PBBY Chair's Report: 2009 - 2013

Today is the 30th NCBD!

We go back to the where it all began!

The folk tale “The Monkey and the Tortoise” popularized by Dr. Jose Rizal was first published in Trubner's Record July 1889 issue. It was originally drawn in the scrapbook of Paz Pardo de Tavera when Rizal stayed in Paris France in December 1885.

The National Library of the Philippines holds a copy of the folktale complete with English translations. The book was done by Austin Craig and was published in 1912. It has a copy of the original also published in Austin Craig's “Lineage, Life and Labors of Jose Rizal Philippine Patriot : A Study of the Growth of Free Ideas in the Trans-Pacific American Territory” published in 1913.argc

Many thanks to National Library of the Philippines (NLP) librarian, Ann Rosette Crelencia for sending this press release on Rizal's The Monkey and the Tortoise, currently on display in the Rare Book Section of the NLP.

Tips on Celebrating the 30th NCBD

Are you preparing your book list for your reading child this NCBD? Have you prepared a book fair and storytelling session in your school and library? If yes, you're well on your way to celebrating the 30th NCBD. But here are more activities you can do to celebrate the event:

a. Get posters of the 30th NCBD from the PBBY Secretariat and distribute them to friends, schools, barangay hall and day care centers.

b. Visit the PBBY website and check the list of published Salanga-Alcala books. How many do you have in your collection?

c. If you are an inspiring writer for children and young adult,  join a writing group like KUTING.

d. If you're an art enthusiast, visit the Ang INK exhibit, Curious Buffet, in Cubao.

e. If you are a chidlren's lit advocate, teacher or librarian, attend the CLAPI seminar.

f. Invite the winners of this year's Salanga and Alacala in your school, library and classroom.

g. Watch out for this year's new books for children and young adults. I will post the list/PPT. in the blog. I hear there are good and interesting titles! Get a copy. Buy from the bookstore or the publisher.

h. For librarians: set up a book display in the library on Rizal and Bonifacio. Rizal because NCBD commemorates the publication of The Monkey and the Turtle in Trubner's Oriental Record in London. Bonifacio because it is his 150th birth year/anniversary.

i. For academic and research librarians: Promote and publicize theses and studies on Philippine Children's Literature. Make the abstracts available to the public.

j. Watch Sandosenang Sapatos in CCP.

More activities to post in the next few day!

NCBD Countdown Day 7: Promoting the 30th NCBD on Radio

For the past two Wednesdays, last week and this week, Dr. Luis Gatmaitan and I were on air promoting the 30th National Children's Book Day.

On July 2, we were guests in DZUP 1602 LIBRADIO: Librarian sa Radio in UP Diliman's MassComm complex. It was my second guesting in the show and while the librarian DJs were happy to see me again, they were thrilled to have Dr. Gatmaitan in the show. The typical Pinoys, we had picture taking before going on air.

Dr. Gatmaitan was the perfect radio guest! His experience in DZAS' Doctors On Air came into play. He was spontaneous and very natural. The gracious guest that he was, he affirmed and appreciated the UP librarian DJs for doing such a good job on their radio show.

Librarians are COOL! Librarians rock! Librarians rule!

And because we had a good time with librarian DJs of DZUP, we did another radio gig over at DZAS yesterday.  Formerly in Valenzuela, the new DZAS station was on the penthouse of One Corporate Center in Ortigas. The show, Family Matters, airing every Wednesday from 9.30AM-11AM gladly interviewed us in the show. Heidi Sampang and Ate Marie were wonderful conversationalists. I was touched when at the end of the show, Ate Marie offered a prayer for PBBY. God bless!

Here's hoping that through radio shows, NCBD is made known to all Filipino families in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao.

Celebrate NCBD: PBBY Seminar-Workshop in Cebu

July 16 is the 30th National Children's Book Day. As part of its celebration, the Philippine Board on Books for Young People (PBBY), in partnership with Adarna House and University of San Jose- Recoletos, invites public and private school teachers and librarians to Basa, Mga Kapatid! A Free Seminar on Library Activities and Book Reviewing. The seminar will be held from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM on July 20, 2013 (Saturday) at AV - Room, Saint Ezekiel Moreno Bldg., University of San Jose-Recoletos,  Basak Campus, Basak Pardo, Cebu City.

Speaking at the seminar will be outgoing PBBY Chair Zarah Gagatiga and incoming PBBY chair Tarie Sabido.

Zarah Gagatiga is a teacher librarian at Beacon Academy, she used to be the coordinator of Xavier School's Grade School Learning Resource Center and is formerly President of Kuwentista ng mga Tsikiting  (KUTING). She co-authored a book entitled Tales from the 7,000 Isles: Filipino Folk Stories published by Libraries Unlimited in 2011.  She is also an accreditor for Instructional Media for the PAASCU and has been conducting lectures and workshops on library services and storytelling in Singapore, Thailand, and Hongkong.

With an MA in English Studies from the University of the Philippines, Tarie Sabido has taught English and professional oral communication in universities such as Ateneo de Manila and De la Salle. She currently designs and develops materials for teaching English as a foreign language for goFLUENT Resources Development. She also blogs about children’s and young adult books.  Most of her blog reviews on Into the Wardrobe, Asia in the Heart, World on the Mind, and Color Online give focus and importance to Asian books.

