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Bliss on Bliss Art Projects
A Cross Cultural Center for the Arts
Located in the historic neighborhood of Sunnyside, Bliss on Bliss Art Projects is committed to providing an intimate venue for contemporary artists,
writers, filmmakers, scholars, performers, and educators based in Queens
Vicente Rafael Salon talk and Q&A session
with Queens Poet Lore Paolo Javier Sept.
21, 2011 at Bliss on Bliss Art Projects.
BBAP's Ged Merino with University of Washington
historian Vicente Rafael, author of The Promise of the
Foreign: Nationalism and the Technics of Translation in
the Spanish Philippines (Duke University Press, 2005)
Matthew Freundlich of Exit Art interviewing
Lav Diaz, a multi awarded filmmaker from the
Philippines
Bliss on Bliss Art Projects launched in October 2011 to coincide with Philippine Heritage Month. We invited Ernest Concepcion, Lav
Diaz, Marietta Ganapin, Jessica Hagedorn, Paolo Javier, R. Zamora Linmark, Ramon Mappala Vicente Rafael to a monthlong
gathering of Fil-Am contemporary writers, scholars, artists, and filmmakers
Queens Poet Lore Paolo Javier reads from his
new book "The Feeling is Actual"
Bliss on Bliss Art Projects Resident Artist
Marietta Ganapin admiring Mural by co-
Resident Artist Ernest Concepcion
From L to R Joann Harrah, BBAP Resident Artist Ernest
Concepcion, BBAP  Ged Merino, BBAP Resident Artist
Marietta Ganapin and BBAP co-founder Carolina
Morales (Ernest's Mural behind the group)
Marietta Ganapin shows the "method to her
madness" to guests as she opens her studio
space.
Ernest Concepcion talks about
his"Tologgest" Mural and the  source of his
inspiration .
Paolo Javier introducing Marietta Ganapin
as she gets ready for her slide presentation
on Artist Talk/Open Studio night
Mary Ellen Obias of the Cambodian Living Arts
hanging with friends at the Bliss Garden
Bliss on Bliss Art Projects presents
"Popcorn and Lav Diaz afternoon"
Sunnyside Local Photographer Leo
Armamento chatting with Lav Diaz
Filmmaker Lav Diaz, BBAP's Ged Merino and
Producer and long time Lav Diaz friend,
Ramon Mappala
An impromptu performance by Sunnyside
local,  Violist Margret Hjaltested
Photographer Ole Pedersen chats it up
with guests as Flushing based painter Flexy
Casero hangs out
BBAP's Ged Merino with R. Zamora Linmark, Jessica
Hagedorn and BBAP's Carolina Morales after their book
reading and "sold-out" Book signing
Jessica Hagedorn reads from her latest
book "Toxicology"
R. Zamora Linmark reads from his latest
book "Leche"
Jessica Hagedorn and R. Zamora Linmark
Q&A with Paolo Javier
Bob Holman of the Bowery Poetry Club
R. Zamora Linmark book signing
Jessica Hagedorn book signing
Prerana Reddy of the Queens Museum of
Art snatches up the last copy of R. Zamora
Linmark's "Leche"
Good friends Jessica Hagedorn and
Feliciano Boy Blue Gallardo meet up at Bliss
on Bliss Studio
Special Thanks Danny Loor, Katrina Dumas and Tristan
Mosser for documenting and editing interviews and
events
Guests on their way to check out
the Bliss shop
husband and wife artists team and owners
of Gallery Bohemia Patrick and Merce Layog
and Music CD's by Jazz Musician and
Composer Pipo Batto all based in Manila.