Alam-am Publishing

12/08/2020

Hello! Our book, Shelah Goes to a Da-ngah is available Mt Cloud Bookshop! Please check them out.

17/04/2019

Just read through the pieces submitted for Motherhood Manifestos. Each one contains great love in less than 500 words.

12/04/2019

On April 13, from 2-4 PM at the Ayala Museum, we will be sharing stories about making storybooks. Among other things, I’ll be talking about how and why I made Shelah Goes to a Da-ngah for Tawangan, a Kalanguya community in Benguet. I’m excited. It’s going to be a fun panel!
~ Padma

05/04/2019

Our first book’s illustrator is featured in ’s Peek-a-Book at the Ayala Museum! Swipe to see reluctant model.
Book design by . Story by . Translation to Kalanguya by Shiela Nimo-Anniban. Exhibit runs til April 27. @ Ayala Museum

16/03/2019

Tarot card readings in GGSSG, Silangan Hall, CCP. 💜

16/03/2019

We’re here, we’re ready, and we’re surrounded by temptation: stickers, zines, books, postcards and prints galore by all-women small presses.
GANDANG-GANDA SA SARILING GAWA 2! Silangan Hall, 4th floor, CCP from 9-6 today. Entrance is free!

15/03/2019

PRESS RELEASE: The event features women creators who will sell and showcase their books, zines, stickers, illustrations, comics, and accessories, and meet their readers

12/03/2019

Alam-am Publishing came about because of Shelah Goes to a Da-ngah, not the other way around. This was thanks to the foresight and good advice of a pioneering indie publisher, ERA Publications, in Baguio. 😊

Shelah Goes to a Da-ngah is going to the Ayala Museum! Illustrator Mika Song’s work will be part of PEEK-A-BOOK, an exhibit on the creative process of 16 illustrators. Have got to send this happy news to Tawangan. Their storybook is going places.

PEEK-A-BOOK @ Ayala Museum

We invite you to have a look inside the creative process of 16 illustrators:
Abi Goy
Angela Taguiang
Ara Villena
Bernadette Solina Wolf
Beth Parrocha
Bru Sim Nada
Fran Alvarez
Iori Espiritu
Isabel Roxas
Jamie Bauza
Kora Dandan Albano
Liza Flores
May Tobias Papa
Mika Song
Pergy Acuna and
Yas Doctor

Exhibit runs from March 19 to April 27

Poster design by Fran Alvarez

08/03/2019

Clitorea ternatea, also known as butterfly pea, Asian pigeonwings, pukingan, and puki-reyna. Good for clearing brain fog on International Women’s Day and every day!

Come visit our table and get your pukingan stickers at GANDANG GANDA SA SARILING GAWA 2, an all-women small press fair from 9AM-6PM on March 16, in Silangan Hall, CCP.

We’ll be there with these stars:

Abbey Batocabe
ALAC After Lunch Art Collective
Atsara Collective
Bianca Maranan
Bibimbabes
CAEV Press
Czyka Tumaliuan x Claudine Delfin
Empowerment Through ART
Gantala Press
Glerren Bangalan
Gyoza Zaragoza
Gyoza Zaragoza
Hulyen
Jana Ocampo
Jeri Latorre
Karami Studio x hannahkca
Kata Garcia x Gelai Manabat
Kriselle Anne Cartalla
Magpies
Magpies
Makô
Mao Factolerin
Mara Salanga
Marguerite Alcazaren De Leon
Marinel Dizon
Nagmamahal, Maria Clara
Nikki Despi
Patricia Ramos
Pauline Angelica Cole
Playwrite Publishing House
Playwright Publishing House
Power In Her Story
Sara, Ches, Maryan
The Cabinet
The Greatest Digital Creatives x 8letters
Toads Crossing
Via Bulaon

There will be stickers, postcards, zines and more, plus happenings all day. Gantala Press CCP Intertextual Division

Happy Women’s Day!

11/01/2019

A CALL FOR MANIFESTOS ON MOTHERHOOD

What a time to be a mother in our beloved country: children are being shot in the streets, chased off of their ancestral domains, threatened for being different or outspoken, made to work on the streets, made to go hungry, made to grow up without their parents beside them, robbed of the promise of education. The list could go on and on. Every new day tests a mother’s resourcefulness, her ability to explain ugly truths, and her power to ward off new threats to motherhood, childhood, and the dreams of her grown children. This is a time in which we need to rally together as mothers in words, work, and spirit – as women.

Alam-am Publishing and Gantala Press are putting together a collection of Mothers’ Manifestos on different topics. A manifesto is a hopeful statement oriented towards action and written in the first person “I” or “We”. It is specific and brief (not more than 300 or 500 words). It contains a goal or a desired state for your children and/or for mothers, and sets down concrete ways, steps, or actions to attain this goal. A manifesto may be about creativity, work, food, education, spirituality, memory and history, gender fluidity, neurodivergence, mental health, activism, ecology, partnership or single parenthood, and human rights. (These are only suggestions. You may choose any topic that is important to you!)

Our hope is that these manifestos will become tools and sources of strength for fellow mothers struggling to raise healthy, compassionate, and happy humans in our homeland. This collection will not be about trying to fit into the patriarchal mold or myth of the good mother. While this work is a response to the current, turbulent contexts in which we live, your manifesto will be about your determination to be a mother or raise your children in your own way.

If you have a manifesto growing in you, we invite you to write it down and share it with other mothers through this collection. Manifestos may be in English, Filipino, or other Philippine languages, and not previously published. (If writing in another Philippine language, please provide a translation in English or Filipino.) Kindly send your manifesto as a Word document (500 words maximum) to [email protected] and [email protected] by March 31, 2019.