The Philippine Consulate General in Shanghai joins the Filipino nation in celebrating the 2025 National Literature Month (NLM) this April, pursuant to Presidential Proclamation No. 968 of 15 February 2015.

This year’s NLM theme is "SIKAD Panitikan: Kultura at Panitikan ng Kaunlaran". According to the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), Sikad, a Cebuano term that means to kick, also communicates a sense of energy and highlights the continuing enthusiasm, significant action, and meaningful reflection of the nation's literature. The overall theme will once again open the door for our nation to express its culture through literature, discover innovative methods, ideas, and literary expressions through the new generation of writers in the field of literature, and highlight various folk arts and traditional practices that form part of the foundations by which literature is explained to the community.

The NLM is an annual celebration spearheaded by the NCCA, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino and the National Book Development Board, to promote Philippine literature, its history, and cultural legacy.