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6 days. 160 writers. A stellar line-up of established and emerging authors from 40 countries take the stage in venues across the city for 6 packed days of conversations, panels, performances and readings. In this year of landmark anniversaries—Darwin’s On the Origin of Species (1859), the Cuban Revolution (1959), the collapse of Communism across Eastern Europe (1989), and Tiananmen Square (1989)—writers from around the globe consider how the world changes and how we change. 2009 Festival Program

L-R Plet Bolipata, Anna Varona, Mervy Pueblo, Camille dela Rosa, Norma C. Liongoren, Raquel de Loyola. Si Lisa Takayama, say Haponisan manugang nen Norma Liongoren. Binasa to'y anlong ed salitan Nihongo tan impatalus ed Inglis. Si Mrs. Alma Miclat babasaen to'y anlong nen Maningning Miclat ed Chinese tan impatalus ed Inglis. Pambie Herrera tan Joan Grace Wilson (San Beda Law poets). Wala'd background ira di F. Sionil Jose tan Victor Ramos, datin DENR secretary. Si Erwin Fernandez, say makakaugip lan si F. Sionil Jose tan siak. Si Norma Liongoren manbabasa na anlong. Babasaen ko'y anlong kon Kinalakian (women-warriors) ;-p Noel El Parol, Pablo Baensantos, Julie LLuch kaira ira't anemiran women artists.

The Guro Formation Forum (GFF) is a group of educators with a deep sense of commitment to the advancement of education in this age of globalization and internationalization. Responding to the demands of the changing times, GFF seeks to strengthen and reestablish classroom teaching as still the best venue for learning. The GFF’s thrust is to ensure excellent, competitive and relevant education in the new millennium. In line with this, GFF will hold a “ Training Workshop on Trends, Issues, Concerns and Innovations in Language Teaching for Basic Education ”, which will be held on April 13-17, 2009 at the University of the Philippines, Diliman. The Training-Workshop’s objectives are: 1. To update teachers/clientele with current trends & innovations, issues and related concerns in language teaching for basic education. 2. To present and provide information on language teaching corresponding to the specific school needs of teachers/clientele (Stand Alone Approach, Multilingual Approach ...

Now, local authors, publishers and the reading public have more cause to celebrate. President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has signed into law last 5 March 2009 the National Book Development Trust Fund Act after both Houses of the 14th Congress have approved R. A. 9521 - An Act Creating a National Book Development Trust Fund To Support Philippine Authorship. A milestone legislation in local book development authored by Iloilo City Rep. Raul T. Gonzalez Jr., Cagayan de Oro Rep. Rufus Rodriguez and co-authored by several members of the House as well as Senators Edgardo Angara, Allan Peter Cayetano, and Jinggoy Estrada, this law will provide authors from all regions of the country a reasonable amount to complete their manuscripts for publication. The NBDB Chairman, Dr. Dennis T. Gonzalez, says: “this will benefit veteran and promising authors working or researching on topics in which local books are either few or non-existent.” There are many subject areas in which local books are insufficien...

Rosales where I was born is close to the borders of Tarlac and Nueva Ecija. My forefathers were Ilokanos who migrated to this part of the province at the turn of the 19th century; they had intended to go to the Cagayan Valley but were enamored by the lure of the verdant plains of eastern Pangasinan and they decided to settle there instead. In the early thirties, as a boy, I witnessed this migration; the Ilokanos came in their bull carts with their plows the uprooted posts of their houses and weaving looms. They parked in the town plaza for the night. They were all Ilokanos; some of those who came in bull carts were Pangasinan traders with coconut candy (bocayo) dried fish, salt and bagoong to sell. There was commerce and, of course, intermarriage and one of my cousins married a pretty girl from Calasiao. I got interested in history, having read Rizal’s novels in Grade School, and concentrated on the Revolution of 1896 after I learned that my grandfather was in it. I came to know so man...

Invitational Stakeholders' Symposium on Research (March 5-6, 2009) Antlers Hotel & Country Club, Dasmariñas, Cavite with Dr. Isagani Cruz

DAGUPAN CITY, Feb 17, 2009 (Asia Pulse Data Source via COMTEX) -- Eminent writer Francisco Sionil Jose, one of the Philippine's national artists for literature, has called for the establishment of a Center for Pangasinan Studies and expressed hope that the University of Pangasinan (UPang) here will spearhead it. The 84-year-old Jose, a native of Rosales, Pangasinan, spoke on Thursday at UPang where he was conferred a doctorate degree in humanities, honoris causa, by the school's board of regents. After the conferment, he shared his rich experience in writing before academicians and members of the Pangasinan media in a lecture forum at the UPang conference room. Jose, a Ramon Magsaysay awardee for Journalism, Literature and Creative Communication Arts in 1980, said the center can record the culture and contribution of Pangasinenes to the national trove. Even as he expressed sadness that Pangasinan is waning as a literary language, he hailed efforts to revive local literature thr...

