May 26, 2008
Nat'l Artist Rio Alma lectures at UP Pormal na bubuksan ng Linangan sa Imahen, Retorika, at Anyo (LIRA) ang kanilang taunang klinika sa pagtula sa isang panayam na pinamagatang "Reklamasyon sa Pambansang Gunita."
Ito ay ibibigay ng tagapayo at tagapagtatag ng LIRA, ang Pambansang Alagad ng Sining Para sa Panitikan, na si Virgilio S. Almario o Rio Alma. Ang panayam ay magsisimula dakong 1:30 ng hapon, Hunyo 7, 2008 sa Room 201 ng College of Arts and Letters sa UP Diliman.
Ang pagtatala ay magsisimula ng 1:00 ng hapon. Ang nasabing panayam ay libre at bukas sa publiko.
Simula pa noong 1985, nagbibigay na ang LIRA ng kanilang taunang klinika sa pagtula. Nagiging lunsaran ito hindi lamang sa pagsulat ng mahusay na tula bagkus maging ng pagtatalakay at pagbibigay-puna sa mga tulang Filipino. Ilan sa mga produkto ng LIRA ay sina Michael Coroza, Jerry Gracio, Roberto at Rebecca Anonuevo, Vim Nadera, Romulo Baquiran, Jr. at Edgar Samar.
Para sa karagdagang detalye maaring makipag-ugnayan kay En Villasis sa numerong 09224596365 o bisitahin ang kanilang website, http://liraonline.org.
Tag: WORKSHOPS
May 26, 2008
Adarna Book Sale and Upcoming Events
Back-to-School SALE at the Showroom
Spend a little, learn a lot, and have fun buying books at our showroom from May 15 to June 15. We'll be offering 50% to 70% discount on selected copies. Each day, one featured item has a very special rate!
The Adarna House Showroom is open Mondays to Saturdays from 8am to 5pm, and is located at 2/F FSS Bldg., 20 Scout Tuason cor. Scout Castor Sts., Brgy. Laging Handa, Quezon City
Storytelling sessions for June
For the month of June, watch our stories come alive! Catch the storytelling sessions of Philippine Daily Inquirer’s Read-Along on the second and fourth Saturday of the month of June. Call PDI Read-Along at 897-8808 local 329. We will also be having a storytelling session at Hooked on Books on June 28, in partnership with Purefoods Hotdogs. Hooked on Books is located at 138 Ching Santos Building, Katipunan Ave, Loyola Heights, Quezon City. You may reach Hooked on Books at 911-2149.
We’re going places!
Our showroom is not the only place where you can find Adarna House books at a discount. Head over to one of our sales booths this month: May 22 to 24 at Mission Ministries in Starmall, May 24 at the University of Asia and the Pacific, and May 30 to 31 at the Philippine Daily Inquirer Office in Makati. Call Genesis at 3723548 local 101 for details.
Free field trip to the MIBF
This year, we’re giving three (3) schools free field trips to the Manila International Book Fair! The MIBF field trip will include storytelling sessions, book-signing with an author and an illustrator, free entrance to the Fair, and partial transportation. The MIBF will be held at the SMX Convention Center (beside Mall of Asia).
Those interested may choose from a morning or afternoon slot on the days of September 12, 15, and 16. Contact Genesis now and ask about our Katuwang program! 372-3548 local 101 / genesis@adarna.com.ph / 0917-3722639
Tag: EVENTS
May 26, 2008
5 play set for PETA's 41st Season The Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA) presents 5 exciting new plays in its 41st Theater Season.
Opening the season in July, Soxie Topacio directs Nic Tiongson’s NOLI AT FILI DEKADA 2000 (DOS MIL). The play is set in a small town in the Quezon province where the small town politics and social mores become the backdrop of Rizal’s novels. Performances are slated for July 18 to August 24, 2008, Fridays to Sundays at 10am and 3pm.
TOSCA (August 29 and 30, at 2:30pm and 7:30pm) is an adaptation of Puccini’s classic opera piece. PETA sets its interpretation during the Japanese occupation and Tosca becomes the battle ground of Japanese Imperialism, patriotic love and selfish greed.
Christine Bellen’s MGA KUWENTO NI LOLA BASYANG and BATANG RIZAL are back to back presentations of the Children’s Theater productions for September to October. Lola Basyang features three of Severino Reyes’ folktales: Ang Prinsipeng Mahaba ang Ilong, Ang Binibining Tumalo sa Mahal na Hari and Ang Prinsipeng Duwag, tackling the mythical journeys into self discovery and value formation. Batang Rizal revisits the notions of heroism and love of country from the point of view of a child. Shows will be on September 19 to October 12, 2008, Fridays to Sundays at 10am and 3pm.
SAAN BA TAYO IHAHATID NG DISYEMBRE? is the featured play from November 14 to December 7, with Friday performances at 2:30pm and 7:30pm, and Saturday and Sunday performances at 10am and 3pm. The third of Tony Perez’s trilogy on friendship love and compassion, the play, directed by Nonon Padilla is about the unbreakable love and bonding between best friends and among family members, despite complications of betrayal, jealousy and anger.
The season ends with ADAPTING THE EUROPEAN MASTERS in a pseudo festival that will showcase an end to a ten month project that will take at least forty of our artist be they writers, directors and actors into the study of European playwrights. Shows from February 6 to March 15, 2009, on Fridays at 2:30pm and Saturdays and Sundays at 10am and 3pm.
Season subscription is available for only PhP1,000.00. Each subscriber will be entitled to one (1) entry pass to all productions at the Theater Center plus privileges including discounts for up to two (2) companions, regular mail or e-mail updates on the latest happenings in PETA, a subscriber ID and acknowledgment in the souvenir program of all productions.
For more details, contact the PETA Marketing and Public Relations office at The PETA Theater Center, 5 Eymard Drive , New Manila, QC with telephone numbers 4100821 or 7256244, or email petampro@yahoo.com. Schedules may change without prior notice.
Tag: EVENTS
May 26, 2008
New Book on Philippine Australian Identity Sydney-based Manila Prints Publishing releases a new book on Filipino Australian identity, showcasing fifteen short stories that explore themes of growing up Filipino, re-growing up Filipino-Australian, circumcision, schoolyard bullying, growing up Catholic, intercultural marriage, racism, social justice, war and Filipino food.
Many of the characters are children, observing and challenging stereotypes and ideological positions that have been normalised in our society.
"Is God really white?" asks one of Cabucos' child characters, with no adequate response forthcoming from the Filipino priest under question.
"It is a book that you can relate to as a Filipino and as an Australian. The stories have been woven into a world of two cultures which may be a very good tool for Literacy, SOSE, Anthropology teaching and learning in Australia," says Myrla Prianes, a Brisbane-based teacher and a community leader.
Casting a racist slur over our immigrant neighbour's smelly food is represented in one of the stories, laying bare themes of racial snobbery, prejudice and persecution of those who dare to be different.
”I love the ‘reality’ and immediacy of the style, the use of language, and the way a sense of place is created. The stories are beautifully structured - a real joy to read. So alive, touching and funny,” says Judith Cheyne, Director of ‘E-lucidate Web and Print Communications’ in Brisbane.
Cabucos is a teacher of secondary English in Brisbane and when not teaching, he writes short fiction which find their ways in various anthologies and publications including 'The Philippine Graphic Magazine and the Philippines Free Press."
"My stories are a reminder not to accept everything at face value," Cabucos said.
‘The stories are about relationships: relationships between father and son, mother and daughter, Muslim and Catholic. Cabucos deals with some very complex issues in this book and he never tries to paint anything as all black or all white…. funny and tragic at the same time,' says Pippa Kay, Author of ‘Doubt and Conviction: The Kalajzich Inquiry’, Sydney.
Coral Hartley, the publishing editor of ‘The Write Angle Magazine’ in Brisbane read 'The Bleached Hills of Cotabato' short story from the collection and comments that it is 'meaty, different and topical'.
‘What I like most about the stories of Erwin Cabucos are his characters who, even when they are in Australia, are Filipino through and through. They are touching in their simplicity and tenacity to improve their lot. [They] treasure the notion of the Family," comments Cecilia Brainard, author of ‘When the Rainbow Goddess Wept’, University of Michigan Press, USA.
‘Cabucos' stories … are well grounded in contemporary history, so that after reading his work, one has a better understanding of the Filipino-Australian experience, and of Filipino experience in Muslim Mindanao,’ Brainard adds.
The stories offer insights and humour for young adult and adult readers.
I would like to see this book gain wide coverage in Australia with a place on High School reading lists,' says Joye Alit of Wordit, Australia.
English Teachers Association of Queensland (ETAQ) President Garry Collins will launch the book on Saturday 7 June 2008 at the Brisbane Square Library, Brisbane, Australia from 12:30PM. Entry is free and everyone is welcome.
Green Blood and Other Stories, ISBN 978-0-9804827-0-6 is now available in the Philippines for P320.00 plus postage and handling through Manila Prints Philippines, 42 Hernandez Street, Chrysanthemum Village, San Pedro, Laguna, Telephone: 02 8682 212, or email renperdoni@hotmail.com
Cabucos may be interviewed on erwincabucos@yahoo.com.au. See author’s site on http://erwincabucos.blogspot.com.
Tag: BOOK LAUNCH
May 18, 2008
The Fourth Alitaptap Inter-College Storytelling Competition
The National Library and Alitaptap Storytellers Philippines are inviting all college students to join the Fourth Alitaptap Inter-College Storytelling Competition. Interested parties may register beginning June 9 to July 16, 2008.
There will be a workshop for the participants before the start of the elimination round which be on July 25, 2008, 9:00AM-5:00PM at the National Library Auditorium. The final round will be on July 26, 2008, 1:00PM-4:00PM.
The contest is open to all college students enrolled during the competition period.
For registration and details, please contact Percy or Bing at phone nos. 0917-539-2630, 535-4689 or e-mail at alitaptap_storytellers@yahoo.com
Tag: CONTESTS
May 18, 2008
Call for papers for Theorizing Asian American Fiction
Upcoming Special Issue: Theorizing Asian American Fiction
Guest Editors: Stephen Hong Sohn, Paul Lai, and Donald C. Goellnicht
Deadline for Submission: 30 January 2009
The topic of this special issue of MFS stems from the exponential growth in Asian American literary production over the past few decades and the ongoing need to understand how these texts function within the framework of ethnic and Asian American Studies. This issue seeks to account for and further the important changes that have taken place in the last decade since Susan Koshy (1996) observed that Asian American literary studies “has been weak in theoretical work,” especially in its assumptions of a coherent body of texts defined by the ethnicities of the authors.
More recently, Colleen Lye (2007) argues that scholars continually problematize the discursive production of Asian America without asking why we continue to lean on “Asian America” as an organizing principle for literary study. Her project instead offers: “the sense of the theoretical generativity of speaking not of identity but of form, of trying to investigate race and nation through the relationship between aesthetic and social modalities of form.” While Lye’s project usefully focuses on literary and narrative forms of Asia, its attempts to distance the formation of a textual coalition from authorial bodies drifts somewhat from other Asian American literary studies’ political project of recognizing and revaluing Asian American authors’ work.
Is there a way to privilege the identities of authors even while focusing on form in defining a tradition of fiction? If existing rubrics of Asian American literature problematically collect texts under the eye of biology, what other ways might Asian Americanists approach, categorize, and consider their objects of study? For example, how does thinking of Asian American literature as a “subjectless discourse,” as Kandice Chuh (2003) has espoused, enable new representational and taxonomic configurations to emerge? If a panethnic, nationally-determined category of persons is insufficient for defining a textual body, how might interrogating the geopolitical boundaries of the field look in turning more directly to Asian North American or Anglophone Asian fictions without simply adding more racialized bodies to the fold?
To address these questions, MFS solicits articles that have broad implications for theorizing Asian American fiction as a whole while paying attention to specific texts. Papers might investigate: how the field must be reconstructed or redefined through discursive intersectionalities with queer studies, gender studies, class critique, post-ethnicity/post-race critical theory, area studies, diaspora, transnationalism, globalization, and/or postcolonialism; authors and texts that arguably fall out of disciplinary boundaries and/or authors and texts that have spawned debates within the field (e.g. Ha Jin’s Waiting, Chang-rae Lee’s Aloft, and Lois-Ann Yamanaka’s Blu’s Hanging); canon formation in Asian American literary studies and its East Asian focus; how the field can read contemporary texts alongside earlier ones; poststructuralist and postmodern discourses which de-stabilize essentialist Asian American literary definitions (”real vs. fake”); conceptions of ethnic/racial heritage and mixed-race bodies within Asian American literature; the possibilities for claiming as Asian American literature the work of non-Asian American writers (e.g. David Guterson’s Snow Falling on Cedars, Deborah Iida’s Middle Son); regionalism in Asian American literature (South Asia/East Asia/Southeast Asia/Pacific Islands, regional differences within the US and Canada, connections across the Americas); nationalism as a continuing organizing principle in Asian American (including or excluding Asian Canadian?) fiction; the (re)turn to aesthetics, genre, and form and/as politics; or how Asian American literature is defined outside academic criticism (e.g. in publishing and marketing discourses).
