ramblingsoul: Happy Mondays LXIII + '90s Alternative Music Night

Saturday, October 17, 2009

Happy Mondays LXIII + '90s Alternative Music Night

featured readers for the 63rd installment of the bi-weekly Happy Mondays Poetry Nights on Monday, October 19 @ mag:net cafe Katipunan are as follows:

1. Kristian Cordero

2. Iñigo De Paula

3. Jonar Sabilano

4. Pancho Villanueva

5. Kash Avena

6. Siege Malvar

7. Waps San Diego

8. Mikael Co

9. Wincy Ong

10. Lourd De Veyra

11. Cor Arenas

12. JC Casimiro

13. Pancho Alvarez

14. Sasha Martinez

15. Marie La Viña

16. Dax Cutab

17. JP Abrajano

18. Ed Geronia, Jr.

*plus other special guest readers and performers.

readings start promptly at 730pm followed by the Open Mic sessions @ 9pm-930pm.

*for those interested in reading during the open mic, we will leave a sign-up sheet with Rogel, the bar tender of mag:net cafe. please feel free to sign up and read your work. :)

930pm onwards, it's the October installment of the monthly '90s Music Retrospective featuring covers of hits, rarities, oddities, and anthems from the alternative and grunge music era. performing bands are:

1. Patience Dear Juggernaut

2. The Fuhrer Commands It

3. Lager Louts

4. Inner Volume

5. Dissent

FREE ADMISSION the whole evening. Kitakits po tayo. :)

*photo taken from zazzle.com

About Joel

Joel M. Toledo holds a Masters degree in English Studies (Poetry) from the University of the Philippines Diliman, where he likewise finished two undergraduate degrees (Journalism and Creative Writing). He has authored three books of poetry – Chiaroscuro (UST Press, 2008), The Long Lost Startle (UP Press, 2009), and Ruins and Reconstructions (Anvil Publishing, 2011). Chiaroscuro was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Awards. Toledo was the recipient of the 2006 NCCA Literary Prize, and has won several literary awards for his poetry in English, including two Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards, The Philippines Free Press Literary Award, The Meritage Press Poetry Prize in San Francisco, USA, and the Bridport Prize for Poetry in Dorset, United Kingdom. He was a recipient of the Rockefeller Foundation Creative Arts Residency at the Bellagio Center in Italy in March 2011 and was the Philippine representative for the 2011 International Writers Program (IWP) at the University of Iowa, USA. Toledo is the current Literary Editor of the Philippines Free Press. He teaches Literature at Miriam College.