{"id":23723,"date":"2019-05-29T09:30:14","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T01:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/?p=23723"},"modified":"2019-07-31T14:37:09","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T06:37:09","slug":"the-philippine-readers-and-writers-festival-is-back-with-more-books-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/2019\/05\/29\/the-philippine-readers-and-writers-festival-is-back-with-more-books-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"The Philippine Readers and Writers Festival Is Back With More Books This Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bookworms! Your favorite festival is finally back this year for a three-day\u00a0gathering of everything book related!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">From your favorite reads to your favorite Filipino and international best-selling authors, <strong>The Philippine Readers and Writers Festival<\/strong> is\u00a0back\u00a0this <strong>August 2 to 4, 2019<\/strong> at <strong>Raffles Makati<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24724\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/05\/Philippine-Readers-and-Writers-Festival-2019.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Now on its 6th year, National Book Store and Raffles Makati brings back the annual Philippine Readers and Writers Festival with more series of book signings, discussions, panels, as well as meet and greets!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Here&#8217;s\u00a0the lineup of speakers, schedule of activities, as well as international best-selling authors who will grace this year&#8217;s festival:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"679\" height=\"960\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24725\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/05\/Philippine-Readers-and-Writers-Festival-2019-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/05\/Philippine-Readers-and-Writers-Festival-2019-1.jpg 679w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/05\/Philippine-Readers-and-Writers-Festival-2019-1-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 679px) 100vw, 679px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Daily registration starts at 8:30 a.m. and will continue throughout the day. Guests will be asked to fill out registration forms upon arrival to get their festival access pass which they can also use for all the events on August 2 to 4.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Since venue capacities are very limited, it will strictly follow a first come first serve basis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-23729\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/05\/Philippine-readers-and-writers-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/05\/Philippine-readers-and-writers-2.jpg 960w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/05\/Philippine-readers-and-writers-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/05\/Philippine-readers-and-writers-2-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/05\/Philippine-readers-and-writers-2-290x290.jpg 290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Books, books and more books! \/ IMAGE grabbed from National Book Store&#8217;s Facebook Page<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Admission is absolutely for <strong>FREE<\/strong> and guests may also bring their old books for it to be signed, as long as it is purchased at any National Book Store, National Book Store Express, and Powerbooks stores.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>Philippine Readers and Writers Festival will be happening on\u00a0<strong>August 2 to 4, 2019<\/strong>\u00a0at\u00a0<strong>Raffles Makati<\/strong>!\u00a0For more\u00a0updates and details, you may check out their Facebook event at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1026007584276981\/?event_time_id=1026007587610314\" target=\"_blank\">2019 Philippine Readers and Writers Festival<\/a>. You may also visit their website at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.readersandwritersfestival.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">readersandwritersfestival.com<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Details<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What: 2019 Philippine Readers and Writers Festival<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When:\u00a0<em>\u00a0<\/em>August 2 to 4, 2019<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Where: Raffles\u00a0Makati Ave, Makati,\u00a0City<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Website:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.readersandwritersfestival.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">readersandwritersfestival.com<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Images grabbed from\u00a0National Bookstore<br \/>\nUpdated as of July 31.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bookworms! Your favorite festival is finally back this year for a three-day gathering of everything book related! From your favorite reads to your favorite Filipino and International best-selling authors, The Philippine Readers, and Writers Festival is back this August 2 to 4, 2019 at Raffles Makati!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,5042],"tags":[2243,6940,7830,7829],"class_list":["post-23723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-festival","category-writing","tag-book-fair","tag-book-fair-2019","tag-book-festival","tag-philippne-readers-and-writers-festival"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23723","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=23723"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24728,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23723\/revisions\/24728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}