si dave cecilio at ang pelikulang MAKATA…

si dave cecilio, ang direktor ng “makata”

Uso pa ba ang mga MAKATA?

May pakialam pa ba ang mga kabataan ngayon sa kahalagaan ng literatura at oratura?

Marahil, kapag may isang nilalang pa ring makikipaglaban dito, upang maipagbunyi pa rin ang husay at kakisigan ng mga buhay na MAKATA, ang mundo ay mananatili, at ganap na kikinang pa rin sa mga idolo nilang mga MAKATA.

Oo. Buhay pa rin ang mga MAKATA.

Habang may isa pang Dave Cecilio na makikipaglaban upang maipamulat pa rin ito sa puso ng mga kabataan.

Si Ginoong Dave Cecilio, ang direktor ng pelikulang MAKATA, na isang advocacy film na sponsored ng DepEd (Department of Education).

“I call myself an advocacy film director”, bungad na nawika pa ni Dave sa isang blogger sa isang nakakabusog na meryendehan sa JCO Doughnuts sa may Greenhills. “I want to do films na makapagtuturo ng kagandahang asal sa mga estudyante’t kabataan. Ang maibalik sila sa tunay na kahulugan ng buhay.”

Unang ginawa ni direk Dave ang pelikulang Watawat, na kung saan ay naging bida niya sa pelikulang ito sina Carlos Morales, James Blanco at Miss Chinchin Guttierez. Ang pelikula ay tumatalakay ukol sa pagmamahal sa watawat ng bansang Pilipinas.

Pangalawang pelikula naman ni direk Dave ang Musiko, na pinagbidahan naman nina Mart Escudero at Tommy Abuel. Ito ay ukol naman sa musika, at sa mga miyembro ng banda ng musiko na hindi ganap na nabibigyan ng halaga sa bansang Pilipinas.

At pangatlo nga itong pelikulang MAKATA.

“Nuong nag-aaral kasi ako sa Bigfoot Film Academy sa Cebu, medyo nalungkot ako sa kanilang all-English Policy”, wika ni direk Dave. “Katwiran ko sa sarili ko, narito kayo sa Pilipinas, tapos kailangan naming ipasatupad ang all-English Policy ninyo? Kaya isinumpa ko sa sarili ko, tatapusin ko lang ang pag-aaral ko doon at nung natapos ko na, heto, gumawa ako ng mga pelikulang maka-PILIPINO. Mapagmahal sa bayan at hindi all-English policy ang basehan! Dahil Pilipino ako!”

Na-touch kami sa mga makakatutuirang naiwika na iyon ni direk Dave kaya lalo kaming humanga sa kanya. Sa dinami-dami kasi ng mga new indie film makers na na-interbyu na namin, wala kaming nakitang film maker na maka-PILIPINO. Lahat sila’y “Westernized” na ang mga standards at mas nanaising makagawa ng mga pelikulang ilalaban sa mga international film festivals.

Samantalang si direk Dave, mas gusto niyang maipakita ang kagandahan ng mga aspeto sa KULTURANG PILIPINO.

“Hindi naman ang manalo ako ng mga awards ang mithiin ko”, sabi pa ni direk Dave. “Mas gusto ko lang makagawa ng mga pelikulang ipakikita ang mga positibong aspeto ng isang PILIPINO.”

Sa bagong pelikulang MAKATA ni direk Dave, na magkakaroon ng Premiere Night sa October 8 sa Fisher Mall Cinemas, muling naipakita ni direk Dave ang maaliwalas na pagtingin sa mga bagay-bagay sa buhay ng isang Pilipino.

“Nu’ng bata pa ako, lumalaban kasi ako sa mga oratorical and declamation contests”, sabi pa ni direk Dave. “Mahahabang tula ang binibigkas ko noon sa klase. Na tila nawawala na ngayon. Mas pinipili na ng mga kabataan ang mag-DOTA. Gusto ko lamang maibalik sila sa tunay na halaga ng lietratura sa ating buhay.”

