Events

• Philippine Pavilion
• Discussion
• Society, Politics, & Culture

Based on Doreen Fernandez’s characterization of basic Filipino cuisine, Ramos and Tayag show the many wonderful variations of their own specific locales.

• Philippine Pavilion
• Discussion
• Society, Politics, & Culture
• Religion & Spirituality

Theater scholar Nikki Carsi-Cruz will talk about two theater forms Spanish colonization brought to us: the sarsuwela and the komedya, indigenized as forms of resistance. Fr. Andrew Recepcion, in turn, will discuss the Bikol religious dramas of the Santacruzan and the Pasyon as theater of resistance and renewal.

• Philippine Pavilion

• Philippine Pavilion
• Discussion
• Presentation
• Society, Politics, & Culture

Among our young people, there is a growing interest in reviving the Philippine ancient syllabary called the baybayin. Severino, who leads this movement, will give the back story, introduce the audience to the old alphabet, and render names from the audience in baybayin.

• Philippine Pavilion
• Discussion
• Society, Politics, & Culture

A journalist, visual artist, children’s book author, and an illustrator, talk about two types of agency for creatives in times of crises: to write, or to not write— to engage or not to engage.

• Philippine Pavilion
• Discussion
• Society, Politics, & Culture
• Film, TV, & Interactive Media

Deocampo, multiawarded Filipino filmmaker and historian, and Petzke, internationally renowned film historian who translated Deocampo’s book to German, will trace back landmark Philippine-German film connections which have enriched the art and practice of filmmaking in both countries.

• Philippine Pavilion

• Beyond Frankfurt

For thirty-two years now, the Berleburg Literature Pavilion has been dedicated to the respective focus of the Frankfurt Book Fair. This comprehensive cultural showcase, in which the guest country is presented, is enjoying growing popularity.

• Beyond Frankfurt

What echoes linger in the silences of historical archives? Can the sounds of our ancestors, preserved in fragile wax cylinders and fading magnetic tapes, speak truths beyond fidelity? In Pagtatahip, meLê yamomo invites audiences into an immersive sonic weaving of past and present, where the reverberations of empire and memory are brought into resonance.

• Beyond Frankfurt

For thirty-two years now, the Berleburg Literature Pavilion has been dedicated to the respective focus of the Frankfurt Book Fair. This comprehensive cultural showcase, in which the guest country is presented, is enjoying growing popularity.