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My younger artist self would be so proud that I finally made it and am part of a Girl Gang of Art PH event. 🥹☀️🍃🎤

The South Spoken Collective
Curious Coffee Co.

Maraming salamat The South Spoken Collective! Solid kayo at yung audience!! 🧡

Southies!!! Your girl’s back 🎤✨
Performing 2 or 3 poems. See you there! 💖

Emerging stories are beginning to rise. 🌱

✨ Our Chapter 2 open mic performers


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📍 Curious Coffee Co, BF Parañaque
📅 February 28, 2026 | 6:00 PM onwards
🎟️ ₱350 pre-registered | ₱400 walk-in

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𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬: 𝐓𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐲’𝐬 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐋𝐢𝐬𝐭 📝

This grocery list, written by my father on August 21, 2020, is more than just a list. It is a memory, a symbol of love, and a piece of a tradition that made every birthday in our family feel magical.

As you can see, it is for pancit and biko, two of his specialties, along with his unforgettable spaghetti. My Tatay loved cooking for us on our birthdays. He would always take time off, not just to prepare food for the family, but for the entire neighborhood. I am not exaggerating when I say the food reached as far as the next street. Even our neighbors would ask him to cook for their own occasions because they just could not get enough.

It has been more than two years now. More birthdays have passed without his pancit and biko. Those dishes are not just food to me. They are core memories I will forever carry. They live on in my heart and memory.

Last August 2023, while he was confined and fighting for his life, he told me, “Ate, babawi ako. Pag gumaling ako, paglulutuan kita.”

He was still full of hope. But he passed away that same year, on December 15.

The last time he actually cooked for me was in 2021, or maybe 2022. He had already begun to get sick by then. Things slowly changed.

Now, I find myself longing for that comforting feeling of coming home to his cooking, knowing he had prepared something just for me. The warmth of being celebrated through food made with love. I will miss his spaghetti, biko, and pancit for the rest of my life.

Tay, I love you. Thank you for always making me feel special on my birthdays. Your love will always be the best ingredient in every memory.

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Takits mamaya! ✨

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RE-CALL FOR ZINE CONTRIBUTIONS

We have been slowly building a zine library on Palestine with zines made freely available by international organisations like Publishers For Palestine and Librarians & Archivists With Palestine. We hope to add more from Filipino zinesters, so we are looking for more zines and other print materials like komix, posters, flyers, bookmarks, stickers, et al, made by you and your friends to add to the collection.

One of the zines that will be available for reading and trading on June 14 is Palestinian author Adania Shibli’s story “This Sea is Mohammad al-Khatib’s,” published by Paper Trail Projects with illustrations by Apol Sta Maria. We are humbled, honoured, and eternally grateful that Ms Shibli has granted us permission to print a limited number of copies of her work for inclusion in the zine library.

The zine library is free to read and also open for trades, so if you want to trade your own zines on Palestine with other available zines in the library (as long as there are multiple copies of it), we can do that instead.

We plan to have the library with us in all the expos and fora and other in-person events we will organise in the future, the first of which is this coming June 14’s discussion on Palestine and the Frankfurt Book Fair Boycott campaign in the Common Room at Atrium, Makati.

If you are interested in contributing your zines to the library, send us an eMail at belatx(at)gmail(dot)com.

BOYKOT FRANKFURT BOOK FAIR! FREE PALESTINE!