LOS ANGELES FILIPINO ARTS CALENDAR - July, August, September 1999
 
 
  Literary/Theater
  BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!!!

The Rice Room: Scenes from a Bar
The lives of gay Asian men collide
in this one man show
by Noel Alumit

Directed by Deborah Nishimura

Highways
1651 18th Street
Santa Monica CA 90404
Fri & Sat
July 30-31 & August 6-7 at 8:30 PM
$15 admission
For Reservations:310-315-1459

Witty and stylish. Mart Crowley
Once youre inside, youll beg to stay. Chay Yew
Touching and comic. Tim Dang

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The Filipino American National Historical Society
Los Angeles Chapter
presents

Doveglion and the Performance of Everyday Life
Presented by August Espiritu

Sunday, August 15, 1999
Pilipino American Reading Room and Library (PARRAL)
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
RSVP by August 9th
To RSVP or for more information, please call:
Sam Balucas at (818) 891 0375
or Anna Gonzalez at (310) 508 7916 or [email protected].

Though forgotten in discussions of modernism today, the Filipino American poet JOSE GARCIA VILLA (1908 - 1997) was an important literarypresence in the United States in the 1940s and 1950s. This talk provides an introduction to Villa and the elements of flamboyantperformativity that permeated his life.

About the Speaker: AUGUST ESPIRITU received his Masters in Asian American Studies in 1992. He is one of the editors of the oral, "The Life ofPhilip Vera Cruz, Filipino Immigrants and the FarmworkersMovement". In conjunction iwth the Centennial of U.S. - Philippine relations,1898 - 1998, he has published two articles in Amerasia Journal and the Journal of Asian American Studies. Augusto was a Fulbright scholar and spent a year of research and travel in the Philippines from 1995 - 1996. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in history at UCLA.

This event is also a POTLUCK so please bring your refreshments to share!
 
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