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Storytelling for the climate

Book industry comes together amid new normal

MANILA, 4 September 2020 — Book publishers and writers joined House Deputy Speaker and Antique Representative Loren Legarda in an online discussion on how their industry is heeding the call for storytelling in the new normal. They delved into new ways to get books to readers during the COVID-19 pandemic, and to promote awareness of and action on the climate crisis amid times of already high uncertainty.

“Baguhin natin ang kwento at ang kinabukasan [Let’s change our stories and our futures],” said Padmapani Perez, a poet, anthropologist, and co-owner of the Mt. Cloud Bookshop in Baguio. She also leads the Agam Agenda, a project of the NGO Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities which aims to spark climate conversations through stories and art.

The story of Mt. Cloud, Baguio’s big little bookshop, on Inquirer.net

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Exciting things in store for Agam

It’s been a busy month for the Agam team.

We started by streamlining our social media brand to reflect the growing recognition of the bigger role that Agam wants to play in sparking conversations about climate change through our focus on art and stories. Hence, we are now known as Agam Agenda to signify how the project has grown from its humble beginnings in 2014 when the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities (ICSC) released the award-winning book, Agam: Filipino Narratives on Uncertainty and Climate Change.

‘Agam’ sparks conversation on climate change

Originally published in GMA News Online

Acclaimed book ‘Agam: Filipino Narratives on Uncertainty and Climate Change’ last week reached a new audience as the authors featured on its pages convened to help relaunch the collection at Mt. Cloud Bookshop, Casa Vallejo in Baguio.

The bookshop’s co-owner Padmapani Perez, a poet and an anthropologist, wrote one of the 24 literary pieces featured in the book.

‘Agam’, first published in 2014, is a pioneering anthology of stories about climate change. Portraits by Jose Enrique Soriano taken in Tacloban — devastated by Supertyphoon Yolanda in 2013 — put a face to the narratives told in eight different Filipino languages (Tagalog, Ilocano, Cebuano, Waray, Maguindanao, Bikol, Sinama and English).