CRISOSTOMO IBARRA COMES TO LIFE IN BALLET PHILIPPINES TOUR

CRISOSTOMO IBARRA COMES TO LIFE IN BALLET PHILIPPINES TOUR

Crisostomo Ibarra, the protagonist in Dr. Jose Rizal's Noli Me Tangere, leaps from the pages of the incendiary novel and onto the stage in a contemporary dance retelling by Ballet Philippines July 25, 2011 at the Colegio San Agustin-Bacolod Gym with 2 shows at 2PM and 6PM.

Artists’ groups of Negros Dance Pull Dance Company and The Performance Laboratory Inc. come together with The  Negros Museum to commemorate the 150^th Birth Anniversary of our national hero, Dr. Jose P. Rizal with this rare performance of Ballet Philippines in Bacolod.

Under the choreography of Paul Alexander Morales (Artistic Director of Ballet Philippines) and music by Jed Balsamo, Crisostomo Ibarra springs to life in a new production about a young man’s struggles to stand tall in his ideals despite the cruel buffets of fate. The dance narration takes the audience inside the psychological world of Ibarra and strips bare this epic story that underscores the continuing relevance of Rizal’s timeless character.

Crisostomo Ibarra, the dance, highlights the life of an idealist reformer, a man striving to make a change in a society living under corruption and oppression. It takes an introspective look at the life of a hero sacrificing his personal happiness for love for country. The dance resonates with hope and reflects the Filipinos’ need for heroes in a society buffeted by many challenges and divergent beliefs.

Crisostomo Ibarra is presented in cooperation with the National Commission for Culture and the Arts NCCA in celebration of the Philippines as the ASEAN Cultural Capital for 2010-2011. It topbills Jean Marc Cordero reprising Crisostomo Ibarra; silver medalist in the recently concluded International Ballet Competition, Candice Adea, as Maria Clara; Kit Trofeo, Angel Gabriel, and Carissa Adea lead the cast. The BP touring group also includes Bacolod’s Macel Dofitas.

This production is Ballet Philippines’ second offering for its 41st season, Hero’s Journey. An excellent artistic and educational supplement for students taking Filipino and Rizal classes, Crisostomo Ibarra brings together history and ballet in this new interpretation of the novel
that shaped a nation. Crisostomo Ibarra is a winner for Outstanding Dance Production and Outstanding Ensemble Performance in the upcoming 2010 Gawad Buhay Awards for the Performing Arts.

Tickets of P1000, P500, P300 and P100 are available at the Negros Museum 708-5080, MMB Dance Center 707-7164, Lydia Gaston School of Dance 453-0226, The Garcia-Sanchez School of Dance 434-8139 and Dance Pull Dance School 456-1291. Students will be given 30% discount and bulk purchases can avail of special discounts also. 

New Museum Hours & Days

The Negros Museum announces new Museum Hours

The Negros Museum will open from Tuesdays to Sundays from 10AM-8PM starting next Friday, June 24, 2011.

TNM Executive Director Tanya Lopez encourages everyone especially the working sector and their families to visit the Museum and attend its different events after work and on weekends. The extended hours hope to give room for other interested Negrenses and guests to enjoy the Museum, its exhibits and galleries.

June 24, 2011 will also mark the re-opening of the Museum Café with a unique menu of natural artisan culinary art highlighting Negros’ natural and locally grown food like coffee from La Granja. The Café can also sit more than 50 people where one can enjoy either PHINMA Main Gallery’s art exhibits or the exterior grounds with Raymond Legaspi ‘s mural “Hacienda Unwind”.

For more information and bookings, please contact The Negros Museum at : (034) 708-5080 | 4319451, TeleFax:  (034)433–4764, 0921-3307861 (Smart) or e-mail us at negros_museum96@yahoo.com. ###

Negros Museum Opens New Museum Café

Negros Museum

Opens 

New Museum Café

on June 24, 2011

Freshly Brewed Natural Buenos Aires Mountain Coffee
We also welcome you to Sugarlandia with 3 kinds of sugar
(White refined, brown crystals and muscovado) and with fresh milk
Photo by: Jomi Garrucho - Digital Arts Photography

Exciting new things will be happening at the Negros Museum with the newer Museum Café to be officially opened on June 24, 2011, Friday at 6:30PM.

