Hi, I'll be signing at the booth of Philippine Expressions at the Festival of Philippine Arts and Culture - Sunday, Sept. 9, 1-5 p.m. Point Fermin Park, 807 W. Paseo del mar, San Pedro, CA. Here's the signing schedule of Philippine Expressions for this weekend:
Saturday, September 8, 2012
1:00pm - 3:00pm
Carina Monica Montoya, AKA Carina Forsythe. Let's Cook Adobo, a juvenile book with illustrations by Eliseo Art Silva; Filipinos in Hollywood; Los Angeles's Historic Filipinotown; and Santa Maria Valley, in collaboration with Santa Maria Valley Historical Society.
Albert Mortiz. Discover the Philippines Cookbook.
Brian Roley. American Son: A Novel. And the following titles where he is a contributor: Magnificat: Mama Mary's Pilgrim Sites; Finding God: True Stories of Spiritual Encounters; California Uncovered: Stories of the 2lst Century; Growing Up Filipino 1 and 2.
Leslie V. Ryan. I Am Flippish. A juvenile book. (NB: Flippish is a descriptive term which means Filipino and Irish in heritage)
Jay Wertz. The Pacific: War Stories WWll Firsthand. Volume 1. Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal. (With coverage on the Philippines)
3:00pm - 5:00pm
Jay Wertz. The Pacific: War Stories WWll Firsthand. Volume 1. Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal. (With coverage on the Philippines)
Albert Mortiz. Discover the Philippines Cookbook.
Sunday, September 9, 2012
1:00noon - 3:00pm
Cecilia Manguerra Brainard. Magdalena: A Novel; Out of Cebu: Essays and Personal Prose; Vigan and Other Stories; Finding God: True Stories of Spiritual Encounters, co-edited with Marily Ysip-Orosa; Magnificat: Mama Mary's Pilgrim Sites, editor; Angelica's Daughters: a Dugtungan novel written with four other authors; A la Carte: Food and Fiction, co-edited with Marily Ysip-Orosa; Behind the Walls: Life of Convent Girls, co-edted with Marily Ysip-Orosa;
Lucy Adao McGinley. Magnificat: Mama Mary's Pilgrim Sites where she contributed the article Spain: Our Lady of the Pillar. Our Mother's Visit from Zaragoza.
Leslie Ryan. I Am Flippish. A juvenile book. (NB: Flippish is a descriptive term which means Filipino and Irish in heritage)
2:00pm - 4:00pm
Eliseo Art Silva. Filipinos of Greater Philadelphia; Let's Cook Adobo, a juvenile book with illustrations by Eliseo Art Silva;
Lorenzo Paran III. Pinoy in America: The stateside life in tje time of Barack Obama, Facebook and Pacquiao-mania.
4:00pm - 5pm
Cecilia Manguerra Brainard. Magdalena: A Novel; Out of Cebu: Essays and Personal Prose; Vigan and Other Stories; Finding God: True Stories of Spiritual Encounters, co-edited with Marily Ysip-Orosa; Magnificat: Mama Mary's Pilgrim Sites, editor; Angelica's Daughters: a Dugtungan novel written with four other authors; A la Carte: Food and Fiction, co-edited with Marily Ysip-Orosa; Behind the Walls: Life of Convent Girls, co-edted with Marily Ysip-Orosa;
Lucy Adao McGinley. Magnificat: Mama Mary's Pilgrim Sites where she contributed the article Spain: Our Lady of the Pillar. Our Mother's Visit from Zaragoza.
Leslie Ryan. I Am Flippish. A juvenile book. (NB: Flippish is a descriptive term which signifies a Filipino and Irish heritage)
Thursday, September 6, 2012
Festival of Philippine Arts and Culture - Book Signings
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.
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