15/05/2026
📢 Inviting all artisans and weavers!!!
Calling all artisans and weavers! Showcase your craftsmanship and compete among the nation’s finest weavers in this year’s most anticipated textile competitions—the 9th Lourdes Montinola Piña Weaving Competition and the 5th Eloisa Hizon Gomez Abaca Weaving Competition!
✨ The Piña Weaving Competition features three categories:
• Liniwan
• Pure Piña
• Natural Fiber Blends with Piña (Seda, Jusi, Cotton, or Abaca)
🌿 The Abaca Weaving Competition highlights:
• Resist Dye on Abaca
• Abaca Craft
• Abaca Nipis
View the full competition mechanics here: https://bit.ly/4ukfv7y
14/05/2026
Ditta Sandico marks four decades of woven visions - The Diarist.ph
The designer who turned abaca into a fashionable wrap now wraps up the story itself. In her book, It’s a Wrap: Unraveling the Future of Fashion, Ditta Sandico charts four decades of work with weaving...
23/04/2026
✨ Just 2 days to go before 🌹📚📖
Ever wondered about the timeless, elegant gown on the book’s cover?
Join us this Saturday for an exclusive book signing with author Vicky Veloso Barrera and uncover the beautiful stories behind it. From heartfelt memories of her remarkable grandmother to fascinating insights about renowned fashion designer Marina Antonio, it’s a celebration of heritage, storytelling, and style you won’t want to miss.
📖💐 See you there!
20/04/2026
Five days to go until Día del Libro! 📖🌹✨
Get ready to celebrate stories, creativity, and the magic of reading.
Who’s excited? 👀💚💛
30/03/2026
This summer, we are gearing up for our next book fair stop and we can't wait to see you there. 🤩☀️📚💚💛
🤩¡Ya falta menos para que llegue el sábado 25 de abril! ¡Vente a festejar con nosotros el Día del Libro!
🗓️ El Instituto Cervantes de Manila, junto con la Embassy of Spain in the Philippines y todas las instituciones colaboradoras, celebrará la efeméride con un recital de poesía filipina en español y una amplia variedad de actividades como «Escribe el Quijote», presentaciones y firmas de libros con sus autores, sesiones de cuentacuentos, clases gratuitas de español, arte callejero, cocina española 😍, juegos, música, baile y mucho más.
🫂 Si te gustan los libros, ¡no te lo puedes perder! Más información en Comentarios 👇¡Vamos! Tara na! 🙌
🤩 SAVE THE DATE! On SATURDAY 25th APRIL celebrate the DÍA DEL LIBRO with us! Don't miss our book market, activities such as "Escribe el Quijote", and much more: book presentations, author signings, exhibitions, free Spanish classes, street art, games, storytelling sessions, Spanish cuisine 😍, children's activities and concerts... If you like books, cannot miss it! More info at Comments 👇
Tara na! 🙌
19/03/2026
Dr. Rowena Capulong Reyes: "As we celebrate Women’s Month, perhaps the more interesting question is not only how many women now sit at the table, but who shaped the table long before it became visible."🩷♀️
Love, Marina may be ordered through the FEU Tams Bookstore ([email protected]).
Love, Marina: Women and the continuity of soft power | Rowena Capulong-Reyes, PhD
I HAVE been writing about soft power for some time now, often thinking about where influence really begins. Not in institutions or policies, but much earlier. In private lives, habits, and in the small, repeated choices we make every day. Political scientist Joseph S. Nye Jr. describes soft power as...
19/03/2026
In today’s Manila Bulletin People and Events section: Filipino literary masters take the spotlight at the 43rd National Book Awards. Plus, generations of fashion designers celebrate the legacy of Marina Reyes Antonio.
Grab a copy of the MANILA BULLETIN!