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To celebrate the Printed and Spoken Words and the publication of New Books AUTHORS NIGHT Friday, April 24, 2009 5:30pm - 9:00pm Philippine Consulate General Rizal Hall, 3600 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 500 Los Angeles, CA 90010 Free admission. Limited seating. RSVP required. Tel (310) 514-9139 or email <[email protected]> *** Los Angeles's Historic Filipinotown By Carina Monica Montoya A Lovely Little War: Life in a Japanese Prison Camp through the Eyes of a Child. (UST Interment Camp) By Angus Lorenzen Portents and Promises: Echoes of Politics, People and Places. Poems by Estrella Besinga Sybinsky The Philippiine Jeepney: A Filipino Family Metaphor. By Penelope V. Flores and Araceli N. Resus Cora Cooks Pancit, a children's book. By Dorina K. Lazo Gilmore *** MEET THE AUTHORS Carina Monica Montoya, is also known as Carina Forsythe. She is the author of "Filipinos in Hollywood" which was released last year. A native of Los Angeles, she collected the vintage images for her latest book, LOS ANGELES'S HISTORIC FILIPINOTOWN from LA historical organizations and Filipino families who settled in and around the Temple- Beverly Corridor in the early years. This area was officially designated by LA City Council District 13 as one of the city's historic geographic areas on August 2, 2002. Angus Lorenzen, at age 7, fled Japanese-occupied North China with his sister and mother, just days before the attack on Pearl Harbor, only to be captured in Manila and held in Santo Tomas Internment Camp (UST) for more than three years. A LOVELY LITTLE WAR is his memoir. Active in ex-prisoner of war activities, he was elected in 2008 as Commander of the southern California civilian chapter of the national organization that serves American Ex-POWs. He resides in Rancho Palos Verdes. Estrella Besinga Sybinsky is the author of PORTENTS AND PROMISES which is a collection of free verse that encourages reflection and thought. In her words, "After the devastating attack on the US on Sept 11, 2001, the magnitude of suffering compels humanity to address deeper issues about the human condition. The book is about people and places, about ideas and political themes." She has been noted for her excellence in teaching at the University of Hawaii, Windward campus, where she taught for twenty years and cited in 1978 as one of the Outstanding Young Women of America from Hawaii. Sybinsky has two children's books waiting to be published. Grew up in Cebu City but her parents'ancestral home is Guindulman, Bohol. She came to the US for graduate studies at the East West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, where she has lived for 26 years with her husband and two grown daughters. They now reside in Ellicott City, Maryland. Penelope V. Flores, co-author of THE PHILIPPINE JEEPNEY: A Metaphor for Understanding the Filipino American Family has a Ph.D. in Comparative and International Education (University of Chicago); teaches at the San Francisco State University. As an author, editor, and co-author, her books include "Whisper of the Bamboo: An Anthology of Phil Am Writers and Artists", and "Goodbye, Vientiane: Untold Stories of Filipinos in Operation Brotherhood in Laos, 1954-1975." A humanities scholar, she writes essays and articles on Philippine culture, and was on the Board of the California Council for the Humanities, and of the Illinois Humanities Council. An international consultant on the areas of Education, Curriculum, Research and Teacher Education with UNESCO, US AID, and the American Education Development, she was in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia for an assignment; in 2005, she was Primary School Advisor to Indonesia to train replacement teachers due to the 2004 tsunami. Dorina Lazo Gilmore, author of CORA COOKS PANCIT, a children's book, grew up in a Filipino-Italian family kitchen where she creates healthy recipes and share stories with her mama, aunties and grandmas. She has a BA in English and Journalism and is completing an M.F.A. degree in Children's Literature at Hollins University. She is also the author of two other children's books, "Children of the San Joaquin Valley" and "Stone Soup: A Hmong Girl's Journey to the United States". Dorina is originally from Chicago and lives with her husband and two daughters in Fresno, CA. BTW, if you will be unable to join us for Authors Night, we accept orders for autographed copies of the book. Just call (310) 514-9139 or email <[email protected]> MEET THE HOST : Philippine Expressions Bookshop Philippine Expressions is a mail order bookshop dedicated to Filipino Americans in search of their roots. The business started in 1984 when owner Linda Nietes moved to the US from Manila. She felt that Philippine writings needed a home in the US in the same manner that she provided a home for Philippine writings in the Philippines when she opened Casalinda Bookshop in Forbes Park, Makati, Metro Manila in 1972. Philippine Expressions is the first specialty bookshop on the Philippines to be established in the US. This year marks 25 years of service to the Fil Am community and 37 years of trail-blazing and cultural activism on the part of Linda. She is inspired by a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." *** Authors Night is part of a year-long celebration of our 25th Anniversary, and a community outreach program in collaboration with the Philippine Consulate General of Los Angeles. *** Vist our Booth # 427, Dickson Plaza Mid, Zone D, at the LA Times Festival of Books, April 25-26, UCLA Campus where Filipino American authors will be booksigning. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Filipino Librarians" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/FilipinoLibrarians?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
