Open Space at Nova Gallery

For the month of December, Nova Gallery will be featuring its year-ender group show entitled  "OPEN SPACE" featuring 13 young and aspiring artists - whom of which have been making a buzz in the local pop-art scene. These artists are:Mr. SPat FradesLougeeMiggy CrisostomoJeff BaligadJasper AlbayAADATyangQuatroRai CruzDr KarayomHumblyPejieExhibition opens Dec. 18th (SAT) at 5PM and will run...

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Museum Networking Forum - Protect Your Buildings: Risk Management Principles and Technologies

Protect Your Buildings: Risk Management Principles and Technologies Presented by Ibrahim Mirmahmutoğullari December 12, Saturday, 10 a.m. This special presentation introduces museum professionals and heritage architects to the principles of and new technology preventing building hazards such as salt, corrosion, and mold. It is also an opportunity for attendees to learn more about the...

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Mark Dawn Arcamo and Janelle Tang's Parallel Play at YSOBEL Art Gallery

In Parallel Play, Mark Dawn Arcamo and Janelle Tang, being more confident about each other's aesthetic decisions, allow themselves to be fully inspired by what is presented to them by their immediate environment--their four-year old daughter. In this exhibition, the artists engage in what childpyschologists would refer to as "parallel play," a common form of play wherein two toddlers can completely...

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Sketches of the Spirit at the Dragon Gallery

Sketches of the Spirit  November 13 – December 5, 2015 Sketches of the Spirit: Art and Healing by CAAI is a fundraising exhibit that features the works of more than 20 artists, including National Artists for Visual Arts Benedicto "BenCab" Cabrera, Arturo Luz, and J. Elizalde Navarro.The featured artists include Nunelucio Alvarado Renz Baluyot Hans Brumann Benjie Cabangis Alfredo...

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PETA opens its doors to theater hopefuls with Workshop Weekends 2

With four classes overflowing with students and professionals looking to take hold of creative pursuits, PETA opened its first of three Workshop Weekends cycles this July 25 at the PETA Theater Center studios.Workshop Weekends is a series of theater workshops for students and adults. Specially designed for individuals with busy lifestyles, it features ten extensive sessions on the weekends, with...

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Kris Bernal and Liza Dino take on the role of the Modern Maria Clara

QUEZON CITY, PHILIPPINES -- 'Maria Clara', a name that often strikes a chord among Filipinos as she is the portrait of an ideal Filipina; graceful, beautiful, and compassionate. In the fast -paced and buzzing world of modernity and technology, do Filipinas still identify with Dr. Jose Rizal's quintessential Filipina icon? The Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA) redefines the idea...

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Amulets, Anting-Anting at Yuchengco Museum

Before the arrival of Spanish colonizers to our shores, early Filipinos believed that wearing powerful, mystical amulets or talismans would protect them from harm or even give them special powers. Called agimat and anting-anting, these mysterious objects have survived for centuries, thanks to the later inclusion of Christian iconography. Shrouded in myth, meaning, and symbolism and long kept secret from the rest of society, the stories aboutagimat and anting-anting are revealed in a...

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Pinoy Power Packs Exhibit @ Yuchengco Museum

Pinoy Power Packs:  Anting-Anting, Agimat, and the Stories They Tell Aug 15 - Nov 7, 2015 3/F Bridgeway Gallery Pinoy Power Packs sheds light into the Filipino folk psyche by examining the motifs, meanings, materials, and mediums of talismanic amulets known as anting-anting and agimat. These are popularly known as brass medallions peddled around Quiapo Church in Manila. The...

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Veteran Actor Gloria Sevilla Headlines Cinema Rehiyon 7 Opening In Cebu

Veteran actor Gloria Sevilla is expected to grace the opening of Cinema Rehiyon 7 film festival on August 6, 2015, at the SM City Cebu Cinemas in Cebu City, Cebu. She will be joined by fellow Cebuano actors including Pilar Pilapil, Suzette Ranillo, Julian Daan and Undo Juizan, the first Cebuano FAMAS Best Child Actor awardee (for the film Salingsing sa Kasakit). A flagship project of the National...

