Tags: Performing Arts, Visual arts
By Alexander Villafania
BAGUIO CITY, BENGUET - With the theme “Tradisyon at Inobasyon (Tradition and Innovation)”, this year’s nationwide arts festival will highlight the country’s best art works in the fields of visual and dramatic arts, literature, music, cinema, and architecture.
At the launch of the festivities in Baguio City, one of the host cities of the event, National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) Deputy Executive Director Marlene Ruth Sanchez said the event aims to meld traditional techniques with contemporary arts.
The fusion of past culture with more modern styles would help preserve the country’s heritage especially among younger Filipinos.
Sanchez also said that they aim to increase awareness and appreciation among young Filipinos about Filipino art and to encourage them to share in its development.
For instance, the NCCA will host the Philippine International Visual Arts Festival from February 17 to 20 in Angono, Rizal province.
There will also be the Tanghal 6 for rising theater groups in tertiary educational institutions to be held from February 9 to 11. This event will be held in four venues, namely Metro Manila, Baguio City, Dumaguete City, General Santos City.
Musical events will be held in Baguio City, Cagayan de Oro, and Iloilo from February 20 to 24, with the staging of the First Asian Festival of Gongs and Bamboo Music.
Filipino architecture will be highlighted during the “Archi[text/type] 2012,” which will hold several mini-events that focuses on old and new Filipino architectural styles.
Cinema Rehiyon 4 will be held on February 8 to 11 in Bacolod City and Negros Occidental. This would have screenings and forums discussing artistic endeavors of filmmakers from different regions in the Philippines.
Sayaw Pinoy, one of the yearly mainstay events of the Philippine Arts Festival will show the beauty of traditional and contemporary Filipino dances.
National Artists for Literary Arts Virgilio Almario, Bienvenido Lumbera, and F. Sionil Jose are among the luminaries who will be featured at the Taboan 2012, which is the literary arts event of the Philippine Arts Festival. Literary criticism, standards, history, and new media literature are among the topics to be discussed from February 9 to 11 at Fontana Leisure Park in Clark, Pampanga.
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