Neo-Angono Artists Collective
National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA)
JapanFoundation-Manila
Metrobank Foundation
Shoe Mart (SM)-Taytay
Museum of Three Cultures, CapitolUniversity, Cagayan de Oro
Office of the Mayor, Municipalityof Angono
Municipal Tourism, Culture and the Arts Office

present
the

5th Neo-Angono Public Art Festival
20-22 November 2008
Angono, Rizal, Philippines

“Bringing Arts and Culture to Public Space and Closer to the
People”


Schedule of Art Events/Activities/Performances

November 11, Tuesday

Japanese
contemporary dance-artist Jun Nishio arrives in Angono, Rizal as part of
Neo-Angono’s Residency Program with the support from Japan
Foundation-Manila. .

November 11-14, Tuesday - Friday

1:00 – 5:00 PM

Neo-Angono
artists and Jun Nishio provide free workshops on crafts making, painting,
sculpture, dance, theater acting and poetry writing to 100 elementary students.
Venue: SM CityTaytayActivityCenter.

November 19, Wednesday

6:00 PM

SILENT WITNESS:Keiye Miranda-Tuazon opens
her exhibit featuring her recent works. The show runs until December 9. Venue:
Finale Art File, Warehouse 17, La Fuerza Compound, Chino Roces Ave.Gate 1,
MakatiCity.


1st Day, 20 November, Thursday

9:00 AM

TRIBUTE TO NATIONAL ARTISTS CARLOS “BOTONG” FRANCISCO AND
MAESTRO LUCIO SAN PEDRO: As in the past, Neo-Angono
artists gather around the tombs of Angono’s two National Artists to pay homage
and symbolically ask for their guidance as the group opens the festival. Venue:
AngonoPublicCemetery.

PAMPHLET DISTRIBUTION: Neliza
de Leon launches her essay titled “Art Public or Art Audience? Challenging
Neo-Angono’s 5th Public Art.” Venue: AngonoTownProper.

TULANSANGAN: Members of “Tres-Syete
Poetry Group” distribute poems printed on stickers and placed on packages of
consumer goods sold to the public. Venue: AngonoTownProper.

SUBMERSION, IMMERSION, SUBVERSION:
Students of MaltAcademyproduce a site-specific installation which experiments on
bamboo as medium and
the flowing AngonoRiveras mutual tool to challenge visual and auditory senses of
the viewing public.
Venue: AngonoRiver,
Barangay Poblacion Itaas.

10:00 AM

PRESS
CONFERENCE: Neo-Angono artists and Japanese contemporary
dance-artist Jun Nishio hold
dialogue with local and national media. Venue: Tatay Mesio’s
Binalot (formerly Nemiranda Art Café,
Manila East Road,
Hi-way, Barangay San Roque).

LOOPED VIDEO PLAYBACK of
“Florante at Laura” by Anino Shadow Play Collective and a documentary on the
Philadelphia, USA
Mural Arts Program. Venue: SM-TaytayActivityCenter.

HIGANTENG PATALASTAS: Using
Angono’s cultural symbol called “Higante,” Ramon “Chitoy” Zapata unveils his
giant tarpaulin exhorting people and the public to become “higante” (noble and
successful) in their respective fields. Venue: AngonoRiver.

RESET-A: Wire Tuazon’s site-specific
installation against the background of an altered semi-rural landscape of
Angono. Venue: Maysha Hotel Rooftop.

DULUHAN(Backyard Studio Exhibition): Aga
Francisco opens his 3nd One-Man Show Exhibit featuring his latest
“kinutkot” paintings. Venue: Neo-Angono Artists Studio, Doña Aurora Street,
Barangay
San Roque.

MARKET SIGN INTERVENTION: Michael
de Guzman, Bunch Garcia and PUBLIKBOX artists perform on the rooftop of the
municipal market, turning the giant ANGONO PUBLIC MARKET into ANGONO PUBLIC
ART. Venue: AngonoTownProper.

DISKARIL: Kyo Zapanta and Richard Gappi
exhibit their poems. Zapanta delves on the psychological terrain of sanity as
well as the perturbed personality while Gappi focuses on the flouting Filipino
social, economic and political fabric. Venue: 3rd WayRestaurant, Manila East
Road,
Barangay San Roque.

