HAPPENING NOW: "Rewriting: To Build The World Anew" hosted by WriterSkill at CTC 118 from 4PM to 6PM. | via @Bea_TheGDN #TALABIntegralEcology
As part of this year’s Talakayan ng Bayan (TALAB), WriterSkill presents “Rewriting: To Build The World Anew” with speaker, Carissa Pobre. | via @Bea_TheGDN #TALABIntegralEcology
Pobre teaches creative writing at the Ateneo de Manila University. She is a writer who specializes in shaping conversations in societal and cultural transformation through radical socio-poetics and culturally and ecologically regenerative modes. | via @Bea_TheGDN…
The program begins with an introduction from the president of WriterSkill, Laura Mendoza. | via @Bea_TheGDN #TALABIntegralEcology
POBRE: Rewriting to build the world anew is a tall order. To build the world anew has a lot of demands. | via @Bea_TheGDN #TALABIntegralEcology
Pobre looks at the question, “What does it mean to build the world anew?” in the context of the audience as writers. | via @Bea_TheGDN #TALABIntegralEcology
Pobre expounds that there is always a desire to see something different and a desire to change something given the social constructs of this world. | via @Bea_TheGDN #TALABIntegralEcology
Pobre references a quote by Ursula K. Le Guin saying, “We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable, but so did the divine right of kings.” | via @Bea_TheGDN #TALABIntegralEcology
POBRE: Language was a way to understand myself. A way to look at questions that I was both haunted and enchanted by. | via @Bea_TheGDN #TALABIntegralEcology
The speaker expounds that there is a lot more to ecology. There are elements of the natural, the social, and the mental. | via @Bea_TheGDN #TALABIntegralEcology
LOOK: Pobre presents two of her pieces entitled, "all natural literary production" and "it's a class society." | via @Bea_TheGDN #TALABIntegralEcology
"Genre" is a field of social action. Pobre emphasizes that it can serve as an index to cultural patterns. It can be the key to understanding the actions of a particular community. | via @Bea_TheGDN #TALABIntegralEcology
POBRE: As writers, to build the world anew is all about intensely looking at and engaging with relations. | via @Bea_TheGDN #TALABIntegralEcology
Pobre expounds that politics is about looking at the relations of power and precarity. | via @Bea_TheGDN #TALABIntegralEcology
LOOK: The speaker presents a venn diagram for mis/use - diagram on power. | via @Bea_TheGDN #TALABIntegralEcology
POBRE: Art and literature are scaffolds on which history and culture grow. | via @Bea_TheGDN #TALABIntegralEcology
Pobre concludes her talk with a quote that says, "The form of nourishment that our literary form offers us... is deep and abiding." | via @Bea_TheGDN #TALABIntegralEcology
The Q&A portion of the event has begun. | via @Bea_TheGDN #TALABIntegralEcology
Q: How would you recommend to navigate the specific space of being a writer in the Philippines? POBRE: Think about community - where you're embedded, those relations that you have. | via @Bea_TheGDN (1/2) #TALABIntegralEcology
POBRE: Beyond the gates [of the Ateneo], that is where social networking is, so one has to think about how we relate to people. | via @Bea_TheGDN (2/2) #TALABIntegralEcology
Q: Are there any boundaries when it comes to writing? What are the things we have to be sensitive about when it comes to writing especially when it is personal? | via @Bea_TheGDN #TALABIntegralEcology
POBRE: The key to unlocking that is self-reflexivity. There is this self-awareness that can intervene when it is time to stop. The boundaries will come from [thinking about] what you want to construct from a piece/story. | via @Bea_TheGDN #TALABIntegralEcology
Q: What inspired you to do that format (journal prompts)? POBRE: A friend of mine asked me to write 30 journaling prompts. I was reflecting on a lot of things. That process, almost by accident, produced these prompts. | via @Bea_TheGDN #TALABIntegralEcology
Q: How do you reconcile being a Filipino writer as someone who reads and writes in English? POBRE: It’s not your fault, but there is still a responsibility to not be monolingual. It is important to give and take. | via @Bea_TheGDN (1/2) #TALABIntegralEcology
POBRE: You’ll realize that at a certain point, there is a multilingualism that comes not just in language alone – things that influence you. Be sensitive and be open and it doesn’t have to be such a burden. | via @Bea_TheGDN (2/2) #TALABIntegralEcology
Q: How do we balance creativity and sensitivity to those who are in those ecological communities that we talk about when we write about them? | via @Bea_TheGDN #TALABIntegralEcology
POBRE: Hopefully, you are in relation with them and that you have a connection with who they are. You have to be in conversation with them and also be attentive to the class composition of those kinds of writing ventures. | via @Bea_TheGDN #TALABIntegralEcology
LOOK: A certificate of appreciation is presented to the speaker, Carissa Pobre. | via @Bea_TheGDN #TALABIntegralEcology
This concludes the coverage of WriterSkill’s first ever TALAB event entitled “Rewriting: To Build The World Anew." Thank you for tuning in! | via @Bea_TheGDN #TALABIntegralEcology
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