Events and Announcements

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS:
THE 22nd IYAS LA SALLE NATIONAL WRITERS’ WORKSHOP
Deadline: 15 January 2023

The 22nd IYAS La Salle National Writers’ Workshop is open for applications. It will be held online from April 26 to May 18, 2023 on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons across four weeks.

IYAS is organized by the University of St. La Salle (USLS) in partnership with the DLSU Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center (BNSCWC) and with support from the National Commission on Culture and the Arts (NCCA) and the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities (ICSC). The workshop director is John Iremil Teodoro. The panel is composed of Marjorie M. Evasco, Grace Monte de Ramos, Susan Lara, D.M. Reyes, Isidoro Cruz, and Adrian Ho. Elsa Martinez Coscoluella, Ronald Baytan, and IYAS Project Director Rayboy Pandan will also serve in the panel.

The workshop fellowship screening committee accepts creative work in Hiligaynon, Cebuano, Kinaray-a, Filipino, and English. Fellowships are awarded by genre and by language. Writing entries that explore human relations with the environment will be given preference for these fellowships. Ten to twelve applicants will be given fellowships, which will include a connectivity allowance.

Application requirements
 Original, unpublished work (not previously or concurrently submitted to other workshops) in only one chosen literary genre and language: 6 poems, 2 short stories, 2 one-act plays, or 2 creative nonfiction works, These works must be typewritten in DOCx file, font size 12 pts., double-spaced.

 PDF of a one- to two-page resume containing applicant’s ID photo and complete contact information (residence address, email address, contact number).

 A cover letter explaining the reason/s for applying (PDF), addressed to workshop director Dr. John Iremil Teodoro.

Interested applicants should submit their application portfolio via Google Forms: https://tinyurl.com/22ndIYASLaSalleWorkshop.

For inquiries, please email [email protected].

The Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center and Kasingkasing Press are happy to announce the launching of the two books by Lourdes Lim Wang: Cockfighting and Other Stories and The Cycle (Awakening of the Mind).

The launching will be on December 10, 2022, Saturday, 2:00 to 3:30 PM at the FGS Mabuhay Temple in 656 Pablo Ocampo St., Malate, Manila.

Cockfighting and Other Stories and The Cycle (Awakening of the Mind) are collections of flash fiction of Buddhist persuasions in the context of the Chinese-Filipino experience. The two books are published by the indie publishing house Kasingkasing Press. The launching is in cooperation with Fo Guang Shan Mabuhay Temple and Buddha’s Light International Association Philippines

Lourdes Lim Wang is the author of nine books of essays, poetry and fiction in the Chinese language. She has translated some books from Chinese to English and Filipino. She joined the translation team for subtitles of “Siddhartha Musical” from English to Chinese, and “Judge Bao” TV series from Chinese to Filipino. She is a passionate volunteer in educational and charitable projects. An enthusiastic lover of the arts, literature, and culture, two of her own watercolor paintings are featured on the front covers of her two books.

For those who are interested to attend, please email at [email protected] for more information.

READ TO SAVE THE EARTH

Inilulunsad ng Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center sa pakikipagtulungan ng De La Salle University Libraries ang buwanang pag-post dito sa Facebook ng e-poster hinggil sa isang mahalagang libro na sumusulong sa pagprotekta sa kapaligiran: Read to Save the Earth. Isa itong imbitasyon sa Lasalyanong Komunidad at sa publiko sa kabuoan na magbasa tayo upang magkaroon ng kaalaman para makatulong kahit sa maliit nating paraan lamang sa pagsalba ng ating nag-iisang daigdig.

Ang mga librong itatampok sa Read to Save the Earth ay makikita, mababasa, at mahihiram sa DLSU Libraries. Lalabas ang call number ng libro kapag i-scan ang QR code sa poster.

Itong Read to Save the Earth ay bahagi ng DLSU Green Initiatives sa pangunguna ng Kolehiyo ng Malalayang Sining ng DLSU.

Halina’t magbasa tayo para sa ating kapaligiran!

For the first time in three years, Fellows of the 2020, 2021, and 2022 La Salle National CNF Workshops for Doctors will gather in a face-to-face Festival to meet and greet each other, and to celebrate literary harvests. This CNF workshop series for doctors is organized by the Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center of De La Salle University, under the directorship of Prof. Ronald Baytan in 2020, & Prof. John Iremil Teodoro in 2022.

The Festival Director is Dr. Joey “Joti” A. Tabula. The program includes poetry & prose readings, a joint launch of the first books of Dr. Ralph Fonte and Dr. Will Liangco, and panel discussions on writing CNF, poetry, and fiction, moderated by Drs. Noel Pingoy, Joti Tabula, and Lance Catedral respectively. The culminating activity is the organizational meeting of the Philippine Society for Literature and Narrative Medicine.

The past three workshops were directed by Prof. Marjorie Evasco, DLSU Writer-in-Residence & Professor Emeritus of Literature, with co-panelists Dr. Joey A. Tabula & Dr. Lance Catedral. Physician-writers who have given craft lectures in the workshops were: Drs. Ron Baticulon, Alice Sun-Cua, Gideon Lasco, & Luis Gatmaitan.

Fellows may contact Dr. Joey A. Tabula in his FB account for more information.

LAST CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
16th DLSU Arts Congress
Engagement: Art, Memory, History / Ugnayan: Sining, Gunita, Kasaysayan
February 20-24, 2023 @ De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines

Theme
“Just as I once left the pinecone by the fence, I have since left my words on the door of so many people who were unknown to me, people in prison, or hunted, or alone.” – Pablo Neruda, Nobel Laureate

This arts congress seeks to explore the intersections of art, memory, and history, and beyond that, to engage with the public audience and the communities the work of the scholars and artists. Questions we raise include: How does art serve as an expression of memory, or a repository of a people’s experiences? What practices and interventions are deployed by the humanities and social sciences to extend art to the public sphere? How does art serve as a reactionary agent to nurture public memory, or question it, and convey the truth of history? How does art perform a historiographic function in tearing the mats of silences in histories and in fashioning alternate weaves of motifs and narratives that make truer and distinctive the heritage and values of a people, of a nation, of the world? How can memories be preserved and archived in the twenty-first century, and assume a public role?

Subthemes cover, but are not limited to, the following:
Art and public celebration
Art and public mourning
Art and social justice: race, gender, class, ethnicity, environment, ableism, ageism
Art as testimony of violence and oppression
Art collectives: survivors, support, activism
Art, engagement, reconciliation
Art, memory, mobilities
Art, museum, and the public landscape
Art therapy and illness
Art, trauma, engagement
Archiving art and memory
Ethics of art and public engagement
Narratives of human rights
Performing spirituality through collective art
Politics of art production and the formation of knowledge
Public humanities: Critical imagination and the community
Questions of collective memory, collective history
Teaching public art
Work of art in the age of digital technology

The 16th DLSU Arts Congress (DAC) is organized by the DLSU College of Liberal Arts (DLSU CLA), College of Computer Studies (CCS), Cultural Arts Office (CAO), The Museum, The Libraries, and the CLA Graduate Student Council (CLA GSC), with the support of the Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation (VPRI) and the Office of the External Relations. The organizing team includes the Department of Literature, the Department of Filipino, Southeast Asian Research Hub and Center (SEARCH), Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center (BNSCWC), and the Research and Grant Management Office (RMGO). For inquiries, please email [email protected].

LINE-UP OF CALLS AND ACTIVITIES

16th DAC Conference: Call for Proposals

DAC invites students, faculty, scholars, artists, cultural workers, and practitioners to submit proposals for presentation (in-person). There are two (2) types of submission: (a) Individual, and (b) group/panel presentation.

Abstract proposal (250-300 words) must provide: short description, objectives, and proposed framework or methodology. Submission should be accompanied by the author’s (or authors’) bio-note (250-300 words) with contact information (email, mobile phone number). Proposals on theoretical and applied research are acceptable. Interdisciplinary approaches are appreciated. Proposals in the form of a testimony on public art engagement are much welcome.

Please submit via this link:
https://docs.google.com/…/1FAIpQLSfqAP1YpqOJe6…/viewform
Deadline: November 26, 2022

Registration Fees for Presenter-Participant
Local student: PHP1,000
Foreign student: USD40
Local participant: PHP2,000
Foreign participant: USD80

The registration fee covers access to the conference and other activities (performances, art exhibit), and includes snack coupons. Participants are responsible for arranging their own transportation and lodging.

The conference proceedings will be published as research articles. For papers to be included, a copy of the research article (4000-6000 words) must be submitted by May 30, 2023. Citations and reference lists should follow the latest style prescribed by the Modem Language Association (MLA, 9th edition). All submitted articles will undergo a process of blind peer review.

Important Dates
Deadline of submissions November 26, 2022
Notice of acceptance January 3-10, 2023
Registration January 16-31, 2023
Congress proper Feb 22-24: Conference
Submission of full papers May 30, 2023

16th DAC Online Visual Art Exhibition: Call for Entries

The 16th DLSU Arts Congress now accepts photo submissions of original visual artworks (in black and white or full-color) that creatively represent the theme “Engagement: Art, Memory, History / Ugnayan: Sining, Gunita, Kasaysayan” and subthemes. This year’s Arts Congress seeks to explore the intersections of art, memory, and history. The artwork submission should include cutting-edge, creative, and unique works in reaction to the current pandemic situation. The entries that are chosen will be displayed on the 16th DLSU Arts Congress website as part of the virtual art exhibition.

Mechanics:
1) This call is open to all DLSU and non-DLSU faculty, staff, and students
2) Each participant can submit up to three (3) photos of his/her visual artworks for selection
3) Entries must be submitted using the following Google Form: https://docs.google.com/…/1FAIpQLSeSSKhfTf2uiz…/viewform
4) Upon submission, the participant will receive an email acknowledgment receipt for the proposal
5) An email will be sent for notification of participation in the exhibit
6) By submitting photo entries to the 16th DLSU Arts Congress, the owner openly declares that such photos are his/her and that no copyright infringement was committed.

Important Dates:
December 2, 2022 – deadline of submission
December 5 – 9, 2022 – notice of acceptance for the exhibition
February 20, 2023 – virtual opening of the visual art exhibition

16th DAC Performance Showcase: Call for Participation

The DLSU Arts Congress serves as a platform for students to explore the theme Engagement: Art, Memory, History / Ugnayan: Sining, Gunita, Kasaysayan through a performance showcase. The performance entry should feature the culture and heritage of their respective localities or any innovative/artistic response to the present pandemic situation. The showcase will be staged live at the DLSU Amphitheatre.

GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION
 The performance should be related to the abovementioned theme.
 The total number of performers should be 10 persons or less.
 Suggested duration of the performance should be no more than 5 minutes.
Interested performers should email the registration form, in this email address – [email protected]. Download registration form. https://docs.google.com/…/1VB4i…/edit
 Upon submission, the performer/ representative will receive an email confirmation with a reference number. The reference number will be used in all future correspondence in connection with the showcase.

 Accepted performers shall not receive any remuneration for their performance.
 The participation to the PERFORMANCE SHOWCASE is FREE for all.
 Deadline for registration is on December 1, 2022.

The Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center

in cooperation with

The Office of the Assitant Dean for External Affairs and Lasallian Mission and the Office of the Assistant Dean for Research and Advanced Studies of the College of Liberal Arts, and the DLSU CULTURA

would like to inform everyone that submissions for Green Initiative’s Earth Jam- a poetry contest that celebrates and honors the environment- have been EXTENDED.

For preliminary approval, the participants must register and submit a copy of the poem by November 12. Once approved, the performance should be submitted in .mp4 format by November 16. The videos will streamed via the FB pages of BNSCWC and Cultura on November 22, 2022.

