5th Neo-Angono Public Art Festival “Bringing Arts and Culture to Public Space and Closer to the People”
The National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), Japan Foundation-Manila, Metrobank Foundation, Shoe Mart (SM)-Taytay, Museum of Three Cultures ( Capitol University , Cagayan de Oro), Office of the Mayor, Municipality of Angono and Municipal Tourism, Culture and the Arts Office present the 5th Neo-Angono Public Art Festival on November 20-22, 2008 at Angono, Rizal.
Around 250 artists and performers of Angono and from Manila and Mindanao will participate in the 3-day-art event featuring street art, site-specific works, action art, art installations, in-transit poetry project, art and photo exhibit, film and video showing, projections, music and poetry fusion, dance and theater, artist talk and symposium, and band performances.
This year’s public art festival also presents Japanese contemporary dance-artist Jun Nishio, recipient of Neo-Angono’s residency program. Mr. Nishio will give workshop on dance, interact with local artists and art students, and immerse in the community of Angono until November 25 or after the town fiesta and “Higantes Festival” of Angono.
The first night of the festival features poetry and acoustic performance; film showing, stage play and dance performance of Jun Nishio on the second; and closing party/artists night featuring various ska and alternative bands caps the festival night and eve of the town fiesta.
Schedule of Art Events/Activities/ Performances
November 11, Tuesday
Japanese contemporary dance-artist Jun Nishio arrives in Angono, Rizal as part of Neo-Angono’s Residency Program with the support from Japan Foundation-Manila. .
November 11-14, Tuesday - Friday
1:00 – 5:00 PM
Neo-Angono artists and Jun Nishio provide free workshops on crafts making, painting, sculpture, dance, theater acting and poetry writing to 100 elementary students. Venue: SM City Taytay Activity Center.
November 19, Wednesday
6:00 PM
SILENT WITNESS: Keiye Miranda-Tuazon opens her exhibit featuring her recent works. The show runs until December 9. Venue: Finale Art File, Warehouse 17, La Fuerza Compound, Chino Roces Ave. Gate 1, Makati City.
1st Day, 20 November, Thursday
9:00 AM
TRIBUTE TO NATIONAL ARTISTS CARLOS “BOTONG” FRANCISCO AND MAESTRO LUCIO SAN PEDRO: As in the past, Neo-Angono artists gather around the tombs of Angono’s two National Artists to pay homage and symbolically ask for their guidance as the group opens the festival. Venue: Angono Public Cemetery.
PAMPHLET DISTRIBUTION: Neliza de Leon launches her essay titled “Art Public or Art Audience? Challenging Neo-Angono’s 5th Public Art.” Venue: Angono Town Proper.
TULANSANGAN: Members of “Tres-Syete Poetry Group” distribute poems printed on stickers and placed on packages of consumer goods sold to the public. Venue: Angono Town Proper.
SUBMERSION, IMMERSION, SUBVERSION: Students of Malt Academy produce a site-specific installation which experiments on bamboo as medium and the flowing Angono River as mutual tool to challenge visual and auditory senses of the viewing public. Venue: Angono River, Barangay Poblacion Itaas.
10:00 AM
PRESS CONFERENCE: Neo-Angono artists and Japanese contemporary dance-artist Jun Nishio hold dialogue with local and national media. Venue: Tatay Mesio’s Binalot (formerly Nemiranda Art Café, Manila East Road, Hi-way, Barangay San Roque).
LOOPED VIDEO PLAYBACK of “Florante at Laura” by Anino Shadow Play Collective and a documentary on the Philadelphia, USA Mural Arts Program. Venue: SM-Taytay Activity Center.
HIGANTENG PATALASTAS: Using Angono’s cultural symbol called “Higante,” Ramon “Chitoy” Zapata unveils his giant tarpaulin exhorting people and the public to become “higante” (noble and successful) in their respective fields. Venue: Angono River.
RESET-A: Wire Tuazon’s site-specific installation against the background of an altered semi-rural landscape of Angono. Venue: Maysha Hotel Rooftop.
DULUHAN (Backyard Studio Exhibition): Aga Francisco opens his 3nd One-Man Show Exhibit featuring his latest “kinutkot” paintings. Venue: Neo-Angono Artists Studio, Doña Aurora Street, Barangay San Roque.
MARKET SIGN INTERVENTION: Michael de Guzman, Bunch Garcia and PUBLIKBOX artists perform on the rooftop of the municipal market, turning the giant ANGONO PUBLIC MARKET into ANGONO PUBLIC ART. Venue: Angono Town Proper.
DISKARIL: Kyo Zapanta and Richard Gappi exhibit their poems. Zapanta delves on the psychological terrain of sanity as well as the perturbed personality while Gappi focuses on the flouting Filipino social, economic and political fabric. Venue: 3rd Way Restaurant, Manila East Road, Barangay San Roque.
SELECTIONS: Exhibition of paintings by Neo-Angono Artists Collective members. Venue: Maysha Hotel Lobby, Barangay Sto. Niño.
1:00 -3:00 PM
ART SYMPOSIUM: Professor Alice Guillermo, a renowned art critic, shares her insights on the “Basics of Art Appreciation and Criticism,” NCCA Visual Arts Committee head Eghai Fernandez explains how to “bring art to public sphere” and Mike Muñoz of Manlilikha Artisans’ Support Network discusses “Public Art as a Personal Experience.” Venue: URS-Angono Campus.
3:00 PM
TALKING WALLS: The St. Clement Symphonic Band of Angono, Rizal opens the art exhibit of Neo-Angono artists and University of Rizal System-Angono Fine Arts students with performance by Oro Art Guild and Red Lambago Collective from Cagayan de Oro. Venue: SM City-Taytay premises.
