What’s the Balagtasan’s relevance to young Filipinos? Consider that the spirited tradition, named after the Spanish colonial era’s great Filipino poet Francisco Balagtas, and pioneered by Jose Corazon ...

De Jesuswas acclaimed as the “First King of Balagtasan,” a poetical joust popular during the early decades of the 20th century. To the public mind, the poet José Corazon de Jesus (1894-1932) is ...

The Filipino Heritage Festival opened April 30, and on May 14, 8 p.m. and May 15, 3 p.m. and 8 p.m., it will present at the CCP main theater the Philippine Ballet Theater’s “Darangen ni Bantugan”, ...

Filipino rap battle league FlipTop has acquired many fans, mostly from the youth sector. Its Youtube account already has over 1.2 million subscribers. With almost 400 uploaded videos—the most popular ...

The first balagtasan took place at Instituto de Mujeres in Manila in 1924. Balagtasan, named after the nation’s foremost poet Francisco Balagtas, is a debate in verse, a poetical joust done almost ...

The first Balagtasan, a debate in verse, was held on April 6, 1924. Conceptualized as part of the celebration of the birth anniversary of Francisco Baltazar, or Balagtas, it was held at the Instituto ...

For a mambabalagtas, verbal joust and poetry are so much more than a way to express complex emotions and stories. While it was born as a form of entertainment during the bleak era of American ...

THE “Balagtasan” (poetic debate) kicks off in Balagtas town in Bulacan, the birthplace of the Prince of Tagalog Poets Gat. Francisco Balagtas Baltazar whose 229th birth anniversary is celebrated on ...

Answering the question 'should we or should we not teach the Filipino language to our children", members of two opposing teams argue why it should or should we not teach the Filipino language to the ...

Should we or should we not teach the Filipino language to our children? Image: Some of last year's debaters of the Balagtasan (Tagalog Association of Australia) This is the question that participants ...