Kalayaan (...) Kapatiran Exhibit by Pierre-Emmanuel Michel

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Kalayaan (…) Kapatiran is a graphic design / photography exhibit by French artist Pierre-Emmanuel Michel.

As a tribute to our global diversities, to what unites and separates us, and to the founding values of the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Man issued from the French Revolution, this exhibition is composed of visual poetry by French volunteers during an Event in Oloron-Sainte-Marie (France), the Revol' ution.. The "voices" speak the motto "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity", in a selection of Philippine languages.

Pierre-Emmanuel Michel will have an artist talk at 2pm on March 7, Friday, to be followed by the opening reception at 4pm.

This event will be also the occasion to create the Philippines version of the mouths alphabet for possible exhibits around Europe.

Both events will be held at the Bulwagang Carlos V. Francisco (Little Theater Lobby), CCP Main Theater Building. Free entrance.

For more infos :
kalayaan.pierremm.com
www.pierremm.com

Dia De La Ciudad De Zamboanga: Fun-Filled Festivities at Asia's Latin City

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Your friendly neighborhood pambansang blogger of the Philippines continues his Zamboanga Hermosa adventure! With so many stories to tell about Asia's Latin City, I needed to divide my stories into several parts. I'm still undecided if I should blog per location/event or on a per day basis simply because there's just so much great stories I want to share. But don't worry. I will figure it out as I let my wonderful memories write it for me. I might do a mix of both.....but let me just surprise you, it's better that way.

After attending the inauguration of the Cinematheque Zamboanga located at Legionnaire Road in Barangay Zone IV, I went back to the hotel where I was staying. I was booked at the Garden Orchid Hotel - yes! Garden Orchid and not Orchid Garden even though many would normally refer to it as Orchid hotel because it's much easier to say. If you're wondering why it's called that why...well here is a little trivia for you - it's mainly because the owner's last name is Go.

Obviously, he can't name it Go Hotel since there's one named like that already - the place for every Juan. Thus Garden Orchid it is!

Garden Orchid is located at Gov. Camins Avenue and is just a stone's throw away from the airport. It is  approximately 10 minutes away form the commercial places like Paseo Del Mar where you can go dining by the sea. If you have to go to Zamboanga for any reason, the Garden Orchid Hotel is the best place to stay.

“Postscript to Summer” Exhibit by Roberto Marcelo A. Robles

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It is not a secret that art elicits something in the domain of feelings and emotions. The Russian novelist, Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) campaigned this very sensibility in his famed essay "What is Art?" For Tolstoy, other than expression, an artist's main role is to elicit emotions to spectators. He writes, "To evoke in oneself a feeling one has experienced and having evoked it in oneself then by means of movements, lines, colors, or forms expressed in words, so to transmit this feeling that others experience the same feeling--this is the activity of art". This particular outlook vigorously latches better onto certain artists.

Roberto M. A. Robles is one of those artists, whose style, for its whiteness and bareness, at times succeeds in saturating benign feelings. The minimalism of the artist’s works and his understated manipulation of colors allude to a greater sense and mastery of space. Robles attained a distinct lyricism that makes his studies in white almost unadorned but never void. They are quintessentially oriental: serene, delicate, pure, and suggestively Zen--a vibrant manifestation of his years of study in Japan. This truly makes him a master of communicating feelings by using not much else.

If his 2011 retrospective “Saluysoy” was about “genesis and beginnings”, the artist’s upcoming solo show at Galleria Duemila, “Postscript to Summer”, is its heartfelt afterword. A show that alludes to the nostalgia of his connection to land, his spiritual association to nature, and the humanity and memories that go along with the artist’s sensibilities. This art show, like all of the artist’s previous exhibitions, is grounded with a quest for a deeper consciousness to Filipino culture, language, socio-politics, and identity. It is, in many ways, a celebration of the realities of being a Filipino in contemporary time.