PROJECT BACKSPACE: Manila International Book Fair

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

POWERBOOKS ACTIVITIES AT THE MANILA INTERNATIONAL BOOK FAIR 2007

Powerbooks would like to invite you to visit our booth at the 28th Manila International Book Fair! It is the biggest annual book exhibition in the country featuring more than three hundred local and foreign exhibitors. Get to enjoy big discounts on your favorite books and take home special treats from us!

Together with Read or Die and Bookgroove Reading Centre, we have also prepared a series of informative talks and educational workshops.

Schedule of Powerbooks Events (Admission is FREE)

A. READ OR DIE ORGANIZATION
Talk: Philippine Speculative Fiction
Guest Speaker: Dean Alfar
Schedule: August 29 - Wednesday
2:30 – 3:30pm
Function Room B

Talk: Children, Teens and Reading in the Time of IT
Guest Speaker: Zarah Grace Gagatiga
Schedule: August 30- Thursday
3:30 – 4:30pm
Function Room A

BOOKGROVE READING CENTRE
Part 1: Bookgrove Reading Centre: A Lifetime of Learning Through Books
Guest Speaker: Teacher Carmen Sanchez, reading coach

Part 2: Bookgrove's Play Attention Workshop
Guest Speaker: Juariza Aparis, Co-founder

Schedule: August 31 - Friday
3:30 – 4:30pm
Function Room A

Activity: Bookgrove's Storytelling and Activity Hour
Storyteller: Ma. Cristina M. Atayde
Schedule: September 1- Saturday
3:30 – 4:30pm
Activity Area

See you there!

Regards,

Powerbooks Team
Customer Service Hotline: 757-6428-29
Website: www.powerbooks.com.ph
Multiply site: www.powerbooks.multiply.com

Sunday, August 12, 2007

PISTANG PANITIK 2007

After success of last year’s "Pistang Panitik," LIKHAAN: The U.P. Institute of Creative Writing, in partnership with the Book Development Association of the Philippines, Prime Trade Asia, Anvil Publishing, the National Book Development Board and Read Or Die, will mount "Pistang Panitik 2007" at the World Trade Center from August 30, 2007 to September 2, 2007 to coincide with the 28th Manila International Book Fair.

"Pistang Panitik" was conceived by UP ICW Director Vim Nadera as a literary festival where readers and writers alike can meet and greet. This year’s "Pistang Panitik" is much more ambitious as it spans over the 5 days of the Manila International Book Fair.

Araw ni Bienvenido Lumbera
AUGUST 30 (Thursday)
Function Rm A
1:00-3:00 p.m.

KRITIKO: Dr. Roland Tolentino, Dr. Rod Nuncio, at Dr. Rosario Torres Yu
TAGAPAGTANGHAL: Bb. Susan Magno
MULA SA MAMBABASA: Kristin Mandigma & Marianne Suba

Araw ni Francisco Sionil Jose
AUGUST 31 (Friday)
Function Rm A
1:00-3:00 p.m.

KRITIKO: Dr. Neil Garcia, Dr.Ophelia Alcantara Dimalanta at Ferdie Lopez
TAGAPAGTANGHAL: Under Siege
MULA SA MAMBABASA: Mia Sereno & Israel Realin

Araw ni Virgilio Almario
SEPTEMBER 1 (Saturday)
Function Rm B
1:00- 3:00 p.m.

KRITIKO: G. Roberto Añonuevo, Prof. Mike Coroza at G. Rogelio Mangahas
TAGAPAGTANGHAL: Linangan sa Imahen, Retorika, at Anyo
MULA SA MAMBABASA: Kristel Autencio, Renita Norada

Araw ni Alejandro Roces
SEPTEMBER 2 (Sunday)
Function Rm A
1:00- 5:00 p.m.

KRITIKO: Dr. Isagani Cruz, Prof. Lito Zulueta, at Prof. Danton Remoto
TAGAPAGTANGHAL: Alitaptap Storytellers Philippines
MULA SA MAMBABASA: Rachel Teng, Karen Inocencio & Paolo Cruz

Araw ni Edith Tiempo

PANAUHIN: G. Alfred Yuson, Dr. Gemino Abad, Prof. Ralph Galan
TAGAPAGTANGHAL: Ony Carcamo
MULA SA MAMBABASA: Pamela Punzalan & Mia Marci

Visit the "Pistang Panitik 2007" website for the schedules and updates, or call the UP ICW at 922-1830.

Welcome to PROJECT BACKSPACE

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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!