Calling all bookworms to Iloilo Mega Book Fair 2020

The Iloilo Mega Book Fair (IMBF), launched in 2018, is a Hubon Manunulat, Book Latte, and Kasingkasing Press initiative aimed at gathering annually West Visayan scholars in the fields of education, literary tourism, and creative industry.

This also aimed to discuss and promote the participation of scholars, artists, and writers, and to emphasize their key positions as cultural producers in the developing literary tourism in Western Visayas and in preserving West Visayan cultures.

The first Iloilo Mega Book Fair was held at the Festive Mall Iloilo on Nov 8-11, 2018. The book fair brought scholars, artists, and authors to promote and discuss the knowledge that comes from books produced locally, the publication history in Western Visayas, and the emerging art culture in Iloilo City. The book fair laid emphasis on the importance of local communities as consumer of our own cultural knowledge and cultural discoveries.

The third Iloilo Mega Book Fair is once again happening on Nov 12-15, 2020, and it goes digital with virtual fair and rights platform. This time in partnership with Hubon Manunulat: West Visayan Writers, Kasingkasing Press, Book Latte, Books4Books, and Prime of Philippines to acknowledge the importance of collaboration with private sectors.

This year’s theme “A City Built on Books” highlights literature in the time of pandemic and in all aspects including children’s rights, teachers and librarian education, history, heritage, local films, comics, food culture, environment, and artists’ rights.

Among the speakers are Elvie Victonette B. Razon-Gonzalez (On Pandemic and Literature), John Anthony S. Estolloso (A Plague in the House: Pandemics in Classic Literature), Anna Teresa Slater (Making Meaning of the Pandemic), Stephen B. Alayon (Digitization, Digital Library, Digital Scholarship, and Open Access Initiatives in the Philippines), Arden Rod Condez (John Denver Trending Before Trending), Liby Limoso (Binukot of the Ancient Sagas and of the Present Pandemic), and Hazel P. Villa (The Uncanny and Accursed Sea: The Waterlore of Guimaras).

For questions and inquiries, you can reach us via email at kasingkasingpress@gmail.com

Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/3134120973367529

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