Celebrate NCBD: A Curious Buffet

A CURIOUS BUFFET
Ang I.N.K. Group Exhibit
About the Exhibit:
Ang Ilustrador ng Kabataan presents an exhibition inspired by the kitchen.

Pots and pans, teacups and spoons are the stuff of the everyday and the normal. We use our kitchenware and utensils almost unthinkingly - picking them up, using them, washing them down over and over again. Kitchen and table utensils are the tools of our daily domestic routines and are steeped in the matter-of-factness of life. Spoons and teapots can be some of the most unremarkable things in the world. Utilitarian and ordinary as they are, one may think that they are far removed from the wonder of the visual arts.

But art can exist in everyday things. In this exhibit, Ang Ilustrador ng Kabataan aims to juxtapose the common kitchen utensil with the magic of art. Factory made utensils give way to artworks made with hands. The artworks on display will use kitchen items and utensils as starting points for sculptures and paintings. Objects that were originally intended for cooking and eating will be reassembled, recombined, repainted and transformed to items for pure visual enjoyment.

In the end, when all the artworks are assembled, the intention is to create a collection of desserts and treats of a different sort for both the eye and the mind.

Details:
Post (formerly PABLO) Cubao X
Exhibit Opening: June 29, 2013/ Saturday/ 6pm
Exhibit runs until July 13, 2013.

 

* Lifted from Xi Zuq's Nook. 

Celebrate NCBD: Join KUTING

Celebrate NCBD: Sandosenang Sapatos

I have reserved tickets for me and my family to a matinee show of Sandosenang Sapatos, a musical adaptation of Dr. Luis "Tito Dok" Gatmaitan's wonderful children's book. This is our way of celebrating the 30th National Children's Book Day. Our kids, Nico (16) and Zoe (12) have all grown up reading Tito Dok's books and Sandosenang Sapatos is a personal favorite. As a parent, I intend to direct them to another experience of literature of another form. The children's book they loved and read as little kids has been adapted into a musical.

What conservations we would have after seeing this musical!

I am excited for Tito Dok; for my kids to watch the musical; for the musical to take flight and soar! The hubby is looking forward to the show as well because Noel Cabangon, one of his favorite musicians, composed the music and directed it too.

For inquiries on reservations, blocked screenings for schools and big groups, get in touch with:


Juan Lorenzo Marco
Marketing Staff - Tanghalang Pilipino
Project Head - Sandosenang Sapatos and Tanghalang Pilipino TV

TANGHALANG PILIPINO
Cultural Center of the Philippines
2/F Production Design Building, CCP Complex
Roxas Blvd. Pasay City

Telephone Number: 832-1125 local 1620-1621
Mobile Number: 0935-378-4781/0999-884-9624
Email: onelorenzomarco@gmail.com/onelorenzo.tanghalangpilipino@gmail.com
BBMPIN: 2AC39E00

* Dr. Luis Gatmaitan is the sectoral representative for writers in the PBBY (Philippine Board on Books for Young People)

Celebrate the 30th NCBD 2013!

Last year, I posted in the blog photos of learning communities who celebrated the 29th National Children's Book Day. PBBY also issued a letter with suggestions to celebrate NCBD.

To refresh your memory, here is the link to the photos and the activities mentioned in the letter.

1. Conduct storytelling sessions in classrooms and libraries.
2. Organize a Filipino Children’s Book Character Parade.
3. Invite a Filipino author and/or illustrator to speak to children.
4. Hold contests on story writing and illustrating. (This can be a follow-up activity to the author and illustrator visit.)
5. Display past winning books of the PBBY-Salanga and the PBBY-Alcala prizes in the library. (The PBBY website, http://www.pbby.org.ph, has the list of winners.)
6. Stage your own Best Reads event with parents, teachers and students. Remember to focus on Filipino books for children and young adults!
7. Invite parents, school officials, teachers and other members of the learning community to talk about books they grew up with.
8. Drum up this year's theme by showcasing Filipino books that exemplify: Masayang Magbasa sa Sariling Wika.
9. Publish or display (online or in the school paper) reviews of Filipino storybooks by students.
10. Read a Filipino children's book or YA novel.

This year, continue to celebrate NCBD! The NCBD poster has five activities that parents, teachers, libraries and school communities can do. For free posters, call the PBBY Secretariat at 3526765 local 203/120. This week, I will feature more ways to celebrate books, reading and the NCBD 2013!

NCBD Countdown Day 28: I owe it to PBBY

The 30th National Children's Book Day

And so we begin another year of the National Children's Book Day. The poster says it all. Begin a reading revolution!

Celebrate NCBD at home, in your school and community. Let me know how you plan to drum up NCBD this year. Send me photos and brief descriptions of activities. I will devote a blog space for your feedback and stories on the NCBD.

Thanks to Kora Dandan Albano for a marvelous job illustrating the poster!

This year is Andres Bonifacio's sesquicentennial celebration so PBBY's battle cry: Basa, mga kapatid!