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Festival of World Class Filipinos

Capitol Commons FlyerOn May 25, a free screening of Jose Rizal (1998) and Babae sa Septic Tank (2011) will  be held at Capitol Commons. The film showing will begin at 6pm, followed by a performance by The CompanY. Capitol Commons is located at Meralco Avenue corner Shaw Boulevard. Entrances are available along Shaw and near ULTRA.…

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Erik Sausa’s Sacred Spaces

EXHIBITIONIMAGE_SacredSpaces2_zps48dcf04eErik Sausa’s latest solo exhibition, Sacred Spaces, contemplates a universal human longing to grasp what is beyond our senses. Sifting through a lifetime’s collection of reoccurring visions and elemental symbols, Sausa frames in photographs, paintings and installation his own existential questions.

Although this initially brought him apprehension, especially in contrast to his conservative Catholic upbringing, it eventually led to a deeper investigation of religion, space, time and consciousness. Bordering between dream and reality, recognition and ambiguity, Sausa reveals his own unexplainable and mystifying experiences to create hypnotic visual tensions across the exhibition. By setting these fragmented memories and imagined histories side by side, his hopes for answers and illumination continues.

Sacred Spaces is dedicated to the late Mr. Roberto Chabet, beloved mentor and artist.

For more information, call 576-5024. Manila Contemporary is open from Tuesdays to Sundays. Visit them at Whitespace 2314, Pasong Tamo Extnsion, Makati.…

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The Hotel Painter at Manila Contemporary

EXHIBITION_IMAGE_The_Hotel_Painter.1Manila Contemporary presents in the Main Gallery the latest solo exhibition by Jonathan Olazo.

Approaching the exhibition in a critical and poignant manner, The Hotel Painter seeks to reclaim Abstraction’s dignity in a society that has relegated it to mere decoration. Playfully taking the hotel environment as a starting point for this type of dismissal, Olazo attempts to look at it from another angle, where the hotel instead becomes a temporary refuge for a reflection on painting.

For the exhibition, he revisits a series made in the mid-90’s called ‘The Idiot Paintings,’ which focused on experimenting with acrylic stains, wax pouring and other varnishes. Once again taking this freer and more spontaneous strategy, he concentrates on expression rather than form by methodically filling his surfaces with seductive colors and strong gestural marks. Mistakes are, therefore, encouraged and accidents celebrated.

This exhibition coincides with Erik Sausa: Sacred Spaces that is concurrently on view in the Upstairs Gallery.

For more information, call 576-5024. Manila Contemporary is open from Tuesdays to Sundays. Visit them at Whitespace 2314, Pasong …

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Movie Nights at Goethe-Insitut Manila

goetheGoethe-Institut Manila continues its Movie Nights series “no music no life : no music no film” with “The Little Magic Flute”.

While on a hunting expedition Prince Tamino chances into the realm of the tyrannical Queen of the Night. The unsuspecting Tamino meets up with the good-natured bird-catcher Papageno. Together they overcome many an ordeal. The biggest one is yet to come: They have to save Pamina, daughter of the Queen of the Night, from the clutches of Sarastro. Taking four years, Curt Linda, champion of animated film, created together with his young team a little treat, which they drew by hand, picture for picture, and animated onto imaginative backdrops.

The Little Magic Flute free screening is on Wednesday, May 22, 2013 at Room 3, 4th Floor of the Goethe-Institut Manila. For more details, call 840-5723 or visit email program@manila.goethe.org.…

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NOW Gallery Shows Recent Works by Rock Drilon

moving on #8 acrylic on canvassNOW Gallery will be holding an exhibition of recent works by abstractionist Rock Drilon. The show opens on May 23 and will run up to June 8, 2013.

The show features three series of works by Drilon: recent paintings in oil on canvas, abstract drawings and nude sketches. The artist produced these three different series simultaneously, shifting between painting and drawing, figuration and abstraction.

The works in the show are an extension of Drilon’s current body of work as an abstractionist, indicated by the presence of familiar forms and the artist’s usual visual codes. Filling up the Main Gallery space are Drilon’s recent paintings, which highlight his continuing fascination and exploration of abstraction. The paintings in this series still employ forms that have appeared in his earlier works: lines, loops, brush strokes converging to form inchoate masses.