Here are the tentative links to take note of:

Registration Link: https://bit.ly/3UqXuCO
For Submission of Original Poems: https://bit.ly/3FYMUyK
For Submission of Performance Videos: https://bit.ly/3TpMpAR

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS:
THE 11TH KRITIKA LA SALLE NATIONAL WORKSHOP ON ART AND CULTURAL CRITICISM

The Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center (BNSCWC) of De La Salle University is inviting young critics and scholars to apply for fellowship to the 11th KRITIKA La Salle National Workshop on Art and Cultural Criticism to be held from March 19 to 25, 2023 at De La Salle University – Laguna Campus.

Dr. Rolando B. Tolentino, esteemed cultural studies scholar and BNSCWC Associate for Criticism, is workshop director.

KRITIKA aims to give young scholars who want to commit themselves to art and cultural criticism a venue where they can discuss their work and concerns with established art critics and culture experts in the country.

This edition of KRITIKA is open-themed and returns to the face-to-face format.

Advocating inter- and multi-disciplinary approaches, the workshop welcomes critical essays on literature, architecture, theatre, film, dance, music, visual arts, multi-art, and popular culture.  Critical papers related to health, environment, gender, performance, and cultural heritage are encouraged.

Manuscript should be an unpublished critical essay written in English, Filipino, or any other Philippine language.  The manuscript must be accompanied by an abstract (150 to 200 words).  Ideally, the manuscript should range from 5000 to 8000 words inclusive of notes and references.  It should be on work/s by Filipino artist/s.  It may involve the examination of more than one art form.

Manuscripts in languages other than English and Filipino must be accompanied by a translation into English or Filipino and the consent of the translator.

Twelve applicants will be chosen for the fellowships.

Interested applicants should submit their application portfolio via Google Forms:  https://tinyurl.com/11thKRITIKALaSalleWorkshop. Required files include a cover letter explaining the reason for applying; an unpublished critical paper; and short curriculum vitae with photo. Sample published work may supplement the portfolio.

Deadline for application is December 15, 2022.

For inquiries, please email [email protected].

#KRITIKA2023
#KRITIKALaSalleFellowships
#KRITIKA11
#BNSCWC

The Bienvenido N. Santos Center for Creative Writing is pleased to announce the following fellows for this year’s Young Screenwriters’ Workshop:

1. BARRACA, Angelo Justin
2. CUEVAS, Victoria
3. ENCARNACION, Darcy
4. FORMACION, Ian Jay
5. HERNANDEZ, Kenneth Ian
6. LACUARTA, Nadine
7. NAMBATAC, Gil
8. PARRENAS, Brandon
9. SIBAL, Ma. Sophia
10. TEVES, Neil
11. YU, Patricia
12. VELONTA, Junelie

The workshop will be held online on 30 July and 6 August 2022 via Zoom.

This two day workshop seeks to introduce young writers to the art and craft of screenwriting through lectures and short exercises. The panelists are Coreen Jimenez and Ida Anita del Mundo. The workshop director is DLSU Professor Emeritus Dr. Clodualdo del Mundo Jr.

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
The Third La Salle National CNF Writers’ Workshop for Doctors
Deadline: August 31, 2022

The Third La Salle National CNF Writers’ Workshop for Doctors of the Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center (BNSCWC) is open for applications from physician-writers. The workshop will be held during Thursday and Friday evenings (6:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.) from July 7 to 22, 2022 via Zoom.

The workshop is part of BNSCWC’s efforts to boost collaborations and critical/creative exchanges between scientists and artists; to train medical practitioners (who have the potential to write or who already have manuscripts) in the art of life-writing; and to help immortalize the stories and contributions of our front-liners to this nation especially during these precarious times.

Marjorie M. Evasco, DLSU’s Writer-in-Residence and Professor Emeritus of Literature, is the project director. She will be joined by doctor-writers Dr. Lance Isidore Catedral and Dr. Joey A. Tabula in the panel. The workshop shall consist of six synchronous sessions on Thursday and Friday evenings across three weeks. Fellows will be given craft lectures by physician-writers, and will be offered writing prompts for possible writing projects that may be taken up on the last session.

Applicants are asked to submit at least one nonfiction narrative or personal essay ranging from 2500 to 3500 words in either English or Filipino.

Ten fellows shall be chosen for this workshop.

Application requirements are as follows:
A PDF of a short resume, with a page containing applicant’s ID photo and complete contact information (residence address, email address, contact number).

DOCx file of the CNF piece following this file format: surname and first key word of the work.

Please submit the application portfolio by May 15, 2022 via Google Forms: https://tinyurl.com/BNSCNF-WorkshopforDoctors

Chosen fellows shall be informed about their selection by June 5, 2022 and must confirm their participation by June 15. Press release for the final list of fellows shall be sent out by June 30, 2022.

For inquiries, please email [email protected].

The Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center (BNSCWC) is accepting applications for THE 2022 DLSU YOUNG SCREENWRITERS’ WORKSHOP to be held online via Zoom on two Saturdays, July 30 and August 6, 2022, from 7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

This is a two-day workshop that seeks to introduce beginning writers to the art of screenwriting through lectures and short exercises. Day Two shall focus on workshopping the fellows’ short scripts.

The workshop is open to individuals 18 years old and above, preferably college or graduate students and young professionals.

The workshop director is DLSU Professor Emeritus Dr. Clodualdo del Mundo, Jr.

The workshop is free. However, slots are limited. Only ten to twelve applicants shall be chosen.

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS
 Cover Letter Explaining the applicant’s background and interest in screenwriting and reason/s for applying;
 Writing Sample: An Idea for a Film
 One-page CV with Contact Number and ID Pic

The writing sample can be written in English, Filipino, or any other Local Language (accompanied by a translation into Filipino or English). The writing sample is the synopsis for a film , or a page of a screenplay, or both.

The final output of the workshop is a short film screenplay.

Good internet connectivity is a requirement, and applicants must signify that they have such.

Interested parties may register via Google Forms: https://tinyurl.com/2022YoungScreenwritersWorkshop

Application ends on July 9, 2022.

Incomplete applications shall not be processed.

Accepted applicants will be announced by July 15, and they must confirm their slot not later than July 20, 2022. Failure to confirm within the prescribed period means the slot shall be forfeited and be given to another applicant.

For inquiries, please contact BNSCWC via email [email protected].

The Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center (BNSCWC) is open for applications for the 2022 BNSCWC THEATER WORKSHOP FOR LA SALLE STUDENTS to be held online via Zoom on July 16 (Batch 1) and July 23, 2022 (Batch 2), Saturday, 7:30AM-5:30PM.

The workshop seeks to develop the performance skills of young artists aged 18 to 21 who are in either senior high school or college. It consists of two main modules: voice projection and creating characters. This workshop is open only to La Salle senior high and college students and is part of the Young Artists’ Workshop series of the Center.

The workshop directors are Dr. Anne Richie G. Balgos and Ms. Mary Harmony Guevarra.

The workshop is free. However, slots are limited.

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS
 Cover Letter Explaining the Students’ background and interest in Theater and reason/s for applying;
 Performance Video of 1 minute followed by a Self-introduction of 30 seconds in ONE MP4 file (preferably around 50mb);
 Recommendation Letter from a La Salle Teacher in Literature/Panitikan, Creative Writing, Philippine Arts, or Art Appreciation, preferably on a La Salle letterhead. For senior high students, the teacher’s recommendation must include the note Endorsed and Signed By (1) the Department Chair/Area Coordinator and (2) the School Principal.

The performance video of one minute involves an extract from a play or a movie—in English, Filipino, or any other local language—chosen by the student.

The 30-second self-introduction video must contain the following: name and school of the applicant; reasons for applying.

Good internet connectivity is a requirement, and applicants must signify that they have such.

Interested parties may register via Google Forms: https://tinyurl.com/BNSTheaterWorkshop2022

Application ends on June 30, 2022.

Incomplete applications shall not be processed.

Accepted applicants together with their appointed batch will be announced by June 30, and they must confirm their slot not later than July 5, 2022. Failure to confirm within the prescribed period means the slot shall be forfeited and be given to another applicant.

For inquiries, please contact BNSCWC via email [email protected]

Pagbati sa sumusunod na fellow para sa Luntiang Palihan 2022: The DLSU Young Writers’ Workshop in Local Languages.

Pangunahing layunin ng palihang ito na palawigin ang paggamit ng mga baguhang manunulat sa kanilang lokal na wika sa malikhain nilang akda. Nilalayon din nitong hasain ang kakayahan ng mga batang manunulat na potensiyal na makapag-aambag sa literaturang Filipino.

Bawat taon, binibigyang-tuon ng palihan ang pambansang wika (Filipino) at isang lokal na wika. Sa taong ito, pagtutuunan ang Filipino at Ilocano.

Gaganapin ang palihan (online workshop) sa 2 Agosto 2022.

The Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center (BNSCWC) of De La Salle University and Milflores Publishing, Inc. are pleased to invite lovers of literature to Epithalamion: Celebrating 30 Years of Nick Carbó’s Poetry | A Book Launch and a Poetry Reading on July 8, 2022, Friday, 10:00–11:00 a.m. (PST Philippine Standard Time) via Zoom.

The event celebrates thirty years of Nick Carbó’s poetry via the launch of his new book, Epithalamion: New and Selected Poems 1990-2020 (Milflores Publishing, 2022). It shall feature a craft lecture by Nick Carbó and a poetry reading. Krip Yuson, Ninotchka Rosca, and Marjorie Evasco will take part in the program.

Epithalamion enthralls readers with poems reflecting Carbó’s origins, identity, and memories as a Filipino growing up in his adopted country, the US. Carbó’s poetic genius blends mysticism, tenderness, and quiet passion in a new collection that embraces grief, nostalgia, connection and disconnection and reveals his influences and originality. With poignant imagery, a sense of the experimental—and humor—he explores these themes and converses with the reader’s senses. Nick Carbó’s Epithalamion reaches far and wide, connecting its stories, sentiments, and ideas with people wherever they may be.

Nick Carbó was born in Legazpi, Albay in Bicol. In the United States, he graduated from St. Mary’s University with a BA in English and Sarah Lawrence College with an MFA in Creative Writing. He has authored five books of poetry, the latest being Chinese, Japanese, What are these? He has also been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. He has served as Poet-in-Residence in universities like Columbia College, Chicago, the University of Miami, and the New College of Florida.

Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/98831814729…

Meeting ID: 988 3181 4729
Passcode: CARBO@30

Epithalamion is now available at Fully Booked stores, Shopee, Lazada, Barnes and Noble, Abe Books, Book Depository, Amazon UK, and at milflorespublishing.com.

For more information, please email [email protected] or [email protected].

#Epithalamion
#Poetry
#BookLaunchEvent
#NickCarbó
#BNSCWC
#MilfloresPublishing

BNSCWC Celebrates a Lasallian’s Legacy

WE REMEMBER REX@100:
PAGPIPITAGAN SA MGA AMA, ALAY KAY KUYA GEYO
A Book Launch and a Poetry Reading

The Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center (BNSCWC) of De La Salle University is pleased to invite lovers of literature to We Remember Rex@100: Pagpipitagan sa mga Ama, Alay Kay Kuya Geyo │ A Book Launch and a Poetry Reading on 18 June 2022 (Saturday) at 9:00 a.m. PST via Zoom.

The book event showcases the launching of We Remember: Rex@100 (Boon Prints Enterprises, 2022) and a reading for Father’s Day honoring Lasallian Virgilio P. Reyes Sr.

Virgilio Prudente Reyes, Sr, also known as Rex Reyes, was Press Secretary of President Diosdado Macapagal(1963-64), News Editor of the Manila Chronicle, and Vice President of Great Wall Advertising and Oceanic Fisheries. He was an alumnus of De La Salle College (as DLSU was known then), having finished high school in 1939 and college (AB Commerce) in 1942. He was married to Professor Erlinda Tempongko Alcantara-Reyes, former Chair of the University of the Philippines Diliman Department of Speech and Drama. They had five children: Carlos, Cynthia, Georgina, Virgilio Jr, and Valentin. This year marks the centennial of his birth on July 5, 1922. In his memory, the Reyes family has produced a 100-page book with pictures and texts from his loved ones and friends. The book is edited by Ambassador Virgilio Reyes, Jr.

