Opening of the PHILIPPINE INTERNATINAL ARTS FESIVAL

On its 19th year, the Philippine International Arts festival (PIAF) in celebration of National Arts Month (NAM) as per Presidential Proclamation No. 683 of 1991 kicks off with simple but still festive rites at the Rajah Sulayman Plaza in Malate, Manila on January 31, 2010.

The National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) led by Chairman Vilma L. Labrador and Executive Director Cecile Guidote-Alvarez holds twin celebrations after the country was named as the cultural capital of the 10-member ASEAN for the years 2010 and 2011.

The much-anticipated opening “involves various artistic activities that focus on arts education and its relevance in building community spirit and pride,” according to the festival secretariat. “It also showcases the best artistic works and their contribution to the Philippine creative consciousness.”

PIAF provides a venue for artists, veteran or newbie, to celebrate their works and interact with one another. The seven flagship programs with the seven subcommittee on the arts presents their own program of activities that will travel all over the country.

This year, the Committee on Dramatic Arts is in charge of the event as a whole.

As early as 8 a.m. on Jan. 30, 2010, art booths of the several art disciplines open at the Clamshell area inside Intramuros (just a few blocks away from the NCCA office in Gen. Luna St.) These booths are expected to hold art sessions.

The colorful parade marches at 3 p.m. Starting point is at the NCCA building and goes all the way to the Rajah Sulayman park where the program begins.

Capping off the opening rites is a two-hour concert that features performances by committee members from dance, film, music, theater, and literature and the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra.

Fireworks display signals the official opening of the month-long, nationwide festival.

Should you need more details or have any concerns, please contact Mr. Rene Napeñas, PIAF Media Director and Head of the NCCA-Public Affairs and Information Office (PAIO) at 09285081057/ 09275582656 and 527-5529, or Ms. Vanessa Marquez, PIAF Deputy Festival Manager, at 527-2209 or 09186380412. You could also call us at 527-2192 loc. 612-615 or email us at ncca.paio@gmail.com.

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A night of Inspiration, Music and Affirmation...

A night of Inspiration, Music and Affirmation...For Woman Warrior Beth Nacion.

Date: Sunday, January 17, 2010
Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: Phil AM Life Auditorium UN AVE. Manila

Performers are Various Pop and Classical Artists Tickets are at P1000.

Tickets are available at 0919-6577961/0917-2406317. Look for Joy Rago.

Ballet Manila's

Ballet Manila's Calendar of January 2010 events:

Jan. 1, Fri, 4pm Star Theater, Star City (Paskong Pista)
Jan. 2, Sat, 6pm Star Theater, Star City (Paskong Pista)
Jan. 3, Sun, 6pm Star Theater, Star City (Paskong Pista)
Jan. 8, Fri, 8pm Star Theater, Star City (Pistang Pinoy, Premiere)
Jan. 9, Sat, 8pm Star Theater, Star City (Pistang Pinoy)
Jan. 10, Sun, 7:30pm Star Theater, Star City (Pistang Pinoy)
Jan. 15, Fri, 8pm Star Theater, Star City (Pistang Pinoy)
Jan. 16, Sat, 8pm Star Theater, Star City (Pistang Pinoy)
Jan. 17, Sun, 7:30pm Star Theater, Star City (Pistang Pinoy)
Jan. 22, Fri, 8pm Star Theater, Star City (Pistang Pinoy)
Jan. 23, Sat, 1pm Holy Angel Auditorium, Angeles, Pampanga (Don Quixote)
Jan. 23, Sat, 5pm Holy Angel Auditorium, Angeles, Pampanga (Don Quixote)
Jan. 23, Sat, 8pm Star Theater, Star City (Pistang Pinoy)
Jan. 24, Sun, 7:30pm Star Theater, Star City (Pistang Pinoy)
Jan. 29, Fri, 8pm Star Theater, Star City (Pistang Pinoy)
Jan. 30, Sat, 8pm Star Theater, Star City (Pistang Pinoy)
Jan. 31, Sun, 7:30pm Star Theater, Star City (Pistang Pinoy)

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Tanghalang Pilipino presents TATLONG MARIA on February and March 2010

Tanghalang Pilipino's 23rd season ends with "Tatlong Maria," Rody Vera's adaptation of Russian playwright Anton Chekhov's 'Three Sisters,' a tragicomedy about the decay of the privileged class in Russia and the search for meaning in the modern world.

