Celebrate Pride Month with Care Divas

Task Force Pride Philippines (TFP) presents "June 2011 Pride Pilipinas Calendar of Events". TFP once again gathered the major events that will happen in Manila during the month-long celebration and events by different organizations and groups from Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) communities. Part of the TFPP calendar includes the evening performances of Philippine Educational Theater Association’s hit comedy musical “Care Divas” on June 17-19, 8:00 P.M. at the PETA Theater Center.

“Care Divas” is a disarmingly funny and candid musical drama about five transgender Overseas Filipino Workers in Israel who work as care givers in the morning and come night fall, transform into glamorous drag queen performers. While desperate to make ends meet in another country, the ‘divas’ also struggle to search for freedom and acceptance.

Written by Liza Magtoto and directed by Maribel Legarda, this highly physical, visually exciting and wickedly funny play stars Melvin Lee, Vincent De Jesus, Phil Noble, Buddy Caramat, Dudz Teraña, Jason Barcial, Nor Domingo, Ron Alfonso, Eric dela Cruz, PETA President Cecilia Garrucho, guest performer Paul Holme, Ricci Chan, Jerald Napoles, Myke Salomon, Angeli Bayani, Miguel Hidalgo Gio Respall and Dominic Miclat-Janssen. The original music and lyrics are by Vince De Jesus.

Tickets are Php600 for regular seats and Php800 for VIP rows. PETA’s evening performances on June 17-19, 8:00 P.M. are sponsored by multi-awarded Filipino singer, actress and TV host Sharon Cuneta.

For inquiries and ticket reservations, contact PETA Marketing and Public Relations Office at 7256244, 4100821-22 or 0917-5642433.

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British Council hosts Sotheby's Institute of Art Presentation on Career Pathways

The British Council will host a presentation by Mr. Phil Whitakker at 6pm on Thursday, June 9 at their office, 10th Floor, Taipan Place, Emerald Avenue, Ortigas Center, Pasig CIty.

Entitled “Your Pathway to a Career in the International Art World,” the presentation will include an overview of the international art markets and a presentation on potential career opportunities in the global visual arts market. This one hour presentation will be followed by a Q & A session. This presentation will be especially useful for: art history majors, anyone interested or working in the art industry, graduating students, career changers interested in the arts and others interested in the visual art markets.

Mr. Whitakker joined Sotheby’s Institute of Art in February 2007. He was recruited specifically to be the Director of Sotheby’s Institute of Art Singapore. He redesigned Sotheby’s programmes for delivery in Asia and set up the initial programme which ran in Sep 2007. His key areas of interest are cultural economics and art valuation.

Sotheby’s Institute of Art is the pre-eminent graduate and postgraduate educational institute for students seeking a career in the international art world, and it offers world class art education from the Institute's study centers in London, and New York. The Institute has over 350 students a year exploring both the scholarly and business sides of the art world to gain the skills and professional networks necessary for a successful career.

The institutes' faculty includes scholars and renowned practitioners in the art world and is further enhanced by experts in the field including artists, scholars, auction house specialists, restorers, critics, curators, writers, museum executives and gallery owners. Learning from and working with such scholars and professionals help students to enhance their skills as well as to establish professional relationships.

Sotheby's Institute of Art has more than 6,000 alumni worldwide. Master's degrees are awarded in collaboration with the University of Manchester in the UK.

The British Council promotes studying in the UK, UK qualifications and partnership between local and UK higher education institutions. The presentation is FREE of charge but slots are limited. To reserve a seat or for more details please email educationuk@britishcouncil.org.ph

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'Art 2 Art' Airs Rizal Episodes

Art 2 Art scores a coup as it presents National Artist for Literature Virgilio “Rio Alma” Almario discussing national hero Jose Rizal as a writer in its episode on June 19, the 150th birth anniversary of Rizal.

This will be preceded on June 12, Independence Day, by another Rizal episode featuring multi-awarded composer/musical arranger Ryan Cayabyab who will talk about the making of his musical adaptation of Rizal's novel, Noli Me Tangere. With libretto by National Artist Bienvenido Lumbera and costumes, the critically acclaimedNoli Me Tangere The Musical will be restaged in August.

Hosted by prima ballerina Lisa Macuja and produced by the Manila Broadcasting Company, Art 2 Art is airednationwide every Sunday, 3:30 to 4 p.m., on DZRH (666 khz on the AM band). It can also be viewed simultaneously on Cablelink cable television’s Channel 9 and accessed on the Internet through the website http://dzrh.tripod.com.

