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Linda ------- Authors Series No. 3 Featuring Words and Music Date: Friday, April 30, 2010 Time: 5:30pm - 9:00pm Location: Salakot Sizzle & Grill Street: 2122 Beverly Boulevard City/Town: Los Angeles, CA View Map Description Philippine Expressions Bookshop is happy to present WORDS & MUSIC, a program that will feature visiting Manila author, Dr Isagani R. Cruz, and Bay Area classical guitarist, Theresa Capoltura. Two new books of Dr Cruz will be launched and aside from booktalks, the audience will have "conversations with the author". The books are "The Other Other" (Far Eastern University, Manila. 2010) which is a collection of critical essays, many of which were published outside the Philippines and previously not available in the home country, and "Inter/Sections: Isagani R. Cruz and Friends" (Anvil Publishing, Manila. 2010). a festschrift in honor of Dr Cruz, and edited by David Jonathan Y. Bayot. The book "Inter/Sections" contains critical essays, short stories, and poems. Friends of Cruz have contributed critical and creative texts that reflect his varied interests. This volume brings together some of the most famous names in the field of literature today and includes Philippines' National Artist Virgilio S. Almario, Fil Am authors Paulino Lim, E. San Juan, Jr and poet Luisa Igloria. Cruz had also written "The Lovely Bienvenido N. Santos" (UP Press, 2005) which won one of the five first prizes in the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awatds for Literature that earned the author a place in the Palanca Hall of Fame. The book is a creative non-fictional biographical play in two acts. It will be recalled that Bienvenido "Ben" Santos was a distinguished Fil Am writer who wrote "Scent of Apples: A Collection of Stories". (University of Washington Press. 1955. Now on its 7th printing). Although Santos had previously written six books in the Philippines, this is the first collection of his work to appear in the US; it won the American Book Award given by the Before Columbus Foundation. This collection of sixteen short stories brought to the attention of the American audience the varied and poignant experiences of Filipino oldtimers in the US (manongs) who left home for America, of the pain of separation, loneliness, longing, yesterday's hopes and tomorrow's dreams. "His portraits of these gentle, courageous exiles are moving as he shows how each struggles to make his way in the new land, trying to find a life far from his roots while sustained by the dream of a return home .. Santos gets to the heart of what it is like to be uprooted, alone, alien." - Publishers Weekly. Dr Isagani R. Cruz, a Professor Emeritus, De La Salle University, Manila has a B.S. degree in Physics from UP, an MA in English from Ateneo de Manila University and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Maryland. He writes plays, essays, biographies, and short stories in Filipino and English, for which he has won numerous national and international awards, including the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards in Literature Hall of Fame and the Southeast Asean Writers (SEAWRITE) Award. He has written or edited more than fifty books. He writes a column for Philippine Star and is a known social commentator in the Philippines. Having been a former Undersecretary of Education in the Philippines, his talk will touch on the topic Educating Filipinos: Problems facing the next Philippine President. Theresa Calpotura will also launch her debut CD album "Kanta Filipina" (VGO Recordings) on the same evening. The 12 original, arranged and transcribed works for solo guitar, all created for her by Filipino American composer Bayani Mendoza de Leon, are the culmination of three years of intense research and collaboration which began as a desire to explore the musical side of her ancestry. Kanta Filipina blends a variety of styles from the Philippines, reflecting a musical microcosm in its driving indigenous tribal rhythms, traditional folk dances, chants, lullabies and love songs. The guitarist has performed in numerous venues throughout the US and the Philippines. She won a number of awards from associations such as the National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts and the American String Teachers Association, and has received scholarships from the Oberlin Conservatory and the Yale School of Music. Ms Calpotura studied with the renown guitar pedagogue Scott Cmiel of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory where she studied with guitarist Stephen Aron. She then continued at the Yale School of Music with guitarist and composer Benjamin Verdery. She has given concerts and masterclasses in the US and in the Philippines and is currently on faculty at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Preparatory Division. In addition to her solo work, Ms Calpotura collaborates with cellist Susan Millar as Duo Ethos. She has studied the lute with Christopher Marrongiello of the Venere Lute Quartet. In addition, she has participated in several masterclasses with guitarists such as John Williams, Sharon Isbin, Antigoni Goni, David Tanenbaum, Mark Telcholz, David Leisner, Scott Tennant, NIcholas Galuses, Julian Gray, Ronald Pearl, Lily Afshar, Stanley Yates, John Holmquist and Benjamin Verdery. $10.00 Merienda Cena. Free parking. Seats are limited. RSVP necessary. Call (310) 514-9139. If you will be unable to attend but would like to order books or the CD, email: <[email protected]> This event is being held in a Filipino establishment in line with the Bookshop's policy to support establishments owned by Filipinos and Filipino-Americans. Join us at the Mezzanine. The third in the 2010 Authors Series, it is part of an ongoing community outreach program of Philippine Expressions Bookshop, the mail order bookshop dedicated to Filipino Americans in search of their roots. 2114 Trudie Drive, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 90275. Tel (310) 514-9139. www.philippineexpressionsbookshop.com *** We have blazed the trail in promoting Philippine books in America. 2010 marks our 26th year of service to the Filipino American community. 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