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(say Galikin odino Aligando, kakansionen diad Agew ya Inkianak na Katawan) Masantos tan mablin oras So inter na Dyus laoas Ombangon itin misalamat Ombangon itin misalamat Tan inanak la'y Dyus anak Tan inanak la'y Dyus anak Ombangon itin onliing Agagi mi'ran ami-amin Ta inanak la nen Marian Birhin Ta inanak la nen Marian Birhin So ari'd taoen tan dalin So ari'd taoen tan dalin (Ebat ed Galikin) Galikin Galikin Kapastorisan Gali kayon Gali kayon manangigalang Ed ari ra'y Ed ari ra'y kataoaenan A dia'd Belen so nianakan A dia'd Belen so nianakan (Ebat ed Biteoen) Biteoen Biteoen kan pinmanengneng Diman ed Diman ed letaka'y agew Sikato 'ma'y Sikato 'ma'y tumtumbuken Na talo'ran ararin kuanen Na talo'ran ararin kuanen Ta nen baleg la’y lokun to Nen Marian ma-Divino Linma ya dinalaw to Linma ya dinalaw to Si Isabel a kapinsan to Si Isabel a kapinsan to Sakey ya anghil so dinmago San Gabriel so ngaran to Bang say kuan ton angiba...
Santiago Villafania is a bilingual Filipino poet who writes in English and in his native language of Pangasinan. Born in Tuliao, Sta. Barbara, Pangasinan on 31 January 1971, Villafania graduated with a degree of Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Pangasinan in 1991. Villafania advocates for the resurgence of Pangasinan as a literary language. His works in the vernacular are some of the most representative, if not among the few that comprise that Pangasinan contemporary literary body. In his first book Balikas na Caboloan (Verses from Caboloan), the Pangasinan anlong resurfaces asserting its tradition amidst intersecting and pollinating genres and literary influences. His book of poems, Malagilion: Sonnets tan Villanelles , is an attempt to open the propylaea of literary renaissance in Pangasinan. This second book by Pangasinan’s leading poet today is impressive in both form and substance. Villafania has created 300 sonnets and 50 villanelles in his own language that a...
A PANGASINAN Cultural Night dubbed “Itandoro so Pangasinan: Glimpses of Pangasinan Life and Culture” will held on June 19, 6pm at the ChickaRue Resto in Conception Aguila Street, San Miguel, Manila. The event is in honor of the late Perla Samson-Nelmida, whose birth anniversary was June 19, and to mark the end of Rizal's Sesquicentennial. “All these efforts through the decades to promote Pangasinan culture through cultural festivals, formation of organizations such as OLUPAN and its paper Balon Silew would have not been realized if not through the works and ideas of my late mother,” said daughter Ma. Crisanta Nelmida-Flores, a UP Diliman professor and part-time Commissioner for Pangasinan Language with the Komisyon ng Wikang Filipino. Dinner tickets are at Php500 each, which covers Pangasinan cultural night food, songs, dances, poetry readings by Pangasinan artists, Tambayo Cultural Group, Matalonggaring Dance Troupe and a tribute to Samson-Nelmida. The tickets will also serve as ...
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