A career diplomat of 35 years, Ambassador Reyes Jr. served as Philippine Ambassador to South Africa (2003-2009) and Italy (2011-2014), his last posting before he retired. He is now engaged in writing and traveling, and is dedicated to cultural heritage projects.

The poetry reading will feature Dr. Gémino H. Abad, Jose F. Lacaba, Krip A. Yuson, Marra Lanot, Paul Philippe Reyes, and Ambassador Virgilio Reyes, Jr. reading father-themed poems.

Zoom Link:
https://zoom.us/j/92056634772…

Meeting ID: 920 5663 4772
Passcode: KUYAGEYO

For more information, please email [email protected].

#WeRememberRex@100
#VirgilioPrudenteReyesSr
#BookLaunchEvent
#BNSCWC

The Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center (BNSCWC) of De La Salle University is inviting undergraduate and graduate students to submit their application for Luntiang Palihan 2022: The DLSU Young Writers’ Workshop in Local Languages (Ilocano & Filipino), which will be held online on August 2, 2022 in celebration of the Buwan ng Wikang Pambansa.

The workshop aims to promote creative writing in local languages and to hone the craft of talented individuals who have the potential to contribute to the growth of Philippine literature.

This year’s languages are Ilocano and Filipino. Applicants must be 18 to 39 years old. Five to six applicants will be chosen for the workshop.

Applicants should submit the following:

PDF of the cover letter stating the applicant’s reasons for applying to the workshop and his or her writing goals. Address the letter to the workshop director Mr. Genaro R. Gojo Cruz.

PDF of a short resumé that must contain the applicant’s ID photo, date of birth, university, degree, and complete contact information (residence address, email address, and contact number)

DOCx of the original work (Filipino or Ilocano): 3 poems or 1 short story, font size 12 pts., double-spaced, 1”x1” margin. The short story must be numbered, by paragraph, on the left margin. Works in Ilocano must be accompanied by a translation into Filipino or English.

File names must contain the SURNAME of the applicant and language of the work (e.g., Bautista LPFilipino CV.PDF).

Please submit the application portfolio via Google Forms: https://tinyurl.com/LuntiangPalihan2022.

Submission deadline is June 15, 2022.

For inquiries, please email [email protected]

The Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center (BNSCWC) in partnership with Penguin Random House SEA is pleased to invite lovers of literature to Assembling Alice: The Making of a Biofiction on April 22, 2022, Friday, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. (PST Philippine Standard Time) via Zoom.

Held in celebration of the Philippine Literature Month and the World Book Day, the event shall feature a craft lecture on biofiction by Katigbak-Lacuesta and a conversation between her and literature professor Shirley O. Lua about the book.

Assembling Alice is a portrait of a woman as much as it is a portrait of the times she lived in. Alice Feria came of age during the commonwealth period, survived both the occupation and the war, and did not write of her experiences as much as she spoke of them to those in her inner circle. Her experiences were sublimated into editorials she wrote for a small magazine called The Filipino Home Companion where she wrote of nation-building and what it meant or should mean to be a Filipino after the second world war. Assembling Alice is about the stories she told, and have been told about her.

Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta is the author of four poetry collections: The Proxy Eros (2008), Burning Houses (2013), Hush Harbor (2017), and Eros Redux (2019). She obtained an MFA from the New School University in 2004, and has since taught in major universities in Manila. Katigbak-Lacuesta has also co-edited various literary Filipino poetry anthologies for the Cordite Poetry Review and Vagabond Press. Widely-awarded for her work in the Philippines, Katigbak-Lacuesta has also been the Filipino delegate to international literary festivals in Rotterdam, Medellín, San Francisco, Macau, and Kuala Lumpur. In 2015, she completed a writing residency for the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.

Zoom
Meeting ID: 929 0701 2976
Passcode: MKLAlice

Preregister here: https://tinyurl.com/AssemblingAliceEvent

Lucky participants get a chance to win copies of the book.

Assembling Alice is now available on Amazon and Good Intentions Publishing (https://bit.ly/ShopGoodIntentions).

For more information, please email [email protected] or [email protected].

#AssemblingAlice
#Biofiction
#BookLaunchEvent
#MookieKatigbakLacuesta

YOU LOVELY PEOPLE:
AN ONLINE LITERARY CONFERENCE ON BIENVENIDO N. SANTOS
22 March 2022

The Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center (BNSCWC) and the DLSU Department of Literature are organizing YOU LOVELY PEOPLE: AN ONLINE LITERARY CONFERENCE ON BIENVENIDO N. SANTOS scheduled on March 22, 2022, the 111th birth anniversary of beloved Mang Ben.

Organized as a community engagement project in celebration of BNSCWC’s 30th anniversary, the conference addresses the dearth of scholarship and teaching resources on Philippine canonical writers such as Bienvenido N. Santos. It aims to offer readers new approaches and critical perspectives on the study and teaching of Santos’s works. Interdisciplinary in orientation, the conference foregrounds the importance of Santos in cultural, socio-political, and environmental issues and debates confronting the contemporary world.

Dr. Paulino Lim, Jr.  shall deliver the keynote lecture.  Other notable members of the literati who shall give a lecture on Santos’s work are Ferdinand M. Lopez, Dr. Alice M. Sun-Cua, and Dr. Clarissa V. Militante.

The conference shall be conducted live via Zoom.  It is FREE of charge.

However, since we can accommodate only 300 people, slots are limited.

Interested individuals are required to pre-register.

Please register via this Google form: https://tinyurl.com/BNSLitCon2022-Register

Only pre-registered and accepted applicants shall be allowed to enter the Zoom sessions.

Registration runs till March 15, 2022 (Tuesday) only.

Accepted participants will receive a confirmation email from the BNS Conference Team by March 18, 2022.  This email shall also contain the Zoom login details for the conference sessions.

Please visit the BNSCWC FB and DLSU Department of Literature FB page for updates about the conference.

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Fellows of the 10th KRITIKA La Salle National Workshop on Art & Cultural Criticism

KRITIKA10 Fellows Announced

Ten fellowships have been awarded for the 10th KRITIKA La Salle National Workshop on Art and Cultural Criticism, which will be held from February 7 to March 1, 2022 online via Zoom. The sessions are scheduled on four consecutive Mondays and Tuesdays from 5pm to 8pm.

Organized by the Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center (BNSCWC) of De La Salle University, KRITIKA is a criticism workshop covering various arts and cultural practices, including literature, visual arts, multi-media, popular culture, theatre, heritage preservation, and cinema. In this workshop, established art critics and talented young scholars gather to form an intellectual community. In line with contemporary critical practice, KRITIKA retains interdisciplinary ways of approaching artistic and cultural texts. This practice is enriched by the creative integration of concepts and approaches from diverse disciplines.

The 2022 fellows are Ryan Cezar O. Alcarde (political culture); Louise Vincent B. Amante (literature & film); Mark P. Bonabon (literature: waray ecopoetics); Christopher Bryan A. Concha (film); Javier Antonio G. Laurel (literature: graphic novel); Richard D. Madrilejos (Bikolano theater); Rex Sandro M. Nepomuceno (contemporary/experimental literature); Drew Ashley Paige L. Rabadon (visual arts); Mikaela Adrianne C. Regis (online theater); and April Rose P. Villaber (Waray literature).

Rolando B. Tolentino, associate for criticism of DLSU Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center, is workshop director. He is supported by a distinguished panel of experts: Dr. Isidoro M. Cruz, Dr. Layeta P. Bucoy, Ms. Lisa Ito-Tapang, Dr. Carlos M. Piocos III, Dr. Jazmin B. Llana, Dr. Anne Frances N. Sangil, Dr. Ronald Baytan, and Dr. John Iremil E. Teodoro.

KRITIKA10 is organized by BNSCWC in celebration of the Philippine National Arts Month.

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS:
IYAS LA SALLE NATIONAL WRITERS’ WORKSHOP
Deadline: January 31, 2022

The 21^st  IYAS La Salle National Writers’ Workshop is open for applications. It will be held online from March 16 to April 7, 2022 on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons across four weeks.

IYAS is organized by the University of St. La Salle (USLS) in partnership with the DLSU Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center (BNSCWC) and with support from the National Commission on Culture and the Arts (NCCA) and the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities (ICSC). The workshop director is John Iremil Teodoro. The panel is composed of Marjorie M. Evasco, Grace Monte de Ramos, Susan Lara, D.M. Reyes, Isidoro Cruz, and Adrian Ho.  Elsie Martinez Coscoluella, Ronald Baytan, and IYAS Project Director Rayboy Pandan will also serve in the panel.

The workshop fellowship screening committee accepts creative work in Hiligaynon, Cebuano, Kinaray-a, Filipino, and English. Fellowships are awarded by genre and by language. Writing entries that explore human relations with the environment will be given preference for these fellowships. Ten to twelve applicants will be given   fellowships, which will include a connectivity allowance.

Application requirements

• Original, unpublished work (not previously or concurrently submitted to other workshops) in only one chosen literary genre and language: 6 poems, 2 short stories, 2 one-act plays, or 2 creative nonfiction works, These works must be typewritten in DOCx file, font size 12 pts., double-spaced.
• PDF of a one- to two-page resume containing applicant’s ID photo and complete contact information (residence address, email address, contact number).
• A cover letter explaining the reason/s for applying (PDF), addressed to workshop director Dr. John Iremil Teodoro.

Interested applicants should submit their application portfolio via Google Forms: https://tinyurl.com/21stIYASLaSalleWorkshop.

For inquiries, please email [email protected].

The Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center (BNSCWC) of De La Salle University-Manila is inviting young critics and scholars to apply for fellowship to the 10th KRITIKA La Salle National Workshop on Art and Cultural Criticism.

As part of BNSCWC’s celebration of the Philippine National Arts Month, KRITIKA 10 will be held from February 2 to 24, 2022 on four consecutive Wednesdays and Thursdays from 2 to 5 p.m. via Zoom.

Dr. Rolando B. Tolentino, esteemed cultural studies scholar and BNSCWC Associate for Criticism, is workshop director.

KRITIKA aims to give young scholars who want to commit themselves to art and cultural criticism a venue where they can discuss their work and concerns with established art critics and culture experts in the country. Advocating inter- and multi-disciplinary approaches, the workshop welcomes critical essays on literature, architecture, theatre, film, dance, music, visual arts, multi-art, and popular culture. Critical papers related to health, environment, gender, performance, and cultural heritage are encouraged.

For this edition, KRITIKA assesses the landscape of arts and cultural productions during and about the COVID19 pandemic, including the successes and remissions of what went right and wrong in the art and cultural works and spaces, institutions, personalities, creative and critical processes.

How are the creative and critical initiatives in the lockdown in dialog with and critical of state regimentation of lives, including those of the artists and cultural workers, and the rendering of the conditions of the possible in the pandemic? How are art and culture rendered essentials?

Manuscript should be an unpublished critical essay written in English, Filipino, or any other Philippine language. The manuscript must be accompanied by an abstract (150 to 200 words). Ideally, the manuscript should range from 5000 to 7500 words inclusive of notes and references. It should be on work/s by Filipino artist/s. It may involve the examination of more than one art form. Manuscripts in languages other than English and Filipino must be accompanied by a translation into English or Filipino and the consent of the translator.

Eight to ten applicants will be chosen for the fellowships.

Interested applicants should submit their application portfolio via the Google form: https://tinyurl.com/10thKRITIKALaSalleFellowships. Required PDF files include a cover letter explaining reason for applying; an unpublished critical paper; and curriculum vitae with photo. Sample published work may supplement the portfolio.

Deadline for application is October 15, 2021.

For inquiries, please email [email protected].

