[A.M. Azada] A Roomful of Waiting and Other Pieces

Free admission. All are welcome!

1. Cataclysmal Conversations: Tell-All Poems, Tell-Tale Music and a One-Act Play
Thursday, 28 July 2011 – 7:00-8:30 pm
Black Soup Cafe + Art Space
154 Maginhawa Street, Sikatuna Village, Quezon City

2. Interim Scenes in Cataclysmal Conversations:
Elegies, Apostrophes and Tolerable Rhapsodies with ‘Connexion’ (a one-act play)
Friday, 29 July 2011 – 7:00-9:00 pm
VENUE: TBC
Information: lopro@lycos.com

3. ‘What to Do with a Public Library’
– a talk chronicling 20 years of active bibliophilia in a public space
Quezon City Public Library
Quezon City Hall
Date and Time: TBC
RSVP: lopro@lycos.com

4. Not a Reprise…More Cataclysmal Conversations:
New Poems and a Staged Reading of ‘Gale’ (a one-act play)
Part of the Conspiwriters Series on Tuesdays
Tuesday, 2 August 2011 – 7:00-8:30 pm
Conspiracy Garden Cafe
59 Visayas Avenue, Quezon City

5. Female Corporeality and Childbirth in the English Romantic Period
– working papers
Wednesday, 3 August 2011 – 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
2/F Gonzalez Hall, Main Library
The University of the Philippines
Diliman, Quezon City
RSVP: lopro@lycos.com (as seating can be limited at certain hours)

It looks like we’re going to be busy till 2011. Here’s my share of conferences to attend. Some may include presentations.

For a recent presentation, click here for a video. Pardon the momentary technical difficulty.

Come join Filipino writers, poets, journalists, editors, publishers, artists, media professionals, performers, actors and their friends to a reading of Jose Rizal’s NOLI ME TANGERE. 

When: Saturday, 20 June 2009 – 2 pm onwards
Where: 2/F The Peak Galleria, beside the view-deck staircase

Admission is free.

SMS 6712 7319 for more information or post a message below, please.

Part of the 4th Philippine Arts Festival in Hong Kong. More information here.

The year-long book tour A Roomful of Waiting will be launched formally in Metro Manila on Saturday, December 20, 2008. 

Click here for details.

Get your copy of A Roomful of Waiting NOW!

While I shall be launching the “book tour” at my friend Jippi’s shop in Ortigas (details later) on SAT, 20 Dec 2008, 7 pm, I shall also be reading and performing some excerpts from the book at MAG:NET, Katipunan.

A ROOMFUL OF WAITING: MAG:NETised
by A.M. Azada

MONDAY NIGHTS
22 DEC 2008 & 5 JAN 2009 – 7 pm
MAG:NET Café, Katipunan
QUEZON CITY
http://www.magnet.com.ph/

Featuring poems from her 2007 release,
A ROOMFUL OF WAITING
and NEW poems from CREATURES OF ILIUM (working title)
RSVP by FRI, 19 DEC 2008 (for MON 22 DEC) and
SAT, 3 JAN 2009 (for MON 5 JAN).

Email us for more info.

This should be interesting. After much thought, I have decided to mount a theatrical production: to direct, produce, write dramaturgy for, design sets for and, when human resources are scarce, ACT in.

Audition details are as follows.

What: Auditions for Asian Actors
For: a comedy to be staged in April 2009
When: WED, 19th Nov 2008 and FRI, 21st Nov 2008 – 7-9 pm
Where: 4/F HK Visual Arts Centre, 7A Kennedy Road, Central. Please see map below.

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Contact lopro@lycos.com or +852 6712 7319.

The Third Philippine Arts Festival in Hong Kong shall be launched with a reading of poems, essays and short fiction featuring Isabel Escoda, Armida Azada and other Pinoy writers living in Hong Kong. Details are as follows:

What: Opening ceremony, The Third Philartsfest-HK
Where: The Peak Galleria, The Peak
When: Sunday, 8th June 2008 – 2 pm

Copies of A Roomful of Waiting will be available at the Dymocks Peak branch.

Visit the Philippine Arts Festival-HK website for more details.