SUBIC BAY FREEPORT, Philippines - Top writers will once again gather in the country’s biggest literary festival, “Taboan,†at the Subic Freeport Zone on February 24-26 in line with the National Arts Month (NAM) which is organized by the National Commission for Cultre and the Arts (NCCA).
Billed “Winds and Waves, Wars and Words,†the 2014 Taboan (a Visayan word meaning “marketplaceâ€) is the landmark project of the National Committee on Literary Arts of NCCA’s Subcommission on the Arts headed by Priscilla Macansantos for the Philippine Arts Festival (PAF). The festival director is Juliet Mallari.
This will gather writers, teachers and students for forums, lectures, a book fair, literary reading, performances, arts and crafts exhibits, cultural tours, other satellite projects, and an awards ceremony for outstanding writers from the regions.
The Philippines celebrates NAM during February since the signing of Presidential Proclamation 683 in 1991.