A VICTORY PARTY FOR TAGAYTAY 5!

Presented by the Artist's Response to the Call for Social Change and Tranformation (Artist's ARREST)

Featuring Music/Poetry Performances by

Axel Pinpin
Bobby Balingit
Cynthia Alexander
Kilometer 64 Poetry Collective
Gelacio Guillermo
Joel Malabanan
Raul Funilas

(more artists are expected to participate)

September 9, 2008
7.00pm to 9.30pm
Conspiracy Garden and Cafe,
Visayas Avenue, Quezon City.

Admission is Free!

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Main Entry: dis·sect   

Pronunciation: \dī-ˈsekt also di-, ˈdī-ˌ\

Function: verb

Etymology: Latin dissectus, past participle of dissecare to cut apart, from dis- + secare to cut — more at saw

Date: 1598

transitive verb

1 : to separate into pieces : expose the several parts of (as an animal) for scientific examination

2 : to analyze and interpret minutely <dissect a problem>

intransitive verb

 

UP Repertory
Raul Funilas
Roselle Pineda
Talahib
Talumi
ProxyPrexy
Jeff Pagaduan
Rustum Casia
Alex Remollino
Noel Barcelona
Mau dela Cruz

We set up the exhibit as a discourse contrasting the State of the Nation Address coming up on July 28. Defying the empirical, the official report of the Head of State is a creative depiction with merits in the fiction genre. While the speech may be filled with fantasies, against it we pit silent pictures. Recognizing photography's power as testimony, keen photographers are witnesses to the everyday life of the Filipino people, to the actual state of the nation.

Featured photographers are Boy Bagwis, Audrey Beltran, King Catoy, Karl Castro, Kiri Dalena, Dada Docot, Chantel Garcia, Kenneth Guda, Cristopher Linag, Nerve Macaspac, Marie Perlada, Ilang-ilang Quijano, Candice Reyes, Luwalhati Silang, Jake Silbato, Alanah Torralba, and Raymund Villanueva.

We are thankful for TAKDER, Dale Diaz, Prof. Danny Arao, and Valyushk Torres, who helped with some exhibit costs.

A gig organized by Artists' ARREST entitled RAMDAM: SA KANYA N'YO KUNIN ANG P500 SUBSIDY, ATBP. ATBP. will follow after the opening. The gig will feature UP Repertory, Raul Funilas, Roselle Pineda, Talahib, Talumi, Jeff Pagaduan, Rustum Casia, Alex Remollino, Mao Dela Cruz and Noel Barcelona.

This is an open invitation, please spread the word and feel free to bring friends.

See you there,

Risa Jopson
Kodao Productions
Email burning.bulan@gmail.com

King Catoy
Southern Tagalog Exposure
Artists' Response to the Call for Socual Change and Transformation
email stexposure@gmail.com, kapemuna@gmail.com

More Images

MUSIKA

Bobby Balingit
Gapos
Jeff Pagaduan

TULA

Kilometer 64 Poetry Collective
Tata Raul Funilas
Mao Dela Cruz
Roselle Pineda

PELIKULA/MULTIMEDIA

Yasnina Jumalon
Ali Alejandro
Raphael Fernandez
Renz Fernandez

Musika, Tula at Pelikula laban sa pampulitika at pang-ekonomiyang krisