Dalityapi Unpoemed
March 2008
Greetings Bard-Brothers & Sisters:
Check out the latest issue of the Makata at http://www.dalityapi.com/
THE MAKATA (POET) Vol.9
Makata Issue No.3, March 2008 is now available online featuring the works of our home-grown and international poets: Michael Francis C. Andrada, Mark Angeles, Aurora Antonovic, Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal, Willie R. Bongcaron, Sergio Bumadilla, Jesamyne Diokno, Erwin S. Fernandez, Lolito Go, Arti Honrao and Napoleon Resultay.
Send all submissions / contributions for Volume 9, April 2008 issue to svillafania at yahoo [dot] com and to Jason Chancoco at tarusan22 at yahoo [dot] com (for Tagalog/Filipino & Bikol poetry). Also accepting poems written in other Philippine languages: Cebuano, Iluko, Hiligaynon, Waray, Kapampangan, Pangasinan, etc.
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Multilingualism in Philippine Literature and Cyberspace
The Makata project proposal “Multilingualism in Philippine Literature and Cyberspace” (http://makata.dalityapi.com/) in support to the UNESCO’s 2008 International Year of Languages has been considered and approved.
http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=36460&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
Thematic framework: Multilingualism and Cyberspace
Geographical outreach: International
Types of project: Capacity-building
Beneficiary countries: Philippines (and other countries)
Main responsible:
Santiago Villafania (sonny@eac.edu.ph)
Emilio Aguinaldo College,
1113-1117 San Marcelino St.,
Ermita, Manila, Philippines
Summary of the activities
The primary aim of this project is to encourage the youth in the Philippines to write literary works in their Mother Tongue.
The MAKATA, since 1999, serves as an online journal for Philippine and International contemporary poetry.
2008 project activities include:
- publication of works in major Philippine languages: Tagalog, Cebuano, Iluko, Hiligaynon, Bicol, Waray, Kapampangan, Pangasinan, etc.
- organize/coordinate poetry readings in different provinces which will be a build-up to World Poetry day (21 March)
The site will be available for writers, educators and researchers interested in literary works in different Philippine languages.
Main partners
Currently in cooperation with the Commission on Filipino Language which supports multilingualism in its annual literary contest: the Gawad Komisyon.
Start Date: 01-01-2007 End Date: 21-12-2015
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Your Bard-Brother,
Santiago B. Villafania