"Tatlong Maria" is about the slow destruction of a family once regarded as one of the most respectable in society. From the original Russian setting, the play moves to a remote small town in the Philippines during the first decade of martial law. New York-based director/designer Loy Arcenas directs Mailes Kanapi, Diana Malahay, Angeli Bayani, Cheryl Ramos, Nonie Buencamino and Paolo O'Hara.

The play runs in Manila's Cultural Center of the Philippines through February 19-21 & 26-28 and then March 13-15 & 20-22, 2010.


To get your tickets, you can call +632 832 3661 or +632 832 1125, email ccptanghalan@yahoo.com or go to the Tanghalang Pilipino website.

N.O.A.H. the Musical from TRUMPETS on January 16 and 17 2010

The Trumpets Inc. stage group is back on stage with two rescheduled dates for postponed performances of N.O.A.H (No Ordinary Aquatic Habitat), a modernized fable based on the biblical story of Noah's Ark.

Dates: January 16 & 17.
Place: Meralco Theater, Ortigas Theater.
Tickets: 515 to 1,236 pesos through the

More on DUETS.. showing this January 15-21, 2010 in Makati City!

DUETS is a stage comedy for two actors by Peter Quilter, author of "Glorious!" and "End of the Rainbow".

Repertory Philippines brings DUETS to Manila this January 15 - 21, 2010 at OnStage
2/F Greenbelt 1, Ayala Center, Makati City.

Duets is directed by Ana Bitong.

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A GLORIUOSLY FUNNY EXAMINATION OF LOVE, RELATIONSHIPS AND WHY THE GRASS IS NEVER GREENER.

A Philippine Premiere of a New Romantic Comedy by the author of GLORIOUS!

Four sets of characters, four crucial moments; Jonathan and Wendy are on a blind date and hope their bad taste is only in their clothing and not in a prospective partner; Barrie is gay and Janet wishes he wasn’t; Shelley and Bobby are divorcing on a holiday in Spain but drunk on emotion; Angela is about to marry for the third time and brother Toby hates the dress, the groom, the party and only wants the best for her—really. All played by two actors in a fast, furious and hilarious tribute to humankind. If you like Neil Simon – you’ll love this!

Duets is four vignettes performed by two actors that explores the lighter side of romance and relationships. Theatrically brilliant, Duets is created for the audience to witness the magic of theatre as actors perform costume changes onstage as the scenery shifts to the next story - all written as part of the performance.

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The Illusive - World of Wonders 2 Magic Show this January 30, 2010!

The Illusive - World of Wonders 2 Magic Show

Venue: PICC Tent - Forum 3

Event Date/Time:
January 30, 2010, Saturday at 7:30PM

Seat and Price:
Seat Location Price
VIP (Reserved Seating) 740
Gold (Reserved Seating) 528
Silver 370
Bronze 264

The Illusive - World of Wonders 2 Magic Show
Get your tickets now!

Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra Season Concert V

2009-2010 PPO SEASON CONCERT V
(Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra)

Oscar C. Yatco, conductor
Brahms – Symphony No.1 in C minor, Op.68
Chopin – Piano Concerto No.1 in E minor, Op. 11
Hindemith – Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber
Albert Tiu, piano


PPO SEASON CONCERT V
Venue : CCP Main Theatre, Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo
Time : 8:00 pm
Date : Jan 14 2010

Unmasking: Photography Workshop on Portraitand Identity by Marc Lathuillière

Marc Lathuillière, the French lensman behind "France Face Lost," will hold a free workshop from 10am to 3pm at Silverlens Gallery on January 30 and February 6 sponsored by Alliance Française, followed by an artist’s talk at Silverlens on February 6 at 6pm to introduce his work and artistic approach.

