Vancouver, B.C.
TOMORROW AT 7 PM – 8:30 PM
Of Memory and Legend
Historic Joy Kogawa House
1450 West, 64th Ave. Vancouver, B.C.
“Navigating multiple times, historical currents and oceans, a barangay offers a polity, a tentative mooring, and space for precolonial lifeworlds in and beyond the Philippine archipelago. Offering an imaginative series of historical insights, intimate memories, and mobile reflections on entanglements of the Philippines’ archipelagic pre- & colonial past, settler colonial pasts and enduring racial melancholies, the UBC Philippines Studies Series has extended an invitation to public historian and acclaimed poet Adrian De Leon to offer a reading from his second poetry collection, ”barangay: an offshore poem” (2021) at the historic Joy Kogawa House on August 19, 2022 from 7:00-8:30 PM. In this reading moderated by novelist Vincent Ternida, Vancouver-based poets Hari Alluri and Marc Perez respond to the invitation first occasioned by what Craig Santos Perez has called De Leon’s journeying across “the tributaries and offshore currents of Filipino history, culture and migration.”
The organizers and authors participating in this event acknowledge that we gather on the traditional ancestral, and unceded lands of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tseil-Waututh Nations, whom we are indebted to and strive to engage in respectful relation with their struggles for land and self determination.”
More on the Authors
Adrian De Leon is an award-winning historian, poet, and multimedia educator. He is the author and editor of three books: Rouge (2018), FEEL WAYS: A Scarborough Anthology (2021), and barangay: an offshore poem (2021), which was named one of 2021’s Best Canadian Poetry Collections by CBC Books. His debut nonfiction book, Bundok: A Hinterland History of Filipino America, is forthcoming with the University of North Carolina Press. Adrian’s research has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, VICE, Rolling Stone, and other publications. He is the co-host of two PBS digital programs: A People’s History of Asian America (2021), and Historian’s Take (2022). He currently lives in Los Angeles, where he teaches at the University of Southern California.
Hari Alluri (he/him/siya) is a migrant poet of Filipinx and South Asian descent living and writing on unceded Coast Salish territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples and Kwantlen, Katzie, and Kwikwitlem lands of Hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓-speaking peoples. He is author of The Flayed City (Kaya), Carving Ashes (CiCAC/Thompson Rivers), and chapbooks The Promise of Rust (Mouthfeel) and Our Echo of Sudden Mercy (Next Page Press, forthcoming fall 2022). Writer-Director of Pasalubong (NFB/ONF), co-editor of We Were Not Alone (Community Building Art Works) and co-founding editor at Locked Horn Press, siya has received grants, fellowships, and residencies from the BC Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, The Capilano Review, Deer Lake, and others. His work appears through these venues, and elsewhere: 1508, AALR, Apogee, Four Way Review, Marías at Sampaguitas, Poetry, PRISM International, Witness, and—via Split This Rock—Best of the Net 2022.
Marc Perez is the author of the poetry chapbook, Borderlands (Anstruther Press, 2020). His work has appeared in The /tƐmz/ Review, decomp journal , Contemporary Verse 2, PRISM international, Vallum, TAYO, Ricepaper, and is forthcoming in EVENT Magazine. He has a BFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia, and has received support from the BC Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts. Originally from Manila, he lives and works on unceded Coast Salish territory.