Almario, who translated both of Rizal's novels, Noli and El Filibusterismo into Filipino, shares the hero's literary legacy which also includes scores of poems, essays and “The Monkey and the Tortoise” cartoons. Based on his studies, Almario also reveals why one poem that has been attributed to Rizal could not have been the hero's work.

Meanwhile, Cayabyab recalls how the Noli musical came to be in 1995 and the process the production team underwent to turn Rizal's prose into music. He notes that the Fili adaptation came first, then later on was followed byNoli, and led to a third Rizal-themed musical, Ilustrado.

For its June 5 episode, Art 2 Art features sisters Jai Sabas-Aracama and Hazel Sabas-Gower who are accomplished in their respective fields of classical music and ballet. The Sabas sisters recall that growing up in a household filled with art and music inspired them to pursue careers as artists.

The program caps the month with a tribute to National Artist for Film Gerardo de Leon on June 26, with the assistance of resource speaker Ed Cabagnot of the Cultural Center of the Philippines' Visual, Literary and Media Arts Department.

For inquiries, please e-mail art2artdzrh@yahoo.com.ph. On Facebook, check out the account Ballerina ng Bayan for updates on Art 2 Art episodes and Ballet Manila performances.

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10 At Ysobel Art Gallery

10

YSOBEL ART GALLERY

MAY 21, 2011

Ysobel Art Gallery exhibits 10 on May 21, 2011.  With recent works by Rene Cuvos, Jaylenver Peñafiel, Teofilo Alagao, Joselito Jandayan, Heraldo Corpus, Jake Catah, Martin Honasan, Niño Hernandez, Lirio Salvador and Ian Valladarez, Ysobel Art Gallery opens its doors for the unveiling of its first group exhibition.

                          

Having earned their laurels in various local and international competitions, these ten emerging artists will showcase the diversity in form, technique and sensibilities that the gallery wants to present to the art-going public.  True to the mystical representation of the number 10 in literature and the arts, a well-rounded sampling of Honasan’s experimental forays into acrylics, Catah’s fauvist saturations of color, Corpus’ deviation from grayscale, Hernandez’ hybridized abstractions, Cuvos’ harlequinesque characters, Peñafiel’s puzzle portraits and the biting commentary of works on canvas by Jandayan and Alagao will be displayed along with metal sculptural assemblages by Salvador and the continuous wire forms of Valladarez.

Ysobel Art Gallery is located at the second floor of Serendra, Bonifacio High Street, Bonifacio Global City.  Artists’ Reception is on May 21, Saturday, at six o’clock in the evening. 10 will run until June 9, 2011.  Call or text +639285071117 and email mark.sancheztiongco@gmail.com for details.

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CCP Launches Ani 36, Disaster and Survival Issue

CCP launches Ani 36, Disaster and Survival Issue

Pasay City – The Literary Arts Division of the Cultural Center of the
Philippines (CCP) will launch Ani 36 on April 1, 2011, 7:00 p.m. at the CCP
promenade. Ani is a publication that showcases the varied literary traditions in
the country and the vibrant creative writing by Filipinos in other parts of the
world. Ani 36, themed Disaster and Survival, has sections on prose, poems,
children's literature, an essay on a CCP activity in response to a disaster in
the regions, and art reviews.

The art reviews section is composed of three winning essays in a competition
spearheaded by the Liongoren Gallery at the CCP dubbed Walong Filipina 2010: Sa
Ngalan ng Kalikasan III from October 14, 2010 to November 28, 2010. Works
outside the issue's theme are in the section titled “Malayang Haraya”.

“Ani 36 mirrors the writers' reflections on and responses to experiences in
confronting disasters,” says Herminio S. Beltran, Jr., Literary Arts Division
Director. “Although the works express untold suffering, destruction to life and
property, nightmares and folklore, they also speak of courage and heroism, which
inspire imagination, literature and art,” adds Beltran, the Ani 36 editor.

