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A Community-Based Teaching Art Gallery: Casa San Pablo Opens an Art Space for Public School Teachers
Get PDFTransforming Theater for the Oppressed: Community Theater as Urban Poor Discourse in Sining Kadamay’s Gapok
Get PDFIn March 2017, the issue of urban poor housing was exposed on a national scale when thousands of members of the urban poor group Kadamay forcibly occupied nearly 6,000 abandoned housing units meant for members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police in Pandi, Bulacan. Kadamay members were accused of being mendicant anarchists by their critics, while their supporters lauded their determination in demanding, and winning, their rights to housing. While the issue polarized Philippine society, it is evident that the Occupy Pandi movement revitalized urban poor discourse, and brought back to the fore the contradictions between the promises of the city and the prevalence of poverty and lack of opportunity for the majority of its inhabitants, those belonging to the urban poor sector. This paper aims to contribute towards this discussion by attempting to present urban poor mentalities as formulated by the members of the urban poor themselves, and how they have manifested through art. Among the various member organizations of Kadamay is the cultural group Sining Kadamay or SiKad. Initially formed by Kadamay to serve as its cultural arm, SiKad grew into an organization-member of Kadamay. While Sikad has several art programs, this paper will focus on its theater program, the Teatro Mulong Sandoval, and its one-act play Gapok. Set in an urban poor community threatened by poverty and demolition, what makes Gapok unique is its intimacy, not just in content but also in terms of space, as the play was designed to be performed in urban poor communities, and transform its audience from spectators to spectactors. The paper will scrutinize the dynamics of the art production in Gapok, how accurately it reflects the discourses that the urban poor engage in, and the role of the urban poor in (trans)forming art to serve their sector
Laro Lang, o, Ilang Guhit Pa-Patintero
Get PDFTinatangka ng kasalukuyang kritika sa pamamagitan ng pagbasa sa patintero, isang salita at isang larong may sariling panuto, ang panimulang pagdalumat sa laro bilang paraan ng pagpapakahulugan. Nilalaro ng kritika ang patintero—mula sa pagiging isang laro, bilang isang talinghaga, tungo sa pagiging isang palabas: ang pelikulang Patintero: Ang Alamat ni Meng Patalo (2015, dir. Mihk Vergara). Sa pagbasa sa nasabing pelikula, dinadalumat ang pelikula bilang patintero, na mabisang nagtatakda ng mga guhit ng hangganan para sa pakikipaglaro sa mga manonood. Ang pagguhit na ito sa patintero bilang pelikula (at sa pelikula, bilang patintero) ang alinsabay na nakapagguguhit din sa kritika bilang isa ring pakikipagpatintero, na alinsunod sa kalooban ng pagkabata, nakaguguhit mula sa kakulitang kalikutang krisis.The current critique attempts to read patintero, a Filipino word and game about crossing lines with its own rules, as a philosophical tool for interpreting meaning. The critique plays with patintero—which elevates it from a game to a metaphor, and into a performance applied to the film Patintero: Ang Alamat ni Meng Patalo (Patintero: The Myth of Meng the Loser, 2015, dir. Mihk Vergara). In reading the film, film is theorized according to the game which requires some form of line-towing with the viewer. The lines inscribed in patintero as film (and in the film as a game) is simultaneously drawn in the critique as a form of crossing the line that is consistent with the desire of many children, whose constant blurring of the lines between stubborness and control represents a form of crisis
A New Model for Globalization in the Film Industry: Lessons from Sino-US Film Co-productions
Get PDFInternational co-productions have become a dominant practice in the film industry. Within this emerging trend, China has become a major participant and is using it as an important method to enter the global market. Despite the enhanced globalization of the film industry, many preceding studies consider it as a national industry and investigate it from this context. Therefore, this paper uses the concept of the global value chain in order to understand more effectively the fragmentation of the film value chain. This framework helps examine how filmmakers denationalize the film value chain by collaborating with foreign partners on a global scale. This paper further conducts a case study of the Sino-US co-produced movie, The Great Wall. It was China’s most expensive movie to date, and is frequently cited as the new model for producing a “true” international co-production. This paper finds that with various tools of internationalization, international co-productions can help the Chinese side increase its involvement in all processes, and can lead to the reduction of the national identity in films. Such a process helps attract a more global audience. In addition, this paper provides useful guidelines for policy makers to respond effectively to the increasing globalization in the cultural industries
Public Reason and a Pedagogy for Reasonableness
Get PDFJohn Rawls and Jürgen Habermas have undertaken a conversation on the meaning and significance of ‘public reason.’ This paper seeks out the main features of this conversation, and contends that the idea of the ‘community of inquiry’ in Philosophy for Children can respond to some of the concerns raised, as part of deliberative practice. Finally, it argues that for public reason to be created it is imperative that there be a pedagogy for reasonableness, following Matthew Lipman
A Vocabulary of Philippine Food and Well-being
Get PDFA preliminary study of culinary words during the Spanish colonial era reveals multiple dimensions to feeding. Entries in dictionaries of Philippine languages compiled from 1613 to 1895 reveal kalusugan as food for the body, kaginhawaan as sustenance for the soul, and nayánayá as nutriment for the social self. The tripartite diet was a recipe for happiness and contentment. It is a legacy to review when designing contemporary strategies for national well-being
