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CABF 5 🖐️
November 13-15 | The Kabilin Center
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My CABF titles for the last 4 years.

📱 The Pink Collection Vol 1
🛒 Market24
🌺 Bumbil
🌼 The Floral Club
💓 The Pink Collection Vol 2

Excited to introduce my new titles soon only at Cebu Art Book Fair!
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8Letters Publishing is heading to Cebu Art Book Fair 5! 📚✨

We’ve been quietly getting ready for this one, and we can’t wait to finally set up our table, meet fellow book lovers, and share a little corner of our world with you.

If you’re coming to the fair, please stop by. Say hi, flip through our pages, ask us anything, or just hang out for a bit. We’re the kind of people who’ll happily talk about stories all day, so you won’t be bothering us.

📍 Find us at Booth __
🗓 November 13-15
🏛 The Kabilin Center, Cebu City

Tag a friend who’d go with you, and save this post so you don’t forget the dates! See you!

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Mouli ko! See you all for the launch of these babies!

@lostbookscebu - Nov 8, 2026, 3PM
@cebuabf - Nov 13-15

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This children’s book project started while I was pregnant and slowly building the little one’s library. I thought he should grow up reading Cebuano stories too, not just English and German. He only has two Cebuano books, and it has become a personal quest of mine to multiply those books as much as possible.

I had so much fun writing these books because, beyond my admittedly selfish desire as a mother, I realized how little of the quintessential countryside culture I grew up with in the 80s and 90s has been preserved in the literature available to children today.

So this is my attempt to celebrate the trees, the birds, the ecological wisdom passed from one generation to the next and, yes, the little everyday objects that so many Filipinos grew up with.

And somehow, alongside these books about childhood, I am also returning to a book from my own younger years.

A second edition of my first poetry collection, Alang sa Nasaag, will be launched with the children’s books this November. The first edition came out more than a decade ago, shortly before I left the Philippines. A lot has happened since then. I left home, traveled exhaustively, lived in different countries, became an immigrant and eventually became a mother.

When I began revisiting the collection for this second edition, it felt incomplete to simply reprint the person I was before I left. There was a part of the story that had not yet happened when I first wrote it.

So this edition has a new and final section: Langyaw.

Langyaw means to move away – in this case, to move abroad - or to be a foreigner. It holds the poems that came after leaving and, in a way, brings the collection full circle.

It feels fitting that these three books (or four!) will arrive together: one looking back at the language and place I came from, and one trying to pass some of that world on to my child.

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[ECN INDEX - Entry 001]
A memory of a young boy getting caught and learning that shedding a cocoon isn’t always gentle, but it is necessary.

This animation is a moving companion piece to my original personal zine, The Day I Became a Butterfly.

Hold the full story in your hands. Physical copies of the zine are available now at @cafebaklita and the upcoming @cebuabf Cebu Art Book Fair this November✨

Credits:
Animation: Earl Clive Nismal
Music & Audio: Earl Clive Nismal
Transformation BG: All Background Videos(YouTube)

(c) 2026 Abaton Cove.
#TheDayIBecameAButterfly #AbatonCove #QueerAnimation #ZineCulture #IndependentAnimation

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Privileged to be featured at @asiadesignprize that promotes and takes pride in Asian design and creativity. 🙏 This interview was enlightening to me, as I was able to reflect on where my creative practice and philisophy is at currently. It took me a while to reflect, write and articulate this because I wanted to try my best to express the excellence of the Filipino design craft. I'm grateful for being a Filipino designer in the Philippines, and that I get a chance to share a little bit about it from my perspective. I also realized throughout the process that I have gained more curiosity about Asian design, and its impact locally and globally today. What an exciting time for Philippine and Asian Design!

Appreciate @ockhams_branding for the generous and thoughtful interview process. I am grateful for the space and patience offered to me to be able to reflect and marinate on my thoughts about design and creativity. So glad that we connected! I'm proud of what I've shared because it took me some courage to share my heart. ❤️ This is also a good marker for me on where I'm at with my beliefs and dreams on creativity are lately.

The whole article is a lengthy read, but know that I appreciate you for reading whatever you can from here! Here are a few snippets from the interview. If you'd like to read the full article, the link is on my bio or at asiadesignprize.com/media .

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A Collection of Wishes From Cebu Art Book Fair Set On Top of Images of Pigeons in Flight After a Firework Went Off
2026

Tri-fold leaflet
20 copies

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👏✂️ PRINT SEÑOR! 🙌🖍️

Kita2 ta sa gawas sa @lostbookscebu karong Sabado January 10 para sa Zinulog! Small market ni sya on a mission to put zines in people’s hands kay importante ang art and the people who make it! Support your creative friends this 2026 oy 🫵 Drawings! Poetry! Essays! Songs! Stories! See you, happy new year! 🎊

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these glimpses only scratch the surface of my 2025… what a year full of music, family, friendship and big swings 🥹💕 i love u all so much READY NA BA TA MAGUBA BALIK KARONG 2026???

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2025 is a wild time to be alive🕊️

One of the highlights of this year is being alive and still showing up. I used to be a hyper-independent person, which actually came from what I had been through. In the past few years, I started to realize as a queer person, even tho all of my works were born from a very solitary space and personal narratives, and I mostly did everything alone (I need to make art alone in my studio or in the forest), I now have this whimsical knowledge that is so beautiful and sacred, it is that I can have the capacity to show up and to be alive because I am starting to ask for help. I’m not here only because of my own efforts, but also because of my community, my partner, and my friends. Thank you to my hands, my body, my partner, and my friends who have helped me stay alive in this wild time.

It’s not always easy or smooth to show up. I grieve a lot and question my worth, plus we still have to deal with the failed government and the genocide.

yet here i am, I made it through alive and still showing up, this time as an artist, as a woman, and as a survivor. I am enough.

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if i know you; if you love me; if i’ve marched with you, prayed, eaten, read with you, studied, talked, laughed with you; if you are the sun making its way through the trees; if we disagreed; if we shared a stage, or a drive— God bless you for keeping me alive. i didn’t know my heart could be this full.

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Dabda Asia Tour 2025

Cebu🇵🇭 Live Recap Video

SEP 6 September Fever, Cebu, PH
@septemberfeverfest
SEP 7 Korea Sound, Cebu, PH
@cebuabf

🎥 : @soonyang.art

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Journal highlights from the past three months…
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#creativejournalingchallenge #journalspread #journalinspiration #creativejournal #creativejournaling #artjournal #junkjournal

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