Ansakit so linawak ya say iilaloan kon wala'y pililikna da ed ibulaslas na litiratura ono kuritan a Pangasinan et pinili da nin itda'y baleg a suporta so Gawad Surian nen say Gawad Komisyon (Tulang Pangasinan) ya anggapo'y asumpalan to ed saya'y taon a 2008. Tampal iya ed sikamin umaanlong tan sumusulat ed salitan Pangasinan. Singa ipapaneknek na Antonio Laperal Tamayo Foundation ya anggapo la'y yaliguas tan kakanaan na kuritan a Pangasinan. --- Tuntunin sa Timpalak Ang TALAANG GINTO: GAWAD SURIAN SA TULA-GANTIMPALANG TAMAYO ay timpalak sa pagsulat ng tula na itinataguyod kapuwa ng Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino at Antonio Laperal Tamayo Foundation na sa unang pagkakataon ay siyang magkakaloob ng gantimpalang salapi para sa timpalak na ito, kaugnay ng pagdiriwang ng Araw ni Balagtas tuwing Ikalawa ng Abril taun-taon. Nilalayon ng timpalak na: a) lalo pang pasiglahin ang panulaang Filipino sa pamamagitan ng pagkilala sa mga batikan at baguhang talino at b) pataasin pa a...

The University of Pangasinan , in celebration of its 84th Foundation Anniversary and the conferment of the Degree Doctor of Humanities Honoris Causa upon Prof. Francisco Sionil Jose ( National Artist for Literature , 2001 & Ramon Magsaysay Awardee for Journalism, Literature and Creative Communication Arts, 1980 ), shall conduct a Writers’ Conference to be participated in by teachers and students of creative writing, journalists and other writing enthusiasts. The activity is envisioned to be an opportunity to promote the use of Pangasinan as a medium of literary / creative writing. Dr. Ma. Crisanta Nelmida-Flores will give the keynote speech on "Creative Writing: Towards the Enrichment of Pangasinan and Ilocano Literature." The Writers’ Conference speakers and discussion topics will be: Dr. Melba Padilla Maggay (Institute of Studies for Asian Church and Culture) "Enriching Culture through Literature" Dr. Ma. Crisanta Nelmida-Flores (University of the Philipp...

Selected by the Guardian's Review team and a panel of expert judges, this definitive list includes only novels originally published in thematic supplements – love, crime, comedy, family and self, state of the nation, science fiction and fantasy, war and travel. Here's my list so far - novels I read and included in my personal collection. Comedy Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding Tom Jones by Henry Fielding Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame Finnegans Wake by James Joyce The Castle by Franz Kafka The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike Crime The Hollow Man by John Dickson Carr And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon The Se...

The University of Pangasinan , in celebration of its 84th Foundation Anniversary and the conferment of the Degree Doctor of Humanities Honoris Causa upon Prof. Francisco Sionil Jose ( National Artist for Literature , 2001 & Ramon Magsaysay Awardee for Journalism, Literature and Creative Communication Arts, 1980 ), shall conduct a Writers’ Conference to be participated in by teachers and students of creative writing, journalists and other writing enthusiasts. The activity is envisioned to be an opportunity to promote the use of Pangasinan as a medium of literary / creative writing. Professor F. Sionil Jose will give the keynote speech on "Creative Writing: Towards the Enrichment of Pangasinan and Ilocano Literature." The Writers’ Conference speakers and discussion topics will be: Dr. Ma. Crisanta Nelmida-Flores (University of the Philippines) "Writing History and Fiction in Pangasinan" Mr. Vim Nadera (University of the Philippines) "Creative Writing in ...

Pigara ed saray libron inter odino impangaro nen Cirilo Bautista tan sinaliw ko'd saya'y imbeneg a taon.

UP College of Education Philippine Social Science Council Linguistic Society of the Philippines in cooperation with the UP Linguistics Department, CSSP cordially invite you to a lecture-forum on HOW LANGUAGES IN EDUCATION STILL MATTER assessing the pro-English (Gullas et al.) and multilingual (Gunigundo) bills January 15, 2009 1:00 – 5:00 P.M. Benitez Theater, UP College of Education Diliman, Quezon City B A C K G R O U N D In the last quarter of 2008, the House Committee on Basic Education and Culture and the Committee on Higher Education passed House Bill 5619 entitled "Strengthening and Enhancing the Use of English as the Medium of Instruction Act." The proposed measure consolidates House Bill Nos. 230, 305 and 446 filed respectively by Reps. Luis R. Villafuerte (2nd District, Camarines Sur), Eduardo R. Gullas (1st District, Cebu) and Raul V. del Mar (1st District, Cebu City). The said bill will be discussed in the plenary session after the House reconvenes on January 19,...

