MMAFI & FEU Now Accepting To The Maninging Poetry Workwhop Until Sept 15

The Maningning Miclat Art Foundation Inc. (MMAFI), in cooperation with the Far Eastern University Center for the Arts (FCA), Institute of Architecture and Fine Arts (IARFA) and Institute of Arts and Sciences (IAS), is now accepting entries of one Filipino poem per entry with the theme “Pagtatagumpay sa Pandemya” for the Maningning Poetry Workshop on September 27, 2023.  

Fifteen participants aged 26 and younger will be chosen to avail of the free workshop which is part of the one-day art and poetry event at the FEU University Conference Center. A hardbound book, Ningning at Liwanag: Antolohiya ng 10 Nagwagi sa Gawad Maningning Miclat sa Tula (2003-2021) will be launched in the event which will also proclaim the winners of the 2023 Maningning Miclat poetry competition. The book published by MMAFI and Erehwon Artworld Corporation received Publication Grant for 2023 from the National Book Development Board (NBDB). Meanwhile, there will also be an exhibit sale of artworks by past Maningning Art Award winners like Dexter Sy, Jessica Lopez, Nikko Pelaez, Kristoffer Tolentino and Joen Sudlon, and faculty and selected students from IARFA. 

“GINUGUNITA KITA” Arts All Set On Sept 26

Banaue Miclat-Janssen

In line with its 18th year anniversary celebration, The Maningning Miclat Art Foundation Inc. in cooperation with District Gallery - Artist Playground, and the Far Eastern University President’s Committee on Culture presents “GINUGUNITA KITA,” a performance art featuring Maningning Miclat’s poems and an all original music composed by Jesse Lucas.

“GINUGUNITA KITA” will be held on September 26 – Wednesday 6 p.m. at the historic, newly-opened FEU Auditorium located at Nicanor Reyes St., Sampaloc, Manila.

Maningning Miclat was a poet, fictionist and essayist in English, Filipino and Chinese as well as a painter in Western and Chinese genre. A Bachelor of Fine Arts graduate in UP Diliman, she was a fellow of the U.P. National Writer's Workshop, Silliman Writer's Workshop and Rio Alma Poetry Clinic. Her Chinese poems made her one of the top-rated women poets in Chinese in the world.