update on bukal fiesta

the december calendar revised

kal’s “double blast” has been revised as follows:

december 6 - 8 bookal festival

dec. 6 – kal parade around the up diliman academic oval

                    book festival opening ceremonies at the claro m. recto hall

                    exhibit of rare books and national artists’ works at the main library and the cal library

                   bookay-bookay at the faculty center gallery

december 8   9:00 to 12 noon      komedya lecture and workshop II

2:00 -5:00 p.m.     cal alumni homecoming at the cal building atrium

7:00 – 10:00 p.m. writers’ night

December 10-13 kal week proper

10 -12 kalampagan (or showtime for the department and orgs)

11       paskom (pasko ng komiks)
13      bukal follies (kalebrities, faculty, and personnel let their hair down)

at the wilfrido ma. guerrero theater at 3 and 6 p.m.

dec. 19        3 p.m. lantern parade 

 

introducing — bukal

bukal, the newsletter for the college of arts and letters and its alumni was launched at the april 14 alumni homecoming or hali-kal! the maiden issue featured the college, the different departments, their activities, and concerns.

bukal is at once the bukluran ng kal at alumni and the bulletin of cal and its alumni.

the bukal logo is a symbolic five-petalled lotus with a nurturing crystal spring, symbolizing the college and its five centers of excellence-departments as fountainhead of arts and letters.

 

december bukal blast: calumni homecoming and kal week

calendar

 

december 3-8: bukal (bukloran ng kal at alumni) week

        december 3-7 bookal festival

                    exhibit of rare books and national artists’ works

                            at the u.p. main library and cal library

                   bookay-bookay (bargain books) at the faculty center gallery

        december 8 morn to noon calumni homecoming and reunion at the hardin ng

                                mga diwata: testimonial program and luncheon, with raffle draw

        december 8 afternoon to evening writers’ night, first book award

december 10-14: kal week

        december 10 parade and opening rites

        december 10-12 kalampagan (or showtime for the departments and student orgs)
        december 13 bukal follies (featuring philippine regional cultural shows)

        december 14 kal christmas party

 

march 12: up women take center stage

dateline: march 12, 2007, 2:30 p.m. the u.p. women will take center stage at the faculty center conference hall again. on its fifth year, this celebration of the u.p. women affirms and asserts our various roles, endeavors, and accomplishments in the university and in the bigger society out there.

thru brief presentations from different colleges,centers, and departments, we have showcased talents, or shared chievements in research, extension work, publication, and the like.

this years’ celebration takes greater significance as we honor not only more women at the helm of the autonomous units, together with our first woman president, and more women leaders in the university, but also the best of the u.p. female, the embodiment of the hope of the u.p. women, the brilliance and achievement she can be. we shall be toasting the u.p. woman. then listen to herstory. herstory as administrator (from the artist cum teacher chancellor of the open university, dr. grace j. alfonso), as teacher (from metrobank awardee and gawad chancellor priscelina legasto), as multi-awarded artist (teatrong mulat founder, playwright and university professor, amelia l. bonifacio), as national scientist (marine biologist dr. lourdes cruz), as no nonsense government official (chair of the commission on human rights purificacion quisumbing), as business tycoon ( natasha and other businesses owner, prof. victoria hardiolin) and as summa scholar (the prodigy graduating summa cum laude in physics, mikaela irene fudolig).

please come to honor (the u.p. woman) and be honored.

 

the cal homecoming and reunion

uwian na talaga! the big cal homecoming, a prelude to the grand, grand homecoming in the centennial year (2008) will be on april 14.

