks to Evelina Galang for taken most of the pictures shown here.

Stay tuned, one more Reading tomorrow, Sunday, 12:30-1:30 p.m. at the San Francisco Main Library, Latino Community room, with Evelina Galang, Giovanni Ortega, Nieves Catahan Villamn, Marianne Villanueva, Joaquin Gonzalez, Angelo Michael F. Merino, and Kristian Kabuay.

l-r: Cecilia, Luisa Igloria, Leny Strobel, Evelyn Rodrifuez, Dawn Mabalon, kneeling l-r: Nick DeOcampo, Lysley Tenorio

Seated l-r:Dawn Mabalon, Jon Pineda, Angela Narciso Torres, Leny Strobel,Luisa Igloria; Standing l-r: Lysley Tenorio, Evelyn Rodriguez, Nick DeOcampo

Benjamin Pimentel

Luisa Igloria

Angela Narciso Torres

Evelyn Ibatan Rodriguez

Rashaan Alexis Meneses , Cecilia

Rodel Rodis, Penelope Flores, Cecilia

Cecilia, Evelina Galang, Barbara Jane Reyes, Oscar Bermeo

Cecilia, Linda Nietes, Luisa Igloria

Students looking at my books at Philippine Expressions' table.

Cecilia in the back of the bulol and table of Philippine Expressions, by Evelina Galang

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Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's official website is ceciliabrainarddotcom. She is the award-winning author and editor of 22 books, including When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, The Newspaper Widow, Magdalena, Selected Stories, Vigan and Other Stories, and more. She edited Growing Up Filipino 1, 2, & 3, Fiction by Filipinos in America, Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America, and other books.. Her work has been translated into Finnish and Turkish; and many of her stories and articles have been widely anthologized. Cecilia has received many awards, including a California Arts Council Fellowship in Fiction, a Brody Arts Fund Award, a Special Recognition Award for her work dealing with Asian American youths, as well as a Certificate of Recognition from the California State Senate, 21st District, and the Outstanding Individual Award from her birth city, Cebu, Philippines. She has lectured and performed at UCLA, USC, University of Connecticut, University of the Philippines, PEN, Shakespeare & Company in Paris, and many others. She has served in the Board of literary arts groups such as PEN, PAWWA (Pacific Asian American Writers West), among others.