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Time: Oct 10, 2020 02:00 PM Singapore
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Full program video of the 43rd Season launch

Riding the Crests of the Pandemic (IPAG launches its 43rd Season)

Aug. 20, 2020. IPAG asserts: no disease can stop creation and imagination as it celebrates its 43rd Season with a full line-up of programs in the “New Normal” that includes five training projects in playwriting, dramaturgy, movements and dance, arts administration, and Meranao kulintang music. (check out the links and application forms in the IPAG fb site: facebook.com/ipagarts)

#stayingalive is IPAG’s challenge to COVID

CONTACT:
INTEGRATED PERFORMING ARTS GUILD (IPAG)
MSU-Iligan Institute of Technology 9200 Iligan City
Phone: (+6363) 2224500    mobile: 0917-1362275
Email: ipagarts@yahoo.com  Web: www.ipagarts.com   fb: ipagarts

IPAG launches its 43^rd Season using this quarantine “moment” to adapt, to transform, and to sustain what has been its dynamic stage presence.

Founding Artistic Director Steven P.C. Fernandez writes, “ART, THE ANTIDOTE. No disease can stop Theater. And so, we MUST live!”

Fernandez continues, “What has been rudely interrupted by the COVID-19 episode is but a transition. Like in theater, this transition mirrors our plays. In a play, we stop for beats, we pause, a moment, then stir forward for more intense renewed action. We jump at opportunities with this transition to catapult ourselves to that inciting action that will lead us to our next episode—our Resurrection.”

A series of live-streamed events run up to the August 18 Tuesday launch, set 6:00 p.m., that informs the nation and IPAG’s international audiences about performance and training programs that occupies the Guild’s 43rd year towards its return to the live stage in the first quarter of 2021.

The event shall be digitally-cast through the IPAG FB page (ipagarts) and various other mediums including that of its host, the MSU-IIT. 

Amid the pandemic, IPAG and Fernandez have been recently awarded the Gador by the CCP KSS network noting the outstanding contributions they have given the nation and the world. IPAG would have also received the CCP’s highest distinction in the Gawad Sining Awards last June but awarding had to be postponed due to the circumstances.

Primary support has been extended by the CCP Cultural Exchange Department under its Kaisa Sa Sining (KSS) network in collaboration with partners MSU-IIT Center for Culture and the Arts, the NCCA, and the IPAG-Artist Resource Management, Inc.   
 
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#inspiring43 #inspiringipag #ipag #msuiit

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The MSU-IIT Integrated Performing Arts Guild (IPAG) and its Founding Artistic Director STEVEN P.C. FERNANDEZ shall be awarded the 2020 Gador by the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) Kaisa sa Sining (KSS) for their outstanding contributions to Mindanao Culture and the Arts.

IPAG and Fernandez join Sining Kambayoka and five other artists-cultural workers recognized with the Gador Award.

The gador is a bulbous rounded Meranao brass jar inlaid with silver or carved with okir floral designs with a thin neck. Often presented as gift, and symbolic of the prestige of its owners, it now becomes the iconic representation for this recognition.

https://www.facebook.com/tibofernandez/videos/10160046638153502/

Tighod, ebb and flow, a devised piece narrating the odyssey of a group of creatures born out from water. They discover a new realm and their change of existence leads them to a point of no return– an allusion to the proverbial cycle of mankind’s history. The production navigates in a postmodern narrative. The deconstruction through digital images, sounds, chants, dance, and movements is a laboratory piece assembled by IPAG’s dramaturgy workshop. Movement, action, reaction and response, and audience engagement, improvised and prodded by the reactions of both the characters and the viewers, shape the meanings the piece attempts to signify. Meaning-making to the audience is experienced in-the-moment caught up in the web of representations that animate the play.

Tighod premiered to acclaim at the 2019 Festival of the Asia Pacific Bond of Drama Schools at the Vietnam International Performance Academy (VIPA) in Hanoi. It was set on its Philippine premiere at the Tanghal National Theater Festival in Cebu last March when the COVID pandemic struck.
#inspiring43 #tighod

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NOTE: Video documentations cannot and do not capture the engagement of live performance where the presence of audiences and their responses are much part of a performance. Digital forms belong to a different platform with distinct qualities of engagement and will therefore not capture the engrossing moments of Theater.

The CCP Online premieres Perlas ng Silangan (originally: Gintong Alab sa Silangan) . Starting May 19 (Tues), 3:00 p.m., via the CCP YouTube channel.

The Philippine story, this dance-music suite captures the centuries of history of the Filipino people encapsulating the spirits of the significant eras that shaped the Filipino and his nation. Perlas images the glitter of a storied history of the “Pearl of the Orient.” The pearl — revered and desired, and through time aged in an oyster’s shell — glows in iridescent splendor when struck by the sun.

From the IPAG creative team, the production premiered in 2017 in a national road show culminating at the CCP Little Theater in 2019 . Composed by Steven P.C. Fernandez, Perlas produced under the CCP Ugnayan sa Sining, gathered the collaboration of the Maskara Theater Ensemble of La Salle U Bacolod, Sinukwan Kapangpangan of Angeles City, and the Philippine Barangay Folk Dance Rondalla.