TAYO Launch Party, 2011

One of TAYO’s primary goals is to build a community among writers and artists. Annually, TAYO hosts a launch party at various Los Angeles venues to celebrate our print edition and to build partnerships with our community. Last October 2011 for Filipino American History Month, TAYO partnered with muralist Eliseo Art Silva and Arthur Gallery in Moor Park for our third annual launch party. The event was a success! We held a reading throughout the night, and Arthur Gallery was kind enough to provide free wine and cheese for our guests.

TAYO Lecture at USC Doheny Library by poet Barbara Jane Reyes

Throughout the year, we also host beach readings and lecture series. We last held our lecture series at USC in Doheny Library, Intellectual Commons. Our guest lecturer was poet Barbara Jane Reyes, who flew down from the Bay and hosted a reading and lecture on Filipino mythology for a group of 20 students from throughout the Los Angeles area.

Recently, TAYO is implementing the Writers’ Lab, an hybrid online workshop with other Los Angelenos writers. For more information, please visit here.

If you would like to partner with TAYO for an event or reading, please email us here. We would love to hear from you!