Dealing with French identity and observing France after an extended stay in Asia, Lathuillière questions the stereotypes on which we build our identities with his use of masks. From Provence to Normandy, and from Bordeaux to Metz, more than four hundred people have already let him take their "de-faced" portraits.

THE WORKSHOP

Day 1, 10am-3pm (5 hrs): From Psychological to Masked Portrait

Participants are invited to bring national costumes (Maria Clara, terno, barong, malong, etc.) and examples of their photographic works, either printed or on a USB flash drive. This session will be spent mostly in the studio.

Day 2, 10am-3pm (5 hrs): From Masked to Contextual Portrait

This second session will be spent mostly outdoors. Participants are invited to bring their own mask. It would be helpful if those who have their own laptops could bring them to the session.

Feb 06, Saturday, 6pm: Artist Talk

“How is it possible to take pictures of the other, whether as a local or a foreigner? What can photography tell us about identity construction? Here are the questions I intend to raise with this Unmasking.”
- Marc Lathuillière


APPLICATION PROCESS

Participants to the workshop must first apply for a slot by submitting a portfolio of their works in PDF form along with a CV to Leonore Casuga at manage@silverlensphoto.com. Applicants may also send a cd to Silverlens Gallery, 2nd Floor YMC Building, 2320 Pasong Tamo Extension, Makati City, 1231. Applicants may include their website address in their CV as a supplement, but still need to submit a portfolio in PDF form.

The portfolio should be submitted by December 31. The list of accepted participants will be announced on January 16, 2010.

Marc Lathuillière’s exhibition of photographs “France Face Lost” opens at the Alliance Française Total Gallery on Tuesday, February 2, 2010, with cocktails at 6:30 pm. It will be on exhibit until February 25, 2010.

For inquiries, contact Silverlens Gallery at 2/F YMC Bldg. II, 2320 Pasong Tamo Ext., Makati, 816-0044, 0917-5874011, or manage@silverlensphoto.com.

Gallery hours are Monday to Friday 10am–7pm and Saturdays 1–6pm. http://www.silverlensphoto.com / slab.silverlensphoto.com.

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The MET Collection of Philippine Art

Met Museum offers a rare chance to view its outstanding Philippine art collection in the ongoing exhibit, Recollect: Revisiting the Metropolitan of Manila Collection. The show features 96 paintings, sculptures, and mixed media works that resulted in the efforts of the Museum to collect in the 1990s. Except for the two artworks that are currently on loan to other museums, the exhibit features the collection in its entirety.

The Metropolitan Museum was initially established in 1976 as a venue for temporary international art exhibitions. With the change of government in 1986, the Museum also reviewed its policies and began to place equal emphasis on the promotion of Philippine art. Two decades after its existence, and with a firm grasp of its mandate as a Philippine museum of contemporary visual arts, the Museum began building its permanent collection, relying solely on the generosity and support of Filipino artists.

Recollect shows the Met Collection as a product of its milieu, providing interesting points of reacquaintance with the issues and concerns addressed by the leading and up-and-coming contemporary Filipino artists in the last decade of the previous millenium. Whether figurative or abstract in expression, and whether preoccupied with social, personal and purely aesthetic concerns, all the works actively participated in the art discourse of their time, and because of the standard of excellence they espoused, found permanent home in the Met Museum.

Among the highlights of the Met Collection are the controversial 1995 Flor Contemplacion Portrait by Bencab (now a National Artist); the 1990 Debt by Charlie Co, a commentary on the IMF-World Bank debt situation of the country; the color-soaked Bali-inspired paintings of J. Elizalde Navarro (also subsequently declared National Artist); the original plaster cast of Three Buddha Mothers by Agnes Arellano, Pasyong Bayan by Imelda Cajipe Endaya, India at Ilustrada by Ana Fer, Yellow Exploration Lor Calma, and many more.

RECOLLECT: Revisiting the Metropolitan Museum of Manila Collection is ongoing at the Tall Galleries and Catwalk of the Metropolitan Museum of Manila until April 24, 2010.

The Met Museum is located at the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Complex, Roxas Boulevard, Manila.

