Summer Photography Workshops at the Filipinas Heritage Library

Summer is the perfect time to relax outdoors. The sky is clear, the sun is shining, and the world is full of color. Naturally, summer is the opportune moment to take bright and vibrant pictures. But to take photographs that are truly stunning, you need to know how to maximize your camera. This summer, the Filipinas Heritage Library (FHL) is offering a series of workshops for photographers of all...

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Ramon Diaz: Sumo @ NOVA Gallery

Sumo Ramon Diaz From 16 March to 6 April 2012, established Filipino artist Ramon Diaz presents his most recent artworks at Nova Gallery. The one-man show will feature 19 works on paper that capture the allure of the traditional Japanese sport, sumo wrestling.  Famous as a figurative painter, printmaker, sculptor and installation artist, Diaz shifts to ink on wet canvass to depict a sport...

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A Master at Work: Nonon Padilla Directs PETA’s Haring Lear

MANILA, Philippines – People who have seen Nonon Padilla’s works say that his theatrical creations are filled with imagery and metaphor. So as he starts to develop another unique form of artistic creation with the Philippine Educational Theater Association’s (PETA) Haring Lear Felix “Nonon” Padilla is one of the most original, accomplished and influential figures in contemporary Philippine theater....

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Basic Make-up Workshop with E.J. Belen-Litiatco

There’s no need for a special to look stunning, nor a daily trip to the salon just to look gorgeous everyday! You can strut an edgy look without hiring a professional; in fact, you can be your own pro! Learn the art of beauty and the necessary techniques of make-up application for practically any time, occasion, and condition from one of the country’s sought-after make up artist E.J. Belen-Litiatco. Whether you are a professional wanting to be always ready for a client presentation or...

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New Paintings by Marcel Antonio @ Water Dragon Gallery

The Romantic Lie: Desire, Ennui, Anxiety  February 6 - 25, 2012  New paintings by Marcel Antonio Featuring new poems by VIS de Veyra In July 2010, poet Vicente Ignacio Soria de Veyra posted anonline essay on the art of Marcel Antonio and coined the phrase "Blue Funk Erotica" for Antonio's art. The blog entry started a dialogue between Antonio's art and intent and de Veyra's reading,...

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Silverlens in Art in the Park

Silverlens will be featuring artworks by:Pio AbadZean CabangisFrank CallaghanJohann EspirituCorinne De San JoseDina GadiaLuis LorenzanaRachel RilloIsabel "Pepper" RoxasTatong TorresRyan VillamaelCome February 18, 2012, the familiar white tents of Art In The Park will once again dot the grounds of Jaime Velasquez Park in Salcedo Village, Makati. Now in its fifth year, this annual art fair still stays...

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Art In The Park: An Affordable Art Fair

18 February 2012, Saturday 2:00 pm to 12:00 midnight Jaime Velasquez Park Salcedo Village, Makati City Art In The Park will have more than forty exhibitors, showcasing a trove of works—paintings, prints, sculptures, photographs—from artists that range from the established, the emerging, and the new. Welcoming visitors to the park this year will be special art installations from acclaimed...

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New TV show on Filipino Artists Airs February

Art Republik, a new TV show that features Filipino artists, debuts February 28 on Knowledge Channel at 8:40 p.m. Art Republik is a 30-minute program on Philippine arts and culture, profiling 51 artists from various art fields and two art collectors or a total of 53 guests for its first season. The first season of Art Republik carries 13 episodes anchored on themes, which are based on cultural...

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Pasinaya 2012: CCP Open House Festival

The Cultural Center of the Philippines' "Pasinaya 2012: CCP Open House Festival" on February 26, 2012 will feature Ilonggo performances with the Dinagyang Festival as its main feature. Dinagyang Festival 2012 1st runner-up, Tribu Lunok of Iloilo City National High School, will perform five times on the said Festival. Pasinaya is known as “the largest multi-arts festival in the country involving...