Ani 36 features the works of 43 authors namely, Angelo B. Ancheta, Rebecca T.
Anonuevo, Mark Joseph Z. Arisgado, Edgar Bacong, Miguel Balboa D'Mendoza, Abdon
M. Balde, Jr., Gil S. Beltran, Herminio S. Beltran, Jr., Catherine Candano, Ayn
Frances dela Cruz, Jun dela Rosa, China Pearl Patria M. de Vera, Raul Esquillo
Asis, Luis P. Gatmaitan, Genaro R. Gojo Cruz, Joscephine Gomez, Melanie Joy
Gunio, Nestor Librano Lucena, Elyrah Loyola Salanga, Scott Magkachi Saboy, Perry
C. Mangilaya, Shur C. Mangilaya, Francisco Arias Montesena, Wilhelmina S.
Orozco, Will P. Ortiz, Melba Padilla Maggay, Loreli Pama, Ma. Christina Pangan,
Jasmine Nikki C. Paredes, Chuckberry J. Pascual, Ferdinand Pisigan Jarin, Ian
Rosales Casocot, E. San Juan, Jr., Priscilla Supnet Macansantos, Ariel S. Tabag,
Christian Tablazon, Vincent Lester G. Tan, Ludwig Jan Tauro Batuigas, J.I.E.
Teodoro, Enrico C. Torralba, Santiago B. Villafania, Nonon Villaluz Carandang
and Bernadette Villanueva Neri. Betty Uy-Regala is the managing editor of Ani 36
while Rommel Manto did the graphic design and layout.  

For more details, please contact Betty Uy-Regala at 0906-2604175.

Photo caption: The Ani 36 cover depicts the volcanic eruption of Mount Pinatubo
in 1991. The eruption, which caused massive damage to Central Luzon and outlying
regions, inspired creativity among the citizenry in harnessing resources that
the disaster brought in its wake. The Mount Pinatubo havoc posed challenges that
served as impetus for strategies of recovery and growth.

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ART ‘N ME Summer Art Workshops @ Sta. Lucia Mall

ART ‘N ME Young Artists’ Studio goes Sta. Lucia East Summer Art Workshops 2011

Hurray for young artists in the east! Young Artists’ Studio moves east to make your summer fun, exciting and full of art with less travel time. Your favorite YAS art programs and more will be held right around the corner! Choose among the following art workshop offerings at the Entertainment Center of Sta. Lucia East Mall, for aspiring artists from Cainta, Antipolo, Marikina, Pasig and Rizal towns.

APRIL

Fridays-Saturdays-Sundays
April 1, 2, 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, 17, 29, 30

10am – 12nn: My First Masterpiece (Art for Beginners Workshop) for ages 5-9
Course fee: Php 4,800 inclusive of all materials

12nn – 2pm:   Color Your World (Basic Painting Workshop) for ages 7-15
Course fee: Php 6,000 inclusive of all materials

Fridays-Sundays
April 1, 8, 10, 15, 17, 29

2pm – 4pm: Click It! (Basic Digital Photography Workshop) for ages 8 up
Course fee: Php 6,000 (bring your own digital camera)

2pm – 4pm: Little Chef (Culinary Arts Class: Baking & Pastry Decorating) for ages 8-12
Course fee: Php 4,800 inclusive of materials and ingredients

MAY

Fridays-Saturdays-Sundays
May 6, 8, 13, 14, 15, 21, 27, 28, 29, June 3

10am – 12nn: My First Masterpiece (Art for Beginners Workshop) for ages 5-9
Course fee: Php 4,800 inclusive of all materials

12nn – 2pm:   Light & Shadows (Basic Drawing Workshop) for ages 7-15
Course fee: Php 6,000 inclusive of all materials

Saturdays-Sundays
May 8, 14, 15, 21, 28, 29

2pm – 4pm: Little Chef (Culinary Arts Class: Asian Cuisine) for ages 8-12
Course fee: Php 4,800 inclusive of materials and ingredients

2pm – 4pm: Make it Work! (Fashion Design for Kids & Teens) for ages 8-15
Course fee: Php 4,800 inclusive of all materials

For reservations and inquiries, please call 964-5951 / 09175685939
Or email youngartistsstudio@gmail.com

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UPFI Summer Workshops 2011

UPFI SUMMER WORKSHOPS (April - May 2011)

BASIC SCRIPTWRITING
Facilitator: Prof. Libay Cantor
Schedule : April 4 to 8, 2011 (5 days)
Time : 1pm to 6pm (25 hours)
Course Fee : P 5,500
Venue: CMC Media Center

DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Facilitator: Mr. Gari Buenavista
Schedule : April 4 to 8, 2011 (5 days)
Time : 1pm to 6pm (25 hours)
Course Fee : P 6,000
Venue: CMC Media Center
Requirement : Digital Camera preferably D-SLR

