UPDATED, Feb. 2, 2013–The first edition of the Umpilan, a monthly forum on Philippine regional writing featured Bikol literature last Jan. 28, 2013 at the Natividad Galang Fajardo (NGF) Conference Room, Horacio de la Costa Hall, Ateneo de Manila University. Panelists Prof. Kristian Sendon Cordero of the Ateneo de Naga University and Dr. Jazmin Llana … Continue reading
Idaraos ng Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas (UMPIL) ang kauna-unahang “Umpilan”, ang serye ng mga panayam hinggil sa mga panitikan ng Filipinas, sa pagtalakay sa lagay at tunguhin ng panitikang Bikol, sa Enero 28, 2013, 4:30 pm, sa Natividad Galang Fajardo (NGF) Conference Room, Gusaling Horacio De La Costa ng Pamantasang Ateneo de Manila. … Continue reading
The Likhaan: UP Institute of Creative Writing (ICW) invites everyone to attend the lecture “HISTORY OR HAGIOGRAPHY: THE COMMISSIONED BIOGRAPHY” by award-winning fictionist and ICW director Dr. Jose Y. Dalisay, Jr. The lecture will be held on 29 January (Tuesday), 2:30 p.m. at the Claro M. Recto Hall, Faculty Center in UP Diliman. Aside from … Continue reading
The international journal Kritika Kultura will feature University of California, Irvine scholar Bliss Cua Lim’s lecture, “From Pito-Pito to Indie: Neoliberal Rationality in Two Films by Jeffrey Jeturian” on January 23, 2013, (not January 25, 2013, as announced earlier), 4:30 p.m., at the Faura AVR, Ateneo de Manila University. This is the fourth installment of … Continue reading
The new offices of the UST Center for Creative Writing and Literary Studies located at the Benavides Bldg., University of Santo Tomas will be blessed by Rev. Fr. Herminio V. Dagohoy, OP, Rector Magnificus of the University of Santo Tomas, on Jan. 22, 2013 at 5 pm. This will be followed by the launching of … Continue reading
The Silliman University National Writers Workshop is extending the deadline of applications for the 52nd National Writers Workshop to 25 January 2012. Entries postmarked on that date will still be accepted. The workshop, to be held 6—24 May 2013 at the Silliman University Rose Lamb Sobrepeña Writers Village, is offering twelve fellowships to promising writers … Continue reading
Tanghalang Ateneo (TA), 2012’s ALIW Awards recipient of the Best Production of the Year (non–musical) award, closes its 34th Season with the first Philippine staging of “The King of the Birds,” from the classic Persian poem by Farid ud-Din Attar, as scripted by Jean Claude Carriere and Peter Brook. It tells the story of a … Continue reading
The NCCA National Committee on Dramatic Arts is pleased to announce the results of the Tanghal 7th National University Theater Festival Screening which was held on January 13, 2013 at the Negros Museum. The event is a flagship project of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts – Committee on Dramatic Arts in conjunction … Continue reading
The international journal Kritika Kultura will feature University of the Philippines-Diliman scholar Ramon Guillermo’s lecture, “A Discussion of Some Approaches in Computer-Aided Translation Analysis: Jose Rizal’s Translation of Schiller’s Wilhelm Tell” on January 18, 2013, 4:30 p.m., at the Faura AVR, Ateneo de Manila University. This is the third installment of Kritika Kultura’s Global Classroom … Continue reading
Kalatas: Philippine Literature, Culture, and Ideas 