ROSARYO NG MGA PANGARAP: Michael Ian Lomongo collects 50 short poems from various people and age groups and installs these along roads encircling Angono Catholic Church, thus producing the image of rosary when viewed from above. Venue: Vicinity of St. Clement Parish Church, Barangay Poblacion Ibaba and Barangay Bagumbayan.
SALITANG KANTO: Poet Tata Raul Funilas walks on the streets of Angono, collects words from the public using paper cloth, and stitches these together to form a complete poem to be exhibited during the Poetry and Acoustic Night. Venue: Angono Town Proper.
Graduation of workshop participants from the “Discovering Art Program Series” and public viewing and exhibition of work output/product. Venue: SM City-Taytay Activity Center.
4:00 PM
AMBISYOSONG LANGAW: Tanghalang Angono stages a children’s play tackling moral values such as pride and humility, industry and resourcefulness. Venue: SM City-Taytay Activity Center.
6:00 PM
(Re)construction Site Nov 20 - Dece 6, 2008 The Second Gallery
(RE)CONSTRUCTION SITE: A four-person exhibit of Carlos “Totong” Francisco, Allan Alcantara, Aaron Bautista and Isidro “Jon” Santos showing their latest abstract, mixed media and non-figurative works that “reflect forms of unconventional realities.” The exhibit happens amid the renovation and reconstruction of the studio of National Artist Carlos “Botong” Francisco. Venue: The Second Gallery, Doña Aurora Street, Barangay Poblacion Itaas.
8:00 PM
TAGAYAN NG DIWA, ESPIRITU AT KALOOBAN: Acoustic and poetry night featuring poets from Tres-Syete Poetry Group, LIRA, Kilometer 64, Malate Literary Group, URS-Angono Petroglyphs writers, Bobby Balingit of The Wuds, Sequel, Prof. Ligaya Tiamson-Rubin, Vim Nadera, Tata Raul Funilas, Alexander Remollino, Paul Zialcita, Richard Gappi and others celebrate the creative world of spoken word. Venue: KINAMAT, Col. Guido Extension, Barangay San Roque.
2nd Day, November 21, Friday
10:00 AM
BREEDING SPACE (THE HIVE): Members of artist group KAKTUS and selected art students of Isidro Santos construct and present a 6 x 8-ft room-art installation where audience can interact and explore. Venue: Municipal Freedom Park.
S-TRIKE: Shadow tricycle performance by Anino Shadow Play Collective. Venue: Angono town proper.
3:00 PM
Y-PLASTIK: Performance, graffiti and moving installation by Oro Art Guild and Red Lambago Artists Collective from Cagayan de Oro. Venue: Lambak Park and Angono Town Proper.
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
WORMS: Urban Fashion Show by Clint Catalan. Venue: SM City-Taytay Activity Center.
4:00 PM
WHITE TRAP: Installation and performance by artist Nick Aca of Cagayan de Oro. Venue: Municipal Freedom Park.
5:00 PM
ELIJAH OF THE APOCALYPSE: Street performance by Noel Soler Cuizon and Crisanto de Leon. Venue: Angono streets and town proper.
6:00 PM
GRA-PIK-TI: Photo exhibit of Ces Eugenio. Venue: Tatay Mesio’s Binalot (formerly Nemiranda Art Café), Manila East Road, Hi-way, Barangay San Roque.
6:30 PM
AMBISYOSONG LANGAW: Tanghalang Angono stages a children’s play tackling moral values such as pride and humility, industry and resourcefulness. Venue: Metrobank Parking Space.
8:00 PM
SINE-SILIP ANG SINAGTALA: Right where Angono’s movie house (Star Theater) used to occupy, theater performances, film showing, projections, and dance mark the evening featuring Japanese contemporary dance-artist Jun Nishio, Transitopia Contemporary Dance Commune, Anino Shadow Play Collective, visual and sound artist Lirio Salvador, and films by John Torres (“Salat”), Khavn dela Cruz (“Blackworms” and “The muzzled horse of an engineer in search of mechanical saddles”), Lav Diaz (“Purgatoryo”) , among others. Venue: Metrobank Parking Space.
3rd Day, 22 November, Saturday
10:00 AM
The 1st SM Young Art Makers Open Art Competition for elementary, high school and college students. Venue: SM City-Taytay Activity Center.
11:00 AM
Story telling by Soliman Cruz and Actors’ Playground. Venue: SM Activity Center.
LET US SPRAY, AMEN!: Graffiti Art by Pilipinas Street Plan. Venue: Melford Wall along Quezon Avenue, Barangay San Isidro.
3:00 pm
DIS(this) LOKASYON: Street Performance by Ugatlahi. Reminiscent of the game “patintero,” the performance is a statement on the plight of Metro Manila’s homeless denizens. Venue: Angono Town Proper.
4:00 PM
Story telling by Soliman Cruz and Actors’ Playground. Venue: Lambak ,Barangay San Roque
Awarding of prizes to winners of SM Open Art Competition. Venue: SM City-Taytay Activity Center.
8:00 PM
Soundtrap Summit 2008
November 22, 2008 Angono, Rizal
SOUNDTRAP SUMMIT: Closing Night of the festival featuring various bands:
Radioactive Sago Project
Coffee Break Island
Bobby Balingit of The Wuds
Dreadknots
Wayfarers
Go Signals
G2 and the Bundoocks
Circus Crone
Elemento
Talahib
Rabadab
Gurion
and
Ambot sa Emo.
Event Date: November 20-22, 2008
Venue: Angono, Rizal
Philippines
Exhibit Date: November 20, 2008
to December 6, 2008
Venue: The Second Gallery Angono, Rizal,
Philippines
