The exhibit “Beyond the Barrelman,” which opens September 5 at Chicago’s Mercury Cafe Gallery, features 66 different works by 40 contemporary Filipino artists chosen by a five-man jury.
Coined after the barrelman figure, a popular wooden memento in the Philippines, “Beyond the Barrelman” aims to overcome stereotypes and sets out to prove that Filipino craftsmanship, indeed, goes beyond the barrelman, the oversized carved wooden spoons, seashell vases, and holiday parols. Filipinos have come a long way–we’re a race with world-class talent.
The second “Beyond the Barrelman” is organized by the CIRCA/Pintig, the Filipino American Network, and the Tahanan Cultural Group.
View complete list of featured artists here.
Beyond the Barrelman
September 5, 2008, 7:00 p.m.
Where:Mercury Cafe Gallery
1505 W. Chicago Ave.
Chicago
Giacomo Puccini’s La Tosca is reworked to adapt to local experience in Asian Tosca without losing the gripping plot and drama that have made it one of the most performed operas in North America.
Produced by the Philippine Educational Theater Association with Japan’s Black Tent Theater and Korea’s Nottle Theater, Asian Tosca narrates visions of passion, jealousy, betrayal, and revenge–emotions that are universal across cultures–but is also ripe with elements true to Asian culture, history, and heritage.
Directed by Soxie Topacio and Black Tent’s Kiritani Natsuko, PETA’s Asian Tosca aims to exceed the limit of a usual one-off project while touching the issues of art, politics, life, death, war, and gender. It runs at the PETA-Phinma Theater on August 29 and 30, with shows at 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Regular tickets are P200. Student rates are P150.
Asian Tosca
PETA-Phinma Theater
5 Eymard Drive
New Manila, Quezon City
Phone: (+632) 410 0821 and 725 6244
E-mail: petampro@yahoo.com
She overcame polio and defeated a political dynasty to become governor of the second-largest province in the Philippines. But Gov. Grace Padaca of Isabela, who will be receiving the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Governance at the end of August, may be facing her biggest challenge and risking her life by taking on the logging industry.
Thousands of her constituents are upset and hungry after Padaca started confiscating wood that was illegally cut in her province’s northern Sierra Madre wilderness, a global treasure of biodiversity. It is a bold move that can threaten her popularity. But instead of backing down, Padaca orders soldiers to march up a treacherous river in rebel territory to seize logs being stockpiled by illegal loggers.
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After Cinderella, the next must-see on my list is West Side Story, because I haven’t had the chance to see it on stage and because, the big Miss Saigon fan that I am, I want to see Joanna Ampil on her first stage performance in the Philippines. [Gibbs Cadiz has a video of Joanna inviting you to West Side Story.]
Produced by Stages, which brought us High School Musical Onstage last year, West Side Story opens on September 5 and runs till October 12, so you have more than enough time to catch it.
Watch the grand launch video of West Side Story on Youtube. More live videos of West Side stars singing songs from the musical are linked to this post.
Plus: 9 reasons to watch West Side Story and why West Side Story has a world-class cast.
Updated! Watch this video of Christian Bautista and Joanna Ampil on ASAP.
Who was Ninoy? Tarlac-born Benigno S. Aquino Jr. was the leading opponent of President Ferdinand Marcos. Ninoy would have been president had Marcos not declared martial law and forced him into exile in the US.
Even as family and friends who were worried over his safety discouraged him from returning home, Ninoy came back on August 21, 1983, and was assassinated. His killing struck a chord in the consciousness of Filipinos and became one of the pivotal points that led to history turning with the 1986 People Power Revolution.
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Angelo Mathay, an undocumented child brought to America by his mother, was never able to attend his father’s funeral in the Philippines because he would be refused entry to the US.
Los Angeles–A standing-room-only crowd filled Remy’s Place on Temple Art Gallery last week for a special book party in conjunction with the Smithsonian/University of Hawaii exhibition, Singgalot: The Ties that Bind, on the history of Filipino immigration to the US that closes in October 2008.
The book, Underground Undergrads: UCLA Undocumented Students Speak Out, profiles eight UCLA students, half of them Asian American, who describe the plight of undocumented college students who were brought as young children to the US and their struggle to complete their education. They are unable to legally work, obtain drivers licenses in California, and are barred from many other rights afforded their classmates.
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