Writing for Business: A Workshop on Effective Business Writing
July 21, 23, and 24, 2009
6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Learn the key to crafting effective corporate correspondences such as letters, reports, and proposals through this effective business writing seminar. Tips on style and structure and a bonus module on creating effective business presentations will be given.

Speaker April T. Yap has an M.A. in Mass Communications from the University of the Philippines in Diliman, where she is concurrently teaching and completing her PhD in Creative Writing. Ms. Yap is working on an anthology of short stories about the paranormal and a comic book adaptation of Filipino short stories for the UP Press.

Workshop fee is P2,500 inclusive of a book on Business Writing, handouts, materials, snacks, and a certificate. A down payment of P500 is required to reserve a slot. The deadline for reservations is July 15, 2009. A 10 percent discount will be given to those who pay in full on or before July 7, 2009.

Payments can be made in cash, through credit card*, or Globe GCash.

The workshop will be held at the Filipinas Heritage Library located along Makati Avenue, Ayala Triangle, Makati City (across The Peninsula Manila).

For inquiries, please call Jen Bascoguin at 892-1801, send an SMS to 0917-561-2413, or email bascoguin.jm@ayalafoundation.org.

*Discount does not apply to credit card transactions

Life Sketches: A Memoir Writing Course
July 27, Monday, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
July 29, Wednesday, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
August 5, Wednesday, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Every person has a story to tell. Learn to record your life's memories with "Life Sketches", an introductory memoir writing course that will help you transform your experiences into effective narratives.

Speaker Dr. Rosario Cruz-Lucero teaches Philippine literature and creative writing at the Departamento ng Filipino at Panitikang Pilipino and at the Department of English Studies and Comparative Literature of the University of the Philippines, Diliman, where she also obtained her AB, MA, and Ph.D. degrees.

She took postgraduate studies at Oxford University, England on a British Council grant, and at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, on a Ford Foundation grant. She has conducted an observation tour of ASEAN universities on an Asia Foundation grant; and received a writing fellowship to Lavigny, Switzerland.

Dr. Lucero has taught at the De La Salle University and the Ateneo de Manila University and has been a Fulbright visiting professor twice -- first to the University of West Virginia, and then to the University of Hawaii.

She is also the editor and writer for the 10-volume CCP Encyclopedia of Philippine Art. Her critical essays on the literature and culture of the Visayas and Mindanao have been published in local and international journals. These essays have been collected in an anthology entitled Ang Bayan sa Labas ng Maynila, published by the Ateneo de Manila University Press, in 2007.

Lucero has also written and edited short story collections, all of which are about Iloilo and Negros, the latter being her home island. Her stories have won first place at the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards, the Philippines Free Press Literary Award, the Nick Joaquin (Philippine Graphic) Literary Award, and the CCP Gantimpalang Ani. Her books of fiction have won the National Book Award from the Manila Critics Circle.

Workshop fee is P3,000 inclusive of handouts, materials, snacks, and certificate. A down payment of P500 is required to reserve a slot. The deadline for reservations is July 20, 2009. A 10 percent discount will be given to those who pay in full on or before July 13, 2009.

The workshop will be held at the Filipinas Heritage Library located along Makati Avenue, Ayala Triangle, Makati City (across The Peninsula Manila).

For inquiries, please call Jen Bascoguin at 892-1801, send an SMS to 0917-561-2413, or email bascoguin.jm@ayalafoundation.org.