come see what u.p. diliman today is. how the college of arts and sciences split into three colleges. how the department of english and comparative literature gave birth to four other departments, one of which developed into a center, then an institute, and not so recently, into a college. where the college of arts and letters is. who are occupying your old classrooms at palma hall. how the ikot of old times has adopted a brother, the toki (counter ikot!). how the office of the registrar has pilgrimaged from quezon hall to benton hall to u.p.d. suburbs, and now to its own home. how the sciences have become a complex of national institutes of international caliber. how the prefabs of the iswcd have grown into a hotel-like college of social work and community development. how physical education has morphed into the college of human kinetics in a new school, but could not bring along the swimming pool. how the squatting institute of masscom expanded into a college with a film center-turned-institute to boot. how milenyo tried to devastate the poetry of the acacia trees in the academic oval. how the lagoon has lived up to, rather livened up its old romantic reputation, accommodating not only lovers’ rendezvous but also cultural shows. how the university avenue has remained unmatched in its royal welcome of visitors and alumni, even though the economic crunch shut down the fountains at the foot of the oblation. how the bahay ng alumni towers over the alumni center and should not be confused with the balay kalinaw. how melchor hall has engineered its own new majestic constructions. so have the college of business administration and the school of economics. how our own college is slowly, very slowly building, acquiring its own complex of structures and yet has no name other than “cal building.” no matter, its departments are all ched centers of excellence. its faculty, students, and alumni, like no other.

and many more. expansions, additions, transformations to see, to savor, to come home to.
after all, next year, u.p. will turn centenarian; u.p. diliman, golden jubilarian; and cal, silver jubilarian.

 

dateline cal:upcoming events

hear ye!

decl junior faculty conference. on january 31, the young faculty of the department of english prove their mettle in very promising papers on language, literature, popular culture, and creative writing they will deliver at the arcellana reading room. of course, the senior faculty will be part of the audience. of course, everybody is invited.

february:arts month. february is diliman arts month. as the bastion of arts and letters, the five departments of cal, plus the vargas museum, the creative writing institute and the cal performing groups (like dulaang up, kontragapi, performance poets, decl talents unlimited) will again demonstrate the super in their shows and festivals.

cal’s grand alumni homecoming. uwian na! for all cal alumni (from the time of the liberal arts to the present college), all roads lead to the faculty center, up diliman, on february 24. a campus tour of diliman today starts at 8:30 am. then the performing groups and the faculty will give you a “welcome home” program at the pulungang recto (aka faculty center conference hall). then your home department will treat you to luncheon and more. as you go down memory lane, just expect the works!

sining, pelikula at kasaysayan (speak). february 20-23 is film festival cum lectures week sponsored by the department of art studies. the films are shown at cine adarna(aka the film institute); the art critics’ lectures at the vargas museum. real food for the heart, soul, and mind.

watch for the rest of the february events at this billboard!

 

hello, cal alumni!

“i’ve never attended an alumni homecoming because i’ve never been invited to one!” thus, dr. chris icban, editor- in- chief of manila bulletin, voices what might be so many alumni’s misgivings about coming back home to u.p. cal.

may i then invite all the cal alumni — the venerables of the ur-college, the u.p. college of liberal arts, the grand dames and gentlemen from the division of humanities of the old college of arts and sciences (up diliman), and the pride (aka graduates) of the college of arts and letters, to post their full names and addresses, contact numbers, email addresses to this site, where we can build a directory of cal alumni and start a dynamic interrelation among the college faculty, studentry and alumni. do invite others in turn.

with your active participation, this site becomes an ebulletin cum directory cum chika for us. thank you very much.

 

calumni (the u.p. college of arts and letters and its alumni)

cal. the u.p. college of arts and letters. the seat of national literary artists and the cradle of writers, critics, actors, speakers, scholars and teachers of foreign, local, and national languages, arts, and literatures.

originally the college of liberal arts, it grew into the college of arts and sciences. sometime in 1982, however, when the u.p. college of arts and sciences became too big for palma hall, it was split into the three colleges of science, of social sciences and philosophy, and of arts and letters. the five departments of art studies, english and comparative literature, european languages, filipino and panitikang pilipino, and speech communication and theater arts became the present college of arts and letters. attached to it are the institute of creative writing and the vargas museum. each of the departments is a ched center of excellence.

the college of arts and letters building (less than half of the original plan) houses the classroom and the arts and letters library. the faculty center (bulwagang rizal) is home to the cal faculty, and houses the institute of creative writing, the translation center, the audio-visual center, the graduate studies, and the five-department offices. the vargas museum is both a repository of filipiniana treasures and a gallery for artists’ exhibits.

alumni. the sikat of the orig college of liberal arts. then the great men and women from the division of humanities of the college of arts and sciences. and later, the graduates of the present college of arts and letters.

calumni. the collaboration between the college and the alumni. (in filipino, bukal, bukloran ng kal at alumni)

 

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