Art&Culture
PERFORMANCES
REPERTORY Philippines presents Sarah Ruhl’s In The Next Room or the Vibrator Play until April 23 at the Onstage Theater, Greenbelt 1, Paseo de Roxas, Makati City. A comedy set in the 1880s, it looks at what happens after Dr. Givings invents a device — the vibrator — to relieve “hysteria” in both men and women. Directed by Chris Millado, the play is strictly for adults only. Tickets are available at TicketWorld (891-9999, www. ticketworld.com.ph).
BENILDE’S Art and Culture department stages Makbet, Shakespeare’s tragedy translated into Filipino by Rolando Tinio, with performances until April 1 at the 6/F Black Box, School of Design and Arts Campus, De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde, Pablo Ocampo St., Malate Manila. The show is directed by Nonon Padilla and the cast includes theater veterans Irma Adlawan and George De Jesus III. Tickets are available at TicketWorld (891-9999, www.ticketworld.com.ph).
RED TURNIP Theater’s science fiction play The Nether, starring Jenny Jamora, Alba Berenguer-Testa, Junyka Santarin, TJ Trinidad, Bernardo Bernardo and Bodjie Pascua, and directed by Ana Abad Santos, has performances until April 9 at Power Mac Center Spotlight, Circuit Makati. Visit ticketworld.com.ph or www.facebook. for tickets.
FILM
AS PART of its current exhibition, Apichatpong Weerasethakul: The Serenity of Madness, MCAD Manila will be screening a selection of the acclaimed Thai filmmaker’s short films on select Fridays of March and May at the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde SDA Cinema (12th floor). Admission is free. For more information, visit the events page Short Films by Apichatpong Weerasethakul on Facebook.
EVENTS
THE Director of Instituto Cervantes de Manila Carlos Madrid, Ph. D., will be giving a lecture, “The Direccion de Hidrografia in the Philippines,” which looks at the role of the Spanish marine charting agency that contributed to the charting and delineation of the maritime frontiers of the archipelago. This is part of the Saturday lecture series which is being held in conjunction with the ongoing exhibition on Philippine antique maps and seacharts titled Mapping
the Philippine Seas at the Metropolitan Museum of Manila. The lecture will be held on April 1, 10: 30 a. m. Lecture fee is P150, and P120 for students, senior citizens and PWDs. For details e-mail info@metmuseum.ph or call 708-7829.
CINEMATHEQUE Centre Manila presents “Romcom:
Paano Kiligin ang Pinay,” a talk with Filipino director Mae Cruz-Alviar on March 31, 4 p.m., at the Cinematheque Centre Manila, 855 T.M. Kalaw St., Ermita, 1000 Manila. Admission is free. Visit the event’s page on Facebook for more details.
PERFORMATURA 2017: Performance Literature Festival will be held from March 31 to April 2 at the Cultural Center of the Philippines and Liwasang Balagtas, Pandacan, Manila. The festival pushes Filipino literature through various activities such as an oral literature showcase, a film showing, poetry reading, a mini book fair, Balagtasan, and many more. Admission is free. For inquiries, contact the CCP Intertextual Division at 5515959 or CCP Sales and Promotions Office at 832-3706. E-mail ccpintertextualdivision@gmail.com.
BONIFACIO High Street (BHS) has an ongoing summer series called Summer on the Street. This week will see a Pet Summit (April 1-2), followed by: Walkways: Stations of the Cross (April 9-16), Easter Sunday celebration (April 15); a Health & Wellness Weekend (April 2223); United Geekdom 2 (May 7); Mother’s Day Weekend (May 14); Waggin Tails (May 21); and the Summer Ender Concert (May 27 or 28).
ART
NOW ON its 11th year, Art in the Park brings affordable and approachable art to the public and helps out the Museum Foundation of the Philippines in the process. It will be on April 2, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., at the Jaime Velasquez Park in Salcedo Village, Makati City. Participating are 56 galleries, art collectives, independent art spaces and student groups. For details visit artinthepark.ph or www.facebook.com/artinthepark.