DOCUMENTARY VIDEO PRODUCTION
Facilitator: Ms. Kiri Dalena
Schedule : April 11 to 15, 2011 (5 days)
Time : 1pm to 6pm (25 hours)
Course Fee : P 8,000
Venue: CMC Media Center

INTERMEDIATE DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY & STUDIO PHOTOGRAPHY
Facilitator: Mr. Daemon Becker
Schedule : April 9, 16, 30 and May 7, 2010 (4 Saturdays)
Time : 1pm to 5pm (16 hours)
Course Fee : P 6,000
Venue: CMC Media Center
Requirement : D-SLR,Flash,Tripod

MAY 2011

BASIC SCRIPTWRITING
Facilitator: Prof. Cenon Palomares
Schedule : May 2 to 6, 2011 (5 days)
Time : 1pm to 6pm (25 hours)
Course Fee : P 5,500
Venue: CMC Media Center

DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Facilitator: Mr. Frankie Callaghan
Schedule : May 2 to 6, 2011 (5 days)
Time : 1pm to 6pm (25 hours)
Course Fee : P 6,000
Venue: CMC Media Center
Requirement : Digital Camera preferably D-SLR

DIGITAL VIDEO PRODUCTION
Facilitator: Mr. Milo Paz
Schedule : May 9 to 13, 2011 (5 days)
Time : 1pm to 6pm (25 hours)
Course Fee : P 8,000
Venue: CMC Media Center

INTERMEDIATE DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY & TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHY
Facilitator: Mr. Estan Cabigas
Schedule : May 23 to 27, 2011 (5 days)
Time : 1pm to 5pm (16 hours)
Course Fee : P 6,000
Venue: CMC Media Center
Requirement : Digital Camera preferably D-SLR

INTERMEDIATE SCRIPTWRITING & FOUND STORIES
Facilitator: Mr. Bing Lao
Schedule : May 23 to 27, 2011 (5 days)
Time : 1pm to 6pm (25 hours)
Course Fee : P 5,500
Venue: CMC Media Center

DIGITAL CINEMATOGRAPHY - HDSLR
Facilitator: TBA
Schedule : May 14, 21, 28, June 4, 2011 (4 Saturdays)
Time : 1pm to 5pm (16 hours)
Course Fee : P 8,000
Venue: CMC Media Center

DISCOUNTS!
* 10% discount on your 2nd workshop.
* register in groups of 3 to get 5% discount each.

LAST DAY OF REGISTRATION: 5 days before the 1st day of the workshop

WORKSHOPS ARE OPEN TO PUBLIC.

To REGISTER:
1. Drop by our office.
(Address: UPFI Film Center, 2/F Cine Adarna bldg. Magsaysay and Osmena Ave.,UP Diliman QC)
2. Fill up a Registration Form.
3. Pay P500 or in full.
(An initial fee of P500 is required to reserve a slot.this fee is non-refundable and will be deducted from the total course fee thereafter)

For Inquiries:
925-0286
upfi_workshops@yahoo.com.ph
http://upfilminstitute.upd.edu.ph/

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March Happenings at Yuchengco Museum

 MARCH Happenings at Yuchengco Museum
On the Subject of Woman
Under a Different Light
In Focus: Norma Belleza's Market Scene
From Our Books & Gifts Corner: Tres Marias Porcelain Plate


On the Subject of Woman
3/F Bridgeway Foyer
Until April 20, 2011
Women have mesmerized and inspired people in the arts and letters for centuries. Visual artists, in particular, have viewed women, their roles, and the female form through varied styles. Whether realist or abstract, traditional or avant-garde, woman
as an object of attention and desire continues to be of the one most compelling subjects of art.

In celebration of Women’s Month, the museum presents
On the Subject of Woman. On view until April 20, the exhibit showcases a selection of women paintings from the museum’s permanent collection. Among the artists on display are Fernando Amorsolo, Angelito Antonio, Romulo Galicano, Cesar Legaspi, Anita Magsaysay-Ho, and H.R. Ocampo.


Under a Different Light
3/F Bridgeway Gallery
February 19 - April 20, 2011
"An exhibition that beckons"
— BusinessWorld
Sydney-based Filipino artist Edd Aragon—who has been creating editorial cartoons and caricatures for more than 20 years—has recently been experimenting with pigments that react to ultraviolet (UV) light.

In his latest Manila exhibit at Yuchengco Museum, Aragon presents Under a Different Light, featuring paintings of human figures that can only be seen under UV light. The exhibit runs until April 20.


