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Wednesday, December 30, 2020

December 30, 2020

46th Metro Manila Film Festival Honors Peque Gallaga

At the Metro Manila Film Festival Gabi ng Parangal last December 27, 2020, Peque Gallaga was posthumously accorded the Special Jury Award. Together with former Negros Occ. Representative Albee Benitez, president of Brightlight Productions, Rey Bantug, president of Aton Land & Leisure, and Lore Reyes, the late Peque Gallaga was Executive Producer of the movie Magikland, before his passing on May 7, 2020.

Magikland, a film by Christian Acuña, was one of 10 entries at the 46th MMFF. The landmark action-adventure movie, inspired by Negros folklore, went away with the FPJ Memorial Award, and the MMFF Awards for Best Visual Effects, Production Design, Musical Score, and Virtual Float.

On Dec. 29, Madie Gallaga, widow of Peque Gallaga, issued a statement thanking the MMFF organization for the honor, and the people with whom her husband collaborated in creating Magikland.

The Negros Season of Culture pays tribute to Peque Gallaga in its maiden year. During its launching last Nov. 5, NSC founder Angelica Berrie said, “We will honor Peque Gallaga for inspiring so many of us to be a part of something bigger than ourselves, for teaching us to express our creativity in big bold ways that contribute to the story of this place we call home.”

Berrie joins the entire team of the Negros Season of Culture in congratulating the men and women of Magikland the movie, and in celebrating the legacy of Peque Gallaga.

Wednesday, November 4, 2020

November 04, 2020

A Tribute to Peque Gallaga

People, Performing Arts

The island of Negros always had a special place in the life, work, and art of Peque Gallaga. It was inspiration, refuge, and home, shaping his view of the world and his place in it. We pay tribute to him as we dedicate the first year of Negros Season of Culture to his memory.

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The Peque Gallaga Tribute

Produced by: The Angelica Berrie Foundation

for the Negros Season of Culture

Baba Torre

President- Angelica Berrie Foundation

Alan Gensoli

Creative Director

Mayee Fabregas

Production Director

Stephanie Hilado-Lindaya

Communications Director

Executive Producer

Jo Macasa

Writer

Vicente Garcia Groyon

Editor

Sheryll Lopez-Francia

Music

Emerzon Texon

Colorist

Richard Francia

Narrator

Jubal Gallaga

Thursday, October 29, 2020

October 29, 2020

Six Feet Apheart

Performing Arts,

Individuality, friendship, relationship, and love, this November at The Negros Museum.

The Performance Laboratory, Inc., is a community theater based in Bacolod City that is dedicated to provide regional artists a venue for growth and development, as well as encourage theatre appreciation. This November 2020, PerfLab proudly presents Six Feet Apheart. This diverse material tackles love, education, mental awareness, employment, technology, and so much more.

Six Feet Apheart is a production of The Performance Laboratory with Artistic Director, Tanya P. Lopez and members, Noel A. Pahayupan and Roger P. Venzal in collaboration with esteemed playwright and director, Dr. Anton Juan, a Senior Full Professor at the University of Notre Dame du Lac. The project consists of four plays entitled Triptych, Cactus, Tangerine, and The Day I Died. The plays depict stories about individuality, friendship, relationship, and love of the characters and how each character copes with the challenges, especially during COVID-19.

Conceptualized by a strong ensemble, Six Feet Apheart sensibly captures reality and a slice of life of each individual to which audiences can relate, connect, and identify with. Keeping our commitment to the community of artists, the project aims to discuss relevant issues and show that despite the current situation, theatre is feasible and very much alive.

Six Feet Apheart will be held at The Negros Museum through staged readings every Wednesday (November 11, 18, 25, and December 2, 2020) at 5:30PM. Due to IATF health and safety protocols, audience count is limited to a maximum of 12 people. For admission and seat reservations, please send a message to Facebook Page: The Performance Laboratory, Inc., or contact 0945-966-8095.

This is PerfLab’s initiative for Artist Development and Sustainability, Audience Awareness, and Artistic Collaboration and Exchange. Feedback will surely help in developing arts, theatre, and culture especially in the region.

Thursday, October 1, 2020

October 01, 2020

The Negros Season of Culture Team

Negros Museum Art Encounters, Performing Arts

The Negros Season of Culture is a celebration of Negrense cultural traditions as expressed in various art forms. In 2020, it will include visual arts, culinary arts, film, and theatre.

Spearheaded by the Angelica Berrie Foundation, the Negros Season of Culture aims to bring Negrense arts and culture to the consciousness of the local community, and then share it with the rest of the world. Hence, the celebration’s tagline, “Rooted. Taking on the world.”

The vision of the Negros Season of Culture is to promote the cultural assets of our heritage and traditions, the unique identity of this province and the talent of its people.

We conceived of threading stories of creativity into one regional narrative, creating a platform for local, national, and global audiences to discover what makes Negros special.

We are living in an extraordinary time, in the midst of a global pandemic, in a moment of radical disruption. Our messaging is focused on the future. We want to inspire hope and tap into the creative spirit that has always been part of who we are as Negrenses.

We will survive this crisis, if we foster a spirit of resilience and solidarity that our ancestors had, and what we hope this generation of Negrenses will carry on.

The Season of Culture is a messaging platform for a place-based brand of culture rooted in identity, speaking to the world in the universal language of Art and Culture, featuring creative innovators in unique settings that tell our story, beautiful rural landscapes and heritage homes that deserve to be preserved.  We know our native cuisine has inspired so many talented chefs.

We have seen film and theater geniuses like Peque Gallaga, whom we pay tribute to in our first segment, recognized internationally.

We have grown up with cultural icons like the Church of the Angry Christ, which is a national treasure. Most important, we showcase people who create handicrafts and native delicacies, local artists and ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

We will honor Peque Gallaga for inspiring so many of us to be a part of something bigger than ourselves, for teaching us to express our creativity in big bold ways that contribute to the story of this place we call home.

I will never forget how Peque staged Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town” in Visayan, taking us to remote towns on the back of flatbed trucks that served as our moving stage. It was an extraordinary way to encounter people in small barrios, see the spark in their eyes as they listened in rapt attention to the stories we brought to them.

There are many hidden gems in this province and we hope to bring them to life through the Negros Season of Culture. Connecting the stories embedded in this place is the message of hope we want to ignite in this challenging time.

We hope everyone will join us to promote what we love about our identity, our culture and our home.