Free Admission to Lectures
The Ortigas Foundation Library offers free lectures.
The OFL Lecture Series cover a range of topics related to Philippine history, arts, and culture, and the environment.
The Ortigas Foundation Library is located at the 2nd Floor Ortigas Building. Ortigas Avenue cor Meralco Avenue, Ortigas Complex, Pasig City
For more details please call 631.1231 local 222 or email: maticat@ortigas.com.ph
*Event titles and dates are subject to change without prior notice.
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2009
GUERRILLA DAUGHTER
A talk by Virginia Hansen-Holmes
Thursday, November 05 at 6pm
About the talk
Guerrilla Daughter is a memoir of a family’s extraordinary struggle to survive the Japanese occupation of Mindanao from the spring of 1942 until the end of the war in September 1945. The men in the family fought as guerrilla soldiers in the island’s resistance movement, while Holmes, her mother, and her older sister were left to their own resources to evade the Japanese, who had been given orders to execute Americans. The Hansen women, faced with immediate death if found and suffering from hunger, disease, and barely tolerable living conditions, hid out in the Philippine jungle and remote villages to remain just ahead of the growing Japanese presence and avoid capture.
Using original documents and papers belonging to her father, as well as her own vivid recollections and the reminiscences of her siblings, Virginia Hansen Holmes presents this gripping and compelling account of extraordinary survival.
Virginia Hansen Holmes graduated from the Colegio de Jesus-Maria in the Philippines when the war ended and came to the United States in 1954. After her marriage to Kent Holmes in 1958, several of his foreign assignments with the U.S. government took them back to the Philippines. They now live in Virginia.
The Ortigas Foundation Library is located at the 2nd Floor of Ortigas Building, Ortigas corner Meralco Avenues. Ortigas Center, Pasig City. For more information please call 631.1231 to 38 local 222 or email: ortigasfoundation@ortigas.com.ph
Ricky Lee joins NBDB Book Club's May Meeting at the Ortigas Foundation Library
Prize-winning screenwriter Ricky Lee will be joining the NBDB Book Club’s discussion of his runaway bestseller Para Kay B on May 30, 2-4 pm, at Ortigas Foundation Library.
Selling more than 10,000 copies since its launch in November last year, Lee’s first novel contains five interrelated stories illustrating and deconstructing the many convolutions of love. Everyone who’s read the book is invited to attend this intimate one-on-one with the author and discuss why 4 out of 5 of us are destined to be devastated by love.
Para Kay B is available in major book stores for P250.
RSVP 926-8238
How Novel is Poetry
( Niloloob ng Nobela ang Tula : O ang Makatang Nobelista )
Poet and novelist Edgar Samar talks about the novel’s view of poetry, reading a few representative works on how poetry is seen in the eyes of those novels. This lecture is given in partnership with Pinoypoets and is the first event in the group’s year-long fifth anniversary celebration.
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GUERRILLA DAUGHTER
A talk by Virginia Hansen-Holmes
Thursday, November 05 at 6pm
About the talk
Guerrilla Daughter is a memoir of a family’s extraordinary struggle to survive the Japanese occupation of Mindanao from the spring of 1942 until the end of the war in September 1945. The men in the family fought as guerrilla soldiers in the island’s resistance movement, while Holmes, her mother, and her older sister were left to their own resources to evade the Japanese, who had been given orders to execute Americans. The Hansen women, faced with immediate death if found and suffering from hunger, disease, and barely tolerable living conditions, hid out in the Philippine jungle and remote villages to remain just ahead of the growing Japanese presence and avoid capture.
Using original documents and papers belonging to her father, as well as her own vivid recollections and the reminiscences of her siblings, Virginia Hansen Holmes presents this gripping and compelling account of extraordinary survival.
Virginia Hansen Holmes graduated from the Colegio de Jesus-Maria in the Philippines when the war ended and came to the United States in 1954. After her marriage to Kent Holmes in 1958, several of his foreign assignments with the U.S. government took them back to the Philippines. They now live in Virginia.
The Ortigas Foundation Library is located at the 2nd Floor of Ortigas Building, Ortigas corner Meralco Avenues. Ortigas Center, Pasig City. For more information please call 631.1231 to 38 local 222 or email: ortigasfoundation@ortigas.com.ph
Ricky Lee joins NBDB Book Club's May Meeting at the Ortigas Foundation Library
Prize-winning screenwriter Ricky Lee will be joining the NBDB Book Club’s discussion of his runaway bestseller Para Kay B on May 30, 2-4 pm, at Ortigas Foundation Library.
Selling more than 10,000 copies since its launch in November last year, Lee’s first novel contains five interrelated stories illustrating and deconstructing the many convolutions of love. Everyone who’s read the book is invited to attend this intimate one-on-one with the author and discuss why 4 out of 5 of us are destined to be devastated by love.
Para Kay B is available in major book stores for P250.
RSVP 926-8238
How Novel is Poetry
( Niloloob ng Nobela ang Tula : O ang Makatang Nobelista )Poet and novelist Edgar Samar talks about the novel’s view of poetry, reading a few representative works on how poetry is seen in the eyes of those novels. This lecture is given in partnership with Pinoypoets and is the first event in the group’s year-long fifth anniversary celebration.