Kasama sa pelikulang MAKATA sina Sam Concepcion at Angelo Ilagan bilang mga batang MAKATA na magiging magtunggali. Susuporta naman si Lance Raymundo sa isang very surprising role na mentor ng isang Makata na si Angelo. Nariyan din si Ginoong Rez Cortez bilang isang orihinal na Makata na tumanda na at hindi na makapagsalita. At special participation naman ang modelong si Ben Isaac bilang si Francisco Balagtas.

Oo, buhay pa rin ang mga MAKATA. Habang may isang Dave Cecilio na patuloy pa ring ipaglalaban ang sining at awitin ng mga MAKATA. Dahil sa pelikula niyang MAKATA, masasaksihan natin ang lahat ng ito.

MABUHAY ANG MGA MAKATA!!!

 

(sinulat ni robert manuguid silverio)

“MAKATA” film staff:

Nelson Acuna (executive producer)

Maila Fanning (producer)

Dave Cecilio (writer/director)

Mia Aguilar (assistant director/line producer)

Ceejay Manabal (director of photography)

Bryan Rabocarsal (production designer)

and Mr. Aerold Sison (lightsman/propsman)

dave cecilio: an advocacy film director

dave cecilio with his staff, including hjis producer ms. maila fanning on the far right.

dave with the male cast members of “makata”: lance, angelo and sam

dave with filipino-australian community members holding the posters of his other films “musiko” and “watawat”

dave and the “makatas”

CCP HOLDS PERFORMING LITERATURES FEST

“CCP HOLDS PERFORMING LITERATURES FEST”

The Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) will hold Performatura 2015, Performing Literatures on November 6, 7 and 8 in various venues of the CCP to celebrate its 46^th year. The three-day event is free or open to the public.

“Performatura 2015 forms part of the literary programs of the CCP spearheaded by the Intertextual Division,” CCP Vice President and Artistic Director Chris B. Millado said. “We have opened the event to the general public specifically for the young people to realize our vision of ‘Art matters to the life of every Filipino’,” he added.

Herminio S. Beltran, CCP Intertextual Division Chief, said that the primary goal of the three-day event is to define “intertextuality” through the pocket events. “One of the many definitions of intertextuality is the relationship of the literary text to other texts, and the relationship of writers and readers where the readers or the audience members in this case take primacy,” Beltran explained.

The event name “Performatura,” coined by Vim Nadera, multi-awarded writer, performer, and educator and Festival Director of Performatura 2015, is intertextuality at work where the terms “performance” and “oratura” had been combined. “Oratura” was derived from another coined term “orature” by Pio Zirimu, a linguist from the Republic of Uganda, who wanted to put oral literature at par with the written word and not treated as something inferior to the latter.

Like Uganda, the Philippines has a rich oral tradition that predates the Spanish colonization. The Hudhud of the Ifugao and the Darangen of the Maranao have been proclaimed as “Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity” by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 2001.

Highlights of Performatura 2015 include the Epic Center, Coffee & Conversations with National Artists hosted by the likes of Lourd de Veyra and Gloc-9, Chromatext Rebooted curated by Krip Yuson, the Philippine Daily Inquirer’s “Inquirer Read-Along”, and a day-long summit of performances from young poets.

These young writers are members of the Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas (UMPIL), the Linangan sa Imahen, Retorika, at Anyo (LIRA), Romancing Venus, Words Anonymous, Baguio Writers Guild, and the University of the Philippines Writers Club. Other participating young poets are students of the University of Santo Tomas (UST), the Ateneo de Manila University (AdMU), the De La Salle University (DLSU), the Far Eastern University (FEU), the Philippine High School for the Arts (PHSA), to name a few.

The three-day event will feature daily workshops on the Balagtasan, speech choir, and ventriloquism. There will also be daily Park Poetry performances in the early evenings that will feature poems on love, gender, and protest by Gemino Abad, Jose “Pete” Lacaba, and Joey Ayala, respectively, among many other performances.

In addition to the Hudhud and the Darangen epics, Performatura 2015 will also feature the animation and other works of art of Liby Limoso on the Sugidanun epic from the Panay Island. The UP Press will also launch the sequels to Dr. Alicia Magos’ study on “Tikum Kadlum and Amburukay” which will be performed by Mr. Federico “Tuohan” Caballero and Teresita “Abyaran” Caballero-Castor. The epics will also be the focal point of the Oral Literatures Art Exhibit.