SELECTIONS: Exhibition of paintings by
Neo-Angono Artists Collective members. Venue: Maysha Hotel Lobby, Barangay Sto.
Niño.

1:00-3:00 PM

ART SYMPOSIUM: Professor Alice
Guillermo, a renowned art critic, shares her insights on the “Basics of Art
Appreciation and Criticism,” NCCA Visual Arts Committee head Eghai Fernandez
explains how to “bring art to public sphere” and Mike Muñoz of Manlilikha
Artisans’ Support Network discusses “Public Art as a Personal Experience.”
Venue: URS-Angono Campus.

3:00 PM

TALKING WALLS:The St. Clement Symphonic
Band of Angono, Rizal opens the art exhibit of Neo-Angono artists and
Universityof Rizal System-Angono Fine Artsstudents with performance by Oro Art
Guild and Red Lambago Collective from
Cagayan de Oro. Venue: SM City-Taytay premises.

ROSARYO NG MGA PANGARAP: Michael
Ian Lomongo collects 50 short poems from various people and age groups and
installs these along roads encircling Angono Catholic Church, thus producing
the image of rosary when viewed from above. Venue: Vicinity of St.Clement
ParishChurch,
Barangay Poblacion Ibaba and Barangay Bagumbayan.

SALITANG KANTO: Poet Tata Raul Funilas
walks on the streets of Angono, collects words from the public using paper
cloth, and stitches these together to form a complete poem to be exhibited
during the Poetry and Acoustic Night. Venue: AngonoTownProper.

Graduation
of workshop participants from the “Discovering Art Program Series” and public
viewing and exhibition of work output/product. Venue: SM
City-TaytayActivityCenter.

4:00 PM

AMBISYOSONG LANGAW:Tanghalang
Angono stages a children’s play tackling moral values such as pride and
humility, industry and resourcefulness. Venue: SM City-TaytayActivityCenter.

6:00 PM

(RE)CONSTRUCTION SITE: A four-person
exhibit of Carlos “Totong” Francisco, Allan Alcantara, Aaron Bautista and
Isidro “Jon” Santos showing their latest abstract, mixed media and
non-figurative works that “reflect forms of unconventional realities.” The
exhibit happens amid the renovation and reconstruction of the studio of
National Artist Carlos “Botong” Francisco. Venue: The Second Gallery, Doña
Aurora Street, Barangay
Poblacion Itaas.

8:00 PM

TAGAYAN NG DIWA, ESPIRITU AT KALOOBAN:
Acoustic and poetry night featuring poets from Tres-Syete Poetry Group, LIRA,
Kilometer 64, Malate Literary Group, URS-Angono Petroglyphs writers, Bobby
Balingit of The Wuds, Sequel, Prof. Ligaya Tiamson-Rubin, Vim Nadera, Tata Raul
Funilas, Alexander Remollino, Paul Zialcita, Richard Gappi and others celebrate
the creative world of spoken word. Venue: KINAMAT, Col. Guido Extension,
Barangay San Roque.

2nd Day, November 21, Friday

10:00 AM

BREEDING SPACE (THE HIVE): Members
of artist group KAKTUS and selected art students of Isidro Santos construct and
present a 6 x 8-ft room-art installation where audience can interact and
explore. Venue: MunicipalFreedomPark.

S-TRIKE: Shadow tricycle performance by
Anino Shadow Play Collective. Venue: Angono town proper.

3:00 PM

Y-PLASTIK: Performance, graffiti and moving
installation by Oro Art Guild and Red Lambago Artists Collective from Cagayan
de Oro. Venue: LambakParkand AngonoTownProper.

3:00 PM – 5:00 PM

WORMS:
Urban Fashion Show by Clint Catalan. Venue: SM City-TaytayActivityCenter.

4:00 PM

WHITE TRAP: Installation and performance by
artist Nick Aca of Cagayan de Oro. Venue: MunicipalFreedomPark.

5:00 PM

ELIJAH OF THE APOCALYPSE: Street
performance by Noel Soler Cuizon and Crisanto de Leon. Venue: Angono streets
and town proper.

6:00 PM

GRA-PIK-TI:Photo exhibit of Ces
Eugenio. Venue: Tatay Mesio’s Binalot (formerly Nemiranda Art Café), Manila East
Road, Hi-way, Barangay
San Roque.

