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The launching of the late teacher and drama director Sarah K.
Joaquin’s memoirs will be held March 18, Tuesday, not March 14 as
originally scheduled. Venue is at the Filipinas Heritage Library,
Makati Avenue, Ayala Triangle, Makati City.
The postponement was occasioned by news that a
big opposition rally would take place in Makati today, the family
said. The launch will be held from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Sarah Joaquin, sister-in-law of the National
Artist Nick Joaquin, taught English, Spanish and drama at the Far
Eastern University. She was stage director at the university for
many years.
She was a founding member of the Barangay
Theater Guild, with National Artists Bert and Daisy Avellana, and a
member of the original cast that first staged Nick Joaquin’s
Portrait of the Artist as Filipino in the ruins of the Intramuros
walls in the late fifties.
Her memoirs, Of Laughter and Tears, narrates her
education at the Centro Escolar University and the University of the
Philippines, her career as teacher, stage actor and director,
marriage to jazz pianist and Clover Theater band leader Ping
Joaquin, and her retirement years in Virginia, USA.
At 87, Sarah Joaquin directed the three-act
zarzuela, Ang Kiri, in Washington, DC, starring the noted Filipino
soprano Evelyn Mandac. She finished writing her memoirs shortly
before her death in 2001.
Joaquin’s son Tony Joaquin, former magazine
publisher and TV producer, will deliver the welcome remarks.
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