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Read MoreExciting 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.
Read More‘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).
In Pursuit of Powerful Words
Blog by Isabella Mendoza
Executive Assistant/Agam Coordinator
Last April 24 – 26, the Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center (BNSCWC) hosted the17th annual Iyas La Salle National Writers’ Workshop at the Henry Sy Sr. Building of De La Salle, Manila. This year, the organizers and panelists chose to pay particular attention to environment and ecocentric or eco-critical writing with the theme of “Writing, the Environment and Creation Advocacy”. 10 lucky fellows, from applicants all over the Philippines, and 5 panelists gathered in the halls of De La Salle to discuss in minute detail the intricacies and beauty of written word and the messages that lie behind them.
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