| February 19, 2007
UP Press’ Paglulunsad 2007:
Unang Yugto
The University of the Philippines
Press launches nine new titles this February 23
at Balay Kalinaw, University of the Philippines
, Diliman. Paglulunsad 2007: Unang Yugto is the
first in this year's series of mega-launches.
Program begins at 6pm followed by book-signing
and refreshments.
The titles to be launched are Edith
L. Tiempo's Six Poetry Formats and the Transforming
Image: A Monograph on Free Verse; Cristina
Pantoja Hidalgo's Over a Cup of Ginger Tea:
Conversations on the Literary Narratives of Filipino
Women; Antonio Enriquez's Samboangan:
The Cult of War; Zosimo's Quibilan, Jr.'s
Pagluwas; Bagets: An Anthology of Young Adult
Fiction, edited by Carla Pacis and Eugene
Evasco; Textual Relations by Ramil Gulle;
The Path of the Success of Cooperatives,
edited by Eugenio V. Mendoza and Eulogio T. Castillo;
A Guide to Families of Common Flowering Plants
in the Philippines by Irma Remo Castro; and
Manila Men in the New World by Floro
Mercene.
These new titles will be available
at 20% discount at the launch.
Tag: EVENTS
February 19, 2007
12 Fellows for the 46th UP National
Writers Workshop named
LIKHAAN: The UP Institute of Creative
Writing has selected the 12 fellows for the 46th
UP National Writers Workshop to be held at the
AIM Lodge, Camp John Hay, in Baguio City on March
25 to April 1, 2007.
The fellows are: Katrina P. Tuvera
and Daryll Jane Delgado (fiction in English);
Conchitina Cruz and Mark Anthony Cayanan (poetry
in English); Lawrence Ypil, Sandra Nicole Roldan,
and Adam David (creative nonfiction in English);
Eugene Evasco and Eros Atalia (fiction in Filipino);
Jerry Gracio and Edgar Samar (poetry in Filipino);
and Jose Dennis Teodosio (drama in Filipino).
Like last year’s successful
revitalized workshop, the fellows for this year
are advanced writers with previous workshop experience,
publications and degrees in literature. Not only
will the fellows have to face the rigor of their
works being discussed but will, themselves, make
a presentation about their poetics.
The teaching panel for this year’s
workshop will include UP ICW Director Vim Nadera,
Dr. J. Neil Garcia (this year’s Workshop
Director), University Professor Emeritus Gémino
H. Abad, National Artist and Prof. Emeritus Bienvenido
Lumbera, National Artist and Dean Virgilio S.
Almario, Dr. Cristina Pantoja-Hidalgo, Dr. Jose
Y. Dalisay, Jr., Mr. Charlson L. Ong, Ms. Carla
Pacis, Prof. Jun Cruz Reyes, Dr. Lilia Quindoza
Santiago, former UP Mindanao Chancellor Ricardo
M. de Ungria, Prof. Roland Tolentino, and Prof.
Rene O. Villanueva.
The fellows are advised to call
the UP ICW at 922-1830 or call/SMS Ms. Eva Garcia-Cadiz
at 0927-924-5242 to confirm attendance and other
related matters.
Tag: WORKSHOPS
February 19, 2007
Joey Reyes to hold scriptwriting
workshop
Director/writer Jose Javier Reyes
will launch the first two of a series of scriptwriting
workshops in his newly formed media training center
named Imagine Nation. This center is dedicated
to the training of aspiring and professional writers
and media practitioners in various fields of filmmaking
and broadcasting.
For its initial course offerings, Imagine Nation
will offer the following workshops:
1. Basic Television Writing: (12
Sessions = 10 lecture sessions + 2 viewing sessions
)
An introduction to television
writing inclusive of format development, gapping,
structure formation and professional presentation.
2. Basic Film Writing: (12 sessions
= 10 lecture sessions + 2 viewing sessions)
Introductory course in film
writing including development of concept, presentation
of story line, sequence treatment and rudiments
of formal and professional screenwriting formats.
Both courses will be handled by
Direk Joey Reyes.
Schedule of sessions will be determined on the
general availability of selected participants.
Workshops will be held from 7:00 - 9:00 PM on
weekdays or 10:00AM - 12:00 PM on Saturdays at
the Imagine Nation office at the JGS Building,
30 Scout Tuazon Street, Diliman Quezon City.
Interested participants must submit:
1. Biodata
2. 2 ID size photos
3. A sample of their creative writing not exceeding
2 pages in prose or script form.
Final list of accepted participants
will be further screened through a personal interview
with Direk Joey at an appointed time and date.
Fee is P6,000.00 for the sessions. A maximum of
15 participants will be accepted per workshop
module. For more details, please call 412.1469
between 10 a.m. to 5p.m. Look for Jeremy Santiago.
Tag: WORKSHOPS
February
12, 2007
Palanca Awards Now Open
The Carlos Palanca Foundation announces
the opening of the 57th Carlos
Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature. The
country’s premier literary awards will accept
entries until the midnight of April 30, 2007.
The literary awards is open to
all Filipino citizens and former Filipino citizens.
The competition includes the following categories:
Short Story, Short Story for Children, Essay,
Poetry, One-act Play, and Full-length Play in
Filipino and English divisions; Screenplay in
Filipino division; and Short Story in Cebuano,
Hiligaynon and Iluko regional languages.
This year’s theme for the
Kabataan Essay is “The Filipino Value I
Would Like to Share with the World” for
the English division; and “Ang Kaugaliang
Pilipino na Nais Kong Ibahagi sa Mundo”
for the Filipino division. This is a special category
open to persons below 18 years old.
Established in 1950, one of the
objectives of the Palanca Awards is to serve as
an incentive for Filipino writers to craft their
outstanding literary works. It is noteworthy that
more and more first-time entrants are winning
in the contest.
National Artist for Literature
Edith Tiempo noted that writers should take full
advantage of the annual literary competition to
hone their craft. “We are all privileged
to have a good number of our writers and their
best works being acclaimed and applauded –
and we, readers and writers may well wonder about
the enormity of literary expertise and craftsmanship
and long earnest labor that must have gone into
the performing of these chosen works.”
Entries for the literary competition
may be submitted in person, or sent by mail or
courier service to Carlos Palanca Foundation,
6th Floor, CPJ Building., 105 C. Palanca Jr. St.,
Legaspi Village, Makati City. Entries may also
be submitted through e-mail in Rich Text Format
or in Microsoft Word Document as an attachment,
together with the author’s resume, official
entry form and original copy of the notarized
authorization form.
Complete contest rules and official
entry forms may be obtained from the Carlos Palanca
Foundation office or via e-mail to cpawards@info.com.ph
or palancaawards@yahoo.com.
For inquiries, please call 818-3681, local 31.
Tag: CONTESTS
February
12, 2007
14th Iligan National Writers Workshop
(INWW)
The National Commission for Culture
and Arts (NCCA), the Mindanao Creative Writers
Group, Inc., and the Mindanao State University-Iligan
Institute of Technology’s Office of the
Vice Chancellor for Reseach and Extension (OVCRE)
are accepting applications from writers to the
14th Iligan National Writers Workshop (INWW) to
be held on May 21-24, 2007 in Iligan City.
Panelists this year are Rosario
Cruz Lucero, Erlinda Kintanar Alburo, Jaime An
Lim, Leoncio P. Deriada, Merlie M. Alunan, German
V. Gervacio, Steven Patrick C. Fernandez, Victor
N. Sugbo and this year’s keynote speaker,
the poet Rebecca Anonuevo, 3rd INWW Fellow (1996)
Fifteen (15) slots, five each from
Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao are available for
writing fellowships to the INWW.
Applicants are required to submit
five poems, or, one short story, or, a one-act
play in Filipino, English or in Cebuano, Hiligaynon,
Kinaray-a, Waray (with English or Filipino translations)
along with the applicant’s bio data, two
2X2 photos and a certification that his/her work
is original. For short stories or plays, please
submit a hard copy and a CD with the manuscripts
encoded in MS Word Unpublished works are preferred.
Writing fellows will be given free
board and lodging and a travel allowance. Applications
must be postmarked on or before March 30, 2007.
No applications or manuscripts will be accepted
if sent by fax or e-mail. Applicants are also
advised to keep copies of their manuscripts since
these will not be returned.
Send all applications to the 14th
INWW Director, Christine Godinez-Ortega c/o OVCRE,
MSU-IIT, Iligan City. For more information call
Pat Cruz tels. (063) 3516131; or e-mail: ovcre-mepc@sulat.msuiit.edu.ph
or cherlyadlawan@
yahoo.com.
Tag: WORKSHOPS
February 12, 2007
National Arts Month literary projects
from NCCA
If one keeps an open eye while
stuck in traffic these cold days, one can see
the colorful tarpaulins hanging on street lights
announcing the National Arts Month. It is February
once again, time for the National Commission on
Culture and the Arts to unleash its many projects
in arts, music and of course, literature. The
NCCA has furnished panitikan.com.ph the schedule
of programs for its National Arts Month projects
Pagpupugay, PELIKUSINA: A Menu of Photography,
Film and Video and Indie Sine. Panitikan.com.ph
itself was launched in last year’s Arts
Month.
Admission to all events is free.
PAGPUPUGAY SA PAMBANSANG ALAGAD
NG SINING SA LITERATURA 2007
Bienvenido Lumbera
February 15, 9am
Lipa City Youth and Cultural Center, Lipa City,
Batanagas
Paksa: Ang Lipa sa Aking Paglikha
Magtatanghal: Dulaang UP
F. Sionil Jose
February 23, 1:00pm
Presidencia (Rosales, Pangasinan)
Paksa: Fiction in the Philippines
Magtatanghal: Tanghalang Pilipino
Virgilio Almario
February 28, 2pm (tentative)
Holy Angel University Plaza San Jose Main Building,
Angeles, Pampanga
Paksa: Ang Tula Bilang Pagbuhay ng Pambansang
Gunita
Magtatanghal: Barasoain Kalinangan Foundation
PELIKUSINA
A Menu of Photography, Film and Video
TANGHALANG LEANDRO LOCSIN
National Commission for Culture and the Arts,
633 Gen. Luna St. , Intramuros, Manila
February 7-25
Feb 7 1:30-6pm / Edison Films
and Isang Maicling Pelicula ng Indio
Nacional
Feb 8 1:30-6pm / Magkaibang Lahi and
Rigodon by Sari Lluch Dalena and Keith
Sicat
Feb 9 1:30-6pm /Ang Ating Pag-Ibig by
Enrique Moreno and Faces of Love by Eddie
Romero
Feb 12 1:30-6pm /Artista and Lasponggols
by Sigfrid Barros-Sanchez
Feb 13 1:30-6pm /Terror is a Man and
Sa Ilalim ng Cogon by Rico Ilarde
Feb 14 1:30-6pm /Historia de Un Amor
and Mga Pusang Gala by Ellen Ongkeko
Marfil
Feb 15 1:30-6pm /Stardoom by Lino Brocka
and Pepot Artista by Doy Del Mundo
Feb 16 1:30-6pm /Short Films and Digital shorts
Feb 17 1:30-6pm /Still Lives by Jon Red
with Videolog by Tad Ermitaño
Feb 18 1:30-6pm /Bakit Dilaw ang Color ng
Rainbow? By Kidlat Tahimik and Todo Todo
Teros by John Torres
Feb 23 1:30-6pm /Biglang Yaman and 35mm
Man with Film Toque with Tado and Roxlee
Feb 25 9:30am / Heremias by Lav Diaz
ROBINSONS GALLERIA INDIE SINE
February 14-20
Feb 14 Opening Films
6:30pm / 9:30pm /Pilipinas Custom No Touch
by Joe Climaco and Rekados by Paolo Herras
Feb 15
1:30pm / 4pm / Sarungbanggi by Susanna
de Guzman and Sarongbaggi by Emman Dela
Cruz
6:30pm / 9:30pm / Bakit May Pag-Ibig Pa? by
Ishmael Bernal/ Celso Ad Castillo and North
Diversion Road by Dennis Marasigan
Feb 16
1:30pm / 4pm / Waywaya by Lamberto Avellana
and Ang Daan Patungong Kalimugtong by
Mes de Guzman
6:30pm / 9:30pm / Death Row by Joel Lamangan
and Bunso by Ditsi Carolino
Feb 17
1:30pm / 4pm / Death Row by Joel Lamangan
and Bunso by Ditsi Carolino
6:30pm / 9:30pm / Sarungbanggi by Susanna
de Guzman and Sarongbaggi by Emman Dela
Cruz
Feb 18
1:30pm / 4pm / Kaming mga Talyada by
Lino Brocka and Maximo Oliveros by Aureaus
Solito
6:30pm / 9:30pm / Kaming mga Talyada
by Lino Brocka and Maximo Oliveros by
Aureaus Solito
Feb 19
1:30pm / 4pm / Madrasta by Olivia Lamasan
and Mudraks by Margaret Guzman and Arah
Badayos
6:30pm / 9:30pm / Waywaya by Lamberto
Avellana and Ang Daan Patungong Kalimugtong
by Mes de Guzman
Feb 20
1:30pm / 4pm / Bakit may Pag-Ibig Pa?
by Ishmael Bernal/ Celso Ad Castillo and North
Diversion Road by Dennis Marasigan
6:30pm / 9:30pm / CLOSING FILMS TO BE ANNOUNCED
**Titles are subject to change.
For inquiries, contact Kristine 0927-4799193
Tag: EVENTS
February 12, 2007
Panitikan.com.ph,
1,000,000 hits and counting
By Arvin Abejo Mangohig
The Internet is the temple of the
temporal. What you’re staring at your computer
right now isn’t real, a solid object, an
actual physical thing. It is ethereal. A website
is here today, gone tomorrow. Blogs, pages, entire
portals disappear into the netherworld of servers,
databases, connectors and mainframes. Megabytes
of data pour into homes The Matrix-like but awaken
no Neos and Trinitys. Only a few sites survive;
those who have built up their brand names, those
who have amassed regular visitors, those which
earn money.
Just a few days shy of its birthdate
(February 11), panitikan.com.ph notched up its
1,000,000 hit on February 5, 2007. The visitor
may have been from the Philippines. Or he or she
could have been from China, Japan, the United
States of America or Qatar. The mega-hit passed
unbeknownst to him. It was actually history in
the making.
Panitikan.com.ph began in the last
few months of 2005 but had been envisioned by
Vim Nadera long before he was UP ICW director.
Proposals and website designs were hewn and crafted
by its hopeful staff even without the guarantee
of the project actually pushing through. Finally,
in December of that year, the National Commission
on Culture and the Arts gave the nod.
More than three hundred author
profiles, five hundred literary works, and countless
news articles later, panitikan.com.ph got its
millionth visitor on a Monday, the weekday which
has the largest percentage of visitors. It was
only a matter of time. Just this year, the website’s
record high reached over 8,000 hits a day, up
by 2,000 from last year’s record.
Up for project renewal this year,
the website plans to expand to Visayas and Mindanao
even as it attempts to record the comings and
goings of Filipino literati and more anthologize
literary works and. This push to augment and expand
bodes well for Philippine literature as panitikan.com.ph
strives to be its face in the chaos and ephemera
of the Internet. Posterity and certainty are values,
in the realm of the Internet, which are all the
more sought after.
Tag: News
February 12, 2007
First two legs of Pagpupugay
successful
by Arvin Abejo Mangohig
National Artists for Literature
Edith Tiempo and Alejandro Roces recently wrapped
up their Pagpupugay hometown legs last February
2 and 3 respectively.
Tiempo was honored at the Luce
Auditorium in Silliman University. The Silliman
University Kahayag Dance Troupe interpreted Tiempo’s
works. Poets Cesar Ruiz Aquino, Ian Casocot and
Matilde Hescock read their favorite poems of hers.
Tiempo also delivered the keynote speech “Sharpening
the Two Poetry Basic.” Over eight hundred
people were there to witness the tribute to the
well-loved poet and critic.
Alejandro Roces was honored at
the Capitol University in Cagayan de Oro. “Of
Cocks and Roces,” by the Integrated Performing
Arts Guild as directed by Steven Patrick Fernandez,
was presented, an obvious nod to Roces’
more popular work. The SRO crowd also enjoyed
Roces’ lecture on Philippine Short Stories.
NCCA Executive Director Cecile Guidote Alvarez
was on hand to deliver a special message.
The Pagpupugay sa Pambansang Alagad
ng Sining sa Panitikan is a project of the National
Commission on Culture and the Arts, the UP Institute
of Creative Writing and Pambansang Samahan sa
Wika Inc. Virgilio Almario, Bienvenido Lumbera
and F. Sionil Jose are set to deliver their own
lectures in their hometowns.
Tags: News
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