Join us on Thursday, March 12 for the next installment of Mixing Innovative Arts (MIA)!
A collaboration among MIA, Kundiman, and the Hub Coworking Space, we are proud to present **Build Me a Bangka: Departures from the Philippines - New Diasporic Writing.**

Hosted by Kristiana Kahakauwila and Sujatha Raman, and co-sponsored by Kundiman Hawaii Regional Group, and Hub Coworking this reading will feature **[Michelle Peñaloza](http://www.michellepenaloza.com/),** **[Lawence Ypil](https://lawrenceypil.com/)**, **[Angela Peñaredondo](https://www.angelapenaredondo.com/about)**[,](https://www.angelapenaredondo.com/about) **Joseph Manuel**, and **Almendro L. Fernandez**. Sharing in the work of writing and living as part of the diaspora from the Philippines, these five extraordinary writers have found homes in Hawaiʻi, California, and beyond, while they collectively nourish the ancestral inheritance of their homeland. We are honored to bear witness to their stories.

This free community event (donations to Support the Space are welcome but not required) will take place on Thursday, March 12th from 6 to 8 p.m. HST at the Hub Coworking Space, 1050 Queen Street, Honolulu, HI 96822. Please RSVP here.

Light pupus will be served, Stay and mingle with the readers, fellow book lovers, and other writers. Copies of authors' books will be available for purchase.

See you there!

With grateful thanks to our sponsors Kundiman Hawaii Regional Group and Hub Coworking Hawaii.

Sujatha Raman

Janelle P.

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**[Michelle Peñaloza](http://www.michellepenaloza.com/)**
author of *All the Words I Remember are Poems* and *Former Possessions of the Spanish Empire*
**[Lawence Ypil](https://lawrenceypil.com/)**
author of *The Experiment of the Tropics: Poems*
**[Angela Peñaredondo](https://www.angelapenaredondo.com/about)**
author of nature felt but never apprehended (Noemi Press), All Things Lose Thousands of Times (Inlandia Institute, Winner of Hilary Gravendyk Regional Prize) and Maroon (Jamii Publications).
**Joseph Manuel**
is an English PhD candidate at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, who was born in the U.S. to immigrant parents from Cebu City, Philippines. The many places he has called home include Texas, Guam, California, Oregon, the Philippines, and now here as a settler in Hawai'i. A former journalist, his work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Portland Monthly Magazine, Travel Portland, XXL Magazine, ESPN.com, Bleacher Report, and other outlets. Joe is currently teaching a course on Philippine-American literature at UH Mānoa, while his eventual dissertation will focus on the sabong (cockfighting) culture of the Philippines. 
**Almendro L Fernandez** was born in Ilocos Norte, Philippines, and migrated to the island of Oahu with his
father in the early 1990s. He is a U.S. Army veteran turned educator from Waipahu, Hawai‘i. 
Now in his sixth year of teaching at Pearl City High School, he brings over eight years of
experience to the role, holding a bachelor's in English and a master’s in education. His hobbies
include collecting comics, sports cards, and rare currency, as well as recreating experiences  or 
famous literary works in pidgin. When he’s not teaching, collecting, or writing, he spends most 
of his time with his family. His achievements in life are closely tied to his deep love for language, which he attributes to the influence of his English teachers and his personal experiences traveling around the world. He has had several works published by Poetry.com and, most recently, in Ho'olana Publishing's "[Journal 01](https://www.hoolanapublishing.org/journal/almendro-l-fernandez)."

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