LITFEST : Cebu Literary Festival

Little Boy Productions and Cebuano Studies Center, in cooperation with the Arts Council of Cebu presents the first ever LITFEST: Cebu Literary Festival this June 27, 2014 at Ayala Center Cebu.

LITFEST is a full day event of everything literary from Cebu’s literary community. From talks, moderated conversations, exhibits, demos, presentations, a book launch and a music/ poetry jam, LITFEST promises to be a treat to all Cebuanos.

So if you want to have a literary good time, check out their full schedule:

10:30am – Opening Remarks – Mayor Mike Rama

10:45am – Talk: Ten Things You Need to Know about Being a Cebuano Playwright in NYC by Linda Faigao Hall

11:45am – Presentation: Promoting Reading through Storytelling Cris Evert Lato of the Basadours

12nn – Presentation: Pechakucha by Jay Chiongbian of Pechakucha Cebu

12:15pm – Interactive Demo: Storytelling though Songs by Cattski Espina of 22 Tango Records

12:30pm – Presentation & Exhibit: Of Children and Kings sculpture, inspired by Game of Thrones, by Mark Deutsch of Happy Garaje

1:30pm – Moderated Conversation: Palanca 101 with Januar Yap, Shane Carreon, Jona Bering and Lilia Tio, to be moderated by Jane Frias

2:30pm – Talk: Seashells, Shorts and the Poetry of History by Lawrence Ypil

3:30pm – Moderated Conversation: How To Get Published with Cebu Daily News’ Eileen Mangubat, Sun Star Daily’s Isolde Amante, and The Freeman’s Marlinda Angbetic Tan, to be moderated by Chloe Palang

4:30pm – Talk: Cebu as Inspiration To My Writings By Cecilia Manguerra Brainard.www.ceciliabrainard.com

5:30pm – Moderated Conversation: Writing In Diaspora With Cecilia Manguerra Brainard, Linda Faigao Hall, and Lawrence Ypil, to be moderated by Jude Bacalso

6:30pm – Book Launch: The Other(ed) Woman by Hope Sabanpan Yu

7:30pm – Concert: LitFest Jam, a celebration of Cebuano music and poetry featuring performances by 22 Tango Records’ Cattski, The Wonggoys and Jem Cubil, with the poetry of Ana Escalante Neri, Danessa Alinsug, Ester Tapia, Gilmin Royo Kakilala, Jeneen Garcia, Simeon Dumdum Jr, Estefanio Luceno, Malu Gayamat, Gremer Chan Reyes, Karla Quimsing, Christine Godinez Ortega, and Adonis Durado as read by Michael Karlo Lim, June Rabin, Andi Patena, Juanita Romualdez, Clint Solante, John Paulo Agir, Shiela Pialago, among others.

The event is also brought to us by 22 Tango Records, Happy Garaje, East West Café at the I.T. Park, Pepper lunch, Coffee Bean, Tea leaf and Shakey’s.