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Glecy Atienza is TOWNS
Awardee for Arts and Culture
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This year’s
The Outstanding Women in the Nation’s Service
(TOWNS) for Arts and Culture is a full professor
of the University of the Philippines’ College of
Arts and Letter.
Glecy Cruz Atienza is also a senior
artist-teacher of the Philippine Education
Theater Association, (PETA) and chairperson of
the ALYANSA, Inc., an association of artists
residing in Metro Manila. Besides, she is an
artist consultant and volunteer at the National
Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) and a
member of the National Research Council of the
Philippines.
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Atienza
obtained all her degrees from the University of
the Philippines: B.A. in Philippine Studies;
M.A. in Philippine Literature; and Ph.D. in
Filipino specializing in Literature. She has
been a recipient of many grants that enabled her
to go into in-depth studies of art and culture.
Other TOWNS awardees this year are Dina S.
Ocampo for education; Ma. Corazon A. de Ungria,
science; Eva Ma. Cutiongco-dela Paz for
medicine; Alexandra P. Romualdwez for print;
Hilly Anne Roa-Quiaoit for environmental
conservation; Maria A. Ressa for broadcast
journalism; and Catherine H. Lee for business.
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London
Musicians
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Violinist Robert Atchison and pianist
Olga Dudnik, acclaimed musicians from
London, recently presented a classical
concert featuring Ludwig van Beethoven’s
“Sonata No. 5 in F major, Opus 24 and
Maurice Ravel’s “Tzigane: Concert
Rhapsody.”
Atchison and Dudnik also played a
specially commissioned piece set to the
music of British composer Sir Edward
Elgar while Ballet Manila performers,
led by Lisa Macuja-Elizalde, danced to
the music in a choreography done by
Osias Barroso. The event was held at the
Little Theater of the Cultural Center of
the Philippines.
Atchison has performed in the United
States and in South American and
European countries, as well as in the
East Asia. He has several recordings and
is presently busy doing his album to be
released next year. These include two
violin and piano recitals and the two
Mendelssohn concertos.
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Dudnik was born in Ukraine where
she acquired her skill in the
piano. She was won in many
competitions, several of them
international. She moved to
London in 1993, undertaking
advanced solo studies at the
Guildhall School of Music and
Drama. She has appeared with
numerous orchestras, including
the London Philharmonic
Orchestra. |
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Olga
Dudnik and Robert
Atchison during
their concert at the
CCP |
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CCP’s
Literary Yearbook
Off the Press |
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The
Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP)
recently issued its 20th anniversary
literary yearbook entitled “Ani”
(Harvest) focusing on the theme of
nature and the endangered environment.
This year’s issue is the 33th volume
published within 20 years by the CCP.
The journal contains poems, fiction and
essays from writers all over the
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many
of them writing in their respective
local languages. “Ani” is one of the
longest surviving
national literary journals in the
Philippines.
Although mostly in the vernacular, the journal also contains
English poems and fiction which foreign
readers might be interested to read,
considering that these focus on the
environmental situation in the
Philippines where loggers are guilty of
deforestation and industrial companies
bring about the pollution of the waters.
Among the English contributions are
those by poets Dennis Espada, “Ethnic
Scourge” and Rodrigo V. dela Peña, Jr.,
“Meditation.”
Dennis Espada’s “Ethnic Scourge” laments in the second stanza:
“Until Green Circle came to our forest,
tearing down hundreds everyday;
ruining saplings while all the rest
of flora and fauna, their nests, including us,
were driven away.”
Copies of “Ani” may be bought at the Cultural Center of the Philippines.
For details, call up (02) 832-1125 local
1113 or 1116.
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Mindanao Exhibit at Metropolitan Museum |
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An art
exhibit on Mindanao is ongoing at the
Metropolitan Museum of Manila, focusing
on the issue of peace and conflict in
the region, something that affects the
lifestyle, art and culture of its local
residents.
Dubbed “Kulay Ug Kalinaw sa Mindanao, ” the show gathers artworks
and books that impart information on the
past and present of conflict and peace
settlements in Mindanao. |
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“Girl in Malong”
painting (Malong is an article
of clothing common in Mindanao.) |
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This
exhibit aims to promote peace and make
people from all over the Philippines and
the world realize that Mindanao not just
as a region of conflicts or violence but
withal, a beautiful part of the country
where a uniquely Philippine art and
culture thrive.
The exhibit will highlight the works of Mindanao homegrown
talents such as National Artist for
Sculpture Abdulmari Asia Imao, Ib’n Saud
Salipyasan Ahmad, Brando Arevalo, Nonoy
Arevalo, Errol Balcos, Wilman Bastasa,
Joel Geolamen, Juni Grapa, Rachel Holazo,
Kurt Lluch, Ivan Macarambon, Raymund
Malicay, Arch. Jose Olmedo Martinez III,
Cocoy Paano, Jun Pamisa, Celso Duazo
Pepito, Didi Romano, Reynaldo Su, Eddie
Tabancura, Jericho Valjusto Vamenta and
Rameer Tawasil.
The Metropolitan Museum is located at the Bangko Sentral ng
Pilipinas Complex, Roxas Blvd., Malate,
Manila and is open Monday to Saturday,
9am to 6pm.
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Save a
Child’s Life
Through Art
By
Carmencita H. Acosta
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Do you
want to help save the life of an
impoverished child afflicted with
primary tuberculosis?
All you need to give is the
comparatively paltry amount of six
thousand pesos, equivalent to the cost
of a medical treatment for each sick
child.
