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Tuesday, December 01, 2009
Philippine Center of The International PEN: 2009 Annual National Conference, 5 December 2009, Cultural Center of the Philippines
PHILIPPINE PEN ANNUAL CONFERENCE
December 5, 2009
Bulwagang Pambansang Alagad ng Sining
4th floor, Cultural Center of the Philippines
CCP Complex, Roxas Blvd., Manila
“NEW WRITING IN THE PHILIPPINES”
December 5 (Saturday)
8:00-9:00 am Registration
9:00 am Opening Ceremonies
The National Anthem
Reading of the PEN Charter: Susie Tan
Opening Remarks by the Conference Convenor: Joselito Zulueta
Welcome Remarks from the Cultural Center of the Philippines
Introduction of Keynote Speaker: Marjorie Evasco
Keynote Address: Dr. Ricardo de Ungria
10:00 am Coffee Break
10:15 am Rolando Sánchez Mejías: Cuban Writing
First Literary Session: (Shirley Lua, presiding)
“Panel on Accent on Young Writers”
Chair: Wendell Capili
Panelists: Efren Abueg, Dennis Aguinaldo, Neil Garcia, Kristian
Cordero, Lourd de Veyra, Jose Victor Torres, Rody Vera
12:15 noon L U N C H
Pagpupugay: Domingo Landicho
The Jose Rizal Lecture (CCP, Silangan Hall)
Introduction of Jose Rizal Lecturer: Nicolas Pichay
Lecturer: Dr. Bienvenido Lumbera
1:30-3:00 pm Second Literary Session: (Shirley Lua, presiding)
“Panel on Creative Nonfiction”
Chair: Karina Bolasco
Panelists: Oscar Campomanes, Vladimeir Gonzales, Teng
Mangansakan, Erlinda Panlilio
3:00-3:30 pm Coffee Break
3:30-5:00 pm Third Literary Session:
“Panel on Issues on New Writing”
Chair: Susan Lara
Panelists: Gemino Abad, Charlson Ong, Danny Reyes, Edgar Samar, Benilda Santos, Susie Tan
5:15-6:00 pm Plenary Session
Presiding: Joselito B. Zulueta
Resolution
Closing Remarks
CONVENORS
Elmer A. Ordonez
Lito Zulueta
Susan Lara
Karina Bolasco
Jose Wendell Capili
and Shirley Lua
PEN is a non-governmental organization in formal consultative relations with UNESCO and Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations.
The first PEN Club was founded in London in 1921 by Mrs. C.A. Dawson Scott and John Galsworthy, who would become International PEN's first President. Its first members included Joseph Conrad, Elizabeth Craig, George Bernard Shaw, and H.G. Wells.
The club established the following aims:
1. To promote intellectual co-operation and understanding among writers;
2. To create a world community of writers that would emphasize the central role of literature in the development of world culture; and,
3. To defend literature against the many threats to its survival which the modern world poses.
Past Presidents of International PEN have included Malcolm Afford, Alberto Moravia, Heinrich Böll, Arthur Miller, Mario Vargas Llosa, Homero Aridjis and Jiří Gruša. The current President is John Ralston Saul and the current Executive Director is Caroline McCormick.
International PEN is headquartered in London and composed of 145 autonomous PEN Centers in 104 countries around the world, each of which are open to qualified writers, journalists, translators, historians and others actively engaged in any branch of literature, regardless of nationality, race, colour or religion.
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Santiago B. Villafania, a bilingual Filipino poet who writes in English and in his native language of Pangasinan, is the author of poetry collections Balikas na Caboloan (Voices from Caboloan) published by the National Commission for the Culture and the Arts (NCCA) under its UBOD New Authors Series (2005) and Malagilion: Sonnets tan Villanelles (2007). He has been published in several countries and translated into several languages. Villafania is one of the 11 Outstanding Pangasinenses conferred with the 2010 Asna Award for the Arts and Culture (literature) during the first Agew na Pangasinan and also the 430th Foundation Day of the province on April 2010. He is a member of Philippine PEN. Read more »
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