Museum hours are from Monday to Saturday, 9am – 6pm.
For inquiries, call 523-7855 or email info@metmuseum.ph.


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Metropolitan Museum of Manila opens the exhibit SIGLA AND SIKAP: Exulting the Filipino Industry

In celebration of the Filipino’s enterprising spirit, the Metropolitan Museum of Manila opens the exhibit Sigla at Sikap: Exulting the Filipino Industry which features more than thirty Bangko Sentral artworks that capture the Filipino at work.

Sigla at Sikap celebrates the resilience of the Filipino worker –the mat weaver, the food peddler, the farmer, the vegetable seller - who have made the country’s regional economy vibrant throughout the different stages of Philippine history. As it displays works of artists, from different time periods and different persuasions, that extol the varied forms of Filipino industry, the exhibition captures the Filipino worker at his finest --diligent, patient, honest, creative, and optimistic.

Sigla at Sikap also touches on the great role that micro enterprises serve in answering unemployment in the country. The informal sector, or the unregistered businesses that operate at a low level of technology, employ about 10.5 million Filipinos, or a little more than 10% of the 92 million Filipinos. Small and medium sized enterprises, through the aid of loan-giving institutions like rural and government banks, propel a dynamic business environment in places such as remote barrios and depressed inner cities; creating occupational opportunities to communities and individuals that include housewives, out-of-school youths, and even the elderly.

In these small enterprises, women play non-traditional yet vital roles. They often multitask as owners, managers, administrators, accountants, salesmen, and/or marketers. Through the exhibit, women are publicly recognized for the challenging and pivotal roles they undertake as entrepreneurs, and for the transformative, positive, and multiplier effect they bring to their community. This recognition has been bestowed by Filipino artists to these hardworking women, silently yet powerfully, through their art. This can be seen, for example, in Jose Blanco’s magnificent Puto Bungbong or Norma Belleza’s colorful Magpuprutas, two of the artworks from the BSP Collection featured in the exhibit.

The exhibit opened on July 3 and will run until January 30, 2010 at the Galeriya Bangko Sentral of the Metropolitan Museum of Manila.

As a collateral to the exhibit, the Museum will offer a bag-making workshop slated on the first half of the month of October. The workshop will employ used paper like old newspaper and magazines as the main material in the production of bags. It will run for 12 sessions with each intensive session lasting for 3 hours. The Bag-Making Workshop will be held at the Metropolitan Museum of Manila on October 6, 8, 10, 13, 15 and 17, and will be facilitated by bag expert Ms. Lulu Ocampo. The morning session is at 9-12 noon while the afternoon session will take place at 1-4 pm.

The fee for the bag-making workshop is P5,000.00 per head which is inclusive of materials. A group discount of 10% is given to groups of 5 people and also to those who register for the program on or before September 22, Tuesday. Registration entails full payment or a 50% down payment. For inquiries and enrollment to the workshop, please call the Museum’s Marketing Department at 523-0613 or 521-1517.

The Metropolitan Museum of Manila is located at the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Complex, Roxas Boulevard, Malate, Manila. It is open from Monday to Saturday, 9 am to 6 pm.

For details about the exhibit and its collateral activities, the Museum can be reached at 523-7855 or 536-1566 through the Exhibitions and Education Programs Department. Online inquiries can be directed to info@metmuseum.ph. The Museum can be reached online at http://www.metmuseum.ph.

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SAOSIN Live in Manila this January 22, 2010!

Saosin is a rock band originally hailing from Newport Beach, California, formed in 2003. The band currently consists of vocalist Cove Reber, guitarists Beau Burchell and Justin Shekoski, bassist Chris Sorenson, and drummer Alex Rodriguez. The band is known for their elements of Heavy Metal sound they have mixed with Alternative Rock and Post-Hardcore vocals

The band recorded their first E.P Translating the Name with original singer, Anthony Green. However, Green left the band following the decision of the band to sign up to a commercial label, Capitol. New singer Cove Reber fronted the band as they recorded their self titled debut album which garnered critical acclaim.

Their second studio album, In Search of Solid Ground was released on 8 September 2009 on Virgin and contains three re-recorded tracks off their The Grey EP.

