TAYO Literary Magazine © 2011–2012, Issue 3
ISSN (print) 2164-0270, (online) 2164-0289

Online Edition | Print Edition

We are honored to introduce TAYO’s third annual issue to the literary and artistic community. TAYO has grown in ways that we couldn’t have foreseen at the beginning of this project.

Carrying over a similar, minimalistic design from our Issue 2, we have implemented two editions for our third issue. Both our online and print editions are visceral as they are eclectic, and we are excited to showcase wonderful artists and writers in our two different but connected formats. Please click on the links above to view our third issue.

Secondly, our reach has extended to all four corners of the globe. In fact, this issue’s call for submissions yielded entries from Canada, the UK, Singapore, Brazil, and Lithuania along with the consistent stream of pieces from the Philippines and around the US. The fact that TAYO has been able to establish this new global presence speaks to the power of networking, social media and, most importantly, the reality that the arts—both literary and visual—are still fundamental and life-enhancing to communities everywhere, capable of connecting people in ways that traverse geography, gender, ethnicity, and age.

On behalf of the entire staff, we would like to thank you for your support and enthusiasm for TAYO and the arts. We hope you enjoy our third issue!

In solidarity,

Kristine A. Co                                            Melissa R. Sipin
Executive Director                                    Creative Director

and Team TAYO

Our Creative Director Melissa Sipin was asked by poet Barbara Jane Reyes over at PAWA to write a brief essay on why this publication was important. To answer, Melissa covers the brief origins of TAYO.

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“It is a little difficult to trace the origins of TAYO Literary Magazine because its birth was gradual. To answer why this publication and why is it needed, I must first address its creation. In the beginning, I envisioned TAYO as a community magazine that celebrated Filipino and Filipino American arts and culture. With the ambition and support from my executive director/cofounder Kristine Co and staff, TAYO has become an international publication that showcases voices that are rarely heard. In 2011, we received submissions from across the U.S., Philippines, Brazil, England, Canada, India, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, Hong Kong, and Lithuania. Looking back, it is hard to believe that TAYO started over a very small idea at a college apartment in Los Angeles. Continue reading →

TAYO Arts and Culture cordially invites you to: “TAYO Literary Magazine’s Third Annual Magazine Launch Party with Eliseo’s Art Exhibit Opening at the Arthur Gallery.”

WHEN: Held during Filipino American History Month on Friday, October 21 @ 7pm
WHERE: The Arthur Gallery, 145 Park Lane Suite 210, Moorpark, CA 93021
ADMISSION: Free
WHAT: TAYO Arts & Culture will be releasing its third annual literary magazine at this exhibit opening, supporting one of its longtime featured artists, Eliseo Art Silva in his exhibit opening at The Arthur Gallery. Eliseo’s solo exhibition of his paintings entitled “Memory and Surveillance” will include over a dozen new paintings and sculptures, running for the next two months and will include his posters and prints of paintings and murals. Over 25 paintings and sculptures will fill the gallery exploring contemporary themes, images, memory and narratives of Filipino America and beyond. We hope you can join TAYO and Eliseo on this special night.

Our friend and TAYO-PSA director, Patrick Mendoza Epino, started a new project called the National Film Society with Stephen Dypiangco, and they need your help. Please spread the word! Patrick is really awesome and is such a doll. And, both him and Dypiangco are Filipino Americans… so that means you HAVE to support them, right? Just kidding. If you’re the type who loves the fact that more and more Filipinos are getting into the arts instead of pursuing medical/education/business degrees (there’s nothing wrong with those fields–they’re actually very, very important–I’m just saying not every Filipino should be a doctor / nurse / teacher / accountant-or-what-have-you, if you know what I mean), then please support these two! But more than that, they’re both really funny and are really cool people who know a lot about film and pursuing an MFA, so it’ll be good for you to know them too. (Dypiangco won an Oscar for his short film God of Love, and Patrick directed and wrote the very thoughtful, dark comedy film Mr. Sadman that was featured on The Independent magazine’s “10 Filmmakers to Watch,” and, well, I loved his first feature!) Like them on Facebook, follow them on Twitter, watch their videos on Youtube, and check out their website. Thanks! You’re awesome for doing that. (:

Remember: National Film Society | Facebook | Youtube | Twitter

And for good measure, below is Patrick’s PSA on TAYO Literary Magazine. We filmed it at his apartment in Los Feliz (love that part of LA, by the way, especially Skylight Books), and then we drove around Historic Filipinotown, stopping by our good friend Eliseo Art Silva’s mural. It was really, really fun to shoot it!

Cheers!
Melissa R. Sipin
Creative Director

Friday, August 19, 2011

7:00pm           Screening with Q&A
9:30pm          VIP Reception with Joel Torre
(Refreshments will be served.  VIP Reception not available to regular Laemmle ticket holders.)

Space is limited — Advance ticket purchase highly recommended.
You won’t want to miss this special premiere event!

