News From the Philippines: 2nd National Conference on Children’s Literature and the 26th National Children’s Book Day
School librarian, teacher and incoming PBBY chairman Zarah Gagatiga has passed along the following information on two exciting events taking place in July in the Philippines:
The 2nd National Conference on Children’s Literature – July 16 & 17
The Pilandokan (National Research Society for Children’s Literature) and the National Commission for Culture and the Arts will be sponsoring the Second National Conference on Children’s Literature with the theme “Panitikang Pambata sa Edukasyon” (Children’s Literature in Education) on July 16-17 at the University of the Philippines – Diliman.
This national conference will feature paper presentations and workshops by scholars, creative writers, artists, and children’s right advocates. Topics include the Filipino concept of child and childhood; the state of children’s literature in the Philippines; book piracy; literacy programs for urban poor children and the deaf; and the formation of Filipino childhood identity. The Keynote Speaker will be the Pilandokan Founding President Dr. Rosario Torres-Yu.
For further information, please contact Dr. Eugene Y. Evasco and/or Prof. Will P. Ortiz (pagongatmatsing (at) yahoo(dot)com).
26th National Children’s Book Day – 3rd week of July
For the first time ever, the Philippine Board on Books for Young People (PBBY) will hold the celebration of NCBD (National Children’s Book Day) outside Manila in Marikina City. This year’s themes focus on leadership and readership with the slogan Readers Make Good Leaders!
The whole month of July promises to be a fun-filled month of reading, writing and interactive activities for children and literacy advocates. The Salanga and Alcala Prizes will be awarded during the opening ceremonies on July 21, 2009 at the Marikina Convention Center.
You can read about the preparations in Zarah’s post here and I’ll post more information on the Children’s Book Day festivities in the coming weeks.
June 22nd, 2009 at 12:20 pm
It would be great to know about these events a longer time in advance – like a year or six months. That way one would have time to plan a trip (and get some funding for it).
June 22nd, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Who are the participants of this event? (ie children, book sellers, publishers etc?) what are the exciting things in store for this event? are there booths selling books?:) thanks!
June 23rd, 2009 at 3:28 am
Yes, you are right… I suppose the thing to do is to note that this one, for example, looks set to become a regular event and to get onto a mailing list for next year as soon as details come out.
June 23rd, 2009 at 10:12 am
The real problem is that all the conferences and events you write about seem so interesting that I would like to go everywhere…
June 23rd, 2009 at 3:14 pm
Well, I agree with you there, too, Anna
June 23rd, 2009 at 4:26 pm
Anna -
Thanks so much for taking the time to comment. Much appreciated.
I’d love to go to many of these events too! A lot of the ones on our calendar are annual events and if you go back into our archives you can get an idea of what may be happening again. If you know you are going to be travelling in a certain month, check an archived calendar. Many of the links still work and will let you know future dates of the events.
June 24th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
corinne,
thanks for spreading the good news re: our celebration of NCBD in the Philippines. all sectors of industry who have a stake on reading, books, children’s literature will be busy during the whole week. i suggest for your readers to proceed to the pbby website for more info – http://pbby.org.ph
thanks again!
July 4th, 2009 at 3:40 am
Hi. As part of our CSR program (SM children’s committee), we are interested in further spreading the celebration of NCBD in the Philippines. Please advise how we can get in touch with you or you may email me at rac@smsupermalls.com. More power to your group.
July 6th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
Royce – Thanks for your comment. Visit the Philippines Board on Books for Young People website http://pbby.org.ph and they will send you more info on the events planned. Thanks for spreading the word!