The Market for Pinoy Pride

Woohooo! Check out this mention on the Inquirer's Open for Business Blog!

Call for Submissions: 7th Annual Barlaya Workshop

October 3 & 4

The Adarna House Product Development Group calls for works to the annual Barlaya Writing / Illustrating for Children Workshop. The workshop is annually held to provide basic training and knowledge on the craft of writing and illustrating for children. Barlaya is facilitated by acknowledged children’s experts, experienced children’s book authors and illustrators, and the Adarna House Product Development Group.

The theme for this year’s Barlaya is “Writing and Designing NonFiction Books for Children.” Writers and designers who would like to participate in the workshop will go through a screening process.

For details on this workshop and other workshops/ conferences/lectures this August, please click here.

A Filipino Embrace

Whether you're a basketball fan or not, we think you'll enjoy this New York Times article on NBA star Gilbert Arenas' visit to Manila about a month ago.

While you're at it, check out his blog entry on it as well.

Crawling Man at 1/of Gallery

Buen Calubayan presents humans diminished by supposed 'brain damaging habits' in his "CRAWLING MAN" exhibit at 1/of Gallery at Serendra, Bonifacio Global City, Taguig. He depicts oil on canvas bodies on all fours, their degradation made prominent by slapdashes of paint. To effect pressing confinement, there are also mirror images of each piece, whether back or front views, as if to show deterioration as a tangible entity closing in. This echoed by the installation of a horde of centipede with miniature brains cornered on the gallery floor. All through his rhetoric, Calubayan's mastery with the brush shines, proof to himself and the audience that maybe his habits have not affected his cranial matter after all.

"Crawling Man" runs until August 31, 2008. Call 901-3152 for details.

And The Finalists Are...

CANVAS is pleased to announce that the following stories (in no particular order) have been selected as the finalists of our storywriting competition for young children:

Daisy Chain by Becky Bravo

Tala, the Star that Could Not Sleep by Augie Rivera

Why the Sea is Blue and Salty by Agay Llanera

The Comet, the Cloud and the Rainbow by Raissa Rivera-Falgui

My Big Sister Can See Dragons by Rocky Tirona

All five stories, which can be read here, have been sent to the Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency for comment and feedback, following which CANVAS shall select and announce the overall winner.