Category: Workshops
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COVID-19 and Beyond
Around the world, it has become clear how disproportionately the pandemic has affected women, especially women from what is called the Global South, in aspects of economy, human rights and security, and decision-making. Many women lost their jobs or economic independence. Women instead of men assumed most of the additional care work or domestic work.…
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Paglikha bilang pahinga at paglaban
Zine-making session kasama ang mga manggagawa ng NPIWU-NAFLU-KMU at IOHSAD, Setyembre 19, 2020, Zoom Magmula noong Marso, marami nang sinusubok, at patuloy na hinahamon, ang pandemya: ang mamamayang babad sa araw at mga banta sa kalusugan, salat sa proteksyong ipinangako sa kanila; ang ating pagtanaw sa buhay at kalagayan ‘di lamang ng mga sarili kundi…
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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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Mga Kadamay sa Pagtula
Karangalan naming maimbitahan ng Save San Roque Alliance na magdaos ng isang palihan sa pagtula kasama ang mga nanay ng Sitio San Roque sa Quezon City noong Setyembre 15. Maulan noong araw na iyon. May puntong hindi kami magkarinigan dahil napakalakas ng bagsak ng ulan sa yerong bubong ng dating kapilya/ngayon ay headquarters ng SSRA.…
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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…
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Biag Dagiti Agay-aywan
On March 10-11, Gantala Press held “Biag dagiti Agay-aywan: Life Stories of Nurses” at the Alfredo F. Tadiar Library in San Fernando, La Union. The writing workshop and resulting chapbook (to be published by the press) serve to document the life and labor practices of Filipino nurses. The artist-publisher Lyra Garcellano is curating a related…
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NAMASUFA Women Workers Workshop
Gantala Press worked with women laborers of the Nagkahiusang Mamumuo sa Suyapa Farm (NAMASUFA) union in their protest camp at Liwasang Bonifacio on December 21, 2018. The writing session aimed to collect narratives of the plantation workers to produce a zine that will publicize the abusive working conditions at Sumifru Corporation. Sumifru is a multinational…
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Women Writers, Women Writing
Unang binasa sa unang Kapihan Session ukol sa “Art and the Domestic” ng Ateneo Fine Arts Department at Ateneo Heights tampok ang Gantala Press, Pebrero 24, 2018. Alam natin ang kasaysayan: ang mga babae ay matagal na nasa tinatawag na positions of power — bilang babaylan o tagapangalaga ng alaala (keeper of memory) at tagapagsalaysay,…
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Art and the Domestic
“The first-ever Kapihan session of Heights Ateneo in collaboration with the Ateneo Fine Arts Department happened on Saturday, February 24, 2018 at the Ben Chan Artsuite in the Arete. The featured speakers were Faye Cura and Rae Rival of Gantala Press who talked about the roles of women in writing and publishing. Cura discussed the…
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IKIRAN Workshops
Gantala Press believes in paying contributors for their work. In order to afford to give a modest honorarium to the contributors of its first book, Gantala Press partnered with Uno Morato Bookstore along Tomas Morato, Quezon City for a series of art and literary workshops in April and May 2016. The workshops were: Basic Creative…