Joyce Manalo

Bio:
Joyce is the Managing Editor / Media Curator and an independent art curator who works with hyper-local cultural organizations. She moved from Manila, Philippines to Park Slope in 1987 and has been hooked on travel, conversation and culture ever since. In 2001, her trip to Paris influenced her to an individualized life-long research about the country's transformation after WWII, and its impact on thinking and subcultures, then and now.

Q&A
Best vacation?
Spending 10 days in a desert oasis in India over Christmas and New Year's Eve, in silence.

Favorite breakfast food?
Muesli: Fage yogurt, fresh fruit and honey.

Cheap Thrill?
Picking up coins on the ground and guessing the year it was minted.

Savior?
Joy Division

Theme song?
"7 heures du matin" by Jacqueline Taïeb

Most often found?
Traversing the streets of the Lower East Side.