PAWA, INC.
A space to encourage the creation of Filipino American literature and arts
“Since 2009, we have held literary and performance series in collaboration with Arkipelago Books, the Bayanihan Center, the Filipino American Center at the SF Public Library, the Manilatown Heritage Foundation, Kundiman, Achiote Press, Poets & Writers, Oakland Asian Cultural Center, Eth-Noh-Tec, Eastwind Books of Berkeley, Kearny Street Workshop, and Bird & Beckett Books. We are invested in creating venues for Filipino American artists, and have worked to grow our community across ethnic and aesthetic boundaries. We believe it is important to provide access, and opportunity, which we have also done through fiscal sponsorship of community artists.”
PAWA and The Hinabi Project (THP) office is now at the San Francisco Filipino Cultural Center,
814 Mission Street, Mezzanine Level, in the heart of downtown San Francisco.
Mark your calendars and register now for this exciting pre-festival event leading up to the 7th Filipino American International Book Festival!
Dive deep into the hearts and minds of four incredible Filipino-American authors as they explore the inner lives of the Manong Generation. This is a rare opportunity to connect with the stories that have shaped our communities and celebrate the wisdom of our elders.
When: September 21, 2024
Time: 5:00 PM PT (Sept. 22 at 8:00 AM in the Philippines)
Where: Zoom (Link below!)
Meet the authors who will be taking us on this journey:
Robert Francis Flor, Randy Gonzales, Eileen R. Tabios, Oscar Peñaranda
Let’s celebrate our heritage, honor our Manong elders, and dive into the rich tapestry of stories that make us who we are.
Zoom Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/.../tZMvd...
(After registering, you’ll receive a confirmation email with the details to join the meeting.)
PAWA is proud to announce that
WILDFLOWERS by Beverly Parayno
is a finalist for the 2023 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Short Stories category!
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Saturday, March 16, 2024 — 2:00 PM
Los Angeles, check out Michael Magnaye's "La Vie en Pose" March 16, 2PM at the Los Angeles Public LIbrary, Echo Park Branch.
Saturday, January 6, 2024 — 1:00-2:30 PM
Please join us for a special reading & panel with contributors to DEAR HUMAN and a musical performance on Sat, Jan 6, 1 pm PT! Co-sponsored by PAWA and the Filipino American Center of the San Francisco Public Library.
Panelists/Readers: Luisa A. Igloria, Mary Grace Bertulfo, Cynthia T. Buiza, Everett Cruz, Karen Llagas, Zosimo Quibilan, Aileen Cassinetto, David Maduli, Eileen Tabios, Angela Narciso Torres
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89922951516?pwd=d0l0aWpkUHhMQ01UNkpzcTdZNzljQT09
Passcode: 029393
Saturday, November 18, 2023 — 3:00-5:30 PM
Book Launch: Michael Gil Magnaye’s La Vie en Pose: Performing and Posing on Social Media
Venue: James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center, 3rd Floor, San Francisco Public Library, Main Branch, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, CA
Sponsored by PAWA, Filipino American Center (SFPL), Friends of the San Francisco Public Library
Visit SFPL events page: https://sfpl.org/events/2023/11/18/author-michael-gil-magnaye
—La Vie en Pose is a fantasy memoir told in a hundred photographs of the author in costume, striking a pose in cities around the world. Designed and photographed over a decade, these vignettes depict media celebrities, politicians, literary characters and wholly fictitious figures drawn from Michael Magnaye’s fertile imagination. The collection offers satirical, often hilarious commentary on noteworthy personalities in pop culture, politics and history, from Game of Thrones to Bridgerton, from Jackie Onassis to Ruth Bade Ginsburg.—
Saturday, November 11, 2023 — 2:00-4:00 PM
Book Launch: Sari-Sari Storybooks’ Jalal and the Lake: A Meranaw Tale
Author: Hanna Usman
Venue: Sentro Filipino (San Francisco Filipino Cultural Center), 814 Mission Street, Mezzanine Level, San Francisco, CA
Featuring:
- Musical performance by Kulintang Dialect
- Meranaw textiles tour by the Hinabi Project
- JALAL reading by publisher Christina Newhard
- Video remarks from author Hanna Usman
- Refreshments, including a special taste of Marawi City (the queen of Meranaw desserts, dodol)
Presented in partnership with PAWA, The Hinabi Project, Sentro Filipino, The City College of San Francisco Department of Philippine Studies, and Kulintang Dialect.
Saturday, October 14, 2023
Author Talk with Cindy Fazzi—Multo— and May-lee Chai—Tomorrow in Shanghai—
Hormel Center, San Francisco Public Library, Main Branch, 100 Larkin Street, 2:00 to 4:00 PM
Sponsored by SFPL and PAWA
Join us this Thursday, August 17, 2023, at 6:30 PM (doors open at 6:00 PM) for the first US launch of DAUNTLESS, Marie Vallejo’s monumental book on the US Army’s First Filipino Battalion during World War 2 in the Philippines, happening at the Sentro Filipino (San Francisco Filipino Cultural Center), 814 Mission Street, Mezzanine Level.
Enter through the Bulletin Entrance at 814 Mission. Ring the SFFC and you will be buzzed in. Please take the elevator to the Mezzanine level. Books will be available for purchase. Light refreshments will be served.
You are invited to Nathan Go’s book launch of his debut novel –Forgiving Imelda Marcos—a fictional account of Cory’s driver en route to Baguio for an imaginary meeting of Cory Aquino and Imelda Marcos-- on Friday, June 16, 2023, 6:30 pm
at the San Francisco Filipino Cultural Center, 814 Mission Street, Mezzanine level, SF, CA.
**A free event**
Doors open at 5:30.
Sponsored by the NVM Gonzalez Writers’ Workshop in partnership with Philippine American Writers and Artists Inc. (PAWA) and the San Francisco Filipino Cultural Center (Sentro Filipino)
Photo Credit: Crest Contrata
Nathan Go was the 2017–2018 David T. K. Wong Fellow at the University of East Anglia. A former PEN America Emerging Voices fellow, he graduated from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the Helen Zell Writers’ Program. His fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, American Short Fiction, Ninth Letter, and The Massachusetts Review. Forgiving Imelda Marcos is his first novel. Nathan was an 2011, 2019 alumni of the NVM Gonzalez Writers’ Workshop.
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PAWA Press 2023 Publication:
Wildflowers (Stories) by Beverly Parayno
Click link to website: wildflowersbp.com
PAWA 2020 Publication
FE: A Traumatized Son’s Graphic Memoir
by Bren Bataclan
For more details and to purchase a copy,
visit fememoir.com