6:30 PM

AMBISYOSONG LANGAW:Tanghalang
Angono stages a children’s play tackling moral values such as pride and
humility, industry and resourcefulness. Venue: Metrobank Parking Space.

8:00 PM

SINE-SILIP ANG SINAGTALA: Right
where Angono’s movie house (Star Theater) used to occupy, theater performances,
film showing, projections, and dance mark the evening featuring Japanese
contemporary dance-artist Jun Nishio, Transitopia Contemporary Dance Commune,
Anino Shadow Play Collective, visual and sound artist Lirio Salvador, and films
by John Torres (“Salat”), Khavn dela Cruz (“Blackworms” and “The muzzled horse
of an engineer in search of mechanical saddles”), Lav Diaz (“Purgatoryo”),
among others. Venue: Metrobank Parking Space.

3rd Day, 22 November, Saturday

10:00 AM

The 1st SM Young Art Makers Open Art Competition for elementary, high school and
college students. Venue: SM City-TaytayActivityCenter.

11:00 AM

Story
telling by Soliman Cruz and Actors’ Playground. Venue: SM ActivityCenter.

LET US SPRAY, AMEN!:
Graffiti Art by Pilipinas StreetPlan. Venue: Melford Wall
along Quezon Avenue,
Barangay San Isidro.

3:00 pm

DIS(this) LOKASYON: Street
Performance by Ugatlahi. Reminiscent of the game “patintero,” the performance
is a statement on the plight of Metro Manila’s homeless denizens. Venue:
AngonoTownProper.

4:00 PM

Story
telling by Soliman Cruz and Actors’ Playground. Venue: Lambak ,Barangay San
Roque

Awarding
of prizes to winners of SM Open Art Competition. Venue: SM
City-TaytayActivityCenter.

8:00 PM

SOUNDTRAP SUMMIT: Closing
Night of the festival featuring various bands Radioactive Sago Project, Coffee
Break Island, Bobby Balingit of The Wuds, Dreadknots, Wayfarers, Go Signals, G2
and the Bundoocks, Circus Crone, Elemento, Talahib, Rabadab, Gurion and Ambot
sa Emo.


Neo-Angono Artists would also like to
thank the following for making the 5th Neo-Angono Public Art
Festival possible: Hon. Rep. Michael John “Jack” Duavit, Hon. Mayor Aurora A.
Villamayor, Hon. Vice-Mayor Junvic Saguinsin and Sangguniang Bayan of Angono,
Maysha
Hotel, Lafarge (Batong Angono Aggregates Corporation), Mr. Ben Suzuki of Japan
Foundation-Manila, Metrobank Foundation, the Association of Barangay Captains
of Angono, Hon. Brgy. Captain Jhun Macabuhay of Barangay Dolores, Taytay, Rizal
and Hon. Councilor Sharon de Leon, Angono Police Chief Col. Arthur O.
Masungsong, Civil Security Unit head (Ret.) Col. Romy Reyes, Mr. Eghai
Fernandez of Visual Arts Committee of the NCCA, Executive Director of NCCA Ms.
Cecile Guidote Alvarez, Prof. Alice Guillermo, TUTOK Karapatan, Mr. Rollie
Estabillo, Recelmir Loreto, Rjay of 3rd Way Restaurant, Maan dela
Cruz of SM City Taytay, Architect Raymond R. Gappi, KINAMAT and Banana Hemp
Boys, Tatay Mesio’s, Melford Motors, Naks Chicken, St. Clement Band, Zipress
Publishing, The Second Gallery, Oro Art Guild Inc., Sibay Art Space, Museo de
Oro, Red Lambago Collective, Regional Pilot School for the Arts, Angono
National High School, Angono Private High School, University of Rizal
System-Angono,Tanghalang Pilipino, Green Papaya, Angono Council for Culture and
the Arts; the artists, performers, writers, musicians, film makers, and all the
participants; our supporters who chose to remain anonymous; our tolerant
parents, relatives, friends and even critics who continue to understand our
eccentricities and support our creative cause; the people of Angono, the haven
of artists; and most of all, to our greatest Artist and Creator. Viva Art! Viva
Neo-Angono! Viva San Clemente!



For inquiries and media coverage, please call or send SMS
to:


Mr. Richard R. Gappi Ms.
Silvana “Kyo” Zapanta
Festival Coordinator Festival
Coordinator
0915-5337308 0917-5020219


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