This Just In: Barbara Jane Reyes to Perform at Fall Reception!

Above: {m} alumni Aims rockin’ the MC spotlight.

It’s not too late to show your stuff at Maganda’s Fall Reception this Saturday the 17th from 2-5pm in Naia Lounge (on the UC Berkeley Campus)!

Last school year’s Spring Reception was a relaxed, intimate, and vibrant celebration thanks to the genuine warmth of everyone present–whether they were up on stage, showing their artwork, running the show, or chilling on Gelateria Naia’s comfy white leather sofas with a caffe affogato. We love you, Naia.

Anyway, our featured performer for Saturday was just confirmed:

poeta Barbara Jane Reyes will be joining us, along with a great lineup of student performers. You may just be one of them. Woo!

Hope to see you there.

 

{m}20 End-of-Year Reception

You are invited to the 1st {m}aganda

End-of-the-Year Reception

for

{m}aganda issue 20: our activisms
Saturday, November 17, 2-5pm
@ Naia Lounge (Lower Sproul, UCB Campus)

… MUSIC … ART … POETRY … PERFORMANCES

… RAFFLES … GELATO … AND OPEN MIC!

Please join {m}aganda magazine and friends for a final celebration of the work and efforts of contributors, artists, and staff that put together the momentous 20th issue of maganda: our activisms, published in spring 2007.

Enjoy an an afternoon of performances, art displays, raffle prizes, and gelato in an appreciation of all 20 issues of maganda, their contributors, the artists that have transformed the world of pilipino/american literary arts in the last 18 years through and with maganda, and all the staffs that have made maganda possible!

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open gallery/artist dialogue

On October 25th, 2007, Maganda Magazine hosted an art gallery and artists’ dialogue in 100 Wheeler Hall. The event featured a discussion with acclaimed social documentary photographer, Rick Rocamora–who has photographed Filipino World War II Veterans, Muslims in America, and imprisoned children in the Philippines. Oakland painter Mari Rose Taruc was also present to discuss her work and the nature of art. Both effectively work for social justice in different mediums, and the stories they shared were intriguing and inspirational.

Maganda would like to thank everyone who contributed their work to the beautiful event; it was a genuinely exciting opportunity for any artist and social justice advocate. Creative Director Christine P. talks about her experience:

Art can bring people together (if only for three hours), and it can connect them for even longer. I was inspired and touched by what I saw last night, by the art itself and by the community effort to bring art and artists together.

Rick Rocamora’s work was especially moving (I seriously almost cried) because it really hit home for me– his photographs made me think of my dad, my grandpa, my relatives still living in the Philippines, the kids who I just wanted to hold in my arms, and all the people that I want to help, but just don’t know how to help. He made my heart ache. And that’s a good thing, because I needed to be reminded of all those things I felt.

-cp

 

On the importance of representation

I have been to countless teach-ins, attended numerous lectures and day-long conferences, been enrolled in how many Ethnic Studies classes that all emphasize how important it is for underrepresented and marginalized groups to participate in the electoral process, to politicize themselves if they wish to see change. And though I knew how important this was, I never fully understood and felt its importance until this past Thursday morning at 3:30am, after an extremely long Associated Students of the University of California- Berkeley (ASUC-Berkeley) Senate meeting. At this meeting, after a number of motions, recesses, and debates made by the frustrated and exhausted senators of ASUC, it was decided that the student organization’s, Chicanos/Latinos in Health Education (CHE), funding for their 15th Annual Dia De Los Muertos Conference (which would expose underrepresented communities, mainly Chicanos/Latinos, to opportunities in health education) would be cut from $1500 to $1050, with the possibility of it being cut even further at Monday night’s Financial Committee of ASUC meeting.

 

Update on ABC’s ‘Desperate’ Faux Pas

An AP article which ran in Friday’s SF Chronicle and San Jose Mercury News included a transcript of the offensive joke:

“In the season premiere that aired Sunday on ABC, Teri Hatcher’s character, Susan, goes in for a medical checkup and is shocked when the doctor suggests she may be going through menopause.”Listen, Susan, I know for a lot of women the word ‘menopause’” has negative connotations. You hear ‘aging,’ ‘brittle bones,’ ‘loss of sexual desire,’” the gynecologist tells her.

“OK, before we go any further, can I check these diplomas? Just to make sure they aren’t, like, from some med school in the Philippines?” Susan fires back.

ABC’s agreement to edit out the controversial scene has done little to stifle the uproar on both sides of the Pacific. As of this morning, over 98,000 signatures have been attached to an online petition demanding an apology from the network, not to mention calls to ban the show in the Philippines and to boycott ABC and Disney, the network’s parent company.

But let’s try to rise above the din here and use this incident as a point of entry into a larger discussion. The INQUIRER.net has used this opportunity to discuss the serious underrepresentation of Filipinos on television by posing the question, “Why are there no Filipino characters in hospital drama TV shows?” An interesting question indeed.

 

{m}21: LEGAL

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Notice that we added a new category for submissions this year- film. Ever since staff dabbled in reel life this Summer, we would like to see more of what you creative contemporaries have to show the world.

On a related note: we here at {m} like to refrain from putting unintentional “limits” on what readers submit, so please do not feel as if you need to stick to Literary, Visual, Audio, or Film. Over the years, we’ve evolved from a simple literary arts magazine to a beautifully multi-faceted multimedia anthology, and we’re gonna stick with that. So give us journalistic articles. Give us comics, give us performances, give us that eco-dress you designed. We just want you to open up, secrete those creative juices, and show us whatever you got. Everyone has something to say, and different mediums through which they say it.

Comment and tell us what you think of the new theme.

Love it? Hate it?

Questions about how to submit that eco-dress?

…

{m}

 

{m}aganda 21 theme unveiling

DWINELLE HALL -

September 20th, 2007.

Many lovely people turned up for Maganda’s first event of the semester. The theme and Call for Submissions for m21 was revealed (more on that later). We raffled off some mags, good vibes bounced off the walls, and talented folks came out to show their stuff at the Open Mic.

Special thanks go out to our featured performers, who rocked the small-classroom energy and kept us pumped with their truth, their style, their beats- and free tickets to the London Underground (also known as BART):

Adriel Luis & Ruby V. of iLL-Literacy

Mesej 1 & Jason Bayani of Proletariet Bronze

Deep Foundation …all the way from Queens, N.Y.

We hope y’all come again next time.

Until then-

WE LOVE (our people)!

{m}

 

Maganda Magazine: 21

A big question you guys may be asking is…

“Uh…where is magandamagazine.org?”

Well. Since our official website is going to be down indefinitely, we will now be posting news and updates on our events from this lovely wordpress site (along with our myspace, of course).

So yes, we are alive.

Friend us. Read us.

This year’s maganda staff is significantly larger than in past years’, and we are more ambitious than ever with our 21st time publishing. The theme of our next issue will be unveiled shortly, as will our official Call for Submissions, so please stay tuned. Or better yet, come to our theme unveiling. It will take place right here on the Berkeley campus, this week, on September 20th @ 6pm in 246 Dwinelle.