Filipino Hawai'i residents invited to share personal histories for anthology, free writing workshop offered

(June 22, 2024)

Maui Now

A free weekend writing workshop aimed at encouraging and documenting Filipino voices in Hawaiʻi will be offered on Maui the weekend of Friday, July 26 through Sunday, July 28 at the J. Walter Cameron Center via a partnership between the Filipino Association of University Women (FAUW) and the Maui Filipino Chamber of Commerce Foundation.

The workshops are offered on four major islands with a grant from the Hawaiʻi Council for the Humanities, through support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The sessions will be directed by Nanette Carreon-Ruhter, an international English teacher who has directed Writing Workshops Across the Curriculum for international school teachers in Asia as an accredited consultant for the UC Berkeley Writing Project and the East Asia Writing Project. An additional resource teacher joining is Margot Q. Adair, with 10-year teaching experience at International School Manila, 5 years at Hawaiʻi Dept. of Education as an ESL teacher and a 30-year teaching veteran from Maryknoll School in Honolulu.