PERFORMANCE
TOP STREET dancers from all over Asia will perform in Japan Foundation, Manila’s Dance Dance Asia: Crossing the Movements on April 28, 8 p.m., and April 29, 3 p.m., at the Teresa Yuchengco Auditorium, De La Salle University, Manila. For details, visit www.dancedanceasia.com.
PULP SUMMER SLAM 17: Redemption, the 17th edition of Southeast Asia’s largest and longest-running metal festival, will be held on April 29 at Amoranto Stadium, Quezon City. It will feature both international and local rock stars including Megadeth, Dragonforce, Whitechapel, Crossfaith, I See Stars, Gods of Eden, Slapshock, Greyhoundz, Wilabaliw, Razorback, KJwan, and Shotgun Combo. Tickets are available nationwide through SM Tickets at P669. Gates open at noon. Log onto www.smtickets.com and www.pulpliveworld.com for more details.
IT WILL BE an evening of soul and funk music as Apartel performs at Big M Night on April 29 at Buddha-Bar Manila, which will also feature the grand draw of this year’s winner of “Dine and Drive a Maserati” promo. Apartel is composed of members Ely Buendia on vocals and guitars, RJ Pineda on vocals and keyboards, Redge Concepcion and Coco Coo on guitars, Deej Rodriguez on percussion, Jun Lazo on bass, Pat Sarabia on drums, Diane and Donna Sagun on backing vocals and horn section Bras Pas Pas Pas. Pasta Groove, Lustbass and Tarsius will also be performing. Buddha-Bar Manila is located at Picar Place, Kalayaan Ave. Makati City. For inquiries and reservations, call 856-6719, 856-6859, or 0998-983-3918.
ATENEO BLUE Repertory’s re-imagined and revamped version of Kung Paano Ako Naging Leading Lady: The Musical will have performances tonight and tomorrow at 8 p.m., with 3 p.m. matinees on Saturday and Sunday, at the Rizal Mini Theater, Ateneo de Manila University. Quezon City.
TWIN BILL Theater Productions presents WIT, directed by Steven Conde, has performances on April 29 at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m.; April 30 at 3 p.m.; and, May 2 at 8 p.m. at the Trinity University of Asia, E. Rodriguez, Sr. Ave., Quezon City. The one-act play, which won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama by Margaret Edson, stars theater veteran Tami Monsod as a cancer-ridden literature professor whose last days are framed by the poetry of John Donne. Tickets are available through TicketWorld (www.ticketworld.com.ph).
WORDS ANONYMOUS will be turning three with a celebration show at PETA Theater Center, Quezon City, on April 29, 7 p.m. Tickets are priced P500. For reservations, call 725-6244 loc. 23 or text 0915-687-6053.
ART
ALLIANCE Française de Manille and Fundacion Sanso present an exhibit of works by Juvenal Sanso entitled The Triumph of the Spirit: a healing inspired by the coast of Brittany at the Alliance Française de Manille’s Total Gallery. It runs until May 26.
MARIANO CHING and Yasmin Sison present Traveling on the Edges of Lost Maps until May 21 at MO_Space, MOs Design, B2 Bonifacio High Street, Taguig City.
JEWELRY, art, furniture, couture, and objets d’art are on view in Wynn Wynn Ong: Redefining Boundaries (A Retrospective) until June 15 at the Yuchengco Museum, RCBC Plaza, corner Ayala and Gil J. Puyat Avenues, Makati City.
THE group show LIGALIG: Art in a Time of Turmoil is on view until May 27 at the Ateneo Art Gallery, Ateneo University Campus, QC.
THE Korean Cultural Center presents a Korean media art exhibit, Eternal Light, featuring 15 works and installation art by Korean artist Han Ho, at the KCC Exhibit Hall, Taguig City until April 28.
ARTINFORMAL has three ongoing exhibitions: Eugenia Alcaide’s See, Rene Bituin’s The Earth Doesn’t Need Us, and Micaela Benedicto’s Paths of Invisibility. The gallery is at 277 Connecticut St., Mandaluyong City.
AN EXHIBIT of 53 photographic replicas of masterpieces from Spain’s Museo Del Prado is on view at the Ayala Triangle in Makati for five weeks before moving to Intramuros in Manila. It will then go on view from June to August at Intramuros, Manila. This is a joint project of the Intramuros Administration and Embassy of Spain in Manila.
THE exhibit Alex Cu Unjieng: Jouissance is now on view until May 4 at the Mezzanine level of the Makati Shangri-la Manila. The exhibit is held in partnership with Hiraya Gallery.
DUE TO POPULAR demand, the exhibit Naichayu: An Architectural Exploration of the Kalinga Tattoo, which delves into the history and tradition of this indigenous practice of self-expression, has been extended until May 13. The show is at the 12th Floor of the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde School of Design and Arts at 950 Pablo Ocampo St., Malate, Manila. Open daily, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
EVENTS
HOW TO WRITE Scripts for Theater, a six-hour crash course taught by Joem Antonio, will be held on April 29, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Millenia Suites, Ortigas Center, Pasig City. The enrolment fee is P3,500.
BECAUSE of the ASEAN conference which will be held in Manila this week, The venue for the lecture “Ways of Seeing: The Linked World of Maritine Trade and the Making of the Selden Map” by Stephen Davies, has been moved to The Manila House Private Club at the 8th floor, Net Park Bldg., 5th Ave. Bonifacio Global City, Taguig. This is part of the lecture series held in conjunction with the exhibit Mapping the Philippine Seas at the Metropolitan Museum of Manila. For details e-mail info@metmuseum.ph or call 708-7829.
AXN and Sony Channel take part in the Labor UNION Festival 2017 from April 28-30, a three-day event which features a variety of sports and other activities including performances from iconic Filipino artists. The AXN Big Thrill, a beach obstacle course competition will be held on the Kahuna Beach Resort beachfront on April 29. From 4 p.m. to midnight, dance to the beats of Slow Jam Hip Hop or Chill House music and listen to the music mixes of DJs Cam Abecina, Abdel Azis and DJ Badkiss on wireless headphones at The Sony Channel Sunset Silent Disco at San Juan Surf Beach Resort.
