EXHIBITS
Silverlens Galleries will open three exhibitions on June 4, 6 p.m. These are: Eric Zamuco’s Visible Currents, an experiential exhibit of reconstructed forms; Chati Coronel’s latest solo exhibit, The Way In/The Way Out, using seven colors, one for each painting; and, Johan Espiritu’s Cy Prés. The three exhibits will run until July at Silverlens, 2/F YMC Bldg. 2, 2320 Don Chino Roces Ave. Ext., Makati City. For inquiries, contact info@silverlens.com or call (02) 816-0044.
As the Philippines celebrates its 118th Independence Day, the Makati Shangri-La, Manila will hold two art exhibit at the Lobby Lounge Luxe. These are Love the Earth, Heal the Spirit featuring works by Fernando Modesto from June 1 to 15, and Encuentros featuring works by National Artist Federico Alcuaz from June 16 to 26.
Filipino Heritage Festival, Inc. presents Philippine Rivers and Lakes exhibit, at SM North EDSA – The Block Atrium until June 12. For inquiries, call (02) 576-8139 or e-mail heritagemonth@yahoo.com.ph.
Fifteen-year-old Miles Fabonan explores the consequences of relationships between aliens in Alien Life: Miles & Fabo, a collaborative exhibit with his father, Fabo, which opens on June 4, 6 p.m., at Post Gallery Cubao X. The exhibit will run until July 16. For inquiries, visit Post Gallery’s Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/postgallery.pg.
Known for transforming views of familiar landscapes, artist Zean Cabangis showcases his trademarked works in collage, photography, acrylic paint, and emulsion transfers techniques in the exhibit titled Loom, on view at the Main Gallery, The Big Room, and Inner Room of Art Informal in Greenhills East, Mandaluyong City. The exhibit runs until June 25. For details, call 725-8518 or visit Art Informal’s Web site www.artinformal.com.
The BenCab Museum presents two exhibits: Crusaders by Orley Ypon, which that portrays crowds of Filipinos in their naked glory in a seeming race to nowhere in his hyper-realistic painting style; and a textile exhibition, Upland/Lowland Tingguian/Iloko. The shows are on view at the BenCab Museum in Tuba, Benguet, until June 26. For details, visit www.bencabmuseum.org or www.facebook.com/pages/BenCab-Museum.
Las Tres Marias, a three-woman exhibition by the Syjuco sisters — Michelline, Beatrix, and Maxine — featuring their latest sculptures, paintings, and installations, is ongoing until June 7 at the Qube Gallery in Crossroads, Banilad, Cebu City. For details, visit www.qubegallery.ph, call (032) 261-0696, or e-mail info@qubegallery.ph.
An exhibition of Mario de Rivera’s recent works, WORLD Without END, runs until June 12 at the Altromondo Gallery, Greenbelt 5 in Makati City. For details, call 501-3270 to 71, e-mail info@altromondo.ph, or visit www.altromondo.ph.
Luis “Junyee” Yee, Jr. ruminates on silence in The Silence of J, his solo exhibition at Galleria Duemila, which opens on June 4. The exhibit at the galley, located at 210 Loring St., Pasay City, will run until June 30. In the exhibit, the walls are hung with sparse four-sided woodworks, evocative reliefs made from sturdy jointed tongue-and-groove planks, in ivory, snow, and eggshell.
Pablo Gallery presents New Sculptures (Unskilled and Unaware of It) by Lara de los Reyes, an exhibition that challenges the usual smooth ceramic works. It runs until June 11. Pablo Gallery is located at C-11 South of Market, Bonifacio Global City. For details, call 400-7905.
The first Retrospective Exhibition of Antonio Austria is on view until July 10 at the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ Bulwagang Juan Luna and Pasilyo Guillermo Tolentino. The exhibit features Austria’s paintings, drawings and memorabilia telling Austria’s progress as an artist in the 1950s. For details call 832-1125 local 1504/1505, e-mail ccp.exhibits@gmail.com, or visit www.culturalcenter.gov.ph.
The Yuchengco Museum is featuring Light in the Darkness, a collection of paintings and drawings by painter Danilo Angeles Arriola, Jr., from his first collector and patron, architect Dan Lichauco. Light in the Darkness is a part of the Yuchengco Museum’s “Choices: Collection of the Personal” exhibit series. For details visit yuchengcomuseum.org.