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The 20th Iyas National Writers’ Workshop of the University of St. La Salle, Bacolod City, announces the following fellows for 2021:

Dong Doños (Cebuano Balak)
Rosalina Rara-Sarabosing (Cebuano Balak)
Hannah A. Leceña (Cebuano Sugilanon)
Jose Kervin B. Calabias (English Poetry)
Jan Dennis Destajo (English Poetry)
Diana Therese M. Veloso (English Short Story)
Ryan Machado (Filipino Dula)
Leoben N. Miel (Filipino Maikling Kuwento)
Carissa Natalia Baconguis (Filipino Tula)
Arlene M. Moscaya (Kinaray-a Sugidanun)
Glaiza M. Hallares (Kinaray-a Binalaybay)
Gerald C. Galindez (Hiligaynon Binalaybay)

The IYAS Workshop Director is John Iremil Teodoro, and the panelists for this year are Marjorie Evasco, Grace Monte de Ramos-Arcellana, Susan S. Lara, Danilo M. Reyes, Isidoro M. Cruz, Adrian Ho, and John Iremil Teodoro. Elsa Martinez Coscolluela, Ronald Baytan, and IYAS Project Director Raymundo Pandan, Jr. will also join the panel.

The IYAS National Writers’ Workshop is organized by the University of St. La Salle and the Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center of De La Salle University, with support from the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) and the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities, and will be held online from April 14 to May 6, 2021.

The College of Liberal Arts Research and Advanced Studies Office (CLA-RAS) is inviting faculty members, graduate students, academic service faculty (ASF), administrative service personnel (ASP), and co-academic personnel (CAP) of De La Salle University (Taft and Laguna Campus) to apply for the mini-grants for creative writing.

This grant seeks to lend a modest assistance to writers and artists who are in need of minimal resources to enable them to produce a creative work in any of the following genres/forms: poetry, fiction, drama, creative nonfiction, or screenplay. The creative work may be written in English or Filipino.

Ten (10) grantees will be selected to receive a bursary of ₱10,000.00 each.

This program is supported by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation (VCRI) and co-managed by the Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center (BNSCWC).

Not eligible for the application are the personnel of BNSCWC (including the Associates and members of the Advisory Council), CLA-RAS Office, and VCRI Office. Past grantees can apply after a two-year interval.

Application Requirements
1. Cover Letter (explaining the applicant’s reason/s for applying and discussing briefly the applicant’s writing background and his/her intended project)
2. Curriculum vitae (including contact information, a complete list of publications, and ID-size picture)
3. Sample work (e.g., three to four poems, one short story, one one-act play, one essay, or one script)
4. For graduate students, a copy of the current EAF

Please email the application portfolio to: [email protected]. Please indicate “DLSU MINI-GRANTS” in the subject heading.

Incomplete applications shall be not processed.

Deadline: February 28, 2021

Grantees shall be announced in April 2021.

Output Requirements

The project must be completed within a timeframe of one year. Minimum output may be any of the following:
Five pages of poetry
One short story
One short play
One essay
One film script

Output that goes beyond the aforementioned requirements is highly encouraged (e.g., a full-length play, a novel-in-progress, a collection of poems, a short story collection, a full-length screenplay). The grant money will be given upon submission of the final output.

Within a year after submission of the final output, the work must be submitted for publication, exhibition, or contest, whether local, national, or international. Grantees are also expected to acknowledge De La Salle University when the work is published (print or online), exhibited, or performed, if applicable.

For inquiries, please email [email protected] or [email protected].

Pagbati sa sumusunod na mga fellow para sa Luntiang Palihan 2021: The DLSU Young Writers’ Workshop in Local Languages.

Pangunahing layunin ng palihang ito na palawigin ang paggamit ng mga mag-aaral ng lokal na wika pagdating sa malikhaing pagsulat. Nilalayon din nitong hasain ang kakayahan ng mga batang manunulat na potensyal na makapag-aambag sa literaturang Filipino.

Bawat taon, binibigyang-tuon ng palihan ang pambansang wika (Filipino) at isang lokal na lengguwahe. Sa taong ito, pagtutuunan ang Filipino at Waray.

Gaganapin ang palihan (online workshop) sa 7 Agosto 2021.

The Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center (BNSCWC) of De La Salle University is inviting undergraduate and graduate students in Metropolitan Manila to submit their application for Luntiang Palihan 2021: The DLSU Young Writers’ Workshop in Local Languages (Waray & Filipino), which will be held online on August 7, 2021, in celebration of Buwan ng Wikang Pambansa.

The workshop aims to promote creative writing in local languages and to hone the craft of talented individuals who have the potential to contribute to the growth of Philippine literature.

This year’s languages are Waray and Filipino. Applicants must be 18 to 39 years old. Five to six applicants will be chosen for the workshop.

Applicants should submit the following:

• PDF of the cover letter stating the applicant’s reasons for applying to the workshop and his or her writing goals. Address the letter to the workshop director Dr. John Iremil Teodoro.

• PDF of a short resumé that must contain the applicant’s ID photo, date of birth, university, degree, and complete contact information (residence address, email address, and contact number).

• DOCx of the original work (Filipino or Waray): 3 poems or 1 short story, font size 12 pts., double-spaced, 1”x1” margin. The short story must be numbered, by paragraph, on the left margin. Works in Waray must be accompanied by a translation into Filipino or English.

File names must contain the SURNAME of the applicant and language of the work (e.g., Bautista LPWaray CV.PDF). Please email the application portfolio to [email protected]. In the subject, please write Luntiang Palihan 2021. Incomplete applications will not be processed.

Submission deadline is May 31, 2021.

For inquiries, please email [email protected]

In celebration of the 80th birth anniversary of National Artist for Literature Cirilo F. Bautista, the Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center (BNSCWC) of De La Salle University is pleased to issue the call for papers for The First National Literary Conference on Cirilo F. Bautista scheduled on July 9, 2021.

The conference aims to promote scholarship on the works of Cirilo F. Bautista in light of new developments in theory and criticism. It also wishes to shed light on the understudied works of Bautista like his fiction, criticism, and even paintings. In general, the conference addresses the gap on scholarship on canonical Filipino writers, especially national artists, like Bautista.

Papers using various theories and approaches on the poetry, short fiction, novel, criticism, and nonfiction work of Bautista as well as on his translations and paintings are welcome. Sample topics include: narrating the nation and Bautista; the modernist tradition and Bautista; Southeast Asian archipelagic poetics and the “Rubber Tower”; the fjords of language; visual cultures and Bautista; histories and/as translations; gendered Bautista; the Cosmopolitan Cirilo; literaryscapes and Bautista; teaching Bautista; performing Cirilo; Bautista and the sciences.

Proposal Submission Guidelines:
• Abstracts of 250 to 350 words must be submitted to [email protected]. Since the abstracts shall be peer-reviewed, the DOCx file must contain only the title, abstract, and key words. In the subject line, please write “CFB Conference 2021.”

• In the email proper, please write the following: complete title of the proposed paper; proponent’s full name; institutional affiliation (department/unit and university); and email address.

• Abstracts and papers must be written in either English or Filipino and double-spaced using font size 12 Times New Roman, 1’ x1” margin, and the MLA 9th edition documentation style. For the full paper, word count ranges from 4,000 to 10,000 words.

Deadline for the submission of abstracts is April 30, 2021.

Accepted abstracts will be announced on May 15, 2021, and the participants are expected to finish and submit their papers by June 30, 2021.

For inquiries, please email [email protected].

The College of Liberal Arts
Office of Research & Advanced Studies

in cooperation with
Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research & Innovation
and
Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center

is pleased to announce

the recipients of the

DLSU Mini-Grants for Creative Writing 2020-2021

Creative Nonfiction (English)
Karol Ilagan (Faculty – Communication Department)
Wil-Lian L. Guzmanos (MFA Creative Writing)
Connie J. Maraan (Coordinator for Research Dissemination & Publication – SDRC)
Josephine V. Roque (Faculty – Literature Department)

Creative Nonfiction (Filipino)
Kristoffer Brugada (Faculty – Communication Department)
Rowell D. Madula (Faculty – Departamento ng Filipino)

Drama (Filipino)
Andrew Bonifacio L. Clete (MFA Creative Writing)

Fiction (English)
Diana Therese M. Veloso (Faculty – Behavioral Sciences Department)

Fiction (Filipino)
Mon Karlo L. Mangaran (Faculty – Departamento ng Filipino)

Poetry (English)
Brylle B. Tabora (MFA Creative Writing)

Poetry (Filipino)
Vijae O. Alquisola (Faculty – Literature Department)

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About the DLSU Mini-Grant for Creative Writing

This grant program seeks to lend modest assistance to DLSU writers and artists who are in need of minimal resources to produce creative work—poetry, fiction, drama, creative nonfiction, or film (screenplay). Each fellow will receive a mini-grant of Php 10,000.00.

For this year, the grant officially begins this 2nd Term 2020-2021. The grantees shall be given one year to complete the manuscript, which may be any of the following: five pages of poetry; one short story; one short play; one essay; and film script.

The bursary will be given upon submission of the creative work.

Within a year after submission of the final output, the work must be submitted for publication, exhibition, or contest, whether local, national, or international. Grantees are also expected to acknowledge De La Salle University when the work is published (print or online), exhibited, performed (for drama), or filmed (for the screenplay).

The DLSU Mini-Grant for Creative Writing is a project of the College of Liberal Arts Research and Advanced Studies Office with support from the DLSU Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation and the Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center.

The awardees shall be contacted by the staff of BNSCWC and CLA-RAS for updates as well as processing of the grant.

Pagbati sa sumusunod na mga fellow para sa Luntiang Palihan 2020: The DLSU Young Writers’ Workshop in Local Languages.

Pangunahing layunin ng palihang ito na palawigin ang paggamit ng mga mag-aaral ng lokal na wika pagdating sa malikhaing pagsulat. Nilalayon din nitong hasain ang kakayahan ng mga batang manunulat na potensyal na makapag-aambag sa literaturang Filipino.

Bawat taon, binibigyang-tuon ng palihan ang pambansang wika (Filipino) at isang lokal na lengguwahe. Sa taong ito, pagtutuunan ang Filipino at Bikol.

Gaganapin ang palihan (online workshop) sa 8 Agosto 2020.

The Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center

cordially invites you to

The BNSCWC State of the Nation Series

ANG TEATRO NGAYON:
A ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION ON THE STATE OF PHILIPPINE THEATER

Speakers
Malou Jacob
Rody Vera
José Estrella
Dominique “Nikki” Garde-Torres
Layeta Bucoy
Maynard Manansala

Moderator
Dr. Jose Victor Torrres

Project Director
Mr. Mario “Em” Mendez

22 February 2020
1:30-4:30pm (Saturday)
The Learning Commons, 6F Henry Sy, Sr. Hall
De La Salle University, Taft Avenue, Manila

The event is open to the public, but slots are limited. For reservations and inquiries, please call 8524-4611 local 233 or email [email protected].

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About the Event

This event is part of BNSCWC’s State of the Nation Series, a project which aims to promote critical exchange among artists and scholars on various art forms and their current state in the Philippines.  The two previous events focused on Philippine poetry in local languages and Children’s Literature.

For this event, BNSCWC has invited distinguished theater artists to share their ideas on contemporary Philippine theater, its problems and its possibilities.

About the Speakers

Layeta P. Bucoy is an Associate Professor at the University of the Philippines Los Baños. She is a five-time winner of the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature. Her scripts also won in the Philstage Gawad Buhay Awards, ABS-CBN Scriptwriting Contest, and the UP-VIVA Scriptwriting Contest. Some of her stage plays include Isang Libong Tula Para sa Dibdib ni Dulce, Ellas Inocentes, Doc Resureccion: Gagamutin ang Bayan, Walang Kukurap, Sandosenang Sapatos, and Kleptomaniacs. She served as a screenwriter for Rigodon, Edna, Melodrama Negra, and Lakbay2Love. She was an erotic novelist and rom-com writer for PinoyParazzi. As an in-house writer for Psicom Publishing House, she contributed short stories to True Philippine Ghost Stories; chick lit novelettes to Heartbeat Romance; and inspiring stories to Sopas Muna! She is a recipient of the College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Alumni Award for BA in Communication Arts and the University of the Philippines Los Banos Outstanding Alumni Award for Culture and the Arts.

