Category: Fairs
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Hanggang sa Tagumpay: Boycott Frankfurt Book Fair
At the 2023 Frankfurt Book Fair (FBF) or Frankfurter Buchmesse, the FBF-funded LitProm association canceled that year’s LiBeraturpreis for Palestinian writer Adania Shibli “due to the war started by Hamas.” This “war” referred to the Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7, 2023, which Zionists and their supporters have since used to justify Israel’s decimation of Palestine.…
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Filipinos are Palestinians: Boycott the Frankfurt Book Fair!
The Palestinian revolutionary Ghassan Kanafani wrote that imperialism had “laid its body over the world,” and that the Palestinian cause is “a cause for every revolutionary, wherever he is. A cause of the exploited and oppressed masses.” Kanafani declared, and we chant this today, “In our thousands in our millions we are all Palestinians.”(1) The…
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Bakit Boycott? An online forum on the Frankfurt Book Fair and Palestine
The Philippines is Guest of Honor at the 2025 Frankfurt Book Fair. On International Children’s Book Day, join us in discussing the impacts of neoliberalization on Philippine publishing; the Palestinian struggle’s movement for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions as applied to cultural work and the fair in particular; and how publishers, writers, and book makers all…
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On the Frankfurt Book Fair, Bagong Pilipinas, and Palestine
Published on Rappler.com on Feb 1, 2024 Faye Cura After years of lobbying by the National Book Development Board, the Philippines was finally named Guest of Honor in the 2025 Frankfurt Book Fair (FBF). The Guest of Honor has the important task of increasing attendance to the fair. A Guest of Honor country’s publishing industry…
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Small Pressing Issues at the MIBF
Gantala Press’ relationship with the Manila International Book Fair (MIBF) began in 2017 or thereabouts after the release of our first two books — one a collection of new writings by women in the country and abroad; the other a set of essays by women on Mindanao and the Marawi Siege. As a newly formed…
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One Publishes to Find Comrades
Bago pa man ang pandemya, mga dantaon bago ang pandemyang ito, nagpuprotesta na ang taumbayan, kabilang na ang kababaihan, laban sa mapaniil na pamamalakad ng maykapangyarihan. Sa katunayan, ang unang batid na welga ng manggagawa sa Pilipinas ay gawa ng mga cigarrera noong 1816. Humiling sila ng tamang mga kundisyon sa paggawa, tamang oras ng…
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Dispatch from Deutschland
Frankfurt I represented Gantala Press in the Invitation Programme for small publishers from countries with a developing book industry at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair (Frankfurter Buchmesse), said to be the largest book fair in the world. To be honest, I applied to the program not knowing that the Buchmesse is more of a huge…
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Invitation to KASAMARALITA
Save San Roque is a broad alliance of architecture & engineering professionals, educators, organizers, artists, writers, and students, campaigning and working on the fulfillment of on-site housing development called the Community Development Plan for the residents of Sitio San Roque who are currently facing ongoing threats of demolition, land dispossession, and displacement. Sitio San Roque…