EVENTS

Enlaces (Connections That Bind Us)
El Mantón de Manila



presented by
La Peña Cultural Center
in collaboration with
Gabriela Shiroma (CulturARTE), Carayan Press, PAWA, Inc.,
Community Music Center-San Francisco

Saturday, February 20, 2010
8:00 pm
La Peña Cultural Center
3105 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley, California

Through story, music and dance, this program will explore
the cultural links that developed  during the Spanish colonial period,
highlighting the silk embroidered shawl or mantón de Manila
as a cultural link connecting  the Philippines, Mexico, Peru and  Spain.

Featuring:
María de la Rosa & Rudy Figueroa - Mexican Dance
Parangal Dance Company - Philippine Folk Dance
Theresa Calpotura-Classical Guitar
Asociación Cultural Kanchis - Peruvian Dance
De Rompe y Raja - Afro-Peruvian Cultural Association
Javier Trujillo - Peruvian Guitar
Virginia Iglesias - Flamenco Dance
Jorge Liceaga - Spanish Guitar
Edwin Lozada - Poetry
Paul Flores - Narrator
Exhibition of Mantones de Manila -
Courtesy of Edwin Lozada (Carayan Press)

Tickets: $15 (advance purchase), $18 (at the door)
By Phone: (510) 849-2568, Ext. 20, Wednesday-Saturday, 1-6pm.
Online: http://showboxoffice.com/index.php?db=berkeley
For more information: 510-849-2568 http://www.lapena.org

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You are invited to the
PAWA Arkipelago Literary Series

Sunday, February 21, 2010,
2:00 PM
Bayanihan Community Center
1010 Mission Street, San Francisco
A free event.

Duende Within: Flamenco Inspired Poetry

Featuring

Sandy Mcintosh
Sandy McIntosh is the managing editor of the New York City poetry press,
Marsh Hawk Press. His poetry collections
include the just-released Ernesta, In the Style of Flamenco.

Eileen Tabios
Eileen Tabios' publications includes 18 poetry collections,
including a flamenco-poetry collection in Note Bene Eiswein.  
She just released The Thorn Rosary: Selected Prose Poems 1998-2010,
with essays by scholars Thomas Fink and Joi Barrios.  
She once took a flamenco class in New York City,
and failed it with much enthusiasm.

Edwin Agustín Lozada
Edwin Agustín Lozada is the author of Sueños anónimos/Anonymous Dreams
and Bosquejos/Sketches. He produced Field of Mirrors, PAWA’s 2008 anthology.
He was a member of Rosa Montoya Bailes Flamencos from 1998-2003.

With special guest performers
Roberto Campos, flamenco guitar
Alicia, flamenco dance
Michelle Bautista
Michelle is a poet and kali martial artist.  She has released
a poetry collection entitled Kali's Blade


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