José Estrella is a Professor at the Department of Speech Communication and Theatre Arts, University of the Philippines Diliman. She obtained her MFA in directing from Columbia University through a Fulbright scholarship.

José has regularly directed original versions, as well as adaptations and Filipino translations of world classics and contemporary works.  Directing credits include: Nana Rosa by Rody Vera; Ang Dalagita’y ‘sang Bagay na Di-Buo (Rody Vera’s adaptation of A Girl is a Half-formed Thing); Faust (Rody Vera’s adaptation of Goethe’s Faust); Bilanggo ng Pag-ibig (Rody Vera’s original play based on Genet’s Un Captif Amoureux); Divinas Palabras (Gerry Respeto’s translation of Miguel del Valle Inclan’s play); Federico Garcia Lorca’s Blood Wedding (Lumbera’s translation) and The Butterfly’s Evil Spell (Respeto); Larong Demonyo by Nick Pichay for VLF; Troyanas (Euripides); Orfeo sa Impiyerno (Fil translation of Williams’ Orpheus Descending); Ang Pokpok ng Ohio (Fil translation of The Whore of Ohio); Shakespeare’s Makbet (Tinio), Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night,  As You Like It, and Much Ado About Nothing (Nadera); Amphytrion (Fil trans of Schiller); Birthday Party by Harold Pinter; The Crucible by Arthur Miller; La Chunga (Mario Vargas-Llosa); Night of the Iguana (Williams); Penthesilea (Schiller); and Banaag at Sikat.

José served as Artistic Director of Dulaang UP (2001-2007), Executive and Associate Artistic Director of Tanghalang Pilipino (2009-2010), and Associate Artistic Director for the Virgin Labfest (2009-2011).

She is currently the Director of the UP Theater Complex and Advisory Board Member (for Theater) of the UP Diliman Office for Initiatives in Culture and the Arts (OICA).  In 2007, José was awarded an Asian Cultural Council grant.

Malou Jacob is a documentary video/filmmaker and a playwright. Her plays are Aidao, Juan Tamban, Ang Mahabang Pagdadalawang-Isip sa Maikling Buhay ng isang Peti-Burgis, Pulitikal ng Buhay at Pag-Ibig, Macli-ing Dulag,  Anatomiya ng Korupsyon, Pepe, Teresa Magbanua, and Batang Mujahideen.

Her play Country In Search of A Hero / Bayang Pinagtaksilan ng Panahon received a stage reading during the opening of The 5th Women Playwrights  International Conference in Greece; and Huling Salubong / A Significant Life at The 7th WPIC in Indonesia.

She is  a Palanca, Manila Critics Circle, Unesco ITI Valenzuela Playwriting  Competition  Gawad CCP para sa Sining, UMPIL Gawad Balagtas, and SEAWrite Awardee.

She is one of the most produced and published playwrights in  her country: CCP’s Modern ASEAN Plays Philippines; DLSU’s Notes for the Filipino Playwright; EBook: Teatro Pulitikal; PETA’s Juan Tamban; St. Scholastica’s   Anatomiya ng Korupsyon / Anatomy of Corruption in bilingual edition; and XXth Century: 2 Plays in bilingual edition by UP Press.

In 2000, she organized the first country chapter of WPI during The Second Asian Women and Theater Conference; and The 6th Women Playwrights International Conference in Manila in 2003.

Today, Women Playwrights Philippines (WPIPhil) conducts Save the BABAILAN playwriting workshops for emerging Lumad and Moro women.

Dominique “Nikki” Garde-Torres is an events manager, a cultural worker and a writer.  As an Events Manager working full time for the Cultural Center of the Philippines, she has acted as Production and Stage Manager of many local and international festivals among which are the PASINAYA Open House Festival, The Virgin Labfest, the National Theater Festival, Neo FIlipino and the Wi-Fi Contemporary Dance Festival. She was an apprentice for Britain’s David Glass Ensemble and attended the Association for Asia Pacific Performing Arts Centers Conference in Korea as a delegate of the CCP.  She also took part in the Toyama Performing Arts Market in 2015. In her free time, Nikki is a freelance writer who has written scripts for many CCP events as well as for various magazines and newspapers. She has penned a booklet on voter education for the Philippine Educational Theater Association. A lover of children and young adult’s literature, Nikki is the Assistant Regional Advisor of the Philippine Chapter of the Society for Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators.

Maynard Manansala is the BNSCWC Writing Fellow for Drama this academic year.  He has had six Virgin Labfest entries including his directorial debut in 2019 for U.Z. Eliserio’s Anak Ka Ng, which was also selected for the Revisited Set. His plays have been staged in other festivals here and abroad, such as Pista Rizalina, Pink Shorts, Bindlestiff Studio’s Tagalog Festival, and Melbourne Fringe Festival. He co-wrote a play for Philippine Educational Theater Association entitled FnL (2014) and served as assistant playwright/adapter for Tanghalang Pilipino’s production of Oriza Hirata’s Manila Notes (2018).  In 2018, his work Tao Po won Second Place in the Palanca’s One Act Play in Filipino category; and UP Press published Kolab: Koleksiyon ng Mga Dula, which he co-authored with U.Z. Eliserio and Chuckberry J. Pascual. He is currently a faculty member of De La Sa Lalle University’s Departamento ng Filipino, and he is taking his PhD in Filipino: Pagsasalin at the University of the Philippines Diliman.

Rodolfo “Rody” Vera is a playwright, screenwriter, actor/performer, and director. He has written around sixty plays, (original and adaptations). He won in several competitions, notably, the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature (Hall of Fame), the UMPIL Gawad Balagtas Awardee, Gawad Tanglaw ng Lahi, Cinemalaya, Urian, and several international film festivals in Cannes, Tokyo, and Dhaka. His award-winning works in theater and film include:  Luna: Isang Romansang Aswang, Arbol de Fuego, Bilanggo ng Pag-ibig, Death March, Indigo Child, Goyo, and Signal Rock. He is co-founder of the Virgin Labfest, an annual theater festival of new works for the stage, and he currently heads the Writer’s Bloc, Inc, a group of Filipino playwrights.

The College of Liberal Arts Research and Advanced Studies Office (CLA-RAS) is inviting faculty members, graduate students, academic service faculty (ASF), administrative service personnel (ASP), and co-academic personnel (CAP) of De La Salle University (Taft and Laguna Campus) to apply for the mini-grants for creative writing.

This grant seeks to lend a modest assistance to writers and artists who are in need of minimal resources to enable them to produce a creative work in any of the following genres/forms: poetry, fiction, drama, creative nonfiction, or screenplay. The creative work may be written in English or Filipino.

Ten (10) grantees will be selected to receive a bursary of ₱10,000.00 each.

This program is supported by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation (VCRI) and co-managed by the Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center (BNSCWC).

Not eligible for the application are the personnel of BNSCWC (including the Associates and members of the Advisory Council), CLA-RAS Office, and VCRI Office. Past grantees can apply after a two-year interval.

Application Requirements

1. Cover Letter (explaining the applicant’s reason/s for applying and discussing briefly the applicant’s writing background and his/her intended project)
2. Curriculum vitae (including contact information, a complete list of publications, and ID-size picture)
3. Sample work (e.g., three to four poems, one short story, one one-act play, one essay, or one script)
4. For graduate students, a copy of the current EAF (2^nd Term AY 2019-2020)

Please submit the application portfolio to:

DLSU Mini-Grants for Creative Writing 2019-2020
c/o The Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center
Miguel Building Room 208
De La Salle University, 2401 Taft Avenue, Manila

For email submission, please send the portfolio to: [email protected]. Indicate “DLSU MINI-GRANTS” in the subject heading.

Incomplete applications shall be not processed.

Deadline: February 15, 2020

Output Requirements

The project must be completed within a timeframe of one year. Minimum output may be any of the following:

Five pages of poetry
One short story
One short play
One essay
One film script

Output that goes beyond the aforementioned requirements is highly encouraged (e.g., a full-length play, a novel-in-progress, a collection of poems, a short story collection, a full-length screenplay). The grant money will be given upon submission of the final output.

Within a year after submission of the final output, the work must be submitted for publication, exhibition or contest, whether local, national, or international.   Grantees are also expected to acknowledge De La Salle University when the work is published (print or online), exhibited, or performed, if applicable.

For inquiries, please contact BNSCWC at local 233; email [email protected]; or CLA-RAS at local 328; email [email protected].

The Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center is inviting undergraduate and graduate students in Metropolitan Manila to submit their application for Luntiang Palihan 2020: The DLSU Young Writers’ Workshop in Local Languages, which will be held on April 2, 2020 at the Faculty Center, DLSU-Manila.

The workshop aims to promote creative writing in local languages among students and to hone the craft of talented individuals who have the potential to make significant contributions to Philippine literature and culture in the future.

Every year, the workshop will focus on the national language (Filipino) and another local language. This year, the languages are Filipino and Bikol. Applicants must be 18 to 39 years old. Five to six applicants will be chosen for the workshop

Applicants should submit the following:

> Two printed copies of their original work (Filipino or Bikol): 3 poems or 1 short story, font size 12 pts., double-spaced, 1”x1” margin. The short story must be numbered, by paragraph, on the left margin. Works in Bikol must be accompanied by a translation into Filipino or English.

> A short resumé, with a page containing the applicant’s complete contact information (residence address, date of birth, email address, contact number, university/college, and degree)

> A cover letter stating the applicant’s reasons for applying to the workshop and his/her writing goals. Address the letter to the workshop director Dr. John Iremil Teodoro.

> A 1” x 1” or passport-sized ID photo

Please submit the application portfolio to:

LUNTIANG PALIHAN 2020
The Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center
Miguel Building Room 208
De La Salle University, 2401 Taft Avenue, Manila

Applicants must also email the application portfolio to [email protected]. In the subject, please write Luntiang Palihan 2020 Application.

Application portfolio—both printed and online copies—must be submitted on or before February 28, 2020. Incomplete applications will not be processed.

For inquiries, please email [email protected]

Isang paanyaya

mula sa

Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center

at

The University of the Philippines Press

para sa

TAFT LOVE:
PAGLULUNSAD NG DALAWANG AKLAT NG PAG-IBIG

Sad-sadan, Happy-hapihan: Mga Kuwento ng Pag-ibig (UP Press)
Dr. John Iremil Teodoro

Kung Ang Siyudad Ay Pag-ibig (UP Press)
Dr. Carlos M. Piocos III

14 Nobyembre 2019
4:15-6:00pm (Thursday)
Yuchengco Room 507-509
5F Don Enrique T. Yuchengco Hall
De La Salle University, Taft Avenue, Manila

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Tungkol sa mga Aklat

Sad-sadan, Happy-hapihan: Mga Kuwento ng Pag-ibig (UP Press)

Mula sa blurb na sinulat ni Dr. Romulo P. Baquiran, Jr.:

“Nagpapahayag ang koleksiyong Sad-sadan, Happy-hapihan ng hindi nag-aalangang pagkukuwento ng pananaw-sa-daigdig ng bakla. Hindi na ito ang may bahid ng pagkukubli (isipin na naisulat ito halos isang dekada na ang nakararaan) kung kaya maituturing na siyang pangunahing ambag sa fiction sa Filipino. Sa madaling sabi, ang ipinapahayag na politika nito sa kalahatan ay mapagpalaya. Hindi na pinagmumulan ng ligalig ang kaisipang bakla, na baka maging hindi katanggap-tanggap sa mambabasa ang kuwentong nabuo ng awtor. Matapang siya kung ganoon sa pagpalaot sa larang na ito. Mahusay ang pagkakasulat ng mga kuwento. Sa maikli at katamtamang haba ng pagsasalaysay ay naisasagawa ang layuning maipahayag ang mga karanasang madalas na hindi nabibigyan ng puwang sa popular na lathalain at sa mga textbook. Isa itong ambag sa lumalawak na pangangailangan na magkaroon ng mga babasahing LGBTQ na sumasalamin sa pagsisikap ng sector na makalaya sa heteronormatibong literatura.”