RE-CALIBRATED, an exhibit of works by members of De La Salle College of St. Benilde’s School of Design and Arts department, is ongoing at Picasso in Salcedo Village, Makati City, until April 2.
SILVERLENS presents Pio Abad: Counternarratives which will be on view until April 29. Also ongoing are Nature Into Art, an exhibit of works by ceramic artist Shozo Michikawa. Silverlens is located at the Lapanday Center, 2263 Don Chino Roces Ave., Ext., Makati City.
MAPPING of the Philippine Seas, an exhibit of rare antique Philippine maps and sea charts, is on view until April 29 at the Tall Galleries, Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Complex, Roxas Blvd., Manila.
AN EXHIBIT of video work by Lani Maestro, “her rain” (slaughter), has been extended for viewing until April 16 at MO_Space at Bonifacio High Street, BGC, Taguig City.
FORCED EVACUATION, an exhibit of works by Jaime Pacena II, runs until April 1 at the Blanc Art Gallery, 145 Katipunan Ave., St. Ignatius Village, Quezon City. Blanc Gallery has two other ongoing exhibitions: Too Late for Today, Too Early for Tomorrow by Don Dalmacio and Hinggil sa Mukha ng Kasalukuyan.
PANG Hui Ba Ho Public showcases a private space that is made public, specifically a toilet shared by multiple users with varying private routines. The group exhibit runs until April 24 at the Post Gallery, Shop 7 of Cubao X in Araneta Center, Cubao, Quezon City.
JEWELRY, art, furniture, couture, and objets d’art are on view in Wynn Wynn Ong: Redefining Boundaries (A Retrospective) until June 15 at the Yuchengco Museum. Also on view is Naoko Tosa’s Digital Dimensions. The museum is at the RCBC Plaza, corner Ayala and Gil J. Puyat Avenues, Makati City.
GALLERIA Duemila features Sacha Cotture’s Moments de Creation until April 3. Galeria Duemila is located at 201 Loring St., Pasay City.
THE group show LIGALIG: Art in a Time of Turmoil is on view until May 27 at the Ateneo Art Gallery (AAG). Also at the AAG are Lines: Pictures and Poems by Jose Garcia Villa which is on view until August, AAG in Review: Bellarmine Hall (1960-1967) and Print and Drawing Room (1997-2005) until May, and #LUZ@90 which celebrates National Artist for Visual Arts Arturo R. Luz. It is on view until April 8. The Ateneo Art Gallery is at the Rizal Library Bldg., Ateneo University Campus, Katipunan Ave., Quezon City.
THE Korean Cultural Center (KCC) presents a Korean media art exhibit, Eternal Light, featuring 15 works and installation art by Korean artist Han Ho, at the KCC Exhibit Hall, Taguig City until April 28. APICHATPONG Weerasethakul’s traveling exhibition The Serenity of Madness is on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD), De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde School of Design and Arts, 950 Pablo Ocampo St., Malate, Manila.
TAKE 5 on Aquarelle, an exhibition of watercolor paintings by Alfredo Roces, BenCab, Elmer Borlongan, Kelly Ramos, and Abi Dionisio, is on view at the BenCab Museum in Baguio City until April 7.
ARTINFORMAL has three ongoing exhibitions: Fearful Symmetries by Ronald Achacoso; Other Things in the World by Jan Balaquin, Nice Buenaventura, Nicole Tee, Juni Salvador, Lubin Nepomuceno, Van Tuico, and Reg Yuson; and Still by Raena Abella. The gallery is at 277 Connecticut St., Mandaluyong City.
ARTURO LUZ: First Light is on view until June 11 as part of Ayala Museum’s “Images of Nation,” a program in honor of the National Artists for Visual Arts. Ayala Museum is located at Makati Ave. corner De La Rosa St., Greenbelt Park, Makati City.