PR: Pambansang Kumperensiya sa Panulaang Filipino

Pambansang Kumperensiya sa Panulaang Filipino

 

Nobyembre 25-26, 2010 · Pulungang Claro M. Recto,

Bulwagang Rizal, UP Diliman, Lungsod Quezon

 

September 25, 2010

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Dear _______________:

 

We would like to invite you and your colleagues to attend the first “Pambansang Kumperensiya sa Panulaang Filipino” (National Conference for Poetry in Filipino) on November 25-26, 2010 at the Pulungang Claro M. Recto, Bulwagang Rizal (Faculty Center), University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City.

 

The plenary speakers are National Artist for Literature Virgilio S. Almario, National Artist for Literature Bienvenido Lumbera, and former Dean of the School of Humanities of the Ateneo de Manila University, Dr. Benilda Santos. Other invited lecturers are notable writers and educators Rebecca Añonuevo, Roberto Añonuevo, Romulo Baquiran Jr., Michael Coroza, Victor Emmanuel Carmelo Nadera Jr., Danilo Francisco M. Reyes, and Edgar C. Samar.

 

During the course of two days, literature and Filipino language educators from elementary school to college as well as writers and other lovers of Filipino literature will convene and discuss the present state, the changes to, and the future of how poetry in Filipino is read, taught, and written. The conference’s theme is “Mahalaga ba ang Tula?” (“Does Poetry Matter?”) We seek to answer this question with three lectures and a series of panel discussions from notable writers and teachers who are active in the reading, teaching, and writing of Filipino poetry.

 

The conference is endorsed by the Department of Education (DA No. 95, s. 2010), Commission on Higher Education, and Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino. It is organized by the Linangan sa Imahen, Retorika, at Anyo (LIRA), the leading group of poets in Filipino founded in 1985 by National Artist Virgilio S. Almario.

 

The conference fee is Php 2,000 (two thousand pesos) and covers the conference kit, meals, snacks, certificate, and copies of the lectures. Groups of five or more delegates are entitled to a 20% discount. Please deposit/pay at the Land Bank saving account c/o “Linangan sa Imahen, Retorika, at Anyo (LIRA)” at bank account number: 3071025950, Diliman Branch. Please fax or email a copy of your deposit slip to our event coordinator at 9221830 or at gondour03@gmail.com. Aside from a receipt, we will gladly issue a certification (like a voucher) for the conference fees should you need one.

 

Attached with this letter is a map to the conference venue and the contact numbers of nearby accommodations. Copies of the DepEd, CHED, and KWF endorsements are available upon request; please take note that these documents indicate a different venue, which, due to unforeseen circumstances, we were forced to change to UP Diliman.

 

For inquiries, we can be reached through Eva Cadiz at 9818500 loc. 2117 (Monday to Friday) and 0927-9245242, or at gondour03@gmail.com. Thank you very much. Mabuhay ang panitikang Filipino!

Respectfully yours,                          

 

PHILLIP KIMPO JR.            

Conference Director

President, LIRA        

Noted:    

 

VIRGILIO S. ALMARIO, Ph.D.

National Artist for Literature

Founder and Adviser, LIRA

Download the invitation letter: http://liraonline.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/national-conference-invite.doc

Pambansang Kumperensiya sa Panulaang Filipino sa Nobyembre 2010

Pakikalat po, lalo sa mga kakilala ninyong guro. Maraming salamat!

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Pambansang Kumperensiya sa Panulaang Filipino sa Nobyembre 2010

Gaganapin sa Nobyembre 25-26, 2010 sa Maynila ang kauna-unahang Pambansang Kumperensiya sa Panulaang Filipino. Layon ng dalawang araw na kumperensiya na tipunin ang mga makata, kritiko, at guro ng tula upang talakayin ang mga napapanahong usapin ng pagsusulat, pagbabasa, at pagtuturo ng Tula sa Filipinas.