Blanc Art Space is running three exhibits until June 4: Jared Yorkte’s Bark Infinitum, featuring his works in epoxy, sawdust, and oil on wood; Julius Redillas’ People You May Know, a collection of the artist’s beautifully haunting portraits depicting identities familiar from 1×1 ID photos; and Mark Arcamo’s Static Individual, a suite of portraits depicting the lives we lead on different media. For more details, e-mail info@blanc.ph, or visit blanc.ph and facebook.com/blancgallery.
The touring exhibition of Badong: Salvador Bernal Designs the Stage, organized by the Cultural Center of the Philippines, is on view at the Ateneo Art Gallery until July 2. Curated by Dr. Nicanor Tiongson, Gino Gonzalez, and Ricardo Cruz, the exhibit honors the late National Artist for Theater Design Salvador “Badong” F. Bernal, featuring his design projects in ballet, opera, theater, and film from the 1970s to 2011. Admission is P30 per head. The Ateneo Art Gallery is in the Old Rizal Library Special Collections Bldg., Ateneo de Manila University, Katipunan Ave., Loyola Heights, Quezon City.
PERFORMANCES
PETA, together with The Necessary Theatre, brings back Bart Guingona’s production of Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart, on a limited run on June 3 to 5. The play, which debuted in Manila in July 2015, follows a passionate New York writer in 1980s New York who is pushing for attention to the burgeoning HIV-AIDS crisis AIDS. The show will be staged at the PETA Theater Center, No. 5 Eymard Drive, New Manila, Quezon City. Tickets are available at ticketworld.com.ph.
Singer-songwriter Noel Cabangon topbills the latest Shangri-La Plaza Concert Series for a pre-Independence Day performance on June 4, 7 p.m., at the mall’s Grand Atrium, Level 2, Main Wing.
This season, the Manila Symphony Orchestra (MSO) will be holding its major concerts at the Spotlight Theater of the Power Mac Center in Circuit Makati, formerly the Santa Ana racetrack. The opening concert, Director’s Choice: Russian Romanticism, will be on June 4, 7:30 p.m. Arturo Molina will conduct the orchestra and American saxophonist Brian Howrey. For inquiries, e-mail info@manilasymphony.com.
To help revitalize Escolta Street in Manila, a place that used to be the commercial center of the city, a two-hour non-stop music festival will take place at the historic site. Pilipino Sound 2016, inspired by the epic Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona, Spain, brings six local and international DJs who will play different tunes from noon until midnight. For inquiries, visit https://www.facebook.com/events/1139614459402905/.
FILM
Instituto Cervantes and the Embassy of Spain present the film cycle “Spanish Thrillers,” a series of Spanish movies to be shown every Saturday in June at the FDCP Cinematheque. The film series will kick-off on June 4, 4 p.m., with Tesis, a disturbing thriller about the depiction of violence by the media, directed by Alejandro Amenábar. All films will be shown in Spanish with English subtitles at the Cinematheque of FDCP, at 855 T.M. Kalaw Street, Ermita, Manila. Admission is free on a first-come, first-served basis. For details visit www.manila.cervantes.es or www.facebook.com/InstitutoCervantesManila, or call 526-1482.
EVENTS
The Manila X Festival features four celebrity stylists in four different fashion show themes: Bang Pineda for grunge, Myrrh Lao To for Coachella, John Paul Dizon for sleek, and duo Rain Dagala and Em Millan for activewear. Fashion retail Web site Zalora will also hold its own fashion show. Each fashion show will be scored by live musical acts. Performers include boy band The Juans, singer/songwriter duo Thyro and Yumi, alternative rock band Kjwan, singer Kiana Valenciano, rapper Gloc 9, indie rock band Up Dharma Down, and pop-rock singer-songwriter Yeng Constantino. DJs Badkiss, duo Curse & Bless, Jessica Milner, Tom Taus, Marc Marasigan, Mars Miranda, and Ace Ramos will also be spinning the night away. This is on June 4, 4 p.m., at Globe Circuit Event Grounds, Carmona, Makati City. Tickets, ranging in price from P500 to P800, are available at www.ticketworld.com.ph or onsite at the day of the festival.