In contrast to the paintings in the show are Drilon’s series of small drawings, exhibited in the gallery’s two smaller and more intimate spaces. One room houses his series of nude sketches, based on live models. The other …

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Gising

forteshowposterIt is only after the awakening that one realizes that the state of sleep is over – a travel, serendipitous or planned, from dreamscape to the reality. Six artists come together to depict through their art what it feels like to travel across – or sometimes, stay in between – the faint borders of night and day, past and present, mistakes and realizations,  observations and recognitions, provocation and action, and stasis and motion.

Gising, featuring works by Annaleah Aldaba, Dodge Carpio, Alee Garibay, Clara Herrera, Issay Rodriguez, and Jose Tanierla, is presented to you by Forte Coffeehouse. Group show opens on May 25, 7 pm, and runs until June 8 at Forte Coffeehouse (120 Maginhawa St., Teachers Village East, Diliman, Quezon City).

 For more information, contact Pat Rodriguez at rodriguez.apb@gmail.com.

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Passion in Fashion

SM3Calling the attention of all fashionistas: the most awaited annual Philippine Fashion Week will be happening on the 22nd of May, 8 pm at the SMX Convention Center.

Being one of the participants of the said event, SM Ladies’ Fashion will feature new vibe of styles as they go heavy on geometric patterns, jewel tones, summer bright, and New Floral – an array of multi-faceted prints in abstract, oriental, and canvas-like variations

“This year’s show celebrates womanhood and the different facets of the stylish woman,” says Charlene Yu-Banzal, Vice President for SM Ladies’ Fashion. “Our vision is to give our customers a wider berth of choices so they can better explore their style persona.”

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SM Ladies’ Fashion wants to give the shoppers their clothing needs that requires a variety of style personalities and of course the material and design itself.  It continues to elevate affordable ready-to-wear apparel with brand offerings that meld international fashion trends and consumer demand.

The show is segmented into various style tribes—Corporate, Ladies Who Lunch, Weekender, Party, and Resort. The …

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Early Bird Promo for Disney’s Tarzan

Tarzan early bird promo extension til May 30 2013Tarzan: The Stage Musical hits theater on June 14 to July 7, 2013! Get your tickets on selected dates at 30% off until May 31. Call Viva Atlantis Theatricals at 687-5853 loc. 661 or 673/892-7078/8401187 or TicketWorld at 891-9999. For more information, visit www.vivaatlantistheatricals.com.…

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AFM Ciné-Club presents L’Exercice de l’Etat

afmThe Alliance Française de Manille (AFM) Ciné-Club presents L’Exercice de l’Etat (The Minister) on May 22, Wednesday at 8:30 pm.

Plot: The Minister for Transport, Bertrand Saint-Jean, is woken in the middle of the night by his personal private secretary. A bus has crashed into a ravine. He goes there, he has no choice. Thus begins the odyssey of a State official through an increasingly complex and hostile world. Speed, power struggles, chaos, economic crisis… In the frantic chain of events, one emergency replaces another. What sacrifices are men ready to accept? How long will they last in a State that devours those who serve it?

Admission to this screening is free. AFM is located at 209 Nicanor Garcia Street (formerly Reposo Street), Bel-Air 2, Makati City. For more information, please call 895-7585 or 895-7441. You may also visit www.alliance.ph.…

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Wanderland, Food Fests and More Happening This Weekend

One word to describe the week: madness!

After seeing Hollywood fashion icon Sarah Jessica Parker in the opening of SM Aura and losing track of the Fast and the Furious 6 cast led by Vin Diesel (they’ve been all-over the city), the madness that has engulfed the metro is not yet over.

Save the lingering adrenaline and excitement for a fully-loaded weekend!

1. Wanderland Music Festival: Saturday, 11 am at Globe Circuit Events Ground

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The first of what is to be an annual outdoor music and arts festival is finally happening! See The Temper Trap, Neon Trees, Nada Surf, Avalanche City, Colour Coding and Tully on Tully plus some of the best local bands perform live in one awesome event. Add live art performances by artists Anjo Bolarda x Martojaks and Thursday Room, inflatable slide, jousts, Velcro wall and a handful of booths and you’ll have summer’s ultimate sonic playground. There’s no better way to end summer than to join Wanderland 2013. Tickets are available at all TicketNet, TicketWorld and SM Tickets Outlets.

2. Levante:

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