Kung Ang Siyudad Ay Pag-ibig (UP Press)

Hindi lugar ang siyudad sa aklat na ito kundi isang kondisyon ng posibilidad, isang malawak na panginoring inaasam puntahan, panahanan, takbuhan at takbuhan papalayo ng mga katawan. At ang Pag-ibig ng mga katawan sa koleksiyong ito – mga mamamayan, turista, migrante’t destiyero – ay hindi lamang mga pangarap, libog at lunggating nakalakip sa bawat baka-sakali ng pandarayuhan kundi mga pang-araw-araw na pagluluksa’t pagsalag sa dahas ng hangganan ng teritoryo’t teritoryalidad ng kapangyarihan. May “pangako ng ginhawa” sa kondisyonalidad ng Kung ang Siyudad ay Pag-ibig: ipinupusta ng wika ng tula na hindi lamang tayo makahanap ng lugar at “makapagpanibagong-lungsod” kundi makalikha rin ng bagong daigdig na may “mas ginintuang parang, mas makikinang na dagat, at mas mahihiwagang disyerto” para sa ating dinarahuyo’t tinutupok sa mumunti nating sulok sa malupit na mundo.

Tungkol sa mga Awtor

Si John Iremil Teodoro ay guro ng literatura at malikhaing pagsulat sa De La Salle University at associate for regional literature sa Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center. Isang premyadong manunulat at kritiko mula sa San Jose de Buenavista, Antique, at nakatira ngayon sa Lungsod Pasig. Awtor siya ng maraming libro ng mga tula, maikling kuwento, at sanaysay sa Kinaray-a, Filipino, Hiligaynon, at Ingles. Ang kaniyang kalipunan ng mga sanaysay na Pagmumuni-muni at Pagtatalak ng Sirenang Nagpapanggap na Prinsesa ay nanalo ng National Book Award mula sa Manila Critics Circle at National Book Development Board. Sekretaryo heneral siya ng Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas at kasapi ng Alon Literature Collective.

Si Carlos M. Piocos III ay kasalukuyang guro sa Departamento ng Panitikan ng De La Salle University Manila. Nagtapos siya ng BA Comparative Literature (University of the Philippines [UP] Diliman), MA Critical and Cultural Theory (Cardiff University), at PhD Comparative Literature (The University of Hong Kong). Nagwagi ng ilang gantimpala sa pagtula (Palanca: 2007, Unang Gantimpala sa Tula; at 2010, Unang Gantimpala sa Tula); at naging fellow sa iba’t ibang pambansang palihan (Ateneo, UP, La Salle at Iligan). Inilathala ng University of Santo Tomas Publishing House ang kanyang unang aklat ng tula, Corpus, noong 2011.

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Para sa karagdagang impormasyon, tumawag lamang sa 8524-4611 local 233 o mag-email sa [email protected]

The Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center

cordially invites you to a

CRAFT LECTURE
From Psyche to Verse: Writing from the Depths

by

Dr. Roseann Tan-Mansukhani

8 October 2019
4:15 – 5:45 p.m. (Tuesday)
Philippe Jones Lhuillier Conference Room
14F Henry Sy Sr. Hall
De La Salle University, Taft Avenue, Manila

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About the Lecture

Using James Hillman’s archetypal psychology as a lens, Dr. Roseann Tan-Mansukhani discusses her process of writing five poems that reflect existential themes from the perspective of depth psychology. Hillman’s “poetic basis of mind”— the psyche as rooted in imagination and aesthetics – has inspired her to mine the soul for images and deep emotions, arriving at a poetic engagement with the soul.

About the Speaker

Roseann Tan-Mansukhani is an associate professor of psychology at De La Salle University Manila. She received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the Ateneo de Manila University. Her research focuses on spirituality, wisdom, gratitude, beauty, and mental health. She was a poetry fellow in the 1995 National Writers Workshop in Dumaguete.

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For more information, call 524-4611 local 233 or email [email protected]

Isang Paanyaya

mula sa

Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center
Departamento ng Literatura
at
Departamento ng Filipino

katuwang ang
Balangay Productions

para sa

PANAYAM

at

PAGLULUNSAD

ng

PLAKARD
(Balangay Productions)

ni 

Dr. Efren R. Abueg

15 Agosto 2019
Huwebes, 11:00 n.u.-2:30 n.h.
Event Area, Learning Commons,
6F Henry Sy Sr. Hall
De La Salle University, Taft Avenue, Manila

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Tungkol sa Panayam at Lunsad-Aklat

Isa sa maituturing na haligi ng panitikang Pilipino ang makata, kuwentista, at nobelistang si Dr. Efren R. Abueg. Mula sa pagiging regular na contributor ng maiikling kuwento at nobela sa magasing “Liwayway” hanggang sa pagiging bahagi ng premyadong antolohiya ng maiikling kuwento na “Mga Agos ng Disyerto,” hindi maikakailang malaki ang naging ambag ni Dr. Abueg sa kalinangan ng panitikan sa bansa. Sa panayam na ito, muling babalikan ang kaniyang makulay na karanasan bilang manunulat at guro. Bukod pa, kasabay ding ilulunsad ang librong “Plakard,” kalipunan ng kaniyang mga maiikling kuwento.

Ang pagtitipong ito ay bahagi ng pagdiriwang ng Buwan ng Wika ng BNSCWC, Departamento ng Literature, at Departamento ng Filipino ng Pamantasang De  La Salle

Tungkol sa Aklat

Dalawa lamang antolohiya ng mga kuwento sa anomang wikang sinasalita sa Pilipinas ang nagharap sa sambayanang Pilipino ng tungkol sa mga pangyayari,  kaisipan at damdaming humantong sa isang mahalagang bahagi ng kasaysayan ng bansa – ang Rebolusyong EDSA. Una ang “Sigwa,” katipunan ng maiikling kuwento na pinamatnugutan ni Ricky Lee ng inilathala bago ideklara ang martial law; ikalawa itong “Plakard” na hango ng awtor ang maraming akda sa mga pahina ng “Liwayway” at iba pang popular na publikasyon.

Bahagi ang may-akda ng mga nangyari sa panahon ng aktibismo at isinangkap niya ang ilang karanasan niya sa mga kuwentong nilalaman ng antolohiyang ito. May kani-kaniyang pananaw ang maraming manunulat at alagad ng sining sa mga nangyari sa lipunan noong mga panahong iyon. Ang paghuhunos ng mga karanasang iyon ang naglantad at maglalantad pa ng kanilang mga ideolohiya na magtatakda ng kapalaran ng ating bansa sa darating na mga taon.

Tungkol sa Manunulat

Si Efren R. Abueg ay ginawaran ng Alab ng Haraya Lifetime Achievement for Literature ng National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA, 2002), nagkamit ng ilang Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature (maikling kuwento) at Gantimpalang Liwayway sa nobela, at isa sa limang manunulat ng antolohiya ng premyadong maiikling kuwentong nakaapat nang edisyon, ang “Mga Agos sa Disyerto” (1964, 1974, 1995, 2010) matagal na nagturo sa dalawang kampus ng De La Salle University (Maynila at Dasmariñas, Cavite). Aktibong nobelista ng lingguhang magasing “Liwayway,” nagtuturo pa rin siya ngayon sa paaralang gradwado ng University of Perpetual Help System DALTA (UPHSD).

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Para sa karagdagang impormasyon, tumawag lamang sa 524-4611 local 233 o magpadala ng email sa [email protected]

The Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center
cordially invites you to a

LECTURE

The Biographer’s Dilemma:
The Creative Challenges of Writing Biography

by

Joe Jackson

16 March 2019
9:00-11:00 a.m. (Saturday)
Philippe Jones Lhuillier Conference Room,
14F Henry Sy Sr. Hall
De La Salle University, Taft Avenue, Manila

About the Lecture

How does one write an engaging biography of a historical figure when it’s hard enough to write a short personal bio for a job application? How does one distill the mysteries of character through such filters as historical comprehension and passing time? More simply, how does one inhabit another’s mind? Admittedly, it’s hard. The creative challenges faced by the biographer are like those of the writer of fiction, memoir, and the personal essay; are similar to the professional “craft” of the journalist or clinical psychologist. But with variations. “Character” is the heartbeat of any empathetic endeavor, but how does one make one’s subject live? The author reflects upon his own work while drawing on his experiences as a death-row reporter and suicide counselor in the USA.

About the Author

Joe Jackson is the author of one novel and seven works of nonfiction, including Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary, winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography and the Society of American Historians’ Francis Parkman Prize. Jackson holds an MFA from the University of Arkansas, was recently the Mina Hohenberg Darden Endowed Chair of Creative Writing at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA., and was an investigative reporter for the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, where he covered criminal justice and the state’s Death Row. His journalism resulted in the acquittal of a man wrongly convicted of murder, the federal investigation of a jail in which sixteen prisoners died of medical neglect, and the recantations of two men whose testimony sent men to Death Row. Over the years he has been chased by an elephant and two rhinos in Zimbabwe, greeted by killer wasps and a big anaconda in the Amazon, and fired upon by Soviet troops in Lithuania. Such moments have taught him that panic is rarely the best option, a good mantra for writers facing deadlines. He is in Manila researching an extended narrative on the Spanish-American and Philippine-American wars, told from the viewpoint of the Cuban, Filipino, and American participants.

Inihahandog ng

Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center
Departamento ng Literatura
at
DLSU Libraries

kaugnay sa pagdiriwang ng

Pambansang Araw ng mga Aklat Pambata

ang

LEKTURA

Ano na ang Ating mga Nagawa?
Ang Huling Sampung Taon ng Panitikang-pambata sa Pilipinas

ni

Genaro R. Gojo Cruz

23 Hulyo 2019
12:45-2:30 n.h. (Martes)
Event Area, The Learning Commons
6/F Henry Sy Sr. Hall
De La Salle University, Taft Avenue, Manila

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Tungkol sa Lektura

Layunin ng lektura na balikan ang kalagayan ng produksiyon ng panitikang pambata sa nakalipas na sampung taon. Bahagi ito ng hangarin ng taunang selebrasyon ng Pambansang Araw ng mga Aklat Pambata na lalong paangatin ang interes para sa panitikang pambata.

Bukod sa lektura, magkakaroon din ng exhibit kaugnay sa Panitikang-Pambata na pinamagatang, “Sampung Aklat Pambata na Dapat Nabasa Mo Noong Bata Ka” na pinangasiwaan ni G. Gojo Cruz. Makikita ang exhibit sa the Learning Commons, HSSH:  6F Event Area, Hulyo 22-23, 2019; at 10F Filipiniana Collection, Hulyo 24-Agosto 27, 2019. Ang proyektong ito ay pinangungunahan ng BNSCWC, DLSU Libraries, at Departamento ng Literatura.

Abstrak ng Lektura

Di-nawawala ang alab sa paglikha ng mga aklat-pambata hanggang sa taong kasalukuyan.  Marami na ngayong dumadagdag sa malalaking publikasyon, tulad ng mga ahensiya ng Gobyerno at pribadong organisasyon, ang nagkakaroon ng interes maglathala ng mga aklat-pambata.  Sinasabi ng isang manunulat ng mga akdang-pambata, na di-mapasusubalian na tayo ngayon ay nasa “Gintong Panahon ng Panitikang-Pambata.”

Tatangkain ng lekturang ito na balikan ang huling sampung taon ng produksiyon ng panitikang pambata sa Pilipinas.  Ano-ano ang naikuwento na ng mga manunulat sa mga batang Filipino? May mga nadagdag bang mga bagong kuwento na tumalakay sa kontemporanyong panahon o sa higit na mabibigat ng isyung panlipunan?  Ano-anong uri at anyo ng aklat-pambata na nalilikha para sa mga batang Filipino? Sa anong anyo/uri ng mga aklat-pambata ang higit kailangang palakasin ang produksiyon? Sapat na ba ang ating mga nagawa sa panitikang pambata para makalikha tayo ng isang nasyong nagbabasa?

