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Two award-winning poets and translators, across time and space, converse about the state of Philippine national literature from the perspective of the periphery.
Explore Event: Our National Literature: Filipino Spirit and ImaginationNational Artist for Literature poet Almario, through his lifetime dedication to poetry, has helped shape a nation’s identity, bring about social change, preserve its heritage, and build communities for its just future.
Explore Event: Writing Poetry for a NationPrize-winning fictionist Lacuesta and international film producer Yuson discuss the techniques and tension involved in crossing over to film popular literary works.
Explore Event: Film and Literature: Tension and TranslationThe popular and beloved literary form undergoes a major shift, and transforms into a new way of looking at its own shape and substance.
Explore Event: Comics: The Gamechanger through the YearsMuseum curators, archivists, and directors are always on their feet, exploring many creative ways of passing on our heritage to future generations.
Explore Event: Heritage for our YouthIn a time of deep fakes and conspiracies, books and documentaries become authoritative and reliable sources of facts and truth.
Explore Event: Books and Documentaries: Facts of Life (with excerpts)A YA fictionist, a poet, and a memoirist write from afar but always about the home country: their conflicted remembrances of it even as it remains their bastion of strength; their anxieties over issues of exile and identity, integration and resistance as they struggle to make a life in their host countries.
Explore Event: Worlds Shaped by Home Away From Home
