A two-day run last month of a rare art exhibit left the public clamoring for another opportunity to view the genius of an “artist of the people’s struggle.” The event featured some 100 drawings and paintings of a Philippine countryside in resistance, all done by Mindanaoan Parts Bagani.

It was an art exhibit that would have surely sent the big guns of the National Press Club squirming. Now, they can do just that.

Due to popular demand, the works of artist Parts Bagani will again be shown in a four-day exhibit dubbed as “Sining Luwal ng Kanayunan.” It shall open with a brief program at 10 AM, November 26, 2007 at Galleria 2, Faculty Center, University of the Philippines, Diliman Quezon City. A forum on art and the freedom of expression is scheduled at 9 AM on November 29, 2007, Recto Hall, UP Facuty Center. Popular artists have been invited to perform.

While most artists bask in the atmosphere of Metro Manila and the big cities elsewhere, Parts Bagani opted to stay in the countryside where he was born. In Mindanao, he experienced the turmoil of conflicting forces, and painted a terrain of warfare. His works show his fluency in imaging an environment that is taboo for many an artist, but of which he has gained a profound understanding.

His art abounds with scenes of resistance even of warriors in repose, of schools in open bamboo structures in the forest, of people singing songs of victory, of battered shoes and the lowly rice pot. But most of all, there are the endless mountains and hills that have become host to the struggle itself.

The exhibit is sponsored by the First Quarter Storm Movement, Tag-ani Performing Arts Society, Asosasyon ng mga Kabataang Artista, Kritiko at Iskolar ng Sining at Kultura (UP ASTERISK), UP Alay Sining, Kabataang Artista para sa Tunay na Kalayaan (Karatula) and the Congress of Teachers for Nationalism and Democracy.

The exhibit is a fund-raising project for the benefit of cancer-stricken UP Prof. Monico Atienza.

For reference contact MARILI FERNANDEZ-ILAGAN at 0920-699486 or you can e-mail her at marilif@yahoo.com.

Regular na itong mangyayari.

Parang pagdaan ng mga migratory birds sa mga swamps ng pinas.

Parang panganganak ng mga kuneho matapos ang kanilang sexual maturity.

Parang monthsary.

Protest Poetry Nights sa
mag:net katipunan

Every 4th monday ng bawat buwan

6- nine pm

napaka-libre.

The JENESYS Program is a Japanese government sponsored exchange program that aims to harness the youths

The 4th Art Film Festival of the PWU Independent Film Group will be held at the Philippine Women’s University Manila on December 10 & 11, 2007.

This inter-collegiate festival is open to all college student filmmakers from any school or university, with a vision to promote cinematic talent, and the enthusiasm to share one’s creativity.
COMPETITION MECHANICS:

The competition is open to college student filmmakers currently enrolled in any college or University in the Philippines.

All entries are to be shot using any type of film / video camera and must be submitted in DVD format.

Entries must have been completed not earlier than June 2007, and have not been entered in any other competition or produced for commercial purposes.

Running time for all entries is 10-20 minutes.

Interested participants must submit the following on or before 5:00 PM on November 30, 2007 to the Division of Student Affairs Office of The Philippine Women’s University Taft Avenue, Manila c/o Paula Peralta:

*Final output in DVD format labeled with:

>Title of Entry
>Production Company
>Director/ Filmmaker with contact no.
>Synopsis in Filipino or English
>Running time of entry
All entries will be presented to a selection committee prior to the day of the event. Only the top ten entries will be eligible as finalists to compete during the festival.

The top ten entries will be announced on December 3, 2007 via e-mail, and through the IFG website: www.freewebs. com/pwuifg.

The PWU IFG movie clapper award will be given to entries who will excel in the following categories:

• Best Screenplay
• Best Director
• Best Short Feature

Finalists will also receive gift prizes from the festival sponsors and Certificates of Participation to the festival.

Visit: www.freewebs. com/pwuifg | Email us at pwuifg@yahoo. com

Invite the mob.

Sing-along with your favorite patriotic band in style and with pride at Cinekatipunan on Tues, November 20, 2007 from

Celebrating human dignity and rights, the UP Film Institute holds its annual human rights celebration with Cine Veritas 2007 from December 3 to 8. Opening film is Brillante Mendoza

Seattle, WA–Three US-based Filipino women’s organizations, babae in San Francisco, Filipinas for Rights and Empowerment (FiRE) in New York and Pinay Sa Seattle, will gather in a momentous women’s conference, “Filipina Sisters Unite!” on November 2 to 4, 2007 in Seattle, Washington.

The conference’s objective is to unite the progressive Filipino women’s organizations towards a national alliance, strengthening organizations’ local work with Filipino women in the US and global campaigns with the broad people’s

Calling out to Asian youth and social change leaders,

There is an opportunity for you to be heard!

The UN Economic & Social Commission for Asia & the Pacific (ESCAP) Regional Implementation Meetings (RIM) for CSD-16 will be held in Jakarta later this month. The meetings will focus on the themes of agriculture, rural development, land, drought, desertification and Africa, according to the issue cluster for CSD 16 & 17 (http://www.un. org/esa/sustdev/ csd/review. htm).

We have just been notified that Bernise Ang from SYINC (based in Singapore) has been nominated to attend on behalf of Asian youth.

If you wish to send your inputs, please note:

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