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Apply to the 19th Iligan National Writers Workshop

The Mindanao Creative Writers Group, Inc., and the Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology’s Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Extension (OVCRE) are accepting applications from writers to the 19th Iligan National Writers Workshop (INWW) to be held on May 14-18, 2012 in Iligan City. Panelists this year are Erlinda Kintanar Alburo, Leoncio P. Deriada, Merlie M. Alunan, German V. Gervacio, Steven Patrick C. Fernandez, Ralph Semino Galan, J. Neil Garcia, John...

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Half Empty Half Full @ Ysobel Art Gallery

HALF EMPTY HALF FULL  YSOBEL ART GALLERY  FEBRUARY 24,2012  Ysobel Art Gallery presents” Half Empty Half Full”, the first solo exhibition of Patrick B. Fernandez, on February 24, 2012, Friday, at the Second Floor Shops at Serendra in Bonifacio High Street,BGC, Taguig City. A collection of myriad images and installations inspired by visions of stained glass applied to stationary...

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Garapata Man Invades Secret Fresh

Garapata Man, the multi-limbed character from Dex Fernandez seen ubiquitously from every nook and cranny of the city, from toilet doors, light switches, to fx cab doors and jeepney roofs, is fleshed out as a resin figure in editions of 20. This landmark collaboration between Dex Fernandez aka Garapata Man and Secret Fresh is to be launched this Sunday Feb 12 at 6 PM. All Garapata Man figures come in sets of 3 composed of a gigantic rotund Daddy Garapata in Elvis coiffure and 2 baby Garapatas....

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Yuchengco Museum Teams Up with Freelance Writers’ Guild

Bringing Culture into Blogging 101 and SEOYuchengco Museum Teams Up with Freelance Writers’ GuildThe Freelance Writers’ Guild of the Philippines (FWGP) has partnered with Yuchengco Museum for a series of writers’ workshops and talks by experts in culture, arts, design, and heritage. The partnership is in line with the museum’s new Culture and Media program, a collaboration with various writers groups. FWGP is the first partner under the program. “Media practitioners, journalists, and writers...

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Glimpses of Old Manila

Ortigas Foundation, Inc. in partnership with the Rizal Library presents Glimpses of Old Manila A lecture by John Silva on 10 February 2012, 2.00pm at the Pardo de Tavera Room, Level 3 Rizal Library Special Collections Building, Ateneo de Manila University. The talk is in line with Postcards from Our Past, an exhibit of postcards of old Manila, which will run until 29 February 2012 . You may reserve seats in advance as there are limited seats available. For more information, you may...

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Shakespeare Happenings at PETA for the Month of February

SHAKESPEARE IN LOVEPETA's Shakespeare offerings for the love month of FebMANILA, Philippines - William Shakespeare has written a hundred sonnets and plays about the irony, tragedy, and splendor of love. He wrote about love from all angles, encompassing all ages, status and cultures. He has looked at love from a perspective of a desperate lover, an aging father or a loyal servant. This love month of...

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Artists' Talk on February 11 at Lopez Memorial Museum

In the past four months, visitors to the Lopez Memorial Museum have followed the movement of The Machine of IC Jaucian, whipped out their smart phones to get data – both audio and video-- from the QR code composed by Eric Ambata, and sought to catch sound as it rippled, bounced, etc within the metal sheet of Tad Ermitaño's work. On February 11, Saturday, visitors will have an opportunity to hear from these artists in Artists' Talk. In discussing their work, Ambata, Ermitano, Jaucian will...

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surFACES Exhibit @ NOVA Gallery

NOVA Gallery marks the beginning of the year by unveiling works from the Carlos Oppen Cojuangco Collection with an exhibition entitled “surFACES”. “surFACES” is a set of works which play around the idea of a face, its distortion, and even the lack of, which affects interpretation of an image and production of an impression. The exhibit runs from 3 February until 9 March at NOVA Gallery, Warehouse...

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Pangayaw: An Exhibit of Four Ilonggo Artists

The GSIS Museo ng Sining, in cooperation with the Iloilo Cultural Research Foundation, Inc., is proud to host the exhibit “Pangayaw” by Four Ilonggo Artists . A group composed of Cezar Arro, Nil Capinianes, Lester Amacio and Allain Hablo. Coming from different art backgrounds and experiences , the four have established themselves as visual artists, garnering awards and at the same time following their personal advocacies in through their art.. The exhibition will include the recent...

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