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
8th 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.
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