Tag: Filipino
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Farewell note
Dear community partners and friends, As my laureateship ends today, I wish to thank everyone for the incredible support over the last three and a half years. With your help, I was able to accomplish what I initially set out to do which was to make poetry more accessible and amplify its role in the…
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San Mateo County Equity Through Arts
March 31, 2022, 6pm Equity through Art Webinar: Filipinx Kwentuhan When: March 31st 6pm – 7pm Filipinx Kwentuhan Description: Every culture has a storytelling tradition. In the Filipinx diaspora, kwentuhan (storytelling) is a way of remembering and honoring ancestors, preserving histories, and reconnecting with kapwa. It has also provided a path to resisting invisibility. From…
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Daly City Arts & Culture
March 8, 2022, 7pmDaly City Arts & Culture CommissionInternational Women’s Day with Aileen Cassinetto
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Filipino Americans
“TAYO: Filipino Americans of San Mateo County,” Philippine Consulate General in San Francisco (October 15, 2021) “Fil-Ams Among The Remarkable And Famous,” Positively Filipino (September 30, 2020)
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Women’s International Day 2021
“Filipinas share their views, experiences as migrant women writers,” The FilAm (March 13, 2021) “Filipina writers’ online panel marks Int’l Women’s Day,” Philippine Inquirer (March 10, 2021) “FILIPINO AND FIL-AM WOMEN WRITERS IN THE UNITED STATES SHARE THEIR JOURNEYS ON INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 2021,” Philippine Embassy in Washington D.C. Press Release (March 9, 2021)
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March 2021: Philippine Embassy’s International Women’s Day
The Embassy’s first ever “Panel Discussion with Filipino-American Women Writers” Hosted by the Philippine Embassy in Washington D.C. in honor of International Women’s Day Panelists: Cecilia Manguerra Brainard, Migs Bravo Dutt, Luisa A. Igloria, Gayle Romasanta Moderator: Aileen Cassinetto Watch it again. Read the press release.
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The Pink House of Purple Yam Preserves & Other Poems
Heartfelt gratitude to Neil Leadbeater for his careful reading of my second poetry collection. Neil’s review is published in The Halo-Halo Review, edited by Eileen R. Tabios. Cover features a photo of my mom, Corazon, at 16. Book design by C. Sophia Ibardaloza. The Pink House of Purple Yam Preserves and Other Poems (2018) Aileen I.…
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Poet Laureate Opening of the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors Meeting
From Supervisor Warren Slocum: Today’s poetry reading by San Mateo County Poet Laureate Aileen Cassinetto at our Board meeting was so on point. It was on this day in 1776 that General George Washington read the Declaration of Independence to his troops in New York City. And that message and this poem, entitled “There are…
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