Pair these Petite Madeleines with our Buenos Aires Mountain Coffee. The flavour is similar to, but somewhat lighter than, sponge cake. Madeleines are very small sponge cakes with a distinctive shell-like shape acquired from being baked in pans with shell-shaped depressions. (Wikipedia) Photo by Michael David

For the Opening of the Museum Café, different artists from all disciplines and from all parts of Negros are coming together to support this addition to the local museum. Theater groups BINHI Creative Arts, Maskara Theater Ensemble and Negrense musicians will perform different numbers to toast to the celebration. The visual arts will be represented by Silaynon artist Raymond Legaspi with his past works in exhibit at the PHINMA Main Gallery and the mural at the garden of the Cafe entitled "Hacienda Unwind". 

Drink your Freshly squeezed Orange and Iced Fresh Ginger-Lime
in PHINMA Main Gallery as you enjoy the paintings in exhibit.
Photo by Quino Yao

A Special Auction for the benefit of The Negros Museum will be happening on the same night with ten of the most successful artists of Negros, like Charlie Co and Nune Alvarado, each  of them agreed to work on a very special board set with a historic piece from Silay City. 

Choose your bread richly dressed with your favorite choice
of ham, bacon, fruits jams, beef croquettes,
smoked chicken or smoked Atlantic Salmon.
Photo by Ronnie J. Baldonado

The night will also showcase the work of 10 volunteer photographers around the province who came to share their time for the Negros Museum. Museum Café will be using more than 200 photos from the special photo shoot sessions that these hobbyists and professional photographers have done the past few days.

Photo by Photographer Jomi Garrucho
Organic Black Peony Tea, can be served hot or iced.
One of the Top 100 Teas in the World

The Museum Cafe's unique menu boasts of fresh and natural ingredients which are mostly locally sourced and produced. They will serve Batangas coffee and the Buenos Aires blend of Maao. This is the only Café here in Negros that will serve 10 of the Top 100 Teas in the World which includes Rosebud Tea, Black Peony Tea, Lapsang Souchong Smoked Black Tea, Big Leaf Baimudan White Tea and many more.

Just as bread was baked hundreds of years ago, the four kinds of bread for your sandwich is made the old fashion way: white flour, whole wheat flour, corn flour, water, yeast and our humble Bago sea salt. One can choose from 36 different combinations of sandwiches with ham made from scratch like the one-year cured ham Pata Negros, or with fruit jams or with Sagay beef croquettes. The light, homemade young cheese from La Carlota milk and curdled with lime, certainly a must-try, is also an exciting addition to the list.

Homemade Young Cheese from La Granja, La Carlota milk and curdled with local lime.
Photo by Quino Yao

The Museum Café will also serve local and international liquor from 4PM and onwards. Sweet pastries and non-alcoholic beverages will also be available.

Red and White wine are available. We also have other liquors and local beers.
Photo by Jomi Garrucho

For more information and other details, please find NegrosMuseumTNM on Facebook or follow their blogs at http://negrosmuseum.blogspot.com or call (034) 7085080 | 09213307861. The Negros Museum and Museum Café are both open from Tuesdays to Sundays, 10AM to 8PM starting June 24. ####

MUSEUM CAFE Re-Opening

3rd PANDAYAN Summer Theatre Arts Workshops

3rd

PANDAYAN

SUMMER

THEATRE ARTS

WORKSHOPS

The Negros Museum in collaboration with The Performance Laboratory Inc. with the support of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts will be starting its 3rd Pandayan Summer Theatre Arts Workshops this May until the 1st week of June 2011 at the Negros Musuem with focus on writing, technical theater management and advance theater courses.

Technical Theater workshop which will be starting today May 18 until 21st focuses on the basics of Technical Theater and will include theories and practical applications on the following disciplines: Lighting/ Sound/ Scenery/ Stage Property/ Costumes/ Hair/ Makeup/  Special Effects / Video. However, emphasis shall be given to Lighting and Sound/Audio.

Instructor for Technical Theater will be Checcs Osmena-Orbida who has been working as Technical Director and Sound Designer for more than 20 years now with top concert/event directors in the country on top of being a stage director, screenwriter, and stage/ film actress. 

