{"id":14457,"date":"2018-03-30T11:00:24","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T03:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/?p=14457"},"modified":"2018-03-28T10:15:03","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T02:15:03","slug":"the-9th-philippine-international-literary-festival-authorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/2018\/03\/30\/the-9th-philippine-international-literary-festival-authorities\/","title":{"rendered":"The 9th Philippine International Literary Festival &#8211; (AUTHOR)ITIES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Book Development Board (NBDB) invites all to the 9th cycle of the <strong>Philippine International Literary Festival<\/strong> at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) from April 19 to 20, 2018. This year&#8217;s festival will feature talks, workshops, book fair to film screenings and performances carrying the theme <em>(AUTHOR)ITIES<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-14458\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/03\/29064391_10156052308165498_2151564460261475016_o-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>IMAGE grabbed from Philippine International Literary Festival Facebook Page<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Held every year NBDB&#8217;s holds the festival to support the Philippine book industry and in celebration of National Literature Month. This\u00a0in<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">\u00a0partnership with the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) and <em>Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino<\/em> (KWF).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This year, we welcome speakers and guests such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>London-based Filipina writer Elaine Castillo, who will debut her book &#8220;America is Not in the Heart,&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Writers Marra Lanot, Luna Sicat-Cleto, Glenn Diaz, Kristine Ong Muslim, Kristian Sendon Cordero, Liza Magtoto, Rody Vera, Genevieve Asenjo, MJ Cagumbay Tumamac, and Clarissa Militante,<\/li>\n<li>Book designers Karl Castro, Ige Ramos, and R. Jordan Santos, and<\/li>\n<li>Graphic lit creators Manix Abrera, Mervin Malonzo, Elbert Or, and Carlo Vergara<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Partnerships that the NBDB had created will\u00a0deliver more quality sessions and spur discourse from different perspectives:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP)<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0screenings of local films during the two-day festival, with films adapted from published Filipino artists and literary arts.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Game Developers Association of the Philippines (GDAP)<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0sessions on innovations, challenges, and opportunities in book-to-game adaptations and digital platforms.\u00a0Tabletop games (card games and board games) based on Filipino folklore and literature will also be demonstrated at the book fair.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Department of Education-Bureau of Learning Resources (DepEd-BLR)<\/strong> &#8211; translation, including best practices and challenges, will be explored in the forum<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sessions will touch on timely and relevant discourses on comics, cross-media projects, literacy and reading programs, fiction writing, self-publishing, storytelling programs, book-to-film adaptations, translation, editing, independent publishing, playwriting and publishing, popular culture, and much more.<\/p>\n<p>All activities in the <strong>9th Philippine International Literary Festival<\/strong> are free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>For updates on the Festival program, please visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nbdb.phil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">National Book Development Board &#8211; Philippines<\/a>\u00a0on Facebook or check out their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/182119419236650\/\" target=\"_blank\">event page<\/a>. For queries, you may contact the Festival team through litfest@nbdb.gov.ph or at 02-929-3887 local 804.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Details<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What: 9th Philippine International Literary Festival<br \/>\nWhere:\u00a0Cultural Center of the Philippines in Pasay City<br \/>\nWhen: April 19 to 20, 2018;\u00a08\u00a0am to 7\u00a0pm<br \/>\nTickets:\u00a0Online pre-registration will start on April 2, 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Festival that celebrates literature and promotes best practices through discourse on issues, opportunities, and trends shaping the book industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,22],"tags":[466,1857],"class_list":["post-14457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ccp-complex","category-festival","tag-ccp","tag-philippine-international-literary-festival"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14457"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14465,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14457\/revisions\/14465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}