Talk The Talk: A Case Study on the Kagayanen Language
16 August 2017, 3pm
FIRST | Coworking Community
Rm 502 & 506, First United Bldg,
413 Escolta St, Binondo, Manila

Focusing on the Kagayanen language of the Province of Palawan and taking off from her experience in community-based language development and literature production activities, Louise Ann MacGregor of the Summer Institute of Linguistics looks into the factors that affect reading ability and what is read or not read. Socio-linguistic context and factors such as the fact that it is not one of the major languages of the Philippines and is not used in schools will be discussed to create an understanding of the challenges faced by many language communities in the Philippines.

The talk is free and open to the public as part of the public programs for The Library of Unread Books.

The Library of Unread Books by Heman Chong and Renee Staal is an exhibition made up of donated books that are unread by their previous owners. By receiving and revealing that which people choose not to read, the Library is the result of a collective gesture that traces the perimeters of unwanted knowledge. This is the first run of MCAD Commons, a project that seeks to continue expanding activities of the museum and bringing MCAD’s singular programming to a larger audience to allow for the engagement with creative development, ideas exchange, and support of the artistic process across the areas of research, art practice, and curatorial discourse.