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A Solo Exhibit by Nunelucio Alvarado @ Ysobel Art Gallery

Putting into faces the re-working of perception and subjectivity, Nunelucio Alvarado delivers an exhibit entitled "Byutipul" (Filipinized form of the word beautiful). The celebrated Negrense artist will be displaying over thirty artworks in Ysobel Gallery from August 15 to 26, 2015. In this series Alvarado reflects how society understands and interprets identity more than showing its physiological...

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Call for Artists: Outside the White Cube

The Multiple eXposure Project will be curating “Outside the White Cube”, an alternative, traveling, curatorial project which aims to feature image-based works across different disciplines and media by emerging artists from the Philippines and elsewhere. We are inviting local and international artists whose works discuss the notion of the “PUBLIC” and its complexities. Deadline of submission...

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YSOBEL Art Gallery Celebrates the Art of Pottery in Mga Putikero

YSOBEL Art Gallery brings together an extraordinary group of prominent clay artists in, “Mga Putikero”. This group exhibit is on view from July 25 – August 3, 2015. Bound for their love of clay, seven of the most respected names in Philippine pottery have come together to share a bit of their story in, Mga Putikero. The exhibition features Jon and Tessy Pettyjohn from Laguna, Joey De Castro...

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Dennis Gonzales: Convincing God To Sit With The Devil @ Nova Gallery

Exhibition date: July 11 - Aug 1, 2015 Dennis Gonzales appropriates his latest works with Nova Gallery as a struggle between the good and the evil. He depicts that within all of us and with every matter we face, the "yin" and "yang" factors are always inter-playing with our urges, emotions, and choices. There is a definite aura of light verses dark in his works that isn't represented...

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A Cultural Study Tour by Museum Foundation of the Philippines

A Cultural Study Tour of Gota de Leche, FEU, San Sebastian Basilica and Bahay Nakpil Manila4 July 2015, Saturday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.Organized by the Museum Foundation of the Philippines, Inc.Member’s Fee: Php 1,500 / Non-Members Php 1,800Inclusive of transportation, lunch, merienda, entrance fees and tour guides Join the MFPI for a cultural study tour of four notable structures in Manila’s University Belt! Gota de Leche which means “drop of milk” was founded in 1906 to feed...

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Halili Cruz Celebrates Its 30th Anniversary In Resorts World

The Halili-Cruz School of Ballet (HCSB) celebrates its 30th founding anniversary through three grand concerts-cum-exhibit on May 23, 2015 showcasing the prestigious ballet company’s journey on how it blossomed into an outstanding institution of dance in the Philippines and the world. HCSB is internationally awarded and is a pride of the Philippines. Ms. Anna Kathrina Halili-Cruz , Ms. Grace Perez,...

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PETA hosts Children’s Arts Festival

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA) closes its 47th Theater Season by hosting the 2015 PETA Children’s Arts Festival. This year, through the generous support of PETA’s Arts Zone Project (Advocate Right to Safety Zone for Children), the PETA Theater Center will once again open its doors to children and young people.The 3-day festival will be filled with...

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Visit Yuchengco Museum for Free on May 18

Yuchengco Museum will celebrate International Museum Day on Monday, May 18. Enjoy free admission from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. to the all the galleries as well as the special exhibit, The First Philippine Republic & the United States: 1898 – 1907. What's on view on the 18th See works by Filipino master paintersView prints, paintings, and sculptures by Filipina artists at Likhang Pinay: Women Artists...

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Lecture Series: First Philippine Republic & the United States

Exhibit Talks The First Philippine Republic& the United States Lecture Series Saturdays, 10 a.m. - 12 noonThe First Philippine Republic & the United States exhibit covers nine significant years of Philippine history—a period when the first democratic republic in all of Asia revolted against a superpower. In line with the exhibit, the Philippine Map Collectors Society presents a series...

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Cagayan de Oro and Bukidnon Cultural Study Tour

MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF THE PHILIPPINES, INC.Cagayan de Oro and Bukidnon Cultural Study Tour6 to 9 May 2015Tour Fee: Php 27,800 for MFPI Members; Php 31,500 for Non-Members Includes:• Return airfare on Philippine Airlines with 10 kg baggage allowance.• Airport transfers and land transportation between tours• Entrance Fees• Local Tour Guide• Tour Leader• Accommodations for three nights at the exclusive Bukidnon Country Lodge on sharing basis• Breakfast at the Bukidnon Country Lodge• Packed...

