The awesome people from Filipino Heritage Library (FHL) and Ayala Museum told me about this event! You guys should come!
Press Release:
Filipino writers will
discuss folk and popular literature as shown in komiks,
TV, and film as the National Book Development Board (NBDB), Filipinas Heritage
Library (FHL), and Ayala Museum hold POPtastik Pinoy! this November.
The event is part of the 4th Philippine International Literary Festival. Titled Text and the City, the LitFest will take place in the major universities in Metro Manila from November 11-14 and culminating at the Ayala Museum on November 15, from 8:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Promotional activities will also be held at the Makati Ayala Malls from November 17 to 24.
The November 15 event
is a whole day series of talks which will cover the following topics: “Folklore
in Pop Literature (komiks, graphic novels, novels, short stories, and TV);”
“Kuwentuhan on Komiks;” and “Writing in Different Genres.” Among the panel
discussants and moderators are comic artists Manix Abrera, Noel Pascual, AJ
Bernardo, Karen Francisco, and Budjette Tan; novelists Eros Atalia, Luna Sicat
Cleto, and Edgar Samar; scriptwriter Suzette Doctolero; fictionists Sarge
Lacuesta and Yvette Tan; journalists Ruel de Vera and Kristine Fonacier; and
Prof. Patrick Campos.
Celebrated writers Tony
Perez and Rolando Tolentino will open the POPtastik Pinoy! program of
activities with talks of writing and the city. Korean-American writer Krys Lee
will then discuss her short story compilation Drifting House. Lee will
be joined by Sarge Lacuesta, Andrea Pasion-Flores, and Kristine Fonacier for a
flash fiction writing masterclass, “City Fiction 100,” while other
pocket lectures are being held in the Ayala Museum function rooms.
From 5:00 pm, writer
and educator Isagani R. Cruz will hold another seminar on “How to write a book”
for professional and amateur writers. Garitony Nicolas will also share his
experience of publishing his own books with the help of Central Books, the
first publisher-on-demand in the Philippines.
The LitFest will
stretch to the following week at the Ayala Malls. On November 17, a marathon of
GMA films will be held at the New Glorietta Activity Center, along with a mini
fair for indie komiks creators and sellers and small or independent publishers.
The public can also view GMA 7 telefantasya costumes at Ground Floor Greenbelt
3 from November 18 to 24.
