Mid-year Curiosities: Lectures · Cuisine · Tour
posted on August 10th, 2007Aug. 18, Sat – An Intimate Portrait Of Juan Luna by Ambeth Ocampo Postponed. This National Hero celebrates his 150th birth anniversary this October. NCCA Chairman, author, and expert, Prof. Ambeth Ocampo, promises an interesting take on this National Hero. The talk will deal with Luna as an artist in the context of the emergence of the Filipino nation as well as his human side.
Spolarium, a Juan Luna painting measuring 4.22 by 7.67 meters. It won the First Medal Award in the Madrid, Spain Exposition of 1884. The painting shows the Spoliarium of the Roman Coliseum where the dead gladiators were taken from the arena above. The Spolarium belongs to the National Museum Collection.
10 am – 12 nn, Ablaza Hall, National Art Gallery (P300 Museum Foundation members, P400 non-members)
Aug. 18, Sat – Stories About Philippine Art: Obra Maestra Mamera by Dr. Roland Tolentino and Prof. Reuben. Dr Tolentino will discuss how art is made original or one-of-a-kind, how it transposes from the aesthetic to the commercial, anthropological, folk, kitsch and touristic. Prof Cañete, for his part, will delineate the development of an aesthetics of “mass sacralization” done by museums to address the shift of marketing focus from elite to mass audience
2pm – 4pm, Auditorium of the UP College of Mass Communication. (P50 for students, P100 for MF members, P150 for non-members.)
Aug. 23, Thu – Power, Palace And A Shot Of Beer: A tour of Malacañang Palace and San Miguel mansions with Ivan Man Dy Postponed. This deluxe walk includes a private tour inside the Malacañang Palace Museum as well as an excellent merienda at the Legarda Mansion.
Meeting point: San Sebastian Church steps. 9am – 2pm. (P1000 for members and P1200 for non-members.)
Sept. 1, Sat – Culinary Tour: PAMPANGA Travelers who pass by Pampanga encounter all sorts of rice cakes, sweets, snacks and delicatessen. To name a few, the turones de casoy and sans rival of Sta Rita; the tamales and puto seco of Bacolor; pastillas de leche of Magalang. Don’t miss this cultural and culinary roadtrip to Pampanga, the culinary center of the Philippines!
Meeting point: Santuario de San Antonio, Forbes Park, Makati. 6am – 6pm. (P1900 for members, P2200 for non-members.)
Sept. 8, Sat - Stories About Philippine Art: Topic and speaker to be confirmed.
Sept. 29, Sat - Cultural Study Tour: The Lake Towns Of Laguna with Ino Manalo. Itinerary and pricing to be confirmed.
* Schedule and prices are subject to change. In case of bad weather, we may be forced to postpone our events.
You can download the August 2007 Reservation form in pdf or zipped pdf formats.
For inquiries or reservations, call Museum Foundation of the Philippines at telefax 404.2685 or mobile 0928.503.9392 and look for Elvie Magpayo or Tricia Limon or call 722-9073 and look for Flor.
E-mail: office@museumfoundationph.org
Website: www.museumfoundationph.org
Membership renewals are ongoing. Current members are entitled to enter the National Museum for free upon presentation of their membership cards.
August 18th, 2007 at 11:25 am
I would like to subcrribe to your email listing. Can please send me your schedule so I c an attend your lecturtes/outings? Thank you.
Ma. Cristinta Roces
August 18th, 2007 at 6:47 pm
next time please update your posted schedules at your website much earlier, because at about 9am before i left the house for the juan luna lecture, i checked your website and there was no indication that it was cancelled. about 5 of us from different places were there early.
August 18th, 2007 at 8:45 pm
noel: hmmm… that is strange. i edited the above post to reflect “postponed” and sent out the notice about the same time around 5:30pm the day before. something to look into, definitely. ach. but that is no excuse.
my apologies for the inconvenience and my thanks for the constructive comment. we will indeed post updates and send out notices as early as we can especially in circumstances similar to what we are having — storms and all.
again, my apologies and my thanks.
August 19th, 2007 at 10:40 am
Is the national museum main building open to the general public. I did not attended the talk of Mr. Ambeth Ocampo due to rains. I wish you could opened it finally so the the public can view again Juan Luna’s Spoliarium.
Mabuhay and More Power!!
August 23rd, 2007 at 3:19 pm
i asked elvie and yes, the national museum/national arts gallery is open to the public from 10 in the morning to 4 in the afternoon from tuesdays to sundays. and yes, juan luna’s spolarium is open for viewing.
just to be sure, call first before going there.