Women = Creating Vivian Limpin Photo Exhibit & Poetry Competition
Launch and screening on opening night of video created for FemLink.
With readings by LIRA poets and a UP Rep performance of an excerpt
from the play Damas de Noche.
WOMEN=CREATING: POETRY COMPETITION
The Women=Creating: Poetry Competition will be held on 8 August 2008 (Friday, 8pm). The contest is open to Filipino citizens of all ages.
MECHANICS:
The poem -- rhymed, blank verse, or free verse -- must be written
in English or Filipino. The theme is women creating.
The poem to be read must be the work of the person who will read or
perform it on 8 August.
Only 1 poem will be chosen among the entries. The winner will be
announced on the same night, and he or she will receive a painting by
Vivian Limpin.
For more details, please text Bebang at 0919-3175708.
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Multimedia artist Vivian N. Limpin was born in Manila and graduated in
1995 from the University of the Philippines with a B.A. degree in
Malikhaing Pagsulat sa Filipino (Creative Writing in Filipino).
Her photographs, exhibited in solo and group shows, earned her two
photography awards from the Federation of Philippine Photographers
Foundation, Inc.
She worked as a director, scriptwriter, cinematographer, translator
and subtitlist, editor, animator, video documentarist, and stills
photographer for a number of independent film projects. Her first solo
experimental animation "Silíg" was screened in local and foreign film
festivals.
As a graphic artist, she publishes her own Indie Komiks, and is a
member of Komikera, collaborating with other women artists on their
Komiks-on-the- Wall projects.
