IPAG launches its 43rd 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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