LAEMMLE MONICA 4 – Santa Monica, CA

Proceeds benefit the programs of FilAm ARTS, including the
20^th Anniversary Festival of Philippine Arts & Culture (FPAC 20) on September 10-11, 2011

Please join FilAm ARTS for a Benefit screening of a Philippine-American co-production, the acclaimed new film, AMIGO, produced by Maggie Renzi, and written and directed by pioneering independent filmmaker John Sayles, the Oscar-nominated writer/director of such films as “Lone Star,” “Matewan,” “Passion Fish,” and “Eight Men Out.”  It features a stellar cast that includes such Filipino acting greats as Joel Torre, Bembol Roco, Rio Locsin and Ronnie Lazaro– along with veteran American actors like Chris Cooper (Oscar-winner for “Adaptation”), Garret Dillahunt, DJ Qualls, and Yul Vasquez (a current Tony nominee performing on Broadway).

AMIGO is that rare important film, as it addresses the Philippine-American War in 1900, a long forgotten chapter in our history.  Writer-director Sayles—who researched and read over a hundred books on this subject in various languages—acknowledged the reality that the Philippine-American War is a little-known event and not properly chronicled, even in the Philippines itself.  As such, AMIGO is a film that’s more than just entertainment—it can serve as a viable educational tool, one that can enlighten and edify Filipinos and Americans of all ages, from students to seniors, and in the process, bridge the understanding between two cultures and across generations, past and future.  Shot in Bohol and already endorsed by the Department of Education in the Philippines, AMIGO opens on Friday, August 19th across major U.S cities.

The screening / Q&A will be followed by an exclusive VIP Reception featuring renowned Filipino acting legend Joel Torre (plays the lead role of “Rafael”) and other special guests.  Refreshments will be served.  (VIP Reception available only to FilAm ARTS Benefit ticket holders.)

website / trailer:  www.amigomovie.com
Joel Torre:  www3.amigomovie.com/about-the-film/cast/joel-torre/

FilAm ARTS:  www.filamarts.org

Community! Art! Beach!

Join FilAm Creative (FAC) and TAYO Literary Magazine for SoCal’s hottest party of the month! FAC’s 13th of the Month Thing is your opportunity to have a great time while meeting the FilAm entertainment and media industry’s creatives. August spotlights authors, poets, and artists!

THIS MONTH: Beach Day & TAYO Reading! Continue reading →

TAYO Literary Magazine | Issue 3
“For our culture, by our culture.”

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES 2011–2012

All are welcomed to submit, regardless of ethnicity and age.

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Annual Issue 2011–2012
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Calling for submissions for our 3rd annual print magazine. Deadline is August 26th, 2011.

• All materials submitted are considered for both our online and print magazines.
• By submitting you are allowing TAYO Literary Magazine to reproduce your work.
• Not all submissions may be featured in our print / online mediums.

The same rules apply to our online edition.

We are interested in work that touches on themes including—but not limited to—the Filipino and Filipino-American experience, identity, memory, family, culture, history, trauma, and dislocation

* Remember: For our submission process, please keep the cover page as a separate page from your literary and art work.

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Submission Policy
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TAYO Literary Magazine does not charge a fee for submitting. As such, we do not pay a monetary sum to any of our contributors at this time.

Your submissions go a long way in supporting the arts in the Asian-American community, especially through inspiring younger artists, helping them to find their audience, to find their voice.

http://tayoliterarymag.submishmash.com/Submit
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Prompt: Often, we think of “activism” as a process by which particular goals—often political—are achieved by means that are aggressive, public, collective, and sometimes even militant. The truth, of course, is that “activism” takes many forms and addresses more than just politics but rather affects the way we live in our communities in a myriad of ways and on many different levels. While protests and demonstrations often provide “the face” of activism, the heart of activism lies simply in the desire for change—change for the better, for the common good.

That said, for this month, TAYO is calling for submissions with a particular focus on awareness and activism in our community. Please submit any photography, paintings, drawings, digital art, poetry, fiction and/or non-fiction that engage this theme by midnight, Thursday March 31st. Tayo na!

Submit here.

TAYO will be representing at this year’s SCPASA Summit: Culture Shock – “Culture as you Don’t Know It!”  hosted by UCI’s Kababayan.

When: Saturday, February 19, 2011
Time: 9am-6pm
Where: University of California, Irvine
- registration/main room: Humanities Instructional Building (HIB)
- workshops: Humanities Hall (HH)

TAYO will be having an ART EXHIBIT throughout the day right in front of the HIB building, in addition to a LIVE ART display that SCPASA attendants will be able to contribute to.

TAYO will also be sponsoring a WRITING WORKSHOP @ 3:20pm. This workshop will allow participants to interact with writing on a personal level, by learning techniques and applying them in class. TAYO aims to empower Filipino-Americans through creative expression, and this workshop is one way to do so.

Pre-registration: $5

At-The-Door: $9

Parking: $8

Pre-register HERE: tinyurl.com/scpasasummit11prereg
See workshop descriptions here: socalpasa.org/?page_id=643

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SCPASA Summit is an annual regional conference that provides a space to educate ourselves about each other and what’s going on in the community. It is one of THEE largest Fil-Am events in Southern California, and we are proud to be part of something spectacular. Summit history includes:

2008 “Weaving our Pasts to Unite our Future”
Loyola Marymount University

2009 “Multi-Faceted: College Filipino Americans in Multi-Issue Organizing”
University of California, Riverside

2010 “Balikbayan: Putting Life Together”
University of Southern California