Performatura 2015, Millado said, carries a unique feature that underscores the involvement of the CCP employees as Performatura ambassadors. Last August 28 at the CCP, employees participated in the first of a series of Performatura workshops where they performed literary works. The second leg of the workshop series will be held sometime in September for public school educators. Performatura Festival Director Nadera is facilitating the workshops.

“We are harnessing the Center’s 300 workforce by further developing their appreciation of Philippine letters and honing their performance skills, and in the process become cultural ambassadors. We know that our people are the main agents in fulfilling the CCP vision,” Millado explained. A commitment to human resource development is etched as one of the cultural objectives of the institution.

Performatura 2015 updates are available on the CCP website (www.culturalcenter.gov.ph) Facebook (CCP-Intertextual-Division-Programs, culturalcenterofthephilippines), Tumblr (ccpintertextualdivision.tumblr.com), Twitter (ccpintertextual, ccp_gov), and Instagram (ccp_gov).

For more information on Performatura 2015, please contact the CCP Intertextual Division at 832-1125 local 1706.

ccp press releases…

VINCENT DE JESUS IN TRIPLE THREATS: THE COMPOSERS AT CCP

 

MULTI-AWARDED lyricist-composer-musical director Vincent De Jesus is the second featured artist in Triple Threats: The Composers on September 24, 2015 at the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino (CCP Little Theater) at 8:00pm.

Billed as “Demented. Delightful. Deranged. De Jesus.”, the event is an intimate concert featuring the dark, melancholic and whimsical music of Vincent De Jesus. Highlights of the show are songs from his 32-year career in theater, television and film to be performed by some of today’s finest theater actors/singers.

Critics rave Vincent De Jesus for his music and lyrics which “paint the poetry of passion and the prose of persistence, carve the pangs of unreciprocated pining, engrave the dangers of desire for power, and sanctify ordinary lives,” for “churning out world-class material” wherein “a long-running original Pilipino musical would no longer be the stuff of fantasy.” Others praise his every lyric which has an emotional resonance that affects, moves, making the heart remember personal experiences, and his music which “is something that music majors would want to write a thesis someday.”

Joining Vincent onstage are Kalila Aguilos, Jed Balsamo, May Bayot, Raflesia Bravo, Nar Cabico, Joshua Cabiladas, Natasha Cabrera, Buddy Caramat, Ricci Chan, Red Concepcion, Erick Dizon, KL Dizon, Frenchie Dy, Bituin Escalante, Hans Eckstein, Topper Fabregas, Neomi Gonzales, Reuben Laurente, Melvin Lee, Kim Molina, Mikoy Morales, Red Nuestro, Giannina Ocampo, PJ Rebullida, Victor Robinson, Nino Royeca, Myke Salomon, Ali Santos, Markki Stroem, Kakki Teodoro, Sweet Plantado-Tiongson, Dudz Terana, Eula Valdes, Cris Villonco, Ejay Yatco, Menchu Lauchengco-Yulo and The CompanY. The concert is directed by Rem Zamora.

Triple Threats: The Composers is presented by the Cultural Center of the Philippines. Individual concert tickets are Php1200, Php1000 and Php800.

For details, contact the CCP Box Office at 832-3704.

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PPO’S 2015-2016 CONCERT SEASON OPENS 

THE Cultural Center of the Philippines announces the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra’s 2015-2016 Concert Season billed as Reveries under the baton of its Music Director, Olivier Ochanine.

Maestro Ochanine opened the season last September 11 with Malaysian pianist Claudia Yang as guest artist, who is recognized and esteemed by the world renowned Chinese magazine, “China Voice” of New York, as “The Global Chinese of the Year 1999. The concert also features Piano Concerto No. 1 by Chopin and Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10.

German conductor Henrik Schaefer leads the Orchestra on October 9, performing the music of Emilie Mayer’s Ouverture to Faust Op.46, Mozart’s Symphony No.40 and Schumann’s Symphony No.3.