Ford Foundation International Fellow and Ateneo de Manila University professor Glenn Sevilla Mas will be giving the workshop on Adapting and Devising a Work Specifically for the Stage. This advanced theater course involves dramaturgy and collaboration focusing on the roles of the director, actor and playwright. Participants will collaborate with each other in devising a theater piece which will be showcased during the culminating activity. This will be on May 26-29.

And from June 2-5, Pandayan Summer Theater Workshops present Scene Improvisation with Focus on Unit Study which will be taught by Romeo Narvaez. This course specifically designed for actors and directors includes unit study on acting, especially delivering long, kilometric lines and monologues, scenario making based on the given script and practical exercises on observation with emphasis on character development.

Romeo Narvaez, is the Artistic Director of the Sining Kabpapagariya Ensemble of Mindanao State University – General Santos City.  He is currently a member of the Committee on Dramatic Arts of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts and one of the stalwart pioneers of Theater and Peace in Mindanao.  His play “Dula Ta” which centers on children in conflict has received critical acclaim and an invitation to perform in several European countries. 

 Theater groups, teachers for drama and theater and interested individuals who want to join the workshops are welcome to inquire and register at the Negros Museum, please contact (034) 4334764 | 7085080 | 09213307861.

WORKSHOP: ART FOR HEALING TRAINOR’S TRAINING

ART FOR HEALING

TRAINOR’S TRAINING WORKSHOP

The Negros Museum and National Commission for Culture and the Arts thru the Artists for Crisis Program invites all NGOs working with children and interested participants to the Art for Healing Trainor’s Training Workshop which will be held on May 23 – 26 at the Negros Museum.

The workshop is specifically designed for support staff of institutions handling “children in crisis, as well as local artists and guidance counselors/psychology teachers who are interested in using Art for Healing.

The objectives of the workshop are as follows: to provide “children in crisis” a creative and artistic venue of expressing powerful emotions; to equip support staff of institutions handling children in crisis, basic skills to interpret and process art images and               expressions; to help institutions handling children in crisis create an in house program using Art to help in the healing of traumatic experiences; and, to establish a (possible) network between institutions handling children in crisis, local artists and counselors/psychology instructors which can help sustain a program using Art for Healing.

The Negros Museum envisions a collaborative effort between local Negrense Artists who will conduct the art workshops, with the NGO support staff interpreting and processing the art expressions in partnership with guidance counselor/psychologists so that they could develop activities which can help address the issues of their clientele which can help in the process of healing.

“Children in Crisis” refers to children who have experienced emotional, physical and sexual abuses as well as children who have undergone traumatic experiences and the “Support Staff” of institutions handling “children in crisis” refer to social workers, house mothers/fathers, volunteers, educators.

The Negros Museum encourages those who are interested to send two participants to the workshop.  Workshop Fee is Php 1,500 per participant or Php 2,500 for two participants.  For more information and reservation of slots for the workshop, please contact the Museum at 433 4764 or 708 5080 | 0921-3307861.

KIBON the Repeat!

LATE NIGHT PERFORMANCES at the Negros Museum

The Negros Museum in collaboration with The Performance Laboratory is presenting KIBON on April 27, 2011, Wednesday at 7:07PM at the Museum Lobby.

KIBON is an Ilonggo Adaptation by Tanya Lopez of Jean Paul Sartre’s NO EXIT and to be performed by University of Saint La Salle’s Maskara Theater Ensemble.

Adam Riolo directs the performers Nonilon Torpes, Kurt Soberano, Ritchell Balisnomo and Adelyn Maloloy-on.

This was a fringe performance for the TANGHAL 5: National University Theater Festival hosted here in Bacolod City.

77 seats are available for Php 77.00 only. For more information, you may contact 4334764 | 7085080 | 09213307861. ####

SPONSOR A STUDENT Project Summer 2011

THE NEGROS MUSEUM

invites

YOU

to be a part of their

LIVES.

The Bacolod City National High School has hundreds of deserving and artistic students who wanted to join but could not simply afford.

Help us build a DREAM for these students.

*** Note: PhP 2,500 (Philippine Pesos) is about US$57.

Message us if you are interested to sponsor a student. Thank you very much!

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THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

Negros Museum turns 15!