Essays should be limited to 9,000 words, including all quotations and bibliographic references, and should follow the MLA Style Manual for internal citation and Works Cited. Please submit two copies of your essay to The Editors, Mfs, Department of English, Purdue University, 500 Oval Drive, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2038.
Queries should be directed to Paul Lai (plai2@stthomas.edu).
Tag: PUBLICATIONS
May 18, 2008
Eros Atalia to attend book signing
VPE Publishing will host a book signing for author Eros Atalia. This will be on May 24, 3 to 6p.m. at the Cubao Shoe Expo in Quezon City, near Puregold Supermarket and SM Cubao.
The event is open to the public. For more details, you may contact 0922-8771975.
Eros Atalia is a faculty member at the UST. His book, Taguan-Pung at Manwal ng mga Napapagal, a collection of flash fiction, was published by the UST Publishing House in 2006.
Tag: EVENTS
May 16, 2008
UP Writers Club offers free workshop
The UP Writers Club is proud to present its Summer Writing Workshop for Young Adults!
The workshop will be held from May 26 to 30, 9am to 5pm everyday at the College of Arts and Letters in the University of the Philippines. Participants will get to explore such genres as Sudden Fiction, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Creative Nonfiction/Online Writing, Poetry, and Comic Book Writing/Screenplay Writing.
Registration is open to all high school students aspiring to be great writers.
Please contact 0921 459 0514 (Bernadete) or 0927 443 2092 (Sierra) or visit http://upwritersclub.wordpress.com for registration details.
Tag: WORKSHOPS
May 6, 2008
15th Iligan National Writers Workshop fellows announced
The National Commission for Culture and Arts (NCCA), the Mindanao Creative Writers Group, Inc. in cooperation with the MSU-Iligan Institute of Technologyâ’s Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Extension (MSU-IIT-OVCRE) announce the 15 writing fellows to the 15th Iligan National Writers Workshop on May 26-31, 2008 in Iligan City .
Luzon: Fiction (English): Samantha G. Echavez, UP Diliman/Marikina City; (Filipino): Sarah Jane D. Sebastian, UP Diliman/San Mateo, Isabela; Poetry (Filipino): Erick Dasig Aguilar, UP Diliman/Quezon City; Poetry (English): Evangeline B. Gubat, Ateneo de Manila University/Makati City; and, John Lorenz S. Poquiz, University of Santo Tomas / Manila .
Visayas: Poetry (English): Fred Jordan Mikhail T. Carnice, Silliman University/Tagbilaran City; Nino Manaog, Ateneo de Naga University/Iloilo City; (Waray): Leonilo D. Lopido, Leyte Institute of Technology/Tacloban City; Luciano L. Abia IV, UP College Tacloban/Basey, Samar; and, Fiction (Cebuano): Efmer E. Agustin, UP Visayas/Abuyog, Leyte.
Mindanao: Fiction (English): Krisza Joy P. Kintanar, UP Mindanao/Davao City; Marius Angelo G. Monsanto, UP Mindanao/Davao City; Poetry (English): Ma. Elena L. Paulma, UP Diliman/Cagayan de Oro City; John Philip A. Baltazar, Xavier University-Ateneo de Cagayan/Cagayan de Oro City; and, Xer Jason D. Ocampo, UP Mindanao/Davao City.
Panelists this year are Ma. Rosario Cruz Lucero, Leoncio P. Deriada, German V. Gervacio, Victor N. Sugbo, Merlie M. Alunan, Jaime An Lim, Steven Patrick C. Fernandez, keynote speaker, Antonio Reyes Enriquez and Christine Godinez-Ortega, the 15th INWW Director.
Highlights of this year’s workshop include the launching of the 14th INWW Proceedings titled, Fire and Faith in Writing edited by Godinez-Ortega and published by the MSU-IIT OVCRE; a lecture by INWW alumnus, Ralph Semino Galan; the Jimmy Y. Balacuit Literary Awards; and, the launching of the Manuel Buenafe Writing Fellowship and the Ricardo Jorge S. Caluen Writing Bursary.
