Saturday, February 25, 2006
UP-Mindanao celebrates 11th anniversary
NO LESS than UP president Emerlinda R. Roman joins UP-Mindanao on its 11th anniversary at the Bago Oshiro campus recently. Ms. Roman is the first female president of the state university.
Welcoming Ms. Roman were Chancellor Ricardo de Ungria, Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs Gilda Rivero, Vice-Chancellor for Administration Antoinette Hernandez, UP Deans Tony Moran, Tony Obsioma, Larry Digal and the UP-Mindanao constituents.
The welcome affair was highlighted by a dance ritual from the UP-Mindanao Dance Ensemble and planting of the sago plant.
Meanwhile, the University of the Philippines in Mindanao College of Humanities and Social Sciences held a public reading dubbed "The Place and the Imagination" on February 22 at the UP Mindanao Teraza Meleza building, Inigo Street, Davao City. The reading was followed by a forum on creative writing and a writer's experience as a Filipino-American.
Honolulu-based Filipino-American writer, R. Zarnora Linmark, whose books were published in the US, conducted the lecture. Linmark recently won first prize in the Free Press Literary Awards for his poem "What Some Are Saying About the Body", which is about the dead body of former president Ferdinand Marcos.
Born in Manila and educated in Honolulu, R. Zaruora Lirimark is based in San Francisco. His work has appeared in numerous publications and anthologies such as the Philippines Free Press, Premonitions: The Kaya Anthology of New Asian North American Poetry, and Charlie Chan is Dead: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction.
Linmark's public reading tackles a writer's experience of rediscovering the city he is writing about Manila, as well as reconciling a writer's shifting identities in the postcolonial age. Linmark has published a novel, "Rolling the Ra (Kaya)", and a collection of poems, "Prime Time Apparitions" (Hanging Loose Press).
He has just finished his second novel which is set in Manila and covers the turbulent years of the ML Pinatubo eruption. Parts of the writing process of his second novel are revealed in his public reading.
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