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Anacbanua

Anacbanua is an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement in Pangasinan toward the beginning of the 21st century, founded by poet Santiago Villafania, filmmaker Christopher Gozum, historian Erwin Fernandez, and poet Melchor Orpilla. This movement aims to help revitalize contemporary Pangasinan arts and culture through any of the following: by acknowledging and supporting works by Pangasinenses and non-Pangasinenses that help to revitalize contemporary Pangasinan art and culture; initiating projects that would contribute to the revitalization movement for Pangasinan art and culture; creating a network, venue, and forum for Pangasinense artists, Pangasinense cultural workers, Pangasinense intellectuals and scholars, and the people of Pangasinan to collaborate on meaningful projects that would contribute on the revitalization movement for Pangasinan art and culture; and acknowledging the contributions of an earlier generation of Pangasinan artists and intellectuals in t...

Aristos | Kiew na bilay tan kakabatan

Makapaermen ya lapu labat ed piugagep dan napaawang so dalan ono karsada et nakaulan nin natiguay ira’y kiew a ngali la mansanlasus a taon ed tatken. Pilatek to ni na lasin Mark Cojuangco ya kargo to kono ta sikato si kinmerew na pirmiso pian naekal iraman a kiew. Inkuan to niyan bastian ya anggapo nepeg iraman a kiew ed tinubuan dan pasen. Say nibagak ed sayan ambugan a Cojuangco: sankaayepayepan a kaayepan so ginawa to! Anggapo’y kakanaan na maalindaway a dalan no anggapo la iraman a tonton da’ra’y kiew ya amayong ed ampasiseng dan alagey. ******* Dia ed abangonan tin mitolohiya, rilihiyon, tan filosopiya, wala ira'y intalagan kiew a sangado ed nanduruman kultura. Sakey la'y kiew na bilay tan kakabatan ( Tree of Life and Tree of Knowledge ) no iner nagmaliw a motif na pananisian mangipapanengneng no panon kasuldungan o nansusuldungan so bilay ed sayan planita tan mansisirbi met iyan mitapora na inlesa'y sinaunan kailalakan ed ibolusionarion pililikna. Dia’d arum a kultur...

Aristos | Mikanika na Tinapay

Naimbitaan ak na sakey a kaaron Italianon umaanlong a si Michele Caccamo a mangipalapag na baylinggual a libro ed salitan Italian tan Pangasinan ed sayan taon. Say titulo tonia et Say Mikanika na Tinapay | ed maanlong a krimin na biskeg pan-ikonomiya ono dia’d Italian La Meccanika del pane | un'opera poetica contro la criminalita de potere economico .   Nensaman aboten na pigaran taon anganko so mangigalut na libro tan mairap so mikabat ed saray umaanlong ed biek-taew. Natan, lapu lanti ed saraya’y nanduruman social media websites tan literary forums online, dakel so nakabat ta mainumay la so mikaaro ed kaparak iran umaanlong tan sumusulat.   Karaklan ed saray anlong ko ed Pangasinan tan English et impatalus la ed salitan Spanish, German, Italian, Arabic, tan Hindi lapu ed sarayan kakaaron umaanlong.   Sikatoya anganko so nepeg a gawaen na sakey ya umaanlong a Pangasinan pian say salita tan litiratura tayo et nasabi to ono narengel ed arum iran bansa.   ******* ...

Philippine PEN holds 2013 Conference on December 3-4

Press release Philippine PEN holds 2013 Conference on December 3-4 The Philippine Center of International PEN (Poets, Playwrights, Essayists, Novelists), on the occasion of its 56th year, will hold its annual literature conference on 3-4 December 2013 (Tuesday-Wednesday) at the Multi-purpose Room 4th Floor Henry Sy Sr. Hall, De La Salle University, 2401 Taft Avenue, Manila. The theme of this two-day conference is “Literature of Concord and Solidarity: The Writer as Peacemaker.” The panel sessions will cover topics and issues such as war and the imagination, gender wars and conflicts, conflict and creativity, and the quest for peace. National Artist F. Sionil José will give the Message from the Founder. PEN Chairman and National Artist Bienvenido Lumbera will deliver the Andres Bonifacio Lecture on December 3, lunchtime. Dr. José Abueva, former president of the University of the Philippines, will deliver the José Rizal Lecture on December 4, lunchtime. Dr. Jaime An ...