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Filipino Heritage Festival Pampanga Tour

Filipino Heritage Festival Inc. In Celebration of National Heritage Month 2015 Heritage Pilgrimage Tour on 09 May 2015 PISAMBÁN: Pamangan Caladua at Catauan (Food for the Soul and the Body) A Heritage Pilgrimage Tour of Pampanga [by Lord Francis D. Musni] Pisambán is how the Capampañgans call their massive stone churches built by the natives under the supervision of Augustinian missionary...

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Cosmic Easy: A Solo Show by Alrashdi Mohammad

Art inspired by the universe Artist Alrashdi Mohammad presents Cosmic Easy, his solo show at Ysobel Art Gallery. Cosmic Easy is a collection of artworksthat imagines the cosmos, randomness and insistent speculations through the lens of emotion and aesthetic thinking. He thinks of new stars, dying planets, Big Bang and congruous chaos and turbulence of overlapping galaxies----everything delicately...

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U.P. Film Institute Summer Workshops 2015

MARCH 2015BASIC SCRIPTWRITINGFacilitator: Prof. Mark McKeownSchedule : March 14, 21, 28 April 18, 2015 (5 days)Time : 1pm to 5pm (20 hours)Course Fee : P 5,500.00 FILM APPRECIATION & CRITICISMFacilitator: Prof. Patrick CamposSchedule : March 28, 2015Time : 10am to 4pm (including lunch and snacks)Course Fee : P 1,800.00APRIL 2015DIGITAL VIDEO PRODUCTIONFacilitator: Mr. Milo PazSchedule : April 6 to 10, 2015 (5 days)Time : 1pm to 6pm (25 hours)Course Fee : P 8,000.00 NON-LINEAR EDITING...

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Gods of the Earth at the Dragon Gallery

Gods of the Earth  March 13 – March 16, 2015 Witness the talent of emerging multimedia artists from Mapua Institute of Technology. Gods of the Earth is a graduating exhibition featuring the works of Mapua students completing their studies in Bachelor of Science in Multimedia Arts and Sciences. Among the types of artworks on display are digital art, photography, paintings, and installation...

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Call for Applicants: Young Artists' Studio

Young Artists' Studio is looking for art teachers to work this summer 2015. To apply, please email LOA, CV and portfolio to adgfelix@gmail.com not later than March 7, 2015. Qualifications: for Head Teacherslove for art and for childrenstrong oral and written communication skillsproactive, team-player and positive working attitudea graduate of Fine Arts, Art History or any related field; or equivalent professional experiencewill be able to work full-time, Mondays to Saturdays, from...

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Biowork by Buen Calubayan

Biowork | Buen Calubayan Opening on Tuesday, 24 February 2015 at 6pm Bundok Banahaw 3, 2015 Biowork is the terminus of the biography works that artist Buen Calubayan has been involved with in the past two years. His research and performative journey to Mt. Banahaw frames this exhibition, evidence of how intertwined his life and artistic practice are. In this installation composed of painting,...

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Thomas Kinkade: Painter of Light at the Dragon Gallery

Thomas Kinkade: Painter of Light February 25 – March 10, 2015 In the very beginning of his artistic career, American artist Thomas Kinkade (1958 – 2012) put his entire life savings into the printing of his first lithograph. Though at the time he was already an acclaimed illustrator and a background artist for Ralph Bakshi animation studios, Kinkade found that he was inspired not by fame and fortune,...

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Cherie Gil shares thoughts on first Filipino production

by Mia LopezQUEZON CITY, Philippines – Critically acclaimed veteran film and television actress Cherie Gil has built for herself a sparkling repertoire, playing women of opulence and strong character since she began her career in the 80’s. Who can forget her portrayal of wicked stepsister proportions in the 1985 Sineserye Bituing Walang Ningning as the driven Lavinia Arguelles famous for the ‘you’re-nothing-but-a-second-rate-trying-hard-copy-cat’...

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