PROJECT BACKSPACE: AN INVITATION TO ALL BUDDING AND ESTABLISHED STORYTELLERS

Wednesday, August 30, 2006

AN INVITATION TO ALL BUDDING AND ESTABLISHED STORYTELLERS

The Writers Guild of SPi is proud and extremely honored to be host to the respected Alitaptap Storytellers Club this month of September. Founded in February 1999 at the Museo Pambata, it is a guild of volunteer storytellers whose mission is “to instill among children the love of reading and the appreciation of children’s literary art through storytelling”.

The workshop, a short course of what normally is a two-day exercise, will be done in an informal manner, with useful tips and 5-minute storytelling exercises designed to bring out the child in you – someone who loves stories and finds ways to creatively express these in the most animated way possible.

More than anything, the Writers Guild extends this invitation to all parents (saying “Good Night!” is never enough!) and big brothers and sisters whose siblings may benefit from your exciting stories than from watching senseless shows on television.

Help us bring back the ancient art of storytelling! Let us bring back creativity in thinking, artistry in style, and instill the craft of imagination in our young people.

Join us on September 9, 2006 from 9 AM to 5 PM here at SPi’s global headquarters. AM / PM snacks and lunch is on us. Please feel free to register via SMS. Type STORY_(name)_(SBU)_(email) to 0926.622.3359. See you there!

"If kids today do not read, there is no future for the local publishing industry."
- Manolo Silayan, PBBY Chairman and Alitaptap President, during the opening of the 27th Manila International Book Fair at the World Trade Center (August 30 - September 3)

OUR PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS

SPi Employee Relations

Alitaptap Storytellers Club

Toastmasters Club of SPi

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This is the Writers Guild's online literary journal. Articles here were contributed by employees from SPi, a BPO company based in Parañaque City, Metro Manila. Visit us here.

We welcome all forms of creative writing - poetry, essays, short stories, one-act plays (preferably lasting 10 minutes or thereabouts), reviews of music, film, books and restaurants. We also accept comic strips and photographs for exhibition.

Here in PROJECT BACKSPACE, you can write about almost everything under the sun. This is your space. Be part of it. Know more about us here. E-mail us your works at spiwritersguild@yahoo.com.ph. We will be waiting...

Our hiSTORY

The Writers Guild was born in 2003, probably under the most azure of skies and the windiest of mornings which normally signal the birth of great people or ideas, but we're getting ahead of the story.

Upon the initiative of then Employee Relations Manager Marybeth Monis, the Guild was established with Aries Saquilayan as its first President. He was followed by Palanca-winner Allan Palileo, under whose leadership poetry became a hallmark of the Guild. In 2005, Gigs Garcia took over and introduced newer ways to appreciate poetry (through poetry reading) and expanded the Guild's coverage to include the first ever Word Factory Competition, participation in the English Festival of SPi's Learning Academy (SPILA), and held two quiz shows (both were literary in nature).

Today, the Guild builds on its noble past and takes on newer challenges to meet the ever-evolving requirements of the company and its employees. Poetry remains to be the Guild's soul, but with the establishment of BACKSPACE, creative writing - in all its forms - is now encouraged. Using the tagline "We need writers more than we need members", the current Guild has launched itself into territories it hasn't explored fully before. One of the most precious among its crown jewels is the series of workshops designed to bring out the writer in the participants. The workshops include introduction to creative writing, development of short stories and measured poetry, as well as holding an actual workshop on book-based storytelling. It has also launched an aggressive campaign on encouraging reading within SPi by making available books and e-books for lending to employees under Project R.E.A.D.

The Guild is also currently into Teacher Education in coordination with SPi's Office of Corporate Social Responsibility. Teachers from public schools being supported by our CSR office are invited on a regular basis to join SPi employees in participating in our series of workshops which, fortuitously enough, is dubbed A Series of Fortunate Events.

The Guild invites all SPi employees - writers and would-be-writers both here in Manila and those in Cebu, Laguna, and Dumaguete - to take advantage of the opportunities to be creative by being part of our activities.

We'd love to hear from you and receive your contributions for publication! Please e-mail us at spiwritersguild@yahoo.com.ph

Maraming Salamat po! Daghang salamat kaninyong tanan! Dacal a salamat! Thank you for visiting BACKSPACE. Mabuhay!