Dear All, Author Menchu Sarmiento, winner of the First NVM Gonzalez Literary Award will be in town and I am arranging an informal dinner in her honor. My apologies for this short notice but hope that you will be able to join us. Details are as follows: No Host DinnerSaturday, January 30, 20096:00pm - 9:00pmAzeens Afghani Restaurant110 E. Union St., Pasadena, CA 91103 For directions and menu selections, visit:http://www.azeensafghanirestaurant.com/direction.html Eating at this Afghan restaurant will be a gastronomic experienceand I encourage you to come and try it. It has received a goodreview from LA Times. Guests are limited. Please respond soonest via email or call m...@ (310) 514-9139. Maria Carmen Aquino Sarmiento (Menchu) is a member of PEN International. Her story, "Good Intentions l01: SY '72 - '73" won the first NVM Gonzalez Award Grand Prize for Excellence in Short Story in English and was declared Best Short Story of the Year, 2000. It has been anthologized in the book, Best Filipino Stories. The NVM Gonzalez Awards, 2000-2005 edited by Gemino H. Abad and Gregorio C. Brillantes and published by the University of the Philippines Press in 2007. Menchu has also written a book of fiction entitled Daisy Nueve: Stories Weird, Wonderful, Whatever which was published by Anvil Publishing in 2003.
She is the Executive Director of PhilippineAirlines Foundation, Manila which works closely with Mending Kids International. Both organizations have a medical mission where they bring ill children from poor families in the Philippines to the US for treatment. This is the mission that brings her to CA during this visit. BTW, the Pacific Asia Museum will be showing a film on the same day which you might want to view before proceeding to the dinner for Menchu. Please see details below. Thanks and hope to hear from you. Linda ---- 2:00 p.m. Film: Memories of the Forgotten War This film uncovers the intriguing story of the Philippine-American War, a century later. Co-Director Camilla Benolirao Griggers will be present at the screening and the Q & A afterwards. It is an award- winning documentary; Robert and I have seen it before and would love to see it again. Free for members; entrance fee is included with museum admission for non-members. Likewise, there is also a Philippine Exhibit on View: FASHIONING DOMESTICITY, WEAVING DESIRE: VISIONS OF THE FILIPINA. (The exhibit ends soon) This exhibition explores the canonical visions of the early to mid 20th-century Filipina as civilized and/or wild. Through the juxtaposition of traditional textiles and ethnographic photography, as well as objects of personal adornment and popular print culture it addresses the fashioning of domesticity and the weaving of desire as political strategies of polarization. PACIFIC ASIA MUSEUM 46 North Los Robles Avenue Pasadena, CA 91101 Tel. 626-449-2742 HOURS: Wednesday - Sunday 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. http://www.pacificasiamuseum.org/ --- Philippine Expressions Bookshop The Mail Order Bookshop dedicated to Filipino Americans in search of their roots. 2114 Trudie Drive Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 90275-2006, USA Tel and Fax (310) 514-9139 ---- "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson. We have blazed the trail in promoting Philippine books in America. 2010 marks our 26th year of service to the Filipino American community. Mabuhay. ---- Dear Friends, Author Menchu Sarmiento, winner of the First NVM Gonzalez Literary Award will be in town and I am arranging an informal dinner in her honor. My apologies for this short notice but hope that you will be able to join us. Details are as follows: No Host DinnerSaturday, January 30, 20096:00pm - 9:00pmAzeens Afghani Restaurant110 E. Union St., Pasadena, CA 91103 For directions and menu selections, visit:http://www.azeensafghanirestaurant.com/direction.html Eating at this Afghan restaurant will be a gastronomic experienceand I encourage you to come and try it. It has received a goodreview from LA Times. Guests are limited to 20 people. Please respond soonest via email or call me @ (310) 514-9139. Maria Carmen Aquino Sarmiento (Menchu) is a member of PEN International. Her story, "Good Intentions l01: SY '72 - '73" won the first NVM Gonzalez Award Grand Prize for Excellence in Short Story in English and was declared Best Short Story of the Year, 2000. It has been anthologized in the book, Best Filipino Stories: The NVM Gonzalez Awards, 2000-2005 edited by Gemino H. Abad and Gregorio C. Brillantes and published by the University of the Philippines Press in 2007. Menchu has also written a book of fiction entitled Daisy Nueve: Stories Weird, Wonderful, Whatever which was published by Anvil Publishing in 2003. She is the Executive Director of Philippine Airlines Foundation which works closely with Mending Kids International. Both organizations have a medical mission where they bring ill children from poor families in the Philippines to the US for treatment. This is the mission that brings her to CA during this visit. BTW, the Pacific Asia Museum will be showing a film on the same day which you might want to view before proceeding to the dinner for Menchu. Please see details below. Thanks and hope to hear from you. Linda ---- 2:00 p.m. Film: Memories of the Forgotten War This film uncovers the intriguing story of the Philippine-American War, a century later. Co-Director Camilla Benolirao Griggers will be present at the screening and the Q & A afterwards. It is an award- winning documentary; Robert and I have seen it before and would love to see it again. Free for members; entrance fee is included with museum admission for non-members. Likewise, there is also a Philippine Exhibit on View: FASHIONING DOMESTICITY, WEAVING DESIRE: VISIONS OF THE FILIPINA. (The exhibit ends soon) This exhibition explores the canonical visions of the early to mid 20th-century Filipina as civilized and/or wild. Through the juxtaposition of traditional textiles and ethnographic photography, as well as objects of personal adornment and popular print culture it addresses the fashioning of domesticity and the weaving of desire as political strategies of polarization. PACIFIC ASIA MUSEUM 46 North Los Robles Avenue Pasadena, CA 91101 Tel. 626-449-2742 HOURS: Wednesday - Sunday 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. http://www.pacificasiamuseum.org/ -- 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]. 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