GARBO Iligan is a program of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) showcasing the various creations of the Iligan community in its mandate to develop the Philippines’ Creative Industry.
Robinsons Iligan November 8, 6-8 PM
STEVEN P.C. FERNANDEZ, DFA Mise-en-scene, Scenario, and Music
Choreogrpahy NOLLY CEBALLOS / MELVIN PASCUBILLO and the IPAG Creative Collective
Tatlo sa Isa (Three Peoples, One Island) ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ญ๐ก ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐. ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐โ๐ ๐๐๐ญ๐ก
Colegio de San Juan de Letran Calamba, Laguna October 19, 2024 9am / 2pm
Experience Mindanao, the islandโs spirit and her treasures of lore and land — of settlers from the North, natives who have embraced Islam, and the indigenous peoples living through ancient traditions.
The cross, the minaret, and rituals to Magbabaya merge to define our co-existence, like a collage of images and sounds that our communities share.
This is Mindanaoโs story. This is also our story.
Flying past the 3-year pandemic transition, the ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ (๐๐๐๐) soars with renewed energy for its ๐๐๐ญ๐ก ๐๐ก๐๐๐ญ๐๐ซ ๐๐๐๐ฌ๐จ๐ง.
Known for its signature form, IPAG has claimed its position in the performing arts scene expanding outside its home base to wider involvements in the national community.
From 5-star hotel ballrooms, to jampacked amphitheaters, to traditional enthronements and intimate audiences, to communal spaces, IPAGโs presence has positioned it an iconic marker in Philippine Performance.
Reaching over 30,000 audiences, IPAG marked three more major recognitions: the ASEAN PANJI performances, the establishment of HULMA Creatives, and the establishment of IPAG-Studies Center where its already-established workshops and courses continue.
IPAG returned from acclaimed performances in five Indonesian Cities representing the country joining 8 other national troupes in the milestone ASEAN Panji Festival. Celebrating UNESCOโs Memory of the World Heritage, the Panji Festival wove our ASEAN kinships threaded by a shared narrative.
It maintains its claim as the countryโs most-traveled repertory company.
Binding artists of our communities into one strong collective is the CenterPoint of HULMA, a direction in establishing Iligan City as a UNESCO Creative City in the Performing Arts.
Spreading out the IPAG Pedagogy and its Creative Methods further enhanced the talents of our collectives to create, perform, and innovate in the Institute of Performance and Art Genre Studies (IPAG S), the pioneering performance arts learning center in our parts.
Besides new productions (๐๐๐ฅ๐ค๐ฎ ๐๐๐ฌ ๐๐๐๐) and the continuing road shows of the countryโs most-traveled ๐๐๐ก๐๐จ ๐๐ง๐ค๐ข ๐๐๐ฃ๐๐๐ฃ๐๐ค, apprenticing directors and playwrights mounted new productionsยฌโthese through the ๐ฉ๐ง๐๐ฃ๐๐พ๐๐๐๐Program and the institutionalized ๐๐๐ฌ๐ข๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ค๐ฌ๐ก๐จ๐ฉ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ซ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ซ๐ญ๐ฌ.
Our๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐๐ก๐๐ง Program has trained artists garnering major awards, among these the NCCA Writers Prize for Playwriting awarded to IPAG Executive Director Neil Arkhe Azcuna, and his selection to the CCP Virgin Lab Fest, adding up to his growing list of recognitions including last yearโs Best Film Award for Pelikulove.
Collaborations continue: Asia Pacific Bond of Theatre Schools (APB), the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), the Cultural Center of the Philippines and its Kaisa sa Sining network, the Dept. of Trade and Industry, Dept. Of Foreign Affairs, Iligan City Government, and various public and private initiatives.
IPAG acknowledges the invaluable support of the MSU-Iligan Institute of Technology that provided the nurturing spaces for the Guild to grow in the last 45 years. Even as we expand our reach further, IPAG acknowledges its roots from where lies our anchored origins.