Tungkol sa Manunulat 

Si Genaro R. Gojo Cruz ay isang guro at manunulat na nagsusulong ng panitikang-pambata sa Pilipinas. Awtor siya ng mahigit sa 80 aklat-pambata.

Ang kaniyang mga kuwentong-pambatang naisulat ay pinarangalan ng Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, PBBY-Salanga Writers Prize, Romeo Forbes Story Writing Contest, Gawad Panitikang Pangkalusugan, at Gig Book Storywriting Contest.

Itinanghal din siyang Makata ng Taon noong 2004 at 2007. Kinilala rin ng National Children’s Book Awards (NCBA) bilang Best Reads for Kids 2018 ang kaniyang aklat-pambatang “May Gulong na Bahay.”

Nagtuturo siya ngayon sa Literature Department ng De La Salle University.  Siya rin ang Associate for Children’s Literature ng Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center sa DLSU.

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Para sa karagdagang impormasyon, tumawag lamang sa 524-4611 local 233 o magpadala ng email sa [email protected]

Inihahandog ng

Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center
DLSU Libraries
at
Literature Department

kaugnay ng pagdiriwang ng
Pambansang Araw ng mga Aklat Pambata

ang

EKSIBIT

Sampung Aklat-Pambata na Dapat Nabasa Mo Noong Bata Ka

na tinipon at inihanda ni

Genaro R. Gojo Cruz

Hulyo 22-23, 2019
Event Area, The Learning Commons
6F Henry Sy Sr. Hall

Hulyo 24 – Agosto 27, 2019
Filipiniana Collection, The Learning Commons
10F Henry Sy Sr. Hall
De La Salle University, Taft Avenue, Manila

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Tungkol sa Eksibit

Bahagi ang eksibit na ito sa pakikiisa sa taunang selebrasyon ng Pambansang Araw ng mga Aklat Pambata na layuning paangatin lalo ang interes para sa Panitikang Pambata. Itatampok rito ang sampung aklat-pambata na isinulat ng mga premyadong manunulat tulad nina National Artist Virgilio Almario, Rene O. Villanueva, Rebecca T. Añonuevo, at Luis Gatmaitan.

Tungkol sa Curator

Si Genaro R. Gojo Cruz ay isang guro at manunulat na nagsusulong ng panitikang-pambata sa Pilipinas. Awtor siya ng mahigit sa 80 aklat-pambata.

Ang kaniyang mga kuwentong-pambatang naisulat ay pinarangalan ng Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, PBBY-Salanga Writers Prize, Romeo Forbes Story Writing Contest, Gawad Panitikang Pangkalusugan, at Gig Book Storywriting Contest.

Itinanghal din siyang Makata ng Taon noong 2004 at 2007. Kinilala rin ng National Children’s Book Awards (NCBA) bilang Best Reads for Kids 2018 ang kaniyang aklat-pambatang “May Gulong na Bahay”.

Nagtuturo siya ngayon sa Literature Department ng De La Salle University.  Siya rin ang Associate for Children’s Literature ng Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center sa DLSU.

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Para sa karagdagang impormasyon, tumawag lamang sa 524-4611 local 233 o magpadala ng email sa [email protected]

The Literature Department
The Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center
and
The Office of the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts

in partnership with
Ateneo de Manila University Press

cordially invite you to

The Launching of Broken Islands and a Craft Lecture 

by

CRISELDA YABES

13 July 2019 (Saturday), 12:00nn-1:30pm
DLSU Libraries, The Learning Commons
6/F Henry Sy Sr. Hall
De La Salle University
Taft Avenue, Manila

About the Event

During the event, Yabes will give a craft lecture to literature graduate students of DLSU.  She will share her experiences about writing a novel set in a town on the island of Cebu during the aftermath of typhoon Yolanda or Haian.

Broken Islands follows Below the Crying Mountain, which won for Yabes the University of the Philippines Centennial Literary award in 2008 and was nominated for the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2010.  The Penguin Southeast Asia edition of Below the Crying Mountain will also be released this year. Yabes is better known as an investigative journalist writing books on the Philippine military and Mindanao such as Boys from the Barracks and Peace Warriors.

This book launch-cum-craft lecture is open to the public.  For reservations and inquiries, please call 524-4611 local 233 or email [email protected].

Isang paanyaya

mula sa
Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center
at
Departamento ng Literatura
ng Kolehiyo ng Malalayang Sining

para sa

KALAGAYAN NG PANULAAN SA FILIPINO AT IBA PANG LOKAL NA WIKA:
 LECTURES AND A ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION

Mga Tagapagsalita

Dr. Allan Popa

Faye Cura

Niles Jordan Breis

Jerry Grácio

Moderator

Dr. Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles

10 Hulyo 2019
12:30-4:00 n.h. (Miyerkules)
The Learning Commons,
6F Henry Sy Sr. Hall
Pamantasang De La Salle, Taft Avenue, Manila

Bukas ito sa publiko, ngunit limitado lamang ang bilang ng upuan. Para sa mga nais dumalo, mangyaring magpareserba lamang kay May Raquepo sa numerong 524-4611 local 541 o magpadala ng email sa [email protected].

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MGA ABSTRAK NG LEKTURA

Datapoua Hindi Tula: Pag-Akda sa Hanggahan ng Liriko
Allan Popa

Bagamat patuloy ang pagtula sa kasalukuyan sa anyong liriko upang magpaalingawngaw ng protesta, magsuri, magmulat, at magpahiwatig ng posibilidad ng transpormasyong panlipunan, patuloy ding naghahanap ng bagong pamamaraan at dulog sa pag-akda ang maraming manunulat upang makompronta ang ginagawang pagwasak ng mga puwersang mapaniil sa lipunan sa mga dating batayan ng ating mga paniniwala at saligan din ng bisa ng tula.

Karaniwang Daniw: Babae, Tula, at ang Araw-Araw
Faye Cura

“Hindi espesyal ang babaeng makata,” sulat ni Luna Sicat Cleto. “Ang pagiging ordinaryo niya ang kanyang lakas.” Ipakikita ng panayam ang pagtalakay ng mga babaeng makata sa araw-araw na buhay, at ang mga posibilidad nito sa pagsulat ng kasaysayang makababae at makabayan. Kabilang sa itatampok ang mga tula ng feministang si Aida F. Santos, ng kababaihang pesante mula sa Cavite, at ilan pang halimbawa ng mga tulang nakatagpo ng Gantala Press sa mga pagsusumikap nito sa larangan ng independent women’s publishing.

Tubig sa Rikan-rikan: Dapat Bang may Bikolnon sa Bawat Rawitdawit?
Niles Jordan Breis

Ilalatag ang ilang datos hinggil sa panulaang Bikol simula 1995 hanggang sa kasalukuyan kabilang na rito ang iba pang kaugnay na mga inklinasyon ng mga paksa at poetikong artikulasyon. Tatalakayin din ang tila pagkagumon sa anumang Bikolnon na dapat umanong nasa bawat rawitdawit at sisipatin din ang ilang panimulang diskurso tungkol dito.

Mula Mingaw Tungong Kalipay:
Panimulang Sipat sa Kontemporanyong Panulaang Waray
Jerry B. Grácio

Mula nang ideklarang “patay na” ang panulaang Waray noong Dekada 90, nagbanyuhay ang tula sa Samar-Leyte at umusbong ang mga bagong manunulat sa rehiyon dahil sa mga pampanitikang palihan sa mga unibersidad na nagresulta sa “modernisasyon” ng panulaan. Ngunit nagbunga rin ito ng extreme na tendensiyang parokyal na kailangang igpawan upang tiyakin ang patuloy na pagyabong ng tula at iba pang pampanitikang anyo na nakasulat sa wikang ito.
 

TUNGKOL SA MGA TAGAPAGSALITA

Si Allan Popa ay awtor ng sampung aklat ng mga tula kabilang na ang Damagan (UST Publishing House, 2018) at Narkotiko at Panganorin (Ateneo Press, 2018). Nagawaran na ng National Book Award for Poetry at Philippines Free Press Literary Award ang kanyang mga akda. Nagtapos siya ng MFA in Writing sa Washington University in Saint Louis at PhD in Literature sa De La Salle University. Nagtuturo siya ng Panitikan at Pagsulat sa Ateneo de Manila University. Ilalabas ng DLSU Publishing House ngayong taon ang bago niyang aklat ng mga tula, ang Autopsiya ng Aking Kamatayan.

Si Faye Cura ay awtor ng tatlong koleksiyon ng tula. Noong 2015, binuo niya kasama ang iba pang kababaihan ang Gantala Press, isang feministang kolektibong pampanitikan na nakapaglathala na ng mga libro, chapbook, at zine na inakda at binuo ng mga babae at tumatalakay sa mga isyung panlipunan katulad ng digmaan at karahasan, underrepresentation at invisibility, at pang-aabuso at paniniil.

Si Niles Jordan Breis ay isang premyadong makata, mananaysay at nobelista na tubong-Tabaco, Albay. Nagwagi siya sa Palanca at itinanghal na 1994 Makata ng Taon ng Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino at naging Parasurat kan Taon sa 2012 NCCA-Premyo Arejola para sa Pagsurat Bikolnon. Siya ay lead recipient ng 2016 Outstanding Albayano Awardee. Naging 2018 Fellow ng UP National Writers’ Workshop UP-ICW at nitong 2019 ay Grand Winner ng 1st Valledor Prize for Best Bikol Novel.

Si Jerry B. Grácio ay nagsusulat ng tula at dulang pampelikula. Autor siya ng Waray Hiunong sa Gugma|Walang Tungkol sa Pag-ibig—koleksiyon ng mga tulang Waray, at ng kalalabas lamang na Bagay Tayo at Hindi Bagay. Ginawaran siya ng 2015 Southeast Asia (SEAWrite) Award. Kasalukuyan siyang senior writer sa ABS-CBN at Komisyoner para sa mga wikang Samar-Leyte sa Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino.

The Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center

cordially invites you to

World Without Walls:  A Poetry Reading in Manila
Featuring Lasallian Writers and Friends 

15 February 2019
4:15 to 6:30 p.m. (Friday)
Phillip Lhuillier Conference Room
14^th Floor Henry Sy Sr. Hall
De La Salle University, Taft Avenue, Manila

About the Event

World Without Walls:  A Poetry Reading in Manila Featuring Lasallian Writers and Friends is organized by the Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center in support of World Poetry Movement’s month-long reading ofpoetry this February 2019 to reinforce our vision of a more just and more livable world free from discrimination.

From the World Poetry Movement:

“In September 2018, in Zigong, China, the Coordinating Committee of the World Poetry Movement met, and considering that dividing walls are emerging to segregate people: concrete walls, barbed wire walls, or more invisible walls built by money and inequality, its members took the decision to call for a planetary poetic action to be carried out in February 2019.

In the appeal that followed, we stated that “we, the poets, participating in the World Poetry Movement, we defend a free world from all discrimination between the people because of their colour of their skin, national identity, social status, gender or beliefs.”  (https://www.wpm2011.org/)

Held during the Philippine National Arts Month, the poetry reading is part of the activities of the 12^th DLSU Arts Congress (13 to 23 February 2019) and the yearlong centennial celebration of the College of Liberal Arts.

Readers

As of press time, the following have confirmed their attendance:  Allan Pastrana, Alona J. Ardales, Ayer Arguelles, Carlito P. Casaje, Carlos M. Piocos III, Clarissa Militante, Dinah T. Roma, Genaro R. Gojo Cruz, Ina Abuan, Jazmin B. Llana, Johann Vladimir Espiritu, John Iremil E. Teodoro, Jose Kervin Cesar Calabias, Mark Adrian Ho, Oscar Solapco, and Vijae Alquisola.

