{m} 27 staff applications & the ab540 scholarship are now out!

Do you love art? Performance? Writing?
Do you have experience in event planning, graphic design, and publications?
Do you feel compelled to challenge yourself and grow more as a leader and artist?

Then please consider applying to {m}agandá Magazine!
We have staff applications open for the 2013-2014 school year!

{m} is the longest running Pilipino literary arts magazine in the nation. We aim to foster critical dialogue within and across our communities through arts, literature, and education. We come from a heritage of Pilipino/American artists, writers, and cultural historians, but we extend our hands and voices to any and all who own truths that need to be spoken.

Apply Online @: http://tinyurl.com/m27apps

All staff applications are due Wednesday, April 24, 11:59 PM. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the {m}26 Editors-in-Chief at maganda.eic@gmail.com! Thank you!

IN ADDITION,

{m}aganda Magazine would like to announce that our AB540 scholarship application is now released! If you intend to apply, you can access the application pdf ({m}AB540app.) We encourage all students who identify as AB540 to apply, and it is with much gratitude to our community, friends, and supporters who came to our prom event that enabled us to make this scholarship possible. Deadline to apply is Tuesday, April 30.

Website (Re)-Launch

Hello everyone!

It’s been nearly 3 years since we’ve given this wordpress some love, as we’ve seen our website go through many iterations. It is with great fondness that we return to our original wordpress site and update it to what {m}aganda’s been up to after a three-year absence on this site.

Part of this entails this new theme, while maybe not as glossy as the last, will hopefully convey to you our identity as a literary arts magazine. I hope that you all will continue to check the site from time to time as we continue to update and restore the page to be caught up!

Sincerely,

Jackie Lee

web{m}isstress for {m}26

{M}aganda Magazine Issue 23 Call For Submissions

Apply for “In Search of Roots”

– Brought to Maganda’s attention by lovely former Maganda Editor-in-Chief Cristal Fiel –

The Chinese Culture Center is now accepting applicants for its “In Search of Roots” program! Here’s the info they sent:

Hello to all,

We are seeking applicants for Roots 2010 – the 20th Anniversary year for In Search of Roots!

We offer you an opportunity to search for the roots that link you to the past and place you in the present… to journey back to ancestral beginnings, to the land and into the lives of the individuals who created your heritage and influenced you at this point in your life.
The Chinese Culture Center’s “In Search of Roots” Program involves a yearlong commitment on researching one’s Chinese American family history and genealogy. After exploring their Chinese roots in America, participants will explore their roots in China through visiting their maternal or paternal ancestral villages in the Pearl River Delta region of Guangdong Province. The program culminates in a Chinese New Year exhibition of the interns’ research at the Chinese Culture Center in San Francisco, where participants share what they have learned with family, friends, and community.

Please encourage and refer good prospects to us. We would like to receive applications soon and begin the interview process in the next couple of months.

You know what Roots is all about so there’s no need to go into a long description here. But it’s important to note that we hope to return to the Chaozhou/Shantou (Teochiu/Swatow) region of Guangdong province in 2010. (Roots 2008 was the one and only group to go to that area thus far.) So, we welcome applications from people with roots in that area, the Pearl River Delta, and the rest of Guangdong.

The Roots application form is available at the Chinese Culture Center website, www.c-c-c.org.

Please feel free to refer applicants and/or questions to Steve Owyang (stevenowyang@yahoo.com) or to the “source” Al Cheng (alcheng1668@yahoo.com)

{ alexandria cariaso | consultant 2009-2010 }

fall reception

for more information, contact Erika at m23.events@gmail.com

welcoming events

Hey Maganda followers, come check out our events in the coming weeks!

TAYO, New Filipino-American Magazine

Earlier this year, three students from the University of Southern California conceived TAYO, “the first independent literary magazine in Southern Caifornia dedicated to the creative expression of Filipino-American youth.”  TAYO, which translates into “We,” “Us,” or “to Stand Up,” aims to be an anthology “dedicated to the creative expression of Filipino-American youth.”

The submissions TAYO seeks run the artistic gamut: poetry, essays of all kinds, journal entries, short stories, graffiti, paintings, spoken word — the list goes on. And after the release of their first issue (mid-August), they intend on becoming a print and online magazine, thus expanding their submission guidelines to include vlogs and blogs.

Basically, if you’ve created anything with any media — they want it.

Co-Directors Kristine Co and Melissa Sipin have only been working on this project for 7 months (the idea was born in January ’09), but they’re an ambitious duo with big plans: they want to become “one of the frontrunners in Filipino-American literary magazines.” They’re in partnership with the Filipino American Library (FAL), are already in collaboration with students from universities all over California (including from our own UC Berkeley), and have been receiving much attention and praise from the Filipino community — all before the first issue. They’re working hard over at TAYO, and based on their work and commitment so far, they seem more than capable of doing great things.

We’re looking forward to their first issue.

TAYO | http://www.tayoliterarymag.com
Blog | http://tayoblog.tumblr.com/

{ alexandria cariaso | m23 layout co-editor }