WSK radio show at the Everything we hold dear

There were parallel events happening all over the Diliman campus, apart from Ethos Bathos Pathos at the Up Vargas museum, there was also the interactive and multimedia exhibit curated by Pog Bartolome. It opened the Project Bakawan Arts Fest last February 5 at the back of UP Film Institute. There was also a radio program powered by WSK FM which also helped a great deal in coming to fruition of Radyo Itim. Eric Callilan is the sound alchemist and circuit bender while Merv Espina ½ of WSK is grieving and having a bad day with the flue. It was a hodgepodge of indie publishers and small press expo starters from Adam David and Chingbee Cruz of BLTX and the girls from Laguna, the Cabinet, Seitan and Fiture took turns as guest-participants. Almost 180 degree turn from moderating to being moderated by Pog Bartolome. The topics were shuffled and randomized from zine production, translocal small presses, hipsterism, literary experimentation, park gigs, cassette and records sharing, piracy and open/free source software. The radio show was punctuated by long elevator and drone music in between. It was essent9ially WSK but it aint broken at all or it needed some fixing. It was a promise of coming with some more. The day was capped off with a few rounds of drinks, youtube random playlist, giant burgers and good old pepper sauce variants.

Spirit, Body and pumping Heart of Bakawan Arts Festival

The UP Vargas Museum, Project Bakawan and Planting Rice present Ethos, Bathos, Pathos at the 1F Galleries of the museum. The exhibit opens on 12 Feb 2015 at 4pm.

From 12 Feb to 15 March 2015, the exhibition will also include a public program of music performances and workshops.  Concerts composed by Dr. Jonas Baes will be performed by musicians from the UP College of Music every Thursdays of February 12, 19, 26 and March 5 from 4pm to 5pm.  Daily to weekly workshops in reference to ecological transition hosted by autonomous collectives, with invited artists, activists, specialists and researchers will take place within the exhibition run.  Workshops will include the use of radio for disaster relief, upcycling in design, ecology and economic theory discussions, food politics, alternative energy, creative resistance and more.

The exhibit is part of the Project Bakawan, a collaborative art festival that seeks to establish a network of art practitioners, academics, students, and community organizations in order to secure a sustainable future against the current ecological and global crisis.

Ethos, Bathos, Pathos shows the idea of interconnectivity in the maintenance of life: a system comprises singular entities that affect the larger whole. The exhibit is divided into three sections, each representing a part of a whole: Ethos, the soul; Bathos, the physical body; and Pathos, the interpretation of a pumping heart. Ethos includes Tommy Haffalla’s photographs depicting the everyday life of indigenous people in the mountain province as well as a weekly performance concert of composer Jonas Baes. Bathos presents the installation work of Junyee. His search for a distinct Philippine art form paved the way for his use of indigenous and organic materials in his works, most of which reflect the ideas of the dignity of the human spirit, care for the environment, and struggle against self-destruction. Pathos transforms the museum’s space into a demarcated area which houses various autonomous projects (Onsite Infoshop, Etnikobandido, Marindukanon Studies Center and CIV:LAB) that serve as a meeting point, workshop space (D.I.Y Solar Power, Wi-fi/Radio Station), lounge and bibliotheque.

Ethos Bathos Pathos was inspired by a text made by Marian Pastor Roces that reflects on the condition of contemporary art and discusses activisms that move the process of decolonization forward in the Philippines.

Ethos Bathos Pathos runs until 14 March 2015 and is supported by the Japan Foundation, Manila.

The exhibit is organized by curators Lian Ladia and Sidd Perez of Planting Rice. Planting Rice is an alternative platform aimed at fostering the rise of cross-pollination among artistic communities. It distributes information on vital exhibitions, events, places and influences by art professionals in Southeast Asia, Australia, the United States and Europe who maintain networks and crossovers in the Philippines.

For more information, please contact Vargas Museum at (+632) 928-1927 (direct line), (+632) 981-8500 loc. 4024 (UP trunkline), (+632) 928-1925 (fax) or send an e-mail to vargasmuseum@gmail.com. You may also check our website at http://vargasmuseum.upd.edu.ph or like us at http://www.facebook.com/vargasmuseum.upd and follow us @UPVargasMuseum for updates.

Open Space Workshop on Peace x Reconciliation @ UP Vargas Museum

This free seminar is part of a greater course designed to transform daily conflict and has been

effectively applied in the armed conflicts of Mindanao with the Armed forces of the Philippines,

the New People’s Army and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front. Contact info@peacechurch.ph

to learn more about our full course.

PeaceChurch Philippines applies and teaches Peace and Reconciliation skills from the best

practitioners around the world in the fields of conflict resolution and conflict transformation.

These need to be applied to our land.