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Saosin Live In Manila
Date: January 22, 2010
Time: 8:00PM

Seat and Price:
Seat Location Price
Gen. Admission 1000

Get your ticket here.


Venue: A-Venue Events Hall

MODERN MASTERS OF FIGURATIVE INDIAN PAINTINGS AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM from November 6, 2009 to January 30, 2010

The Metropolitan Museum of Manila closes a dynamic year of international art shows with a November exhibition of Indian contemporary art, currently one of Asia’s most active. Entitled Kalpana, Sanskrit for imagination, the exhibit presents the figurative form in Indian art as seen in the last one hundred years through the works of fourteen of its best known painters, all prominent members of the art community in their country and abroad. These artists are the who’s who of Indian art: Jamini Roy, Amrita Shergil, MF Husain, KG Subramanyan, FN Souza, Krishen Khanna, Tyeb Mehta, Bhupen Khakhar, A. Ramachandran, Arpita Singh, Jogen Chowdhury, Anjolie Ela Menon, Manjit Bawa, and Arpana Caur.

The touring exhibit presents excellent quality digital reproductions of original artworks, each approved by the respective artist and/or collector and authorized to the Indian Council for Cultural Relations for presentation in different international venues.

Kalpana gives a glimpse of different influences that have shaped Indian contemporary art—from local painting traditions of rural and folk art, miniaturism, mural painting, to Hindu-inspired illustrations. The exhibit also presents artworks that resulted in the synergy of Indian artistic expressions with Western art that loudly emerged in the Indian art scene during the 1950s, spurred by the seminal Progressive Artists Group of Souza, Khana and Husain.

For the Philippine leg of the Kalpana tour, the Indian works are placed in conversation with works by an equally distinguished selection of Filipino painters such as National Artists Bencab, Cesar Legaspi, Vicente Manansala, J. Elizalde Navarro and Ang Kiukok, as well as Imelda Cajipe Endaya, Nena Saguil, Malang, Galo Ocampo, Prudencio Lamarroza, Antipas Delotavo and Onib Olmedo, to reveal confluences and divergences in the modern figurative painting tradition between the two cultures. The Philippine works in the exhibit have been loaned from the excellent painting collections of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas and the Cultural Center of the Philippines.

KALPANA: 14 Figurative Painters of India in Conversation with Filipino Artists will be on view to the public beginning November 6 until January 30 at the Upper Galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Manila. It is co-presented by the Embassy of India with the support of the National Commission for Culture and the

Arts and the Indian Council for Cultural Relations on the occasion of the 60th Anniversary of the Diplomatic Relations between the Philippines and India.

The Met Museum is located at the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Complex, Roxas Boulevard, Manila.

Museum hours are from Monday to Saturday, 9am – 6pm.
For inquiries, call 523-7855 or email info@metmuseum.ph

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DUETS by Repertory Philippines on January 15 - 31, 2010

DUETS by Peter Quilter

A GLORIUOSLY FUNNY EXAMINATION OF LOVE, RELATIONSHIPS AND WHY THE GRASS IS NEVER GREENER.

A Philippine Premiere of a New Romantic Comedy by the author of GLORIOUS!

Four sets of characters, four crucial moments; Jonathan and Wendy are on a blind date and hope their bad taste is only in their clothing and not in a prospective partner; Barrie is gay and Janet wishes he wasn’t; Shelley and Bobby are divorcing on a holiday in Spain but drunk on emotion; Angela is about to marry for the third time and brother Toby hates the dress, the groom, the party and only wants the best for her—really. All played by two actors in a fast, furious and hilarious tribute to humankind. If you like Neil Simon – you’ll love this!

Duets is four vignettes performed by two actors that explores the lighter side of romance and relationships. Theatrically brilliant, Duets is created for the audience to witness the magic of theatre as actors perform costume changes onstage as the scenery shifts to the next story - all written as part of the performance.

Duets
January 15 – 31, 2010

Venue
OnStage
2/F Greenbelt 1, Ayala Center, Makati City

Director
Ana Bitong


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