Project

Bakawan Arts

FestivalEthos Bathos Pathos Exhibit

February 12 ~ March 14, 2015

UP Vargas Museum

About Project Bakawan

Arts Festival @ UPD

Ethos Bathos Pathos Featuring photographer Tommy Hafalla, sculptor

Junyee, composer Jonas Baes and autonomous

groups: Onsite Infoshop, Etnikobandido,

Marindukanon Studies Center at Info Shop

Marinduque, overXout and Civ Lab. Presented by

Project Bakawan and Planting Rice with the support

of The Japan Foundation, Manila.

Marindukanon Studies Center

x Info Shop Marinduque Creating commons between public (state-funded)

and private (sponsored) research about Philippine

culture, consciousness and society

Drawing traversal lines between Marinduque,

MIMAROPA, the Philippines, SE Asia, Asia Pacific

and the whole planet

Curates and archives user-generated content about

translocality and xenophilia through multi-platform

means like offline/online radio and swarm

bibliotheque

Feb. 18, 2015/

Wednesday Open Space Technology w/ PeaceChurch

Philippines

Provide alternative visioning

Introduce survival framework through peace and

reconciliation

1~5pm (4 hours)

Workable action plan for the succeeding activities to

be generated from the workshop

Feb. 26/ Thursday Drum Circle/ open jam

w/ kaibuturan x bata

create tools for exchange and sharing

introduce drumming culture

1~4pm (3 hours)

connect sustainability issues and drumming

practices

March 4, 2015/

Wednesday Sulat kamay collective performance and skills

sharing

writing as a tool for ecology x economics

introduce autonomous publishing

9~12pm (3 hrs)

Produce germinal ideas about relations of

economics and the environment

March 6/ Friday Kontra Gapi music workshop

establish sound and vernacular expression

introduce music and identity formation

9~12pm (3 hrs)

Create sounds about resistance

March 10/ Tuesday Pag-iral discussion about survival

provide a platform for local studies and knowledge

production

talk about survival of gov’t and privately fundeded

projects

9~12pm (overview) 1~4pm (round table discussion)

Provide content about survival in the urban and

rural areas in the Philippines and asia pacific

March 11/ Wednesday Likas-kaya skills-sharing about sustainable

practices

reflect on local x indigenous practices on

sustainability

introduce autonomous groups and activities in Bicol,

Negros and Davao

9~12pm (overview) 1~4pm (workshop)

Create content about sustainable practices in the

local contexts of autonomous spaces and info

shops

March 12, Thursday OIKOS discussion on ecology and economics

Report back on Humanitarian Technologies project

Report back on Spaces in Transition?

9~12pm (overview) 1~4pm (open forum)

Produce content about the relationship between the

environment, disaster and spaces

March 13/ Friday DANUM discussion peer to peer exchange x

peripheral centers

Introduce contemporary Philippine studies in

relation to asia pacific, south east asia and

globalization

9~12pm

Plot future projects like conferences, for a,

colloquia, etc

Feb 12/opening

reception Discussion on autonomous groups w/ onsite, EB

info shop, Civ:Lab, ISM x MSC

Introduce and provide overview of activities

Use open space to articulate “where have we been?

How to dream the future?”

6pm onwards

Profiles and activity design from each participant

Feb 14/ Saturday Creative Resistance discussion

specify possible future activities

provide details about SKA kontra SONA, No APEC,

anti election campaign etc

1~5pm

Actions plans and synthesis

See you! Join, participate