These skills have been fruitful in the streets of Metro Manila’s gang and frat wars, in church and

business conflict and in the armed conflict areas of Mindanao with the Moro Islamic Liberation

Front (MILF), the New People’s Army (CPP-NPA) and the Armed Forces of the Philippines

(AFP).

There are few public venues to learn conflict transformation skills in our lives. The

church seldom teaches this, our school systems don’t teach this and the our family

systems are often sources of conflict rather than families equipped to resolve and

transform conflict every day. If you can Identify with this, these sessions are for you!

Right now we see that our stories and skills are needed more than ever. The heighten conflict

between the NPA and the AFP continues to create fear throughout the Philippines and the

tragic mission in Mamasapano, Maguindanao has left many speechless. We are here to give

the skills and understanding to provide peace instead of fear and enable every filipino to create

a better future with those you lead and influence.

Individuals who are interested to continue their journey with us are invited to join our Peace

Assemblies Network (PAN) which is a network of Christian individuals, Churches, Alternative/

Intentional communities, and other Faith-based groups who are passionately embodying a

culture of peace (Shalom/Salaam/Kapayapaan) in their faith communities and actively working

for peace towards a transformed society. PAN is open for strategic collaboration with other

groups (whether secular or religious) who are passionate about pursuing peace, justice and

radical transformation in the Philippines. PAN welcomes everyone to join us on the journey

towards peace.

Those who make peace sow the seeds of justice by their peaceful acts.

-James 3:18

Activity Design:

1. Conflict transformation: The Vision for a New Future. (45 min of formal time and invitation

to stay for discussion after the teaching time.)

2. Intensifications and Reconciliation (45 min of formal time and invitation to stay for

discussion after the teaching time.)

1. How does conflict escalate?

2. How can I reconcile conflict?

3. Conflict Analysis : What happened in Mamasapano and why does it matter for Mindanao?

(45 min of formal time and invitation to stay for discussion after the teaching time.)

1. PAN - X-Box Framework

ethos bathos pathos opens with a sound performance and discussion w/ autonomous groups

Image:

Tommy Hafalla, Documenting the lives and traditions of the Cordillera people.

Ethos Bathos Pathos opening and A groups discussion in lieu of an artist talk

I cannot have come any earlier, one day before was nerve racking and pulled off the Bata and Kaibuturan performance during the 8^th DLSU Arts Congress at the Yuchengco auditorium. Jong just arrived from Japan and would leaving before the week ends. There was the program of activities all right, during the first three days were packed, an opening performance from Jonas Baes and an alternative artist talk of sorts which myself and Seitan would moderate. the card box instructions and signages are yet to be cut and hand printed. For the meantime, it was all potential energy waiting to be actualized/. Friends, old and new came and took part of the discussion. I started off with the background and obligatory remarks in behalf of the planting rice and autonomous groups. I asked it its possible to just introduce each collective or group themselves, on my end I took the chance to set the tone with objectives and line up of activities of Marindukanon Studies Center x Info Shop Marinduque. Civ Lab was discussed by Jong straight from the land of rising sun. bas and Chung took turns in inviting participants to take the time during the next two days for Onsite and Etniko Bandido info shop led workshops and activities. Indy, Roman and Miguel also gave some words about Over x Out in behalf of England about upcycling. Finally, Seitan also solicited some questions from the floor to close the discussion with autonomous groups.

Ppt/LCD free for two day at the arts congress

DLSU Arts Congress was an intimate and close-knit, two day staycation at Silang, Cavite. It was an intense couple of days, free of powerpoint and lcd projectors, unlimited peer to peer exchange of graduate students mostly from the philosophy and Filipino department of the college of liberal arts. I was intending to present and invite participants to the pioneering project bakawan arts festival at the premier university of the Philippines. The 8^th edition of the Arts Congress was a collaboration between the CLA associate dean and former University Research Coordinating Office director and the former CLA research coordinator and current URCO director. I first came to meet Dr. Leni Garcia during the time I am applying for a conference assistance to attend the Philippine sociological society and anthropological association of the Philippines. Dr. FPA Demeterio would then became our postmodern x Filipino culture professor the following term. The two day was intimate, most of the participants didn’t know each other at the onset but became relatively close after the stay-in congress at the retreat house. The PPT and LCD projector free conference is unlike most profiteering and revenue-generating conferences I attended during the last five years. The most striking is the intensive peer to peer exchange of young and budding scholars. I was able to present and get immediate feedback regarding Ethos Bathos Pathos installation project. I also met a long time friend from way back in UP community, an independent researcher, homeschoolers and sound artist, Mariam Fabian, wife and partner to Tic Tiger from the NCR South. For sure, it was very stimulating and productive two days without talking and reading using lcd screens.