Dear friends from FilipinoWriter.com and the Arts & Culture community,

U.P. Writers Night 2009

5:00 to 6:00 p.m. /Balay Kalinaw-Seminar Room C
FORUM - Madrigal Gonzalez Best First Book Award
Neil Garcia, David Bayot, Gelo Suarez, Chingbee Cruz, Adam David, Mookie Katigbak, Alan Navarra, Vic Nierva

7:00 to 10:00 p.m. / Balay Kalinaw - Second Floor and UP Press Bookstore
AWARDING - Madrigal Gonzalez Best First Book Award
Jose Dalisay, Chingbee Cruz, Gisella Montinola, Adam David

LAUNCHING - Likhaan Journal 3

For Pinoy K-pop fans, November is the season to be jolly.

To cap the year-long celebration of 60 years of diplomatic relations between Korea and the Philippines, the Korean Embassy will hold on November 19-27 the Korean Cultural Festival, which will let Filipinos have a taste of Korean food, dance, music, theater, and arts.

But the most-awaited event in the week-long festival is the free K-pop concert scheduled on November 27. It will feature popular Korean front acts like boyband Shinee, jazz band Winterplay, and energetic rap duo Mighty Mouth.

Do you ever wonder how it would be, if as students, we were encouraged to paint, write poetry, sing, dance, or just be? And how are we educating our children? Are we educating them to be good workers or creative thinkers? Join us as we answer these questions with Felipe de Leon Jr. and Al Santos.

Date: Saturday, November 7, 2009
Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: PETA Theater, 5 Eymard Drive, New Manila
City/Town: Quezon City, Philippines

Hello folks! Hope all of you are safe after the typhoon. After all the storms (literal and metaphorical) we experienced this year, hopefully that's the last one we would face, confronted instead by more "desirable" challenges.

Below is an e-mail I received from a friend. If you are an abused man or you may know someone who is, Reporter's Notebook needs an interviewee. All will be done to keep the identity of the interviewee private. Pls.email erin directly. Just mention that you found out about it from me. Thanks!

Dear Ms. Mae Ann,

Si Erin po ito, yung kasama nyo sa Powerbooks Boook Club and I want to ask
po about your friend na naging abused man/husband sa wife. Itutuloy na kasi
namin ang storya on abused men. Baka pwede ko po kunin yung contact number

 para sa mga dadalo--mangyari po lamang na magdala kayo ng anumang tulong na maaari nating ipunin at ibahagi sa mga

nasalanta. kung hindi man, ang pagdalo ninyo at panonood ay isa nang malaking tulong.

kita-kita tayo doon mula ika-6 hanggang ika-9 ng gabi Oct. 6, 2009

at kung sakaling maging maganda ang kinalabasan ng kauna-unahang collaboration na ito

maaaring maging regular ito kasama tayo.

LAMAY AT PRUSISYON: F. Sionil Jose, Arturo Luz, Bienvenido Lumbera, Virgilio Almario, Bencab will lead artists and community in a Necrological Service and Funeral March for the National Artists Awards. Friday, Aug 7, 2009, 2pm, at the CCP front ramp. MAKIRAMAY TAYO!

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Repost from Patricia Evangelista: "Tonight on ANC's Media in Focus with Cheche Lazaro: The National Artist Award Fiasco with guests newly declared National Artists Carlo Caparas and Cecile Guidote-Alvarez, National Artist for Film Eddie Romero, UP Diliman Professor of Creative Writing Butch Dalisay, CCP Board of Trustees Chair Emily Abrera and film critic Alexis Tioseco at 8pm on ANC."

Kenneth Yu also blogged about this.