Conversation with Filipina Author Cecilia Brainard, Oct. 26, 2021, 6 pm CONVERSATION WITH FILIPINO AUTHOR CECILIA BRAINARD, Oct. 26, 2021 6 p.m.

INVITATION FROM the Los Ange­les Pub­lic Library

A CONVERSATION WITH AUTHOR CECILIA BRAINARD: SELECTED SHORT STORIES — Mod­er­at­ed by Noel Alumit

Tues­day, Cal­i­for­nia time, Oct. 26, 2021, 6–7 pm (Mani­la time is Oct. 27, 9 am)

Stream­ing live on the library’s YouTube chan­nel (https://www.youtube.com/losangeleslibrary)

and Face­book page (https://www.facebook.com/lapubliclibrary/)

https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/conversation-author-cecilia-brainard-selected-short-stories

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Cel­e­brate with us Fil­ipino Amer­i­can His­to­ry Month with a live stream and con­ver­sa­tion with author and blog­ger Cecil­ia Brainard. This con­ver­sa­tion will be mod­er­at­ed by Noel Alu­mit. Noel is an actor, writer and Bud­dhist pas­tor. He wrote the nov­els “Let­ters to Mont­gomery Clift” and “Talk­ing to the Moon,” a Los Ange­les Times Best­seller. He is a 2021 COLA Fellow.

Cecil­ia Manguer­ra Brainard is the author and edi­tor of over 20 books, includ­ing the nov­els: When the Rain­bow God­dess Wept, Mag­dale­na, and The News­pa­per Wid­ow. Her Select­ed Short Sto­ries by Cecil­ia Manguer­ra, a col­lec­tion of 39 of her sto­ries, was recent­ly released by the Uni­ver­si­ty of San­to Tomas Pub­lish­ing House and PALH.

Born and raised in Cebu, Philip­pines, Brainard migrat­ed to the Unit­ed States to do grad­u­ate work at UCLA. She draws from her Fil­ipino and Fil­ipino Amer­i­can expe­ri­ences for her stories.

Aside from writ­ing fic­tion, Cecil­ia has edit­ed fic­tion and non­fic­tion col­lec­tions, includ­ing the two vol­umes of Grow­ing Up Fil­ipino, Con­tem­po­rary Fic­tion by Fil­ipinos in Amer­i­ca, Fic­tion by Fil­ipinos in Amer­i­ca, and more.

She has received awards, includ­ing a Cal­i­for­nia Arts Coun­cil Fel­low­ship, a Brody Arts Fund Fel­low­ship, an Out­stand­ing Indi­vid­ual Award from her birth city of Cebu, a City of Los Ange­les Cul­tur­al Grant, a Spe­cial Recog­ni­tion Award from the Los Ange­les Board of Edu­ca­tion for her work deal­ing with Asian Amer­i­can youths, and more.

She has taught at the Uni­ver­si­ty of South­ern Cal­i­for­nia, UCLA, the Writ­ers’ Pro­gram at UCLA-Exten­sion, and the Cal­i­for­nia State Sum­mer School for the Arts. She con­tin­ues to lec­ture and per­form in lit­er­ary arts venues such as Cul­ture Rapi­de in Paris, Fil­ipino Amer­i­can Inter­na­tion­al Book Fes­ti­vals, PEN, and Library events in Skok­ie Illi­nois, Jack­son Ten­nessee, among others.

As a for­mer Exec­u­tive Board Mem­ber of the writ­ers’ group PEN, she rep­re­sent­ed PEN USA West in Inter­na­tion­al meet­ings in Barcelona and San­ti­a­go de Com­postela. She served as an offi­cer in such groups as Pacif­ic Asian Amer­i­can Women Writ­ers West, Arts & Let­ters at the Cal State Uni­ver­si­ty LA. She co-found­ed PAWWA (Philip­pine Amer­i­can Women Writ­ers and Artists) a sup­port group that received fund­ing from the Cal­i­for­nia Arts Council.

Stream­ing live on the library’s YouTube chan­nel and Face­book page.

For ADA accom­mo­da­tions, call (213) 228‑7430 at least 72 hours pri­or to the event.

Para ajustes razon­ables según la ley de ADA, lla­ma al (213) 228‑7430 al menos 72 horas antes del evento.

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