On November 3, the PPO features a prominent French Hornist in collaboration with Maestro Olivier Ochanine. The work and soloist will be announced shortly. Program also includes Poulenc’s Les Biches and Mendelssohn’s Symphony No.3 `Scottish’.

The Orchestra performs with Japanese conductor Yoshikazu Fukumura on December 8 featuring Brahms’ Academic Festival Overture, Faure’s Pelleas et Mélisande Suite, and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No.2 “Little Russian”.

On January 22, 2016, the PPO performs with Japanese conductor Tetsuji Honna. Program includes Haydn’s Symphony No.94 and Beethoven’s monumental and memorable Symphony No 3, “Eroica”.

Maestro Olivier Ochanine returns with guest artists soprano Denise Beck and baritone Thomas Sturm on February 19. The program is part of The Carl Nielsen Project and features Nielsen’s Maskarade Overture, some of Nielsen’s most beloved songs and Nielsen’s Symphony No.3 “Sinfonia Espansiva”.

Soprano Rachelle Gerodias and Korean baritone Byeong In Park perform with Maestro Ochanine and the PPO on March 18, also featuring the Philippine Madrigal Singers. The program showcases the winner of the 2015 Composition Competition (announced by December) and features the Philippine premiere of Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem.

 

Maestro Olivier Ochanine leads the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra in its concert season ending on April 22, 2016 with American violinist Odin Rathnam. The evening’s concert program features an eclectic and exciting programme with Nielsen’s Violin Concerto, Massenet’s Scenes de Feeries, Enesco’s Romanian Rhapsody No.1 and Ginastera’s Estancia Ballet Suite.

All concerts will be staged at the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo (CCP Main Theater) at 8:00 pm.

For inquires and subscription, please call the CCP Marketing Department (832-1125 loc. 1806), the CCP Box Office (832-3704) or Ticketworld at National Bookstore (891-9999)

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“CCP holds workshop series for Performatura 2015”

The Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) holds an institution-wide workshop on Philippine literature and performance for its employees and also for public school educators as part of Performatura 2015, a three-day event in November this year. Performatura 2015 will be held on November 6, 7 and 8 at various locations within and without the Center. The event is free or open to the public.

The first leg of the workshop series will be held on August 28, Friday, at the CCP Bulwagang Pambansang Alagad ng Sining for the Center’s employees. Lilian C. Barco, Department Manager of the Human Resource Management of the institution, said that this initiative forms part of its overall program designed to achieve the fourth objective of the CCP, which is to “develop a loyal, competent and efficient workforce towards fulfilling a vital role in the cultural institution”.

“The continuing education on Philippine literature and performance for our cultural workers would greatly help them in gaining a deeper understanding of our rich culture, which, in turn, would enable them to work more effectively in promoting our arts and culture to the broad public,” Barco said. “Art matters to the life of every Filipino” is the vision of the CCP.  

Multi-awarded writer, performer, and educator Vim Nadera, Festival Director of Performatura 2015, will be conducting the workshop series for the CCP employees and the public school teachers. “Performatura 2015 has an education aspect for the ones who directly interface with a large group of people – the CCP employees who deal with the public aside from the artists, and the public school teachers who interact with the students. This aspect of Performatura could be likened to training the trainers,” Nadera explained.

The second leg of the workshop series will be held sometime in September for public school educators. The CCP Arts Education under Department Manager Eva Mari Salvador will handle this activity.

Highlights of Performatura 2015 include the Epic Center, Coffee & Conversations with National Artists hosted by the likes of Lourd de Veyra and Gloc-9, Chromatext Rebooted Art Exhibition curated by Krip Yuson, Park Poetry performances, daily workshops, and a day-long summit of performances from young poets.   

Performatura 2015 updates are available on the CCP website (www.culturalcenter.gov.ph), Facebook (CCP-Intertextual-Division-Programs, culturalcenterofthephilippines), Tumblr (ccpintertextualdivision.tumblr.com), Twitter (ccpintertextual, ccp_gov), and on Instagram (ccp_gov).