Integrated Performing Arts Guild

When COVID struck, instinctively we shifted modes. After Tighod, a 2020 highlight, received raving notices in Hanoi, then Iligan, Cebu cancelled its national premiere. Our 43rd Season supposed to begin in June fell through. But we have exceeded what we would have accomplished in normal times. Shifting modalities halfway past the year, IPAG completed the 2nd phase of a Dramaturgy, Playwriting, and Movements program. Gathering Fellows from around the country, the program has produced the seeds of eight new plays read in two recitals. These follow 15 sessions of virtual workshops mentored by famous director-playwrights Sato Makato (Japan), Aubrey Mellor (Australia), and Nic Pichay (Philippines).

https://www.facebook.com/ipagarts/videos/932864970783315

The Movements workshop of our apprentices has produced choreographed works in another recital foreseeing production in our “resurrection” in 2021.Five live performances, a national road show, and four live-streamed productions in international events make up for what would have been a robust season of postponed international tours including a feature in the International University Theatre Association festival last August at the CCP.

The quarantine has accomplished two books, our inclusion in the online edition of the CCP Encyclopedia, more worldwide exposures of our Ramayana (IPAG represents the Philippines in an ambitious 200-volume five-year Global Ramayana Encyclopedia project) including an international TV interview, plus over ten IPAG-led webinars on art, culture, and performance, including one on the establishment of a Philippine Theatre Academy, and the production of a film documentary on the IPAG Story.

We’ve tightened our international links: Asia-Pacific Bond, Asian League of Institute of Art, ITI-UNESCO, and our ties with the CCP, Japan Foundation, the NCCA, and our peers in Mindanao. Soon we will back on the world road.Three national awards cap 2020: two CCP Gadors for IPAG and its Artistic Director, and the Gawad CCP, the highest distinction for a company’s outstanding contributions.

2021 WILL BE MORE INSPIRING!

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The INTEGRATED PERFORMING ARTS GUILD completes its 2^nd phase of its tranSCRIPT Dramaturgy, Playwriting, and Dance Workshops with recitals on Saturday, Dec. 12 (Dance), and Wed. and Thu, 16 and 17 (Dramaturgy-Playwriting).

Dubbed “#stayingalive,” all performances will be livestreamed at 6 pm., Phil. Time.

The recitals cap over 20 Sessions of training which started last August. The program ensures that performance activities remain active through the pandemic.

In three phases, the practice and knowledge of in-based artists and participants from various parts of the country are enhanced by craft-based modules. Exploring new modalities, new plays and their production see performance in post-COVID times. IPAG has framed these phases according to the pandemic circumstances from adaptation, transition, and the resurrection foreseen in 2021.

Eight playwrights collaborate with eight dramaturges to present their initial outputs in the recital. The dance-training classes gather over 30 apprentices who will form the core of the performing ensemble in the Resurrection Phase.

Eminent facilitators have included international dramaturges Makato Sato, Aubrey Mellor, and Nicholas Pichay. Managing the program is IPAG Founding Artistic Director Steven P.C. Fernandez.

Completing the program are webinars on Arts Administration, Meranao Kulintang, Cultural Heritage, and Tourism.

Supporting the program are grants from the CCP Kalinga sa Sining, Japan Foundation Manila, Inc, the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), and the host MSU-IIT through its Center for Culture and the Arts Studies.

WE ARE RECRUITING. Join the country’s most-travelled repertory company. Forty-three years, over fifty full-feature productions to hundreds and thousands of audiences worldwide of inspired performances!

ORIENTATION. October 10 (Sat., 2 p.m.), via ZOOM
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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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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/