DLSU Dasmarinas, Cavite invites everyone to PASSION IS PURPOSE 2, an exhibit of outstanding abstract paintings by Bryan Ramos, a Tagaytay-based architecture student of DLSU Dasmariñas.

Most of Ramos’ artworks explore the fusion of shapes, structure of nature and dark, often, mysterious hues. He had his first exhibit of the same title at the Penguin Bar, Malate, Manila.

Opening of the exhibit will be held at the AEA Library Gallery, DLSU Dasmariñas, Cavite City on 2 May 2008 at 3 p.m. Poetry and music will be provided by Cavite Young Writers Association, Lirio Salvador of Elemento and the artist himself, Bryan Ramos.

Admission is free and open to the public. The exhibit will run until 4 June 2008. For details, please text 0906-2000781.

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"SPIRIT OF URDUJA"
prose, poetry reading & art exhibit
by Artista Sining bIswal ng pangasinaN (ASIN)
on April 28 to May 28, 2008

5pm art exhibit of 15 Pangasinan visual artists
8pm dinner poetry reading

Venue:

Lisland Rainforest Resort
McArthur Highway, Urdaneta City, Pangasinan

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The School of Liberal Arts of the Emilio Aguinaldo College is proud to present a Poetry Reading in support to the 2008 International Year of Languages and World Poetry Day (March 21).

Readers are encouraged to read poems written in their "Mother Tongue".

Join us on March 14 from 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. at the EAC Garden, Bldg.5, for an afternoon of readings from students, faculty, poets and writers.

Admission is free.

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Anggano baria labat la so karga na bulsa kalabian, linma ak nin siansia ed Bel Air 2, Makati ta inimbitaan ak na kaaron si Danny Sillada ya manganlong ed poetry reading tan exhibit to ed Ricco-Renzo Galleries and Café bilang pamagalang ed say andi la'd bilay a patron to.

Tan anggano singa alabian ono bosis-dulakak et kinansion ko'y dilik a bersion na "Malinak la'y Labi" ed Inglis tan anganlong na sakey a sonito.

Say tipak tan tapik ed takeb da'ra'y wadman et balbaleg lan tumang tan tagano.

This is all because of poetry ya kuan :)

Aya iman anganko so ibabaga ran "onakar ya anggapo'y sali tan ontekiab ya anggapo'y payak."

A Night Piece
from a Pangasinan serenade entitled "Malinak la'y Labi"

your eyes excelled the morning sun
your smile laden my breast with flame
i’ll boast upon that lilting sun
your beauty worthy of a name
O what shall I give but a song
a song to sing my love for you
a song to time and space belong
until the world is born anew

the night is calm my love
and time is fleeting still
the wind is breathing low
kissed by the evening dew
how sweet it is to dream
that i have to wake for you
your fair attemper face
i shall always caress
O when the night is come
and you my love i see
the sadness all is gone
buried deeply in my soul
whenever i recall
loving ways you are wont to
i shall not forget you
until i am laid to rest

--

from Pangasinan Melodies

O when i behold the westering sun
& feel over me the fall of the night
when bamboo leaves i hear humming as one
sweet symphony ‘neath the gleaming moonlight

& summer’s breathing attemper & low
whispering uncouth sounds in my ears
perhaps untold secrets that i should know
or unheard love songs in the olden years
i think of thee  beloved  of our prime
still strong
     still in love
          & still young at heart
dancing the tango moments of our time
before the winds of death keep us apart

but bear in mind  my love  that i love thee
& this will always remind thee of me

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Launching his suite of ethnic song compositions based on Mandaya "bayok" and "dawot", which are part of his forthcoming ethnic album "Sang Kanami Daya" (In Our Land of Promise), a Mindanaoan poet-painter-musician-philosopher Danny Sillada will give a tribute to his art patron Lady Offy Garcia on her first death anniversary at Ricco-Renzo Galleries and Café in Makati City, Philippines. He will also launch his Hip Hop single, a political satire titled "Bulag" (I Am Blind).

The event is a unique blend of exotic ethnic songs, heart-warming love poems, and an exhibit of colorful and exuberant paintings from the multi-talented artist Danny Sillada, also known as the "Filipino Renaissance Man", slated on February 19, 2006, 6:30 – 9:00 p.m., Ricco-Renzo Galleries and Café, LRI Design Plaza, 210 N. Garcia St. (formerly Reposo), Makati City, Philippines.

To accompany Sillada's musical performances are Noli Aurillo, one of the leading acoustic guitarists in the country; Eghai Roxas, a well-known Filipino abstractionist, performance artist and percussionist; JP Hernandez, a multi-talented musician playing didjeridu, jimbe, bamboo flute and kobeng, among other musical instruments.

Guest performers are Cesare A.X. Syjuco, a literary iconoclast and a famous multi-media Filipino artist, and Sonny Villafania, an award winning Pangasinan poet and founder-publisher of "Dalityapi", an international online literary journal.

