Reimagining Cebu by Cecilia Brainard on YouTube

Here’s the com­plete keynote address by Fil­ipino Amer­i­can writer Cecil­ia Brainard about REIMAGINING CEBU. This was at the Cebu Tech­no­log­i­cal Uni­ver­si­ty’s Lit­er­ary Con­gress, April 23, 2021. (It’s over an hour long, so watch it when you have time.) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wha67crdVH8

 Her talk address­es the fol­low­ing questions: 

1. What’s your idea of the Fil­ipino con­scious­ness in light of the theme “500 Years of Writ­ing the Fil­ipino World­view)? How should writ­ers and read­ers respond to it? 

2. May we know the cre­ative process behind your myth­i­cal set­ting “Ubec: and any theoretical/philosophical under­pin­ning? How does being a writer over­seas influ­ence or shape your vision of Cebu? 

3. What does it take for a writer to con­tin­ue work­ing in this time of Covid19? Who is Cecil­ia Manguer­ra Brainard in the post-pan­dem­ic era? 

4. What advice can you offer our Eng­lish majors in terms of read­ing our own writ­ers and writ­ing for the future generation? 

After her talk, Q&A fol­lows. This excerpt is cour­tesy of Cebu Tech­no­log­i­cal University.

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