In 2020, the CCP recognized IPAG with the highest award for a Philippine performing companyโthe ๐๐๐ฐ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐ ๐ฌ๐ ๐๐ข๐ง๐ข๐ง๐ .
On to our 47th to soar higher. A full calendar will be released with the start of the next Season in June until May 2025.
The IPAG 46th Season marked milestones in international and national performances, most notably as Philippine representative in the ASEAN Panji Festival where IPAG drew raves and in the national Haraya Festival. Besides these, IPAG has had a string of milestone performances and programs collaborating with the prestigious Fulbright-Hayes Program midyear during the season.
Add to this the 46 Seasons that have marked IPAG as the most-traveled repertory company with multiple awards including the CCP Gawad, the highest distinction for a cultural company.
Our 47th Season begins in August while IPAG completes more road shows including our representation of the country in Europe’s biggest Festival, the Du Sud.
Join integrity and distinction and the chance to nurture your creative skills in one of the country’s most significant performing companies. JOIN IPAG!
(DIRECTOR’S NOTES: Other organizations are recruiting claiming to be IPAG; questions you should ask: Who is the Artistic Director? Who are its artists? What is its track record, if any? Or a better evidence: Are its organizers members of IPAG? There is only ONE IPAG nurtured by the hundreds who have contributed to what IPAG is now. These respected persons are in their places respected by their communities. The world knows all about this.)
STEVEN PATRICK C. FERNANDEZ, DFA Artistic Director
The ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ (IPAG) celebrates 2024 FEBRUARY ARTS MONTH with performances in Iligan and a roadshow of Metro Manila schools.
IPAG opens with two transcreated poems in SugaTula (Crossing Poetry) as special features in the Performance Art presentation of Japanese snare drummer ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐. Kiyasu has performed worldwide and makes his first visit to Iligan City through his collaboration with HULMA CREATIVES COLLECTIVE.)
IPAG, affiliated with HULMA, transcreates the poems of laureates German V. Gervacio (โPaano Maging Makata”) and Marge Evasco (โOrigamiโ)
The company then travels to Meriam College in Quezon City and De La Salle Santiago Zobel in Alabang for ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐ฌ ๐ ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐๐ข๐ง๐๐๐ง๐๐จ, the world-acclaimed production that has captivated thousands in over 100 cities worldwide as it continues to captivate national audiences.
In their opening salvo for the Arts Month, IPAG artists joined the HULMA-produced concert of music and poetry Enchanting Voices last Feb. 10 and 11 at the Iliganon Cafรฉ and Bar.
ARTS MONTH Performance Schedule:
Feb. 20 | 6 pm., Iligan City Ethnic Center (Buhanginan Hills)
Feb 22, 2024 | 1:30 pm., Miriam College Auditorium, Quezon City
Feb 23, 2024 | 10:00 am., De La Salle Santiago Zobel Sports Pavilion Ayala Alabang, Muntinlupa
A few more steps and weโre there, Godwilling — a Professional Performing Arts Company
We took tortuous paths to reach Our Vision. Itโs like walking through a long dark tunnel of obstacles, moving through dead ends, impediments, where shadows thrown on the cave walls turn out to be false images, deceits (Platoโs cave). But we sight the proverbial light, now glowing closer, bigger. More freedom!
We keep our commitments as only true artists should! As mirrors of our Humanity, we act so that freedom, human rights, social equity, and our dreams are protected. We cannot be conventional. The stage is our means to re-order.
IPAG welcomes the NIAGA (DRAGON) INSPIRED NEW YEAR. Breathing fire, burning our inspirations all over!
The INTEGRATED PERFORMING ARTS GUILD (IPAG) exploded a startling flash of creativity in 2023 surpassing successes in the post-pandemic transition of 2022 (which included the highest award for a Philippine performing companyโthe Gawad CCP).
Beyond displaying its signature form, IPAG soared higher as an institution of the arts-and-culture. From 5-star hotel ballrooms, to jampacked amphitheaters, to traditional enthronements and intimate audiences, to communal spaces, IPAGโs presence has become more conspicuous.
