Contents: New Feature: Favorites!, New Feature: Community Spotlight, PMX Website News, Get Published!, Contests and Freebies, PMX on Facebook/Twitter
These are a few of my favorite things…
by Amirah May Limayo, PMX Staff
Each month, the PMX newsletter will feature a “favorite thing” – event, book, restaurant, website, etc. It’ll be our own version of Oprah’s Favorite Things. And we’ll sing it in a song like they did in the Sound of Music (My Favorite Things). February is “My Favorite Manga” Month.
February – My Favorite Manga
The 20th installation of the CLAMP’s Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle was released at the end of January. Syaoran, Fay and Kurogane are traveling through different worlds in search of Sakura’s memories contained in feathers shaped like little wings (“tsubasa” means wing in Japanese). In each obstacle they encounter, the characters sacrifice a little bit of themselves to get closer to what they are looking for. Will they ever reach the end? What do the characters have in store for them next? Find out when the next installation for the series is released this April 2009.
If you would like to participate in writing about your “monthly favorites”, please submit your articles to editors(at)pacificmediaexpo(dot)com.
More links about Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsubasa_Chronicle
http://www.funimation.com/yuko/
Community Spotlight: Asian Culture in Your Neighborhood
by Paula Angeles, PMX Staff
The Community Spotlight section will feature a cultural organization in your neighborhood that you may or may not know about. These organizations are usually non-profits that provide unique services to the neighborhoods they serve. If you know about an outstanding organization in your community, let us know and we'll show our support by featuring them! Email your articles to editors(at)pacificmediaexpo(dot)com.
The Filipino American Library
by Jonathan Lorenzo, FAL Staff
Founded on October 13, 1985 by “Auntie Helen” Agcaoili Summers Brown, FAL is the earliest and largest Filipino library in the country with a collection of more than6,000 titles. Its mission is to actively promote the history, culture, and professional achievements of Filipinos and Filipino Americans through the book collection, leadership development, and cultural programming, thereby contributing to the achievement of a culturally dynamic, multiethnic America.
Along with books, the collection consists of magazines, DVDs, CDs, artifacts, and displays. The various sections include children’s literature, the history of Filipinos in Los Angeles, and Jose Rizal. FAL also features a permanent exhibition on its founder Auntie Helen, a variety of paintings by renowned artist Eliseo Art Silva, and presentations on Filipino food, art, and history.
FAL also advances its mission with its many programs. The Children’s Reading Program promotes the value of diversity to families in Greater Los Angeles through the reading of Filipino children’s books. In Bus Tours of Historic Filipinotown, a guide narrates the significance of sites, events, and individuals in and around the area to present an historical overview of Filipinos in Los Angeles. Authors also introduce their Filipino works of literature with residents of Greater Los Angeles through Book Launches. Finally, FAL has a gala every October to commemorate its anniversary and Filipino American History Month.
If anyone would like to donate online, please feel free to visit www.filipinoamericanlibrary.org. FAL is open Mondays-Fridays 1:00-5:00pm and by appointment. For more information, please contact filamlibrary(at)sbcglobal.net or 213-382-0488.
PMX Website News
Visit the PMX Website often in March so you don't miss the debut of the new PMX Forums. Stay tuned!
Get Published! PMX Monthly Newsletter Submission Guidelines
Are you an aspiring writer, photographer, manga or graphic artist, or videographer/reporter? Contribute to our monthly newsletter! Build your writing/artist porfolio or clip file with PMX! If you want to get published, you have to start somewhere, right? Not only that, if your piece is chosen, we'll give you five of our limited edition PMX buttons! These buttons are never for sale. They are earned! :D
We are looking for articles about the following subjects in Asian and Asian American pop culture:
- Country profiles (i.e., Korea, China)
- Celebrity sightings (with photos - not at a convention)
- Book reviews
- Movie reviews
- Album reviews
- Artist reviews
- Concert/club performances/live reviews (not in a convention)
- Restaurant reviews
- Community profiles (i.e., Little Tokyo, Koreatown)
- Festival reports (i.e., Nisei Week)
- Fashion reports
- Trend reports
- Asian holiday/celebration/tradition reports (i.e., Midnight Mass for Filipinos)
- Anime/Manga/Pop culture news (i.e., Spanish translation of classic anime in Equador)
- and many others!
Just submit your article to our editors and we'll pick the best ones. If we pick your piece, congratulations! You are now a published writer/artist!
Submissions must be 200-250 words in length. If you're submitting a video, please make sure it is under 10 minutes long. If you're submitting an image, please make sure you have legal rights to distribute this image. No anonymous submissions will be accepted. If you want to become a regular contributor, please let us know! We'll be more than happy to support your dream!
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Contests and Freebies
Contest deadline March 31, 2009! PMX is having our first ever Button Design Contest! One stipulation: your design must fit in a one-inch round button. Send us your name and your design by email at marketing(at)pacificmediaexpo.com and we'll post your design on our forums so that everyone can judge which design is the best. The winner gets 25 buttons with their design (because buttons are never for sale, only earned) and a pair of PMX 2009 Full badge memberships! Send all submissions to marketing(at)pacificmediaexpo.com.
Last Call! We also have a monthly raffle that ends at midnight, February 28, 2009. This month's prize is a framed, autographed Kaya postcard! Go to http://www.PacificMediaExpo.com to enter.
Social Networking with PMX
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