15TH NEGROS MUSEUM SUMMER ART WORKSHOPS

THE NEGROS MUSEUM

invites everyone to join

15^TH NEGROS MUSEUM
SUMMER ART WORKSHOPS

this coming

APRIL 11- MAY 6, 2011

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

1. Play Art for Kids (3-5 years old)

An exciting way of introducing arts to children with a mixture of different disciplines such as movement, music, visual arts, storytelling and a whole lot of play.

April 11-May 6/ 9:00 am-11:00 am (Mondays – Fridays)

Instructor: Edmund Bacia

Workshop Fee: P 2,500

2. Theater for Kids (6 to 8 years old)

Children learn the basics of theater through exercises in acting and stagecraft.  Encourages the child to discover and explore use of his body in expressing himself.  Exercises aimed to develop self confidence and social relations.

April 11-May 6/ 9:00 am-11:00 am (Mondays – Fridays)

Instructor: Ihvonie Sevilleno

Workshop Fee: P 2,500

3. Theater for Tweens (9 to 12 years old)

Provides the environment for participants to explore and express their imagination in acting and design. Exercises in Scene Work cultivate resourcefulness and problem solving skills in the individual.

April 11-May 6 / 1:00 - 4:00pm (Mondays to Fridays)

Instructor: Adam Henoch Riolo

Workshop Fee: P 2,500

4. Theater for Teens (13 to 15 years old)

Participants develop the ability to understand and deal with their emotions through Character Work.  Technical Theater activities encourage expressions through various areas of design and encourage craftsmanship in their output.

April 11-May 6 / 1:00 - 4:30pm (Mondays to Fridays)

Instructor: Nonilon Torpez

Workshop Fee: P 2,500

5. Digital Photography for Kids and Teens (9 - 16 years old)

This course focuses on developing the participant’s eye for details and a deeper appreciation of looking at the world. Experience photographers make up the resource pool and will be sharing tips and techniques on the different areas of photography.

*Participants allowed to use any kind of digital camera

April 11-May 6/ 9:00 am-12:00 nn (Mondays – Fridays)

Workshop Fee: P 2,500

6. Basic Drawing/Painting/Terra Cotta (8 - 12 years old)

Ideal for children who have keen interest in visual arts, this workshop provides opportunities for exploration of various visual arts media and focuses in encouraging participant to find his medium and develop his own style of expression.

April 11-May 6/ 1:00 pm-4:00 pm (Mondays – Fridays)

Workshop Fee: P 2,500
Instructor: Edmund Bacia

15th Negros Museum Summer Arts Workshops 2011 Video Plug

9. April 11 - May 6:

AA - Acting for Adults (17 years old and UP)

Mondays to Fridays - 5PM-8PM

Workshop Fee: P 2,500

10. April 29 - May 12

Movement by Rene Hinojales - 2 weeks

Mondays to Fridays - 8am - 12nn

17-25 years old

Workshop Fee: 1,500

11. April 13 - May 6:

Contemporary Dance Techniques and Improvisations/Compositions

by Dwight Rodrigazo

4:30PM-6:30PM MWF

17-25 years old

Workshop Fee: P 2,000

12. April 11 - April 15

Being Approach to Acting by Tanya Lopez

6:30pm - 11pm

18-30 years old

Workshop Fee: P 1,500

13. April 11-May 6:

OFF CAM - Digital Film Production Workshop

9am-12noon - Mondays to Fridays

16 and up

Workshop Fee: P 2,500
Instructor: Banjo Hinolan

14. Scene Improvisation w/ Focus on Unit Study

PANDAYAN Workshop
Instructor: Romy Narvaez

15. Technical Theater Workshop

PANDAYAN Workshop
Tentative Schedule: 2nd Week of May
Workshop Fees: P 1,500
Instructor: Checcs Osmena

Workshop fees range from PhP1,200 - PhP2,500 per participant for the 15-day module from Mondays to Fridays. All workshops are open to a limited number of students. All interested individuals are strongly encouraged to pre-register/pay at the Negros Museum. 

This workshop is supported by PAGCOR, Dunkin Donuts, Nature’s Village Resort and Hotel and BHTV Bacolod’s Hottest Television.

For more information, please contact (034) 708-5080 | 4319451 | 4334764 / (SMART) 0921-3307861 / (SUN) 0933-9603627 | (GLOBE) 09173007742 or email us at negros_museum96@yahoo.com.


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