Reaching an estimated 50,000 audiences in 2023, IPAG marked three major accomplishments: the ASEAN PANJI performances, the organizing of HULMA Creatives, and the establishment of the IPAG-Studies Academy.
IPAG returned from acclaimed performances in five Indonesian Cities representing the country joining 8 other national troupes in the milestone ASEAN Panji Festival. Celebrating UNESCOโs Memory of the World Heritage, the Panji Festival wove our ASEAN kinships threaded by a shared narrative. The festival will soon be an annual event with each ASEAN nation taking turns hosting.
Binding artists of our communities into one strong collective is the center point of HULMA, a direction in establishing Iligan City as a UNESCO Creative City in the Performing Arts.
Spreading out the IPAG Pedagogy and its Creative Methods, the Guild further enhanced the talents of our artists to create, perform, and innovate. The Institute of Performance and Art Genre Studies (IPAG S) set the Vision of the pioneering performance arts academy in our parts.
Besides new productions (Hapoy daw Waig) and the continuing road shows of the countryโs most-travelled Tales From Mindanao, apprenticing directors and playwrights mounted new productionsยญโthese through the tranSCRIPT Program and the institutionalized Basic Workshop in the Performing Arts.
The Tales repertoire reached over 20,000 audiences in national tours including its featured presence in the Fulbright-Hayes Dunong at Kalinangan hosted by the University of Hawaii at the De La Salle Dasmarinas campus.
Artist-leaders have been trained through our Hulmahan Program, a number garnering recognition in major awards. The most recent was the prestigious NCCA Writers Prize for Playwriting awarded to our Executive Director Neil Arkhe Azcuna adding up to his growing list of recognitions including writing fellowships, awards, and last yearโs Best Film Award for Pelikulove.
Our collaborations have become more active. Besides the distinguished Asia Pacific Bond of Theatre Schools (APB), IPAG continues to work with the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), the Cultural Center of the Philippines and its Kaisa sa Sining network, the Dept. of Trade and Industry, Dept. Of Foreign Affairs, Iligan City Government, and various public and private initiatives.
IPAG acknowledges their invaluable support.
We distinguish the MSU-Iligan Institute of Technology (MSU-IIT) that for 46 years has been our womb, host, and Mother providing us the nurturing spaces where our craft and knowledge grew, developing the IPAG to be a major force in Philippine Performing Arts and Studies. Even as we expand our reach further, we acknowledge our roots from where lies our anchored origins.
2024 opens with IPAG setting its sights to continue showcasing Philippine Culture in Europeโs biggest festival, the Festival du Sud.
ArtisticDirector.STEVEN PATRICK C. FERNANDEZ | ExecutiveDirector.NEIL ARKHE AZCUNA | AssociateArtisticDirectors.ARCHIBALD PACANA LEILANI FERNANDEZ | Marketing&Sales.ARLEM M. ABANES | Finance.HERNENIGILDO DICO | HumanResources.LAURO VILLANUEVA | Technicals.ANDREW SALAZAR | Costumes.LEILANI FERNANDEZ | Music.VICTOR ARLAN | Properties.MARTIN SALVADOSA PAUL FRUTA | Secretariat.JEANNIE DARANTINAO JANE ALLYSON DANTES
The protagonists clash, jump, roll in duel, their โkampilansโ clanging. War screams, then silence. (A Moment.) All eyes are glued front as only the loud cracks of clicking bamboo poles break the silence. Mโranao heroes Bantugan and Salindagaw battle for Arkat-a-Lawanen who positions herself between them.
Then one slash of the kampilan tears the other. Enthusiastic applause breaks the silence. Curtains.
Another IPAG performance throws off the audiences from their present moments. The aura embraces empathy and a communal feel of victory.
Script&Direction.STEVEN P.C. FERNANDEZ | Choreography.NOLLY CEBALLOS and the IPAG CREATIVE COLLECTIVE
