LIRA (Linangan sa Imahen, Retorika, at Anyo)

President’s Report 2011-12

LIRA Officers 2011-2012

President Phillip Kimpo Jr.

Vice-President Mariane A.R.T. Abuan

Secretary Giancarlo Lauro C. Abrahan V

Treasurer Deborah Rosalind D. Nieto

Public Relations Officer Louie Jon A. Sanchez

LIRA: an overview

• A nationally recognized, volunteer-run, non-profit, education

NGO that seeks to promote the national literature, Philippine

languages, and patriotism

• The oldest organization of poets in Filipino and one of the

country’s premier literary groups

• Managed by “poet-volunteers” from different professions, and

with an average age of 20-30 years old

• Founded in 1985 by National Artist for Literature Virgilio S.

Almario (a.k.a. Rio Alma)

• Declared in 2011 as one of the country’s Ten Accomplished Youth

Organizations (TAYO) in Malacañang Palace by

President Benigno Aquino III

I. Internal

Projects

Annual Poetry Clinic / Training ProgramJune-November 2011 & 2012

Workshop Series for Workshop Series for

““LibrongLibrong LIRALIRA”” ChapbooksChapbooks

JuneJune--December 2012December 2012

Continuing Clinic for Continuing Clinic for

Probationary MembersProbationary Members

JuneJune--November 2011 & 2012November 2011 & 2012

Advanced Course on Advanced Course on

Literary Criticism for MembersLiterary Criticism for Members

FebruaryFebruary--March 2012March 2012

II. Inter-org

Projects

LIRAhan Lit Reading @

Conspiwriters’ NightMonthly, 2011 & 2012, Conspiracy Bar

LIRA @ Publicis JimenezBasic7 June 2011

LIRA @ Escuella Taller20 June 2011

LIRA @ The 3rd Int’l. Conference

On Filipino as a Global Language3-4 August 2012

LIRA’s assistance to the UMPIL

National Writers’ ConventionAugust 2011 & 2012

Public Forum on Literary Translation29 September 2012

LIRA’s assistance to Kalatas magazineDecember 2012 - present

III. Commemorative

Events

Balagtas Day2 April 2011 & 2012

Jacinto Pilgrimage in Laguna16 April 2011

Jacinto Commemoration in Manila15 December 2011 & 2012

Bonifacio Day30 November 2012

Rizalstrasse: Facebook Poetry ContestSeptember-December 2011

IV. Volunteerism

& Leadership

STS XX Outreach Program:

Kalibo, Aklan, 28 May 2011

STS XXI Outreach Program:

Makiling (Los Baños), Laguna, 27 August 2012

STS XXII Outreach Program:

Baliwag, Bulacan, 11 November 2012

TAYO Award for LIRAMalacañang Palace, October 2011

LIRA representation to the

National Youth Parliament, May 2012

NYC Budget Hearing, October 2012

LIRA as Judge at the

10th TAYO Awards3 December 2012

The Poets of LIRA: Poet-volunteers

for the nation.