The collective of artists Sanesociety.org has organized an international contest to discover and promote the most outstanding people in their respective fields. To do so, TALENT SEEKERS, as this project is known, has created the web page www.talentseekers.net so that its members may choose each year the 100 most popular authors/artists in each of the 10 categories of the contest: • Photography. • Painting, drawing, engraving. • Digital art, Net art. • Film, video, animation. • Sculpture. • Music. • Literature, philosophy, journalism. • Installations, performance art. • Web design, graphic design. • Free category. The public voting will commence on 1st January and will end on 31st December 2009. Only then, in January of 2010, will an expert jury determine the position the different artists will occupy in the 10 different rankings in accordance with the quality of their work. In total, 1000 authors will be evaluated taking into consideration the whole of the work exhibited on their own...

Eight students from Emilio Aguinaldo College-Dasmariñas, Cavite, took time out from their Christmas party engagements to attend the re-organizational meeting of the EAC Writers and Artists Circle. The said meeting was held last December 18, 2008, 3/F, Education Room, UPSI Building. The meeting was centered on the plan to revive the EAC Writers and Artists Circle on the third week of January, 2009. EWAC was first established last March 11, 2006, under the auspices of the School of Arts and Sciences and the Office of Student Affairs, headed by Dean Evelyn V. Pangilinan and Mr. James E. Encabo, respectively. The meeting was attended by Bryan Christian Cordero, Gerald P. Robles, Jean Rose Acosta, Marijoyce Gabionza, Christian Paul Martinez, Maye Albiola, Patrick Jame F. Namgui and April C. Camba. Most of them are current members of the editorial staff of Tambuli , official student organ of the college, which is under the advisorship of Mr. Elpidio B. dela Cruz, Jr. Co-presided by Mr. San...

UP Centennial Artists, in cooperation with the UP Alumni Association, will mount their third exhibition of the year, which opens on Dec. 18, at the Trade Hall, third floor, Gateway Mall, Araneta Center, QC. The exhibit will feature never-before-seen mother and child pieces from the UP Centennial Artists composed of university alumni and College of Fine Arts faculty and students. It will include works by National Artists Jose Joya and Bencab, and renowned practitioners Cheloy Dans, Ofelia Gelvezon-Tequi, Romy Mananquil, and Janice Young, among others. To complement the visual aspects of the show, a number of talks are slated in the same venue in January. The discussions will focus on the mother and child as a recurring theme in art, gathering students, artists, and teachers from the university.

IN THIS YEAR’S National Book Awards given by the Manila Critics Circle (MMC), the importance of translation was again emphasized. Three books of poetry which otherwise would have been disqualified for the awards were included in the final list because they had English translation from their original Bicol and Pangasinan texts. The MCC is constrained to consider only entries in English and Filipino, and this works of course to the disadvantage of books done in other Philippine languages. Here is where translation does a big service for the dissemination and popularization of regional literature. Indeed, no less than the institutionalization of translation as an adjunct to creative writing must be a priority of government and private agencies concerned with our literary growth. Regional writings are limited in audience—those not familiar with their languages cannot enjoy them. Linguistic outsiders, for instance, are prevented from savoring the beauty of poetry and fiction done in Hiligay...

10 December 2008, Pasay City – The Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) announced today that 62 writers are included in the annual literary anthology Ani. Ani, which means harvest in the Filipino language, is a project of CCP’s Literary Arts Division. For its 34th issue, Ani focused on the theme “Spirituality and Healing”, the book launching will be held on December 17, 7:00 p.m. at the CCP ramp. The 62 writers who submitted prose and poetry featured in Ani 34 are Kris M. Alingod, Mark Angeles, Lilia F. Antonio, G. Mae B. Aquino, Carlos A. Arejola, Edgar Bacong, Isabela Banzon, Janet Tauro Batuigas, Gil S. Beltran, Herminio S. Beltran, Jr., Kristoffer Berse, Jaime Jesus Borlagdan, Nazzer C. Briguera, Catherine Candano, Desiree Caluza, Nonon Villaluz Carandang, Dexter B. Cayanes, Jose Jason L. Chancoco, Joey Stephanie Chua, Kristian Sendon Cordero, Genaro R. Gojo Cruz, Mario L. Cuezon, Maureen G. dela Cruz, Rodrigo V. Dela Peña, Jr., U Eliserio, Dennis Espada, Filipino L. Estacio,...