Discover how to create art from junk material. Old toys, office equipment, spare parts suddenly find themselves not as useless matter but as part of an artwork, made with care and to be admired.

pound, sn/ip, fold, p-oke, twist and simply have a good time by letting your creativity and imagination run wild. This workshop is being offered to prove that ordinary material can become works of art and that ordinary people are all artists. No formal art training is required for this workshop. Just come with your hands, an open mind and a willingness to have fun.

Giving the workshop is metal sculptor Ral Arrogante. Mr. Arrogante will show us how to make simple sculptures using recycled materials such as metal, wood, and plastic. He takes cold and rigid metals and transforms them into an artwork that speaks of movement and warm, endearing sentiments like amusement, fascination and nostalgia. The artist creates sculptures that are meant to connect with the viewer- intellectually, emotionally and physically.

Lecture: Inscapes by Agnes Arellano
From the series Stories about Philippine Art
When: April 12 (Sat) · Time: 10:00 am – 12:00 nn · Venue: 4th Fl, Tambunting Villonco Hall,Museum of the Filipino People · Fee: P50 for students with valid ID, P100 for members and P150 for non-members

Goddess myths and stories about the Sacred Feminine form the background of Arellano’s inscapes, a term she uses to describe her grouping of sculptures, where the viewer goes through a series of freestanding, floor, and wall pieces, often with accompanying music or sound sculpture, and gleans the central unifying concept from the totality or ‘gestalt’ of the whole environment.

The lecture and slide presentation will also briefly cover the sculptor’s varied range of materials and basic techniques of live-casting and direct modeling in both plaster of paris and clay into bronze.

Download:
April 2008 Activities: pdf | zipped pdf
April 2008 Reservation Form: pdf | zipped pdf

Fee: Only P850.00 for members and P1000.00 for non-members.
Meeting point: Departure from Museum of the Filipino People at 6:30 am. ETA in Manila is 7:00 pm.

Oct. 6, Sat – Cultural Study Tour: The Lake Towns Of Laguna with Ino Manalo. Laguna de Bay is one of the important heartlands of Tagalog culture. It is the largest lake in the Philippines which nurtures a necklace of towns rich traditional architecture, arts, rituals and food. A trip around the lake (whose name means, the lake of the mother) is a journey into some of the sacred and germinal spaces of Philippine culture.

Fee: P1,900 for members and P2200 for non-members.
Meeting point: Departure from Santuario de San Antonio, Forbes Park, Makati. at 6:30 am. ETA in Manila 7:30 pm.

Oct. 20, Sat – Cultural Study Tour: Kulinarya Tagala with Tina Decal. Journey through the southern Tagalog region with us! The whole day affair features a series of cooking demonstrations, artists’ studios, ancestral homes, churches and, of course, lots of food!

Fee: To be announced
Meeting point: Departure from Santuario de San Antonio, Forbes Park, Makati at 6:30 am. ETA in Manila is 8:30 pm.

You can download the reservation form in pdf or zipped pdf formats.

For inquiries or reservations, call Museum Foundation of the Philippines at:
Telefax: 404 2685 or 722 9073
Mobile: 0928 503 9392 or 0917 817 0127
E-mail: office@museumfoundationph.org
Please look for Elvie, Tricia or Flor.

Thank you to all those who were interested in the tours and talks and we apologize for having to postpone the events due to the weather. Please find below the new dates and activities we have for September. Hope to see you there!

Warm regards,

Patricia Limon
Executive Director
Museum Foundation of the Philippines

Aug. 25, 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. (Fee: P50 for students, P100 for MF members, P150 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. (Fee: P1900 for members, P2200 for non-members.) Deadline for reservation is August 28.

Sept. 6, Thurs – Power, Palace and a Shot of Beer: A tour of Malacanang Palace and San Miguel Mansions with Ivan Man Dy. 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. (Fee: P1000 for members and P1200 for non-members.) Deadline for reservation is August 28.

Sept. 8, Sat Stories About Philippine Art: Topic and speaker to be confirmed.

Sept. 15, Sat – An Intimate Portrait of Juan Luna by Ambeth Ocampo. 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 (Fee: P75, students, P200 Museum Foundation members, P400 non-members)

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 reservation form in pdf or zipped pdf formats.

For inquiries or reservations, call Museum Foundation of the Philippines at:
Telefax: 404 2685 or 722 9073
Mobile: 0928 503 9392 or 0917 817 0127
E-mail: office@museumfoundationph.org
Please look for Elvie, Tricia or Flor.

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.

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

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.