For more info about the World Poetry Movement, please visit: https://www.wpm2011.org/

#WorldWithoutWalls

 For inquiries, please call DLSU BNSCWC (632) 5244611 local 233; email [email protected]

BNSCWC:  Celebrating more than 25 years of great Filipino writing

The Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center
in partnership with
De La Salle University Publishing House
OMF Literature Inc.
Taftique, Inc.
The Bookmark, Inc.

cordially invite you to a

BOOK LAUNCHING

A Night Bird Sings of Blindness and Fear (OMF Literature Inc.)
Janina Rivera

Hagdanang Bahaghari (The Bookmark, Inc.)
Genaro R. Gojo Cruz

Walang Halong Biro (DLSU Publishing House)
Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles

Direk: Essays on Filipino Filmmakers (DLSU Publishing House)
Edited by Clodualdo del Mundo, Jr. and Shirley O. Lua

Narito: Essays on Place (Taftique, Inc.)
Taftique

14 March 2019|
4:15-6:00pm (Thursday)
Philippe Jones Lhuillier Conference Room,
14F Henry Sr. Hall
De La Salle University, Taft Avenue, Manila

About the Writers and Their Books

Janina Marie Rivera’s A Night Bird chronicles a teenager’s struggles to live courageously while battling against Arterio-Venous Malformation (AVM).   An MFA Creative Writing graduate of DLSU, Rivera is a teacher, writer, magazine publisher, and missionary.

Genaro Gojo Cruz’s Hagdanang Bahaghari  (illustrated by Aaron Asis) explores the “super powers” of Toto’s mother.   Gojo Cruz—BNSCWC Associate for Children’s Literature—is the author of 70 children’s books. He teaches literature and creative writing at DLSU.

Walang Halong Biro by Dr. Mesándel Arguelles plots the grit and grime of modern isolation.  It is an exploration of the roguish self, memory, and artistic creation. It contains translations (into English) by Kristine Ong Muslim. Dr. Arguelles teaches literature and creative writing at DLSU.

Dr. Clodualdo Del Mundo, Jr.  and Dr. Shirley O. Lua are launching the special edition of Direk: Essays on Filipino Filmmakers.  The book contains colored plates and includes essays on National Artists for Film Gerardo de Leon, Lino Brocka, and Ishmael Bernal. Professor Emeritus Dr. Del Mundo, Jr. is the Artist-in-Residence of DLSU and Dr. Lua is the Associate for Literary Studies of BNSCWC.

Taftique’s Narito is an anthology that muses upon spaces, comings-and-goings, and memories that endure.  It includes works by Taftique members Vijae O. Alquisola, Genevieve L. Asenjo, Jophen C. Baui, Kei Valmoria Bughaw, Adrian Crisostomo Ho, Ma. Antonette E. Lofamia, Clarissa V. Militante, Krezta Rae M. Palces, Josephine V. Roque, and Dorynna Zyneensky L. Untivero.

About the Event

This event is organized by the Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center in partnership with DLSUPH, OMF Literature Inc., Taftique, Inc., and The Bookmark, Inc.

The event is part of the centennial celebration of the College of Liberal Arts of DLSU.

The book launching is open to the public.

For more information, call 524-4611 local 233 or email [email protected]

The Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center
and
The Literature Department
of the College of Liberal Arts

cordially invite you to a

Symposium

EXPLORING THE BAKLA-TRANS CONNECTION:
THEORIZING TRANS IN THE PHILIPPINES

Speakers

Dr. Jaya Jacobo
Dr. Mikee Inton

28 February 2019
4:15-6:00pm
Yuchengco Seminar Room 507-509
De La Salle University, Manila

About the Event & Lecture Abstracts
Trans studies is one of the most exciting fields of scholarship in the LGBTQIA studies and in theory and criticism in general.  But what is the state of trans studies in the Philippines?  What theorizing has been done so far?  How do we explain the inviolable kinship between the bakla and the transgender? How do we conceptualize trans history vis-à-vis the history of kabaklaan?

Mikee Inton:   In this very short talk, I’d like to problematize the points of convergence and divergence between “trans” and “bakla.” I examine how trans movements in the Philippines first started, and how the human rights framework may have incidentally become a form of neocolonization bent on erasing local practices and knowledge of non-normative genders. I argue that while both global trans discourse and kabaklaan are rooted in an interiorized disconnect between the body, mind, and spirit, kabaklaan offers an alternative discourse to this interiority that does not pathologize or medicalize this disconnect. I further argue that because many other performative aspects ofkabaklaan resonate with global trans discourses, local social movements have adopted these global discourses in framing their struggle under Human Rights frameworks.

Jaya Jacobo:  How has the “bakla” been constituted in discourse? In this talk, I seek to sketch out the bakla in language and interpret her as a figure gendered by dissemination, as one traversing gender itself, as transgender, if one wills, and at the same time, as a figure who cannot seem to navigate the terrain of identity. First, I do a close reading of the Vocabulario de la lengua tagala (1613, 1794, 1860) by looking at the bakla as imminent being, a power that dissimulates the sense through transformation. Then I locate in the Mahal na Passion (1814) how this potency becomes an instance of debilitation, which shall become the premise of subsequent representations of the bakla’s gender. From here, I read the “binabae” as a problematic queer figure in Pusong Walang Pag-ibig (1910). I end by demonstrating how these contradictions on the bakla are elaborated and confounded even further in contemporary poetry, through a selection of poems from the 1st GlobalGRACE Gender and Cultures of Equality-University of the Philippines LGBTQ Writers’ Workshop (2018).

This symposium is one of the projects in The Asia-Pacific Rainbow Initiative of the Literature Department of De La Salle University.

About the Speakers

Jaya Jacobo is Assistant Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Filipino, School of Humanities, Ateneo de Manila University. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the State University of New York. Currently, she is seconded as Postdoctoral Early Career Researcher of the Philippine Work Package of the GlobalGRACE Gender and Cultures of Equality, at the University of the Philippines. She is founding co-editor of Queer Southeast Asia: A Transgressive Journal of Literary Art and has just recently launched with Ryen Paolo Sumayao BKL/Bikol Bakla: Anthology of Bikolnon Gay Trans Queer Writing.

Mikee Inton handles courses on Gender, Feminist Media Studies, and Film at De La Salle University. She earned her PhD in Cultural Studies at Lingnan University, Hong Kong, and serves on the board of ILGA World and the Society of Transsexual Women of the Philippines (STRAP). She is also a member of the Grant Making Panel for the International Trans Fund.

About The Asia-Pacific Rainbow Initiative of DLSU
Established in 2017 by the Literature Department, The Asia-Pacific Rainbow Initiative of DLSU aims to discuss the latest developments, theories, and approaches in LGBTQIA studies as well as important issues and problems affecting LGBTQIA communities in the country.   Future events will focus on politics and activism, spirituality, performance, AIDS, and the law.

The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research & Innovation
College of Liberal Arts: Research & Advanced Studies

and

The Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center

cordially invite you to the

AWARDING CEREMONIES
DLSU Mini-Grants for Creative Writing 2018-2019

Poetry (Filipino)
Jeffrey R. Ancheta  (PhD Araling Filipino)
Glenn Ford B. Tolentino (MFA Creative Writing)

Fiction (Filipino)
Jerry James M. Dela Torre (PhD in Mechanical Engineering)

Poetry (English)
Raphael Atienza Coronel (MFA Creative Writing)
Nimruz A. De Castro (MA Political Science)
King V. Llanza (MS Environmental Science & Ecosystem Management)
Gesuina Marie D. Puangco (MFA Creative Writing)

Creative Nonfiction (English)
Ma. Carmie Flor I. Ortego (MFA Creative Writing)
Jasper Emmanuel A. Paras (MFA Creative Writing)

with special inspirational talks on the writing life
from award-winning Lasallian writers

Genaro R. Gojo Cruz
Assistant Professorial Lecturer, Literature Department

and 

Paterno B. Baloloy, Jr.
MFA Creative Writing Student
Recipient of the 2017-2018 DLSU Mini-Grant

15 February 2019 (Friday)
2:30-4:00 p.m.
Philippe Jones Lhuillier Conference Room (formerly EDC)
14th Floor Henry Sy. Sr. Hall

About the DLSU Mini-Grant for Creative Writing

This grant program seeks to lend a modest assistance to DLSU writers and artists who are in need of minimal resources to produce creative work—poetry, fiction, drama, creative nonfiction, or film (screenplay).  Each fellow will receive a mini-grant of Php 10,000.00.

This grant program is a project of the College of Liberal Arts’ Research and Advanced Studies Office with support from the Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center and the DLSU Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation.

This event is part of the activities of the 12^th DLSU Arts Congress and the yearlong centennial celebration of the College of Liberal Arts.

The Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center is inviting undergraduate and graduate students in Metro Manila to submit their application to Luntiang Palihan 2019: The DLSU Young Writers’ Workshop in Local Languages, which will be held on April 10, 2019 at the Faculty Center, DLSU-Manila.

The primary aim of the workshop is to promote creative writing in local languages among students.  It also aims to hone the craft of young writers who have the potential to contribute to the growth of Philippine literature.

Every year, the workshop will focus on the national language (Filipino) and another local language.  This year, the languages are Filipino and Hiligaynon.  Applicants must be 18 to 39 years old.  Five to six applicants will be chosen for the workshop.

Applicants should submit the following:

• Two printed copies of their original work (Filipino or Hiligaynon):  3 poems or 1 short story, font size 12 pts., double-spaced, 1”x1” margin. The short story must be numbered, by paragraph, on the left margin.  Works in Hiligaynon must be accompanied by a translation into Filipino or English.
• A short resumé that must contain the applicant’s date of birth, university, degree, and complete contact information (residence address, email address, and contact number)
• A cover letter stating the applicant’s reasons for applying to the workshop and his/her writing goals.   Address the letter to the workshop director Dr. John Iremil Teodoro.
• A 2” x 2” ID photo

Please submit the application portfolio to:

Luntiang Palihan 2019
The Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center
Miguel Building Room 208
De La Salle University, 2401 Taft Avenue, Manila

Applicants must also email the PDF of the application portfolio to [email protected].  In the subject, please write Luntiang Palihan 2019.

Deadline is February 28, 2019.   Incomplete applications will not be processed.

For inquiries, please email [email protected]

The Department of Literature
and
Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center
in partnership with
The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Academics
and
College of Liberal Arts

cordially invite you to

Salba Istorya / Salba Buhay: Following the Water

by

Dr. Merlinda Bobis

9 February 2019
12:00 noon to 1:30 p.m. (Saturday)
Philippe Jones Lhuillier Conference Room
14^th Floor Henry Sy Sr. Hall
De La Salle University, Taft Avenue, Manila

About the Speaker

Dr. Merlinda Bobis is an award-winning writer with 4 novels, 6 poetry books and 9 dramatic works performed internationally. Her latest novel, Locust Girl. A Lovesong, received Australia’s 2016 Christina Stead Prize and the 2016 Philippine National Book Award. Her latest poetry book, Accidents of Composition, was Highly Commended for the 2018 ACT Book of the Year (Australia). Movements of peoples across borders and differences, women and girls, geopolitics and environment, war and memory, migrating arts practice, the poetics and politics of care are among the themes of her literary, performance and scholarly works. She taught English and Literature for 10 years in the Philippines, including a year at De La Salle University, and Creative Writing for 21 years at University of Wollongong. She is currently Honorary Senior Lecturer at The Australian National University.

About the Lecture
Save story, Save lives. How does this proposition happen in Filipino storytelling? How do we make it happen as creative strategies in writing fiction? This lecture will chart the notion and practice of ‘saving’ in traditional storytelling and in creative navigations of water in Bobis’ White Turtle, Fish-Hair Woman and Locust Girl. A Lovesong.

This event is part of the Literature Department’s Graduate Research Forum and the yearlong centennial celebration of the College of Liberal Arts.

Slots for the lecture are limited.  Pre-registration is required.

To pre-register or to inquire, please call DLSU BNSCWC (632) 5244611 local 233; email [email protected].