tuesday evening of the workshop saw the longest fellows night ever since upnww was reformatted in 2006. fellows kael co and carl javier opened the program with performances of original songs by their band, los chupacabraz. ichi batacan wowed the crowed after her rendition of a joni mitchell song. dean alfar entertained everyone with his [...]
today we begin the overlap. this year’s workshop has two batches of panelists, with one panel going up to baguio a day before the other goes down to manila. this means we are expecting jimmy abad, jing hidalgo, neil garcia, jun cruz reyes, vim nadera, and mario miclat today. tonight, bien lumbera and roland tolentino [...]
i bumped into padma perez of the baguio writers group yesterday at the bencab museum, and she and i firmed up plans of an inuman, basically a meet and greet event, with members of the baguio writers group tonight at vocas. i understand it’s somewhere along session road. it’s up six flights of stairs, so [...]
so we hit the ground running. after the chartered bus dropped us off at the aim-igorot lodge at a little past 12:00, we checked in and clambered on to the waiting jeepneys that took us to bencab’s museum on asin road. we had lunch there at his post-birthday celebration. afterwards, we watched several traditional dances [...]
in three hours i will be in up diliman to start working on the actual workshop. we’ve been working on it for several months now, and today we start the eight days of the actual workshop.
i’ve just finished packing, and i can’t make up my mind whether i should try to put in a couple [...]
Where the informal, lighter side of the Workshop gets their share of pixels.
Watch out for this space, where the four Staffers of the UPNWW 2009 will post their thoughts, rantings, and experiences. Think of it as an inside look as to what happens behind the press releases and official announcements.
Enjoy.
