Bussssssssssssssssssssssy preparing for tomorrow’s showing of my film, A MI PATRIA / TO MY MOTHERLAND / INANG-BAYAN — 5 Selected Poems of Dr. Rizal [Philippine National Hero] interpreted for the first time in Filipino Sign Language with spoken language versions in Spanish and Filipino.
Venue: UP Film Center, 3 pm. The Film Center used to be my “home” having worked there for over 10 years as researcher, artist, lecturer and one of the film workshop facilitators before the Institute of Mass Comm took over.
Guest Speakers:
1) Mr. JOSE RIZAL LOPEZ [88 yrs. old], first generation grandson of Gen. Paciano Rizal, older brother of Dr. Jose Rizal
2) Dr. RICARDO NOLASCO, former Director, Komisyon ng Wikang Pilipino; Professor, Department of Linguistics, UP College of Arts and Letters
3) Dr. VIM NADERA, former Director, UP Institute of Creative Writing Center; Professor, Department of Filipino and Philippine Literature, UP CAL. He is one of my consultants for A MI.. The other consultant is Dr. Marie Therese Bustos of UP College of Education Sped Area.
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