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Author: Michael Gil Magnaye

La Vie en Pose: Performing and Posing on Social Media
Saturday, 11/18/2023
3:00 - 5:30
James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center - 3rd Fl
Main Library

100 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
United States

415-557-4400

La Vie en Pose is a fantasy memoir told in a hundred photographs of the author in costume, striking a pose in cities around the world. Designed and photographed over a decade, these vignettes depict media celebrities, politicians, literary characters and wholly fictitious figures drawn from Michael Magnaye’s fertile imagination. The collection offers satirical, often hilarious commentary on noteworthy personalities in pop culture, politics and history, from Game of Thrones to Bridgerton, from Jackie Onassis to Ruth Bade Ginsburg.

Magnaye is a philanthropy professional at an international NGO. Prior to that, he taught Art Studies at the University of the Philippines and directed award-winning documentaries, which were screened and broadcast in film festivals worldwide. Born in Davao City, Philippines, he is a graduate of the University of the Philippines and Stanford University.

Sponsored by Philippine American Writers and Artists (PAWA) and the Filipino American Center of the San Francisco Public Library

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