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Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 13:46:09 -0000
From: "bebang_ej"
Subject: LITERARY EVENT lira at ccp

+Sentrong Pangkultura ng Pilipinas
SANGAY PAMPANITIKAN

BERSO at SUBERSYON

Isang Gabi ng Ritmo at Talinghaga

Dalawang dakilang artista ng ating panahon!

I. "Pagsukob sa Daigdig"
Pagdiriwang sa sining ni Alejandro Garcia Abadilla

II. "Pagtingala sa Isang Dipang Langit"
Pag-alaala sa diwa ni Amado Vera Hernandez

III. Malayang Tulaan

Itinatampok:
Linangan sa Imahen, Retorika at Anyo (LIRA)

kasama ang UP Repertory, Kalumad,
College Editors Guild of the Philippines
CCP Chorale, at mga makata't kabilang
sa mapanlikhang sektor

LIBRENG PAGTATANGHAL
tula, dula, musika, at samu't saring palabas

Marso 24, 2006, 6:00 ng gabi
Bulwagan ng Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo (Main Theater Lobby)

VERSE and SUBVERSION
A tribute to two of the greatest artists of our time!

Alejandro Garcia Abadilla aka AGA b. Salinas, Rosario, Cavite 10 Mar
1906 d. 26 Aug 1969. Poet, essayist, fictionist. "Rebellion against
hoary tradition and the concern with literature as artistic
_expression of a personal vision informed the works of Abadilla as
poet and critic. His most important poem, "Ako ang Daigdig" (I am the
World), 1940, shook the literary establishment because of its
philosophy of individualism and its use of free verse. Iconoclasm
marked this poem and the other poems in his first anthology, Ako ang
Daigdig at Iba Pang Tula (I am the World and Other Poems), 1955, as
well as the poems in Piniling mga Tula ni AGA (Selected Poems of
AGA), 1965. In his two editions of Tanagabadilla (Abadilla's Tanaga),
1964 and 1965, he took the traditional heptasyllabic quatrain of the
tanaga and invested it with intellectualism, wit, and novel imagery."

Amado Vera Hernandez aka Amante, Herminia de la Riva, Julio Abril, b.
Tondo, Manila 13 Sept 1903 d. Manila 24 Mar 1970. "As he immersed
himself in the labor movement in the late 1940s and early 1950s,
Hernandez's sympathy for the working class grew into a strong
identification with their struggle for social justice and liberation. He represented the Newspaper Guild of the Philippines in the country's biggest and most militant labor federation, the Congress of Labor Organizations (CLO). In 1947 he was elected president of the CLO. Because of his militancy in pursuing the workers' cause, he was imprisoned in 1951 for alleged subversive activities. He was released on parole in 1956 after five years and six months of detention, and was finally acquitted of all charges in 1964. He returned to journalistic practice, writing as a
columnist for Taliba from 1962 to 1967, serving as editor of the radical newspaper, Ang Masa, from 1969 until his death in 1970."

Source: CCP Encyclopedia of Philippine Art (1994)