The Kaibigan Ermita Outreach Foundation,
Inc. located at 2546 Nakar Street, San
Andres, Manila will present “Art for a
Cause,” an evening of viewing paintings
and a theatrical performance. The event
will be held at the auditorium Pope Pius
XII Center on United Nations Avenue,
Paco, Manila from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Healthy Children Helping Sick Children
Sixty paintings each on the theme of
what makes a child happy will be
exhibited and offered for sale in aid of
urban poor and street children suffering
from primary tuberculosis. The paintings
were done by child artists who
volunteered their time and talent to
mount the exhibit for the sake of
helping other children who are not only
poor but also sick.
The painting exhibit will be followed by
the performance of a new Nativity
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play entitled
“The First Christmas.”
Performers are members of the
Kaibigan Choir and Theater
Group. Traditional carols as
well as six new and original
songs will be presented.
Your help will be much
appreciated. For details, call
up Susan Biteng, director of the
Kaibigan Ermita Outreach
Foundation, Inc. at (02)
589-6665 or 561-8508. |
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A panel
displaying some of the
paintings |
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Compiled by Carmencita H.
Acosta
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Films
Israeli Film Festival
November 19 - 22
Cinema 5, Greenbelt 3, Ayala Center, Makati City
University of the Philippines Film Institute,
Quezon City
Far Eastern University, Manila and
De La Salle University, Manila
Philippine Women’s University, Manila
The Embassy of Israel presents the 18th Israeli Film Festival which
this year takes place simultaneously at the
Greenbelt Center and in the abovementioned four
major universities in Manila to reach varied and
wider audiences. All the films have English
subtitles.
The Festival will host award winning director Tomer Heymann who
will arrive in Manila and will conduct a string
of workshops at selected universities. Heymann
has received several awards for his various
films including the multi-awarded film, “Paper
Dolls” which won 1st place at the Berlin Film
Festival in 2006 and other honors in many
international festivals including Cinemanila,
Pink Apple in Switzerland, LA Film Fest, to name
a few.
For titles of films and exact schedules, as well
as workshops by Heymann, call up the Embassy of
Israel, (02) 894-0441 to
43 local 512.
Italian Film Festival
November 19 – 23
University of the Philippines Film Center,
Quezon City
U-View, Fully Booked, Andres Bonifacio Global
City
Bonifaciio, Quezon City
Tel. (02) 892-4531 to 34
All the films have the sea as their theme. The greatest
Italian film directors have drawn inspiration
from the sea to tackle topics like emigration
and immigration, exile, poetry, love, human
relationships and other nuances. This festival
presents both classic and modern Italian films
whose setting is the sea.
For screening schedules in both venues, log on
to http://www.phil-ita.org
Exhibits
Poetry and Pottery
Ongoing until January 16, 2008
Yuchengco Museum
RCBC Plaza, Ayala corner Puyat, Makati City
Tel. (02) 889-1234
Dubbed “Poetry in Function: A Glimpse of Contemporary Philippine
Pottery,” the exhibit showcases 15 pieces of
studio pottery by artist-potters Jaime de
Guzman, Jon Pettyjohn, Lanelle Abueva-Fernando,
Ugu Bigyan and Hadrian Mendoza. Either created
for functional use or forms that express the
artistic sensibility, Philippine pottery has
evolved from mere objects and community wares to
highly sophisticated and elegant pieces.
Zhangzhou Ware
Found in the Philippines
Ongoing until January 16, 2008
Yuchengco Museum
(See foregoing item for address and telephone)
This exhibit illustrates the variety of Zhangzhou ceramics that
were shipped to the Philippines during the 16th
and 17th centuries. As Europe became the main
focus of China’s largest ceramic producers,
Zhangzhou ware was produced more to meet the
demand of old customers in Asia.
Juvenal Sanso:
Water – The Medium
November 24, 2007 - January 13, 2008
Ayala Museum
Makati Avenue corner De la Rosa, Makati City
Tel. (02) 757-7117
Shown are a selection of Juvenal Sanso’s work focusing on water, a
life-preserving medium. Nurturing, soothing,
calming, refreshing and indispensable to
humanity, water has been an important
inspiration for Sanso, recipient of the
Presidential Medal of Merit for the Arts from
the Philippine government in 2006.
Magnum Asupre
Ongoing until December 5
Blue Wings Art Space
2nd Floor, Rafa’s deli + café
Unit C 10 Xavierville, Loyola Heights, Quezon
City
Tel. (02) 426-2970
This is a painting exhibit featuring 8.5” x 11” works of 50
fast-rising young Philippine artists. The
subjects are varied, from faces to objects and
out-of-the-world figures. The works represent
the artists’ views and impressions of his
surroundings in this imperfect world.
Five Photographers
November 23 – December 20
Silverlens Gallery
Yupangco Bldg. 2320 Pasong Tamo Ext., Makati
City
Tel. (02) 816-0044
This exhibit is a tribute to five pioneering masters of Philippine
photojournalism. They are Mario Co, Silverio
Enriquez, Joe Gabor. Ed Santiago and Romy Vitug.
These five individuals represent a critical time
in Philippine photojournalism, when photography
was in its nascent state as a form of art.
The exhibit will feature photographs and photographic essays from the
aforementioned individuals. These are works that
reflect the changing political, economic, social
and cultural scene of their times. More
important, the exhibit not only shows how these
particular photojournalists saw their fellow
Filipinos, but how Filipinos saw themselves
during that era.
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