Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Unlike other cultural organizations that are well-funded, the UPSP since
its founding days had to scrape for funds to exist. We have to beg from
civic-spirited citizens, political leaders, and businessmen just to
survive. All our officers and members serve on a voluntary basis with
no compensation or honorarium whatsoever. We offer our time and
energy just for the sake of our beloved Pangasinan language.
As noted earlier, the recognition of Pangasinan by Gov. Espino had to
be taken advantage of. The growing consciousness of Pangasinenses
as regards their identity and culture as embodied in the language had
to be exploited as well. A select group of young Pangasinenses in the
fields of history, literature and film leads the way for the revitalization
of Pangasinan culture a cultural renaissance in the making. Studies
on the history of Pangasinan and the advocacy for Pangasinan studies
had been published (2008). In 2007 a collection of poetry in
Pangasinan had been released. Recently, a full-length feature film in
the Pangasinan language, the Anacbanua, won honors in the 2009
Cinemanila International Film Festival.
The annual culture fund. To sustain this momentum and with the
objective of creating a pool of creative writers and artists in the
Pangasinan language, the UPSP had passed a resolution on December
27, 2009 to be submitted to the Provincial Government of Pangasinan
requesting for the creation of an annual culture fund for the promotion
of Pangasinan language, literature and culture, and shall be put under
a Trust Fund solely for the promotion and development of Pangasinan
language, literature and culture. The establishment of an annual
culture fund agrees with the Executive Order No. 0073-2009 signed by
Gov. Espino mandating the creation of Pangasinan Culture and Arts
Group. This fund is stipulated to provide financial support for the
publication of literary and audiovisual (not limited to film, music and
painting) productions featuring the Pangasinan language, the staging
of festivals, modern theater and zarzuela in Pangasinan, extending to
television and radio shows and the sponsorship of creative writing
workshops and literary contests in Pangasinan. In part, this annual
culture fund answers UPSPs perennial lack of fund and opens other
organizations and independent individuals with similar goals of
preserving and revitalizing Pangasinan to spearhead their own projects
with the funding subject to the approval of the committee appointed to
manage the fund.
In the resolution, the UPSP also requests the provincial board to pass
a resolution requiring all Pangasinan weeklies and publications to
designate a section in the Pangasinan language where Pangasinan
writers can publish their poetry, short story and essay with
corresponding payment to the writers to encourage and sustain them