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| KALYE KUNDIMAN BLOGS 01.29.2006 Kalye Kundiman tagboard is now active in this site's forum section! Please drop me a message when you came to visit this site. Thanks. * * * Pink Hearts. In the spirit of love this coming February, we would like to invite your organization to participate to the upcoming joint project of PowerBooks and UP Babaylan entitled: "Pink Hearts: A night of LGBT poetry." The said event will be held on February 11, 2006 (Saturday) at 7:00 PM in PowerBooks, Greenbelt 4, Makati. Two known literary writers, Danton Remoto and Neil Garcia, will be the main speakers/readers for the event. We hope that your organization could participate in the said event by reading poems written by and/or for the LGBT. Should you have inquiries regarding the said event, please feel free to contact Sharlyne Ang at 0922-3713735. Thank you very much. [talk about this event here.] * * * GAPOS tutugtog ngayong Pebrero. (From Kapi Capistrano:) Raratsada muli ang GAPOS pagsapit Pebrero. Abangan ang maskipapanong hebigats na bandang ito sa mga sumusunod na pagkakataon: Pebrero 10, Biyernes - Purple Haze Bar and Cafe Pebrero 24, Biyernes - Henry Lee Irwin Theater, Ateneo de Manila Abangan ang GAPOS sa regular nilang tugtog sa Purple Haze tuwing ikalawang Biyernes ng buwan simula Pebrero. Sa mga hindi pa nakakakuha ng kanilang sampler/EP na "Bawal Isilang Dito," mag-email sa [email protected]. * * * UP English Teachers Read at Conspiracy. (From Paolo Manalo:) I am inviting all of you to attend the Conspiwriters Night of the UP Department of English and Comparative Literature at the Conspiracy Garden Cafe on Tuesday, January 31, 2006, 7-9 p.m. No entrance fees. The readers are: Gemino H. Abad (In Ordinary Time), Marra PL. Lanot (Witch's Dance), J. Neil C. Garcia (Misterios), Isabela Banzon (Paper Cage), Isabelita Orlina Reyes (In Transitives), Conchitina Cruz (Dark Hours), Paolo Manalo (Jolography) and other faculty members of the UP Department of English and Comparative Literature. 01.28.2006 * * * The Philippine Studies Special Literary Issue 2005 was launched yesterday afternoon at the Ateneo de Manila University. Fr. Bienvenido S. Nebres, S.J. gave the opening remarks, and the issue editor, Soledad S. Reyes, introduced the issue. Mila D. Aguilar read her poem, "Fat Mayas," and Edgar Calabia Samar his "Kanto." * * * CANVAS, in partnership with Illustrador ng Kabataan (INK) is pleased to launch the Elias Dakila Competition for Children�s Storywriting on Environment and Culture. The stories should be based on this painting, rendered by INK member Sergio Bumatay III. If you are interested in participating, please download the competition rules. * * * FEU launches the Tamaraw national writeshop for children's literature. THE Far Eastern University (FEU) Writers' Guild is now accepting applications for the First Tamaraw National Writeshop for Children's Literature to be held in Baguio City on April 5-11, 2006. With the emergence of regional and national writing workshops, the guild, headed by Dean Jaime An Lim, noticed that there are genres that are not developed or are not yet open as a category for writers' workshop. This observation also came out with the numerous writing tilts that give focus or category for children's stories, including the annual Carlos Palanca Awards. With a rich literary tradition, the guild decided to conceptualize an annual writeshop that concentrates on a developing literature, in this case, the children's literature. The fellowships are open nationwide. The entries may be in English, Filipino, Hiligaynon, Cebuano, and Ilocano. In the case of the works written in a regional language, a Filipino or English translation is required. Applicants must submit the following: (1) four copies plus digital file (12 points, Arial font, double-spaced, 8.5 x 11 inches) of two original unpublished manuscript (short story, poem, play or creative nonfiction) to be discussed during the Workshop - this manuscript should not have been submitted to any other Workshop; (2) cover letter address to the writeshop director; (3) a photocopy of the applicant's transcript of records, including a letter from the dean that the applicant is a bona fide student/faculty member of their institution (for students and teachers); and (4) one 2X2 recent colored photo. The fellows will be divided into four groups that will undergo series of lectures and writing sessions based on the syllabus designed by their respective mentors. The one-week activity will primarily work on the objective of finishing a writing project that is the main target output. Plenary sessions are also scheduled for forums on the state of children's literature and the issues besetting it. Deadline for submission is March 8, 2006. The same is the postmark date for entries that will be sent through mail. Email submissions are accepted with the entry and necessary documents as attached files ([email protected]). For applications that will be successfully accepted, original documents are expected to be presented upon registration. The committee will only shoulder the expenses during the writeshop. Travel fares to and from Manila (for provincial fellows) are to be shouldered by the applicant. For students and teachers who will successfully qualify, their respective schools are expected to sponsor their trip to and from Manila. Send applications to: Winton Lou G. Ynion Director First Tamaraw National Writeshop for Children's Literature c/o Office of the Dean, Institute of Arts and Sciences Far Eastern University Nicanor Reyes Street, Manila. 01.27.2006 The links section is now updated. Please visit the sites of my friends: writer Christine Bellen, illustrator Panch Alcaraz, and storyteller Boom Enriquez. More links to my artist-friends will be posted soon. Ruel S. De Vera's article, "Edgar C. Samar: Taking a Magical Look Back," originally published on the September 5, 2004 issue of Sunday Inquirer Magazine, is now in the bibliography section. 01.24.2006 I received the 2005 NCCA Writer's Prize for the Novel for my novel-in-progress, Walong Diyosa ng Pagkahulog. The Awards Ceremony will be held on 24 February 2006 at the NCCA Lobby, 633 General Luna Street, Intramuros, Manila. The grant amounts to PhP 250,000.00 less 20% withholding tax. * * * I will read my poems, "Kanto" and "Kuwentong-Bayan" in the Philippine Studies Special Literary Issue 2005 launch on 27 January 2006, 4:30 PM at the Natividad G. Fajardo Conference Room, De la Costa Hall, Ateneo de Manila University. * * * Salamin: An Anthology from the Creative Writing Students of Batch 2006, Ateneo de Manila University was launched last January 17, 2005. I introduced the fiction section with "Experimenting Lives, or Stories on Some Uncertainties of/in Fiction." |
| kalye kundiman is my poetic space: the site of my writing as woundedness, madness, solitude, encounters with the supernatural, and forgetting, because "exile is a kind of long insomnia." |
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