TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: Carlos Bulosan Book Awards - May 16, 2026, Los Angeles Public Library downtown

Saturday, May 2, 2026

Carlos Bulosan Book Awards - May 16, 2026, Los Angeles Public Library downtown

I am honored and grateful to be a recipient of a Carlos Bulosan Book Club Award. The awards event is on Saturday, May 16, 2026, 11 am at the Taper Auditorium, Los Angeles Public Library downtown. information follows.
Carlos Bulosan Book Club Awards
Presented by the Friends of Echo Park Library, the Carlos Bulosan Book Club Awards honors distinguished Filipino American literary advocates for their contributions to storytelling, cultural preservation, and community engagement. Included will be award presentations, brief honoree remarks, and a moderated conversation on literature, memory, and community.
DATE: May 16, 2026, 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
LOCATION: Taper Auditorium, LAPL Central Library, 630 W. Fifth Street, downtown Los Angeles 90071.
AWARDEES:
Joselyn Geaga-Rosenthal – Lifetime Achievement Award
Cecilia Manguerra Brainard – Literary Advocate Award
Joseph Bernardo – Literary Advocate & Historian of the Filipino American Experience Award
Audience: All ages, event is free
This Filipino American celebration is part of the Los Angeles Public Library Celebration of Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month with Free Day-Long Festival from 11-4 at the Central Library, downtown Los Angeles. Highlights include lion dancers, Japanese dance performers, Korean fabric art, lei making, and the Carlos Bulosan Book Club Awards. Speakers include Los Angeles City Council member Ysabel Jurado of Council District 14, Philippine Consul General Adelio Angelito S. Cruz, and Philippine Vice Consul Levi Anthony B. Malaylay.

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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.