Ang kumperensiya ay may endoso mula sa Commission on Higher Education (CHED), Department of Education (DepEd), at Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (KWF). Itinataguyod ito ng Linangan sa Imahen, Retorika, at Anyo (LIRA), ang nangungunang samahan ng mga makatang nagsusulat sa Filipino na itinatag ng Pambansang Alagad ng Sining sa Panitikan Virgilio S. Almario.

 

Ang bayad sa rehistrasyon ay dalawang libong piso (Php 2,000) para sa conference kit, pagkain sa kabuuan ng kumperensiya, at kopya ng mga lektura. Mayroong 20% diskuwento para sa mga grupo ng lima o higit pang delegado.

 

Ilalabas ang iba pang detalye ng kumperensiya sa mga susunod na araw. Para sa karagdagang impormasyon, makipag-ugnayan lamang kay Eva Cadiz sa mga numerong 9818500 loc. 2117 (Lunes hanggang Biyernes) at 0927-9245242, o kaya sa gondour03@gmail.com.

New Directors for the Writers Union of the Philippines

Mapalad po tayong mapabilang sa Board of Directors para sa mga taong 2010-2013 ng Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas (UMPIL). Bagong tungkulin, kakayanin.

(Which means kelangan ko na talagang matapos ang aklat ko bago matapos ang taon at bago tumambak ang trabaho. Hay.)

Saka na lang ang mga retrato ng Kongreso; heto muna ang PR na isinulat ni ser Dan Pinto.

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NEW OFFICERS ELECTED IN 36TH UMPIL CONGRESS
by N. Daniel Pinto

The Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas—the country’s largest alliance of writers, poets, novelists, editors and literary figures—held its its 36th Congress on August 28, 2010.

As early as eight in the morning, confreres started trickling into the GT Toyota Asian Center Auditorium at the University of the Philippines campus in Diliman, Quezon City, until the crowd swelled to a size big enough to prompt Dean Mario I. Miclat to take to the stage and deliver the welcome remarks. He was followed by outgoing UMPIL chair Victor Emmanuel Carmelo “Vim” D. Nadera Jr., who reported on the organization’s activities during his watch.

In his parting words, Vim Nadera underscored the need for writers to work with the educational departments for the promotion of literacy from literature. The pool of literary talents and the wealth of the country’s literary gems, he said, remain untapped because, all too often, there seems to be a break, a chasm, in the coordinative activities between the writers’ groups and the heads of educational institutions in the country. Now is the time for writers to offer assistance, with pen in hand as it were, Nadera stressed.

In a welcome innovation, the morning session featured a keynote lecture that aptly set the underlying theme of the Congress—Literature and Change—and summarized the core message of the event. And for the first of a series of what will henceforth be known as the Adrian E. Cristobal Lecture Series, the Congress organizers’ choice of inaugural lecturer went to multi-awarded UP professor emeritus Dr. Gémino H. Abad, who delivered a befitting discourse entitled “The Future Is First Shaped by Words.”

The Adrian E. Cristobal Lecture Series is a joint project of UMPIL and the Cristobal family in honor of the late Adrian E. Cristobal—litterateur, fictionist, essayist, satirist, and newspaper columnist—and in homage to the intellectual discipline that he so faithfully adhered to. (Of UMPIL’s three Chairmen Emeriti, Adrian Cristobal was the first, followed by the dear departed Mike L. Bigornia, and the now presently active and very much alive National Artist for Literature Virgilio S. Almario.)

Before the writers settled down to a hearty luncheon catered by the durable Chinese eatery, Ma Mon Luk, they took time enough to elect from among them the incoming members of the UMPIL Board for 2010–2013. Thus: Abdon M. Balde Jr., chairman; Karina A. Bolasco, vice chair; Michael M. Coroza, secretary general; Romulo P. Baquiran Jr., treasurer; and Rebecca T. Añonuevo, auditor. Rounding off the UMPIL directorate are Marne Kilates, Mario I. Miclat, Charlson Ong, and Fidel Rillo, as well as the sectoral representatives which include Joaquin Sy, for Chinoy writers; Phillip Kimpo Jr., representing the poets of LIRA; representatives of GUMIL (for writers in Iluko), KUTING (for writers of children’s literature), and representatives of Sebuwano and Bisaya writers.