Entrance is free with cocktails. For inquiry, please e-mail art@riccorenzo.com, tel. no.: (+632) 898-2545.

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Na-experience ko ima'y tatawagen dan "urban alienation" nen linma ak ed Ortigas Center ed saya'y imbeneg a Sabado sakbay na program ed Jam88.3 no iner naimbitaan ak ya manganlong. Indelaw ko labat anganko so abitlat pasen ta aliwan sikatoya so mabetbet ya lalaen da'ra'y umaanlong.

Sankaonaan ko iyan na-interview ed sakey a radio station tan manganlong "on air". Wala'y paga ono kebiew ed pagew bangta naandi lan lamang nen nansalita ak la.

Nia ima'y anlong a binasak:

sonito 108

(para ed si Dr. Cirilo F. Bautista)

nen kalabian pinigarpigar ko
so talurtur ed dasig na anlong
binaybay ko’y katagan aralem
angga’d dinmala iya ed papil

ed saman ko onan atawayan
so samit tan pait na salitan
nagmaliw ya ostia ya insubo
na ilalam ko ed kanonotan

onia manaya so umaanlong
no onla’d akualan na inkadyus
nakaukulan to so ompatey
ya akayorong a singa Buddha
ono akadepa ed kalbario
na salita tan pilosopiya

Here's the Tagalog version of the poem.


Manaya, salamat ed si Teddy Morales, sikato so nanggawa ed sayan video :)

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I read the following poem during the Pangasinan Festival of Culture and the Arts at the Faculty Center, UP-Diliman last December 3, 2007. This poem is about the last voyage of the Cattle Caravans of Ancient Caboloan.

Dalityapi sa Huling Paglalakbay

1.

ang mga bumabaroy ng Caboloan
ilang salin-lahi din silang naghari
sa mga daan at lansangan upang sundan
ang bakas ng kanilang mga ninuno
at haraya ng lalawigang pinagmulan

salamin ang kanilang paglisan
ng mabagal na pag-usad ng panahon
at pananatili ng kinagisnang yaman-lahi
larawan sila ng tadhanang nasa bingit
ng pagkawala at debolusyon

bawat hakbang sa kanilang paglalakbay
ay bilang ng mga hapung sandali
hanggang sa marating ang lilim kung saan
pansamantalang mananahanan
at palipasin and lalim at lihim ng gabi

2.

may awit at tula ang bukang-liwayway
may hele ng pag-asa ang paglipas
ng dalitsuyo sa tag-araw at dalitlumbay sa tag-ulan
subalit sadyang ipinagkait sa kanila
ang katuparan ng sansiglong pangarap

sa ngalan ng paglago at pagbabago
ngayon ay mga dumi sila sa paningin
sa mga lansangang ipinagbabawal nang apakan
sa mga bayang pilit iniluluwa
ang kanilang kaluluwa pabalik sa silangan

ang kanilang pagbabalik ay tila
anino na lamang na mababanaag
sa matandang mukha ng takip-silim
hanggang sa maging bahagi na rin ng nakaraan
at alaala ng matayug na Caboloan

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Reading my poem "Erolalia" in public for the first time.

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The night’s poetic inertia could not be carried by fleeting words alone. It was during 4K Barrel’s set, just after the open-mic, when writers and audience alike hit the dance floor, fleshing-out metaphors and rhymes into upbeat swings, turns and gyrations. And so they did strut their wares.

But the OragonRepublic.Com Writers’ Night last July 19 started rather nice and serene. Webmaster/owner Fer Basbas gave the usual welcome address with Literary Editor Jose Jason L. Chancoco as host. The guest writers/readers were Ford Scholar Frank Peñones, Kabulig Auditor Marissa Casillan, Kabulig President Estelito Jacob, Salakab ringleader Jo Bisuña, Medtech-Poet Sonny Sendon, Kabulig Treasurer Dr. Judith Salamat, Vox Bikol columnist Vic Nierva, Catanduanes writer Gerry Rubio, ‘Tigsik Queen’ Aida Cirujales, The Pillars staffer Elmer Ramos, and love poets Lance Gulim and Tess Rey. The 4K Barrel also rendered Bikol songs during the intermission

Also in attendance were Bikolista and entrepreneur Ramon ‘Ringer’ Olaño, Bikol Reporter columnist Rizaldy Manrique, writer/artist Djoanna Tanji and Webmaster/Events Organizer Sheila Basbas.

Invited or listed poets were the first to perform, although everybody could come up the stage later during the open-mic. Free drinks and certificates were provided and awarded to the participants by Andy Belmonte of Lolo’s Bar and Fer Basbas of ORC.

The OragonRepublic.Com and Lolo’s Bar aim to hold regular poetry readings in support of Bikol literature. For more information log on to http://www.oragonrepublic.com and http://www.lolosbar.com -- Jose Jason L. Chancoco

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