Tag: WORKSHOPS
May 6, 2008
Ongpin Stories launched
Ongpin Stories by R. Kwan Laurel is a collection of stories that deals with the Chinese in the Philippines and Chinese Filipinos before they were stereotyped as wealthy businessmen. These stories show the effects of global forces on the lives of simple people who want to live in dignity amidst racism, poverty, and persecution.
In the blurb at the back of the book, the late National Artist, NVM Gonzalez in a letter to the author expressed his hope and estimation of the stories: “I hope you have pursued your Ongpin story as far as it can go. I know you are on track and need only to go on. Ongpin lives in these stories.”
Underneath the comic and painful situations of characters with names like Washington Dee See and Thomas Jefferson Go, we read about how generations sacrificed their lives for the hope of a better future, how identities are formed in the crucible of historic national and international anxieties, and how the present generation who are reaping the fruits of immigrant sacrifices may have too easily forgotten what it means to be children of the diaspora.
The book is published by Kaisa Para Sa Kaunlaran, Inc. R. Kwan Laurel earned his doctorate in English Studies (Creative Writing) from the University of the Philippines.
Tag: BOOK LAUNCH
May 6, 2008
PETA announces new theater courses
Thinking of enhancing your creativity in your community theater group or the classroom? Enroll now at PETA’s specialized courses for community cultural workers and educators!
THEATER FOR DEVELOPMENT 1: Community Theater
(Community cultural workers ages 17 and up)
Experience the PETA Integrated Theater Arts (ITA) approach through creative group processes with special sessions on community situational analysis. Immerse yourself in necessary production processes with focus on different theater forms culminating in a play production.
THEATER-IN-EDUCATION 1: Creative Pedagogy
(Formal and non-formal educators)
Rev up your teaching competency by maximizing creative methodologies, approaches and philosophies in the teaching of arts and academic subjects whether in formal or non-formal education. Demonstrate your teaching technique by using artistic disciplines as engaging tools of learning. Design your creative lesson plans as your final output.
THEATER-IN-EDUCATION 2: Asian Theater
(Theater artists and cultural workers ages 17 and up)
Immerse yourself in the discussions and analyses of the rich culture of Asian countries, their theater history, art forms and world views. Discover their influences to artists, dramatists and theater pedagogues from all over the world. Be more conscious of their nature and qualities that have influenced your own artistic expressions.
Reserve your slots now! Call us at 4100821 or 7256244 and look for Julie Bautista. You may also direct your inquiries through mobile number 0928-5078368 or this email address. All courses will be conducted from May 12 to 16, 2008, Monday to Friday from 9am to 4pm. Course fee is PhP 3,500 per participant.
Tag: NEWS
May 4, 2008
Spooky Stories
Milflores Publishing, Inc. has recently released Spooky Mo: Horror Stories, a collection of scary short stories in English by Marivi Soliven Blanco.
The nine stories in the book are all truly horrific and unpredictable because they are so imaginative. They feature the Seven Deadly Sins that we were all warned against when we were young—Pride, Envy, Anger, Avarice, Sloth, Gluttony, and Lust. The sins are committed in tandem by the characters in most of the stories, causing an eighth sin—revenge—and endings that provide the reader with a gleeful shock.
Most of the stories portray ghouls from Filipino folklore, from the cheeky “Manananggrrrl,” to the duwendes in “Child’s Play,” and the sawa of the urban legend in “Consumption”. One tale features the vagina dentata myth that recurs in several South American cultures through a Japayuki character. They are all fast-paced, satisfying reads.
Marivi Soliven Blanco won the first prize in the 1998 Philippines Free Press short story awards. Her collection of funny essays on immigrant life, Suddenly Stateside, is a bestseller. She has authored books on pregnancy, on living life as a single female, and a number of books for children, two of which won Palanca awards.
The eye-catching cover was designed by Blooey Singson, and the layout was by Zeny Ebalan.
Spooky Mo: Horror Stories is available at all National Book Stores, PowerBooks, Books for Less and other major book stores at P260 per copy.
Call 721-6431, E-mail: milflores@pldtdsl.net, or visit the Milflores website at milfloresonline.blogspot.com
Tag: BOOK LAUNCH
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