Welcome to the launch of MARCELINA by Jean Vengua. This poetry chapbook is a meditation on the murder of Cecilia Navarro in 1930s Central California. The life of Navarro and her place in an earlier Filipino migrant community is explored in the documentary “The Celine Archive” which recently won the 2020 Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Award. The film will premiere at CAAMFest (formerly the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival) on October 14 through October 18, and Jean Vengua along with the film director Celine Shimizu and historian Catherine Ceniza Choy will be in conversation after every screening. With gratitude to Celine Shimizu for allowing us to use the film’s trailer for this event.
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