Foundation News

April Summer Selections

1. An Intramuros Walk with Streetwalker, Ivan Man Dy
April 14, Saturday, 9:00 am

This is where it all began.

Get the real story behind our city’s epic Malay, Chinese, Spanish, American and Japanese chop suey experience as we traipse through the walls of Manila’s original walled city! Its four-centuries of his and her-story as we wonder through museums, churches and colonial houses; past plazas, cobbles, ruins, bulwarks and even tombstones! To cap it off, we’ll check out one of the best views in Manila, ever. This is a walk that’ll make you sweat with bucket loads of history, trivia and everything Filipiniana!

Tour Highlights: Plaza Roma * Manila Cathedral * Bahay Tsinoy Museum * San Agustin Church and Museum Complex * Intramuros Wall
Meeting point: 8:30 am, meet at the Bahay Tsinoy Museum lobby (32 Anda cor. Cabildo Street, Intramuros)*
Cost: P750 for members & P850 for non-members
Max. no of participants: 30

2. Stories about Philippine Art
April 14, Saturday, 2:00 pm

(Topic & Lecturer to be announced)

Cost: P50 for students, P100 for members and P150 for non-members

3. Tour: Kulinarya Tagala
April 21, Saturday, 6:00 am - 7:00 pm
Journey through the southern Tagalog region with us! The whole day affair features a series of food demonstrations, ancestral homes, churches and, of course, lots of food! We’ll also stop by two artists’ studios: Carlito’s workshop (a brass sculptor) and Ugu Bigyan’s Pottery Studio. The trip is topped off with the Tagayan ritual and some souvenir shopping! Tagay na!

Tour Highlights: Breakfast at Kusina Salud, Carlito’s Brass Workshop, Sariaya Ancestral Homes, Kiping & longganisang Lucban demo, Ugu Bigyan’s Pottery Garden.
Meeting point: 6:00 am at Santuario de San Antonio Church, Forbes Park, Makati
Cost: P2200 for members, P2500 for non-members
Max. no of participants: 25

You can download the reservation form as pdf or zipped pdf.

For more information or reservations please call 404-2685/ 0928-503-9392 and look for Elvie or Patricia or call Flor at 722-9073

1. March 7, 9, 12 9am to 4 pm
Encarnador Workshop with Tats Manahan

The Lopez Memorial Museum and the Museum Foundation of the Philippines, Inc will hold a 3-day demonstration and workshop on art techniques at the National Museum. Included in the workshop is a short introduction on the work of the encarnador, background on history of decorative arts in the Philippines vis-à-vis Spain and Italy, and the encarnador technique translated into decoration for objects d’art. Writer-director Tats Manahan will facilitate the workshop.

Meeting point: Museum Foundation office, G/F Museum of the Filipino People, Finance Road, Manila
Cost: P5000, inclusive of materials

2. March 10, 2007, Saturday, 10:00 am to 12:00 nn
Stories on Philippine Art: Uncovering the National Art Gallery

Museum Foundation of the Philippines and the Lopez Memorial Museum invite you to the third in our lecture series Stories on Philippine Art: Uncovering the National Art Gallery. Curator Patrick D. Flores will give us a private viewing and on-site lecture of the National Art Gallery which was closed since 2001. We will see seven galleries, including the “Hall of Masters” which exhibits two monumental masterpieces of the 19th century, namely Luna’s Spoliarium and Hidalgo’s La Tragedia del Gobernador Fernando de Bustamante y Bustillos

Meeting point: Lobby of the main building of the National Museum (the bldg with a gate across the Museum of the FIlpino People). Registration starts at 9:30am.

Cost: P150 for members and P300 for non-members

3. March 24, 2007, Saturday, 11:30 am
A Culinary Affair with Pia Lim-Castillo at Le Soufflé, Rockwell

Pia Lim-Castillo discusses the intricacies of the Filipino meal and how the land and seas as well as the history of colonization have affected our foodways from what it was before to what it is now. Despite the changes in foodways and habits, the underlying social importance of the meal will always be there. The luncheon menu will be prepared by Chef Jessie Sincioco.

Venue: Le Soufflé, Amorsolo West Bldg., Residential Drive, Rockwell Center.

(Fee to be announced)

For more information or reservations, please call the Museum Foundation at 404.2685/ 722.9073 and look for Elvie, Flor or Patricia.

You can download the March 2007 reservervation for in pdf or zipped pdf.