PHILIPPINE PEN 2013 CONFERENCE

PHILIPPINE PEN 2013 CONFERENCE December 3-4, 2013 ( Tuesday - Wednesday ) Multipurpose Hall 4 th Floor, Henry Sy Sr. Hall De La Salle University, 2401 Taft Avenue, Manila, Philippines   Theme: Literature of Concord and Solidarity: The Writer as Peacemaker     Free Admission. No Registration Fee.     First Day: December 3 ( Tuesday )   8:00-9:00 am    Registration   9:00 am   Opening Ceremonies The National Anthem Reading of the PEN Charter Welcome Remarks from DLSU Message from Philippine PEN Founder: F. Sionil José , National Artist for Literature           Introduction of Keynote Speaker: Christine Godinez-Ortega Keynote Address : Jaime An Lim                                         10:00 am    ...

Delacruzes donate books to San Juan City library

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San Juan City -- Surviving children of the late couple Prof.   Leopoldo A. Delacruz, Sr., and Elisa Me ñ ez Mijares donated yesterday more or less fifty books to San Juan City Library, which is   housed in the newly-completed municipal building, along Pinaglabanan Street, some few hundred meters from Pinaglabanan Shrine.   Dr. Leopoldo M. Delacruz, Jr., author of Leben Antrieb (1988) , and of Paradise in Wrath (2007), a play in English, representing the Delacruz-Mijares clan, through the help of Barangay Batis tanod Mr. Francis Yadao, delivered some reference reading materials to the City Library of the Municipality of San Juan City. Administrative aides Ms. Elenita Eulloran and Mrs.   Veronica E. Eupena-Mallari received the said donations. City library officer-in-charge   Mr. Carlito Q. Gavino was not around during the simple turn-over ceremony. But, earlier, the library executive and Leopoldo, Jr., had a brief telephone conversation regarding the said even...

At Casa Armas

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w/ painter Rudy Yu and poet Ashok Bhargava

Poetics na Galing

Naimbitaan ak nen imbeneg a simba ya mansalita nipaakar ed pakdaar a “Pluma ng Agimat at Kawit: Ang Panitikang Kabitenyo sa Kontemporaryong Panahon” dia ed Aguinaldo Shrine, Kawit, Cavite. Binasak so papil kon Poetics ng Agimat no iner imparungtal ko no anto koniksion na orasion tan anlong. Say tiuryak, saray orasion ya uusaren pian naayat ono nalagyat so bibii et anggapo so pandumaan to ed anlong na panangaro. Say orasion et sakey a porma na anlong a tatawagen ya acrostic palindrome. Dia ed English say acrostic “ a poem or other form of writing in which the first letter, syllable or word of each line, paragraph or other recurring feature in the text spells out a word or a message ” tan say palindrome “ a word, phrase, number, or other sequence of symbols or elements, whose meaning may be interpreted the same way in either forward or reverse direction .” ******* Dia ed Pangasinan, “galing” so tawag tayo ed agimat ono anting-anting. Anggapo ni anganko so nan-research ono nanaral ed no...

Aristos | PHCC; National Artist for Literature

Naawat ko la so appointment ko nen imbeneg ya a-15 na Agosto 2013 bilang sakey ed saray intalagan komisioner na Pangasinan Historical and Cultural Commission (PHCC). Panaon met la pian panserbian ko’y pinablin luyag na Pangasinan. Kabiangan na komision so PHCC Chair a si Dr. Gonzalo Duque tan saray miembro: Dr. Perla E. Legaspi, Ms. Virginia Jasmin Pasalo, Sis. Mary John Manansan, Ms. Arabella V. Arcinue, Ms. Nida P. Vergara, Mr. Restituto Basa, Fr. Weng Escano, Ms. Elvira Estravo, Vice Governor Ferdinand Z. Calimlim, Jr., and Board Member Ranjit Shahani.  Wala’y angiyesaes ed siak ya duara so pampipilian da para ed National Artist for Literature: si Magdalena G. Jalandoni (1891- 1978), sakey a bantog a sumusulat ed salitan Hiligaynon a sulming ed mamasagur na Visayas; tan si Cirilo F. Bautista (1941-), sakey a premiadon umaanlong, nobilista, kritiko tan sumusulat na nonfiction.  Abitla da aminsan ed siak nen Sir Cirilo a say ama ra et taga-Pangasinan. Sakey ira ...