In Focus: Norma Belleza's Market Scene
Market Scene
Norma Belleza (b. 1939)
1992
Oil on canvas
91.5 x 121.9 cm

Norma Belleza’s colorful genre paintings focus on women vendors and peasants in various rural activities. Her figures, reminiscent of Gaguin’s robust Polynesian maidens, display physical strength. Flowers, fruits, fish, and fowl are used to
bring out the entire spectrum of color.

Market Scene, which is just a few of the works in the Yuchengco Museum permanent collection, is currently on display by the museum information desk. Notecards featuring this painting are available for P35 each at our Books & Gifts Corner.


From Our Books & Gifts Corner:
Tres Marias Porcelain Plate
25.5 x 30.5 cm
P5,200

Adorn your home with this limited edition collectible plate by renowned artist Anita Magsaysay-Ho. Featuring her 1979 painting Tres Marias, the commemorative plate bears an image of three women with baskets and birds, evoking the joy of sisterhood at work. Each numbered plate comes in a special gift box and with a certificate of authenticity.

Plate stand not included. Visit our Books & Gifts Corner at the museum lobby or call us at 889-1234 for other collectible plates and gift items.

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Paparazzo With A Paintbrush

Paparazzo with a paintbrush

Janet Balbarona captures the zeitgeist of her generation in Rollercoaster Relationshift Ride—a story of hookups, breakups, and love connections set in smoke-filled clubs and flickering lights. Her depictions of relationships are stroboscopic in effect: they freeze moments in the frenetic, partying lifestyle of today’s hip, cool crowd.

With anthropological curiosity, Balbarona documents modern mating rituals and fucked-up relationships. She is a chronicler of the “true now” and one will find the sexual fluidity and openness of the 2000s depicted in predatory glances over bottles of beer and DJ rigs, open-mouthed kisses, men loving men, women loving women, and mornings after.

Cavorting on her canvases are the adult versions of Blur’s “girls who are boys who like boys to be girls who do boys like they're girls who do girls like they're boys.”

Like a paparazzo with a paintbrush, Balbarona catches hipsters, scenesters, and fashionistas in the wild—their natural habitat being Manila’s “happening places.” Smears of oil-stick color on otherwise gray emo backgrounds mimic party lights caught through a digital camera.

Her subjects are dressed in the prevailing street style found in current issues of fashion glossies and online lookbooks: boots, reincarnated Doc Martens; skinny jeans; plaid shirts; asymmetrical drape-like tops, shredded and torn; black plastic glasses; and bonnets are rendered in paint instead of pixels.

Balbarona herself, with her side-shave ‘do du jour, is a member of the fashion set and when she paints, she paints in style. “Going to paint” requires the same effort as “going out”—she must be dressed for the act of committing color to canvas, hence the multitude of suitcases and shoes competing for space in her studio.
Rollercoaster Relationshift Ride is based on true stories—contemporary realities—whispered in Balbarona’s ear or shouted over the throbbing bass blasting through speakers. In vino veritas indeed, or, in this case, bottles of San Miguel Light and Red Horse.

Being privy to the tangled web of relationships and Facebook clusterfucks ironically helped Balbarona out of her own depression. Misery loves company and the artist, for the first time, goes beyond autobiographical references in her work.

Forced out of the cocoon she spun for herself, the artist discovered a crazy, chaotic milieu populated by people thrown together in tumultuous intimacy. Steeped in late-night confessions and conversations, Balbarona found herself “belonging.” The secrets, beginnings, and endings freely shared by the “it” crowd became fodder for the artist, who was amused and captivated by the beautiful—and sometimes ephemeral—intensity of modern-day love affairs. She was no longer alone.

Rollercoaster Relationshift Ride possesses the collaged, unfinished feel that is signature to Balbarona’s paintings. She is a voyeur intent only on the action that defines the moment:
an embrace, a caress, a meeting of lips.

As an adjunct exercise in documenting the “now,” this show includes a collection of small portraits that pays tribute to Manila’s culturati—people who waited for Balbarona to emerge from self-imposed exile and begin painting anew.

Rollercoaster Relationshift Ride is Balbarona’s triumphant return from her personal hell. She is a phoenix dressed to kill rising from the ashes.—ll

Rollercoaster Relationshift Ride will open on Friday 6PM March 18, 2011 at Blanc Peninsula Manila. For further enquiries, please call/sms +63920 927 6436 visit www.blanc.ph or email info@blanc.ph

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