The Miguel Hernández Library of the aforementioned center has managed to gather a valuable section of Filipiniana. The Instituto Cervantes has been immersed for years in a campaign that tries, on the one hand, to encourage young Filipino authors to write in Spanish through creative-writing workshops, and on the other hand, to make known the Filipino literary heritage in Spanish.

The event encourages young Filipino authors to write in Spanish through creative-writing workshops and to make known the Filipino literary heritage in Spanish. The video, which can be seen on the Instituto Cervantes' YouTube channel, aims, 'to highlight, through the variety of Spanish accents, the richness of Spanish-Filipino poetry, specifically that of Rizal, the great Filipino classic, who created his work in Spanish' according to director of Instituto Cervantes, Javier Galván. The Día del Libro (Book Day), whose celebration the Instituto Cervantes introduced in Manila in 2006, was inaugurated this year with the premiere of a video in which, thanks to the collaboration of the embassies of Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Panama, Venezuela and Spain in the Philippines, more than thirty Spanish speakers from various continents recited the poem 'Canto del viajero', by José Rizal. The Instituto Cervantes in Manila on April 22 celebrated the International Book Day with a recital of Filipino poetry in Spanish, a language which, although almost extinct in the Archipelago, is the language in which literature written in the Philippines was born. (From left) Instituto Cervantes Director Javier Galván, Ambassador of Argentina Ricardo Bocalandro, Ambassador of Colombia Marcela Ordóñez, Ambassador of Spain Miguel Utray, Ambassador of Chile Álvaro Jara, Counsellor of the Embassy of Venezuela Richard Gregorio Espinoza and Head of Cultural Affairs of the Embassy of Mexico Marcos Octavio

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