TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: Filipino American Event: Starblazers & Top Hats

Sunday, September 27, 2015

Filipino American Event: Starblazers & Top Hats - October 10, 2015

I'm proud to be a Top Hat 2015 Honoree. Thanks to the Selection Committee of PhilAm Bid for selecting me along with Zeny Agullana, Fresas Flores Balistreri, Gemma Rama Banaag, Chris Cate, Rafael Joel Consing, Jr., Paz Gomez, Hon. Irma Gonzalez, Bill Gore, Linda Jordan, Marily Ysip Orosa, John Pack, and Karl Thomas.

The event is scheduled on Saturday, October 10, 2015 in San Diego, as noted.

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Tags: Filipino, Filipino American, Philippine, Philippine American, PhilAmbid, civic organization, San Diego, California, USA

This s all for now,
Cecilia

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.