THE University of San Carlos Cebuano Studies Center (USC CSC)will hold various activities celebrating Cebuano arts and culture in Maartext: National Arts Month Celebration 2018.
It has been organized with the sponsorship of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) and in cooperation with Robinsons Galleria Cebu, Mga Anak sa Dagang (MAD) and InOtherWords Inc. (IOW).
Maartext: National Arts Month Celebration 2018, a project of the National Committee on the Literary Arts, is an interdisciplinary arts festival aimed at promoting, showcasing and developing the intersections of the literary with the other arts (i.e. music, dance, drama, film, architecture, visual arts) in the different regions of the Philippines.
The celebration addresses the need to promote, preserve, and enrich the artistic heritage and to support artistic endeavors, especially the youth, from the vantage point of the literary arts in its different regional languages alongside the allied arts.
Targeted not only to artists but to the youth, Maartext hopes to provide students with a multitude of options for expressing and communicating their ideas and learning to think about problems from a broad range of perspectives.
“Involvement in the arts invites students to try new things, manage risk and cultivate greater passion in specific art forms that interest them,” according to Dr. Hope Sabanpan-Yu, chair of the National Committee on Literary Arts.
Tomorrow, Feb. 22, Maartext will feature Korean Textures at the Dingman Conference Hall, USC Downtown Campus.
Korean Textures invites students and teachers to experience and appreciate Korean art through literature, film and music.
The event showcases Dr. Jinhyoung Lee, professor of literature from Konkuk University in Seoul, who will lecture on the history and politics of the modern Korean novel, and Jeneth Borlasa, professor at University of the Philippines-Cebu, who will talk about the Philippine experience of Korean films.
The panel discussants on Korean film are Joanalyn Gabales, Joanne Marisse Tan, and Julius Cesar Cudera.
Korean pop
For Korean pop music, the panel discussants are Trina Marie Catipay, Hera Mayoral and Jason Baguia. Korean students will present spoken word poetry.
Slots for this event are limited and will be on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Maartext will culminate in the two-day celebration at the Atrium, Robinsons Galleria Cebu on Feb. 26 and 27.
The event will feature celebrated Cebuano artists in moderated conversations.
Songwriters Lorenzo Niñal, Cattski Espina and Rommel Tuico will talk on songwriting; Monsignor Agustin Ancajas, Haidee Emmie Palapar and Ligaya Rabago on play-writing/production; and Radel Paredes, Gigi Ocampo and Raymund Fernandez on visual arts.
There will be feature talks on the arts, with Januar Yap on “Mining Cebuano Literature for Film Adaptations”; Ronaldo Heri Tan on “Organizing the Sinulog Filmfest”; Rudy Aviles on “Producing a Play”; Hendri Go on “The Cebu Litfest”; Grace Marie Lopez on “Documentary Basics”; JP Arias on “Cebuano Spoken Word”; Noel Villaflor and Erik Tuban on “Zine Cebu”; Josua Cabrera on “Illustration for Beginners”; and Jason Baguia on “Towards literary journalism in Cebuano.”
There will also be a collaborative art exhibit on painting and poetry dubbed heART to heART, a spoken word competition, awarding and screening of the winning entries of Salpon (Salida ginama sa selpon) contest on Cebuano art, TANKAhi ko! (poets will complete haikus brought by the audience), book launches, music and poetry performances.
Maartext will stage five plays by Ancajas: “Ringtone,” “Kabilin,” “Sila nga mitaliwan na,” “Paghurnal sa Panahon sa Tingpugas,” and “Lukas 10:41.” Admission is free.
Visit facebook.com/cebuanostudiescenter for more details or call (032) 2300-100 local 308 or email cebuanostudies@gmail.com.