News – Agam

‘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.

Valor: An Evening of Culture and Camaraderie

Opening Remarks by Renato Redentor Constantino
Managing Director, Constantino Foundation
April 9, 2017

Our elders are currently elsewhere on a much-deserved break. So, in behalf of RC and Dudi, who are at the moment in Sri Lanka, and in behalf of Nina and Randy who are in Europe right now with their children and grandkids, I welcome you all to this fine event, in behalf of the Constantino Foundation and the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities. Thank you for finding time to share the gift of music and words, in memory of Letizia Constantino, or Dada Ming, to her grandchildren. Thank you for gracing this occasion co-organised as well by ICSC, which is manned by some of the country’s brightest, goofiest fierce folks working on climate and energy policy.

Cebu lit fest fetes authors of award-winning climate change book

Originally published by the Philippine Information Agency

CEBU, Feb. 16 – Three contributors of the critically-acclaimed anthology Agam: Filipino Narratives on Uncertainty and Climate Change were featured in the environment-themed literary arts competition of the University of San Carlos (USC).

Renowned writers Grace Monte de Ramos, Marjorie Evasco, and Padmapani Perez held a reading of the students’ poetry entries during the Green Literary-Arts Fest of USC’s Talamban campus. They also facilitated a poetry workshop and share excerpts from their English and Cebuano pieces on climate change which were featured on Agam.

Narratives on climate change wins 2 Golden Book awards

Originally published by The Philippine Information Agency

The Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities (ICSC) today received 2 Gintong Aklat (Golden Book) awards, one of the Philippines’ most prestigious book prizes, for Agam: Filipino Narratives on Uncertainty and Climate Change. The book won in the catergories of English Literature, and Design, where it was the lone finalist.

“Agam is a brilliantly produced book that is extremely relevant for our times,” declared Teresa Maria Custodio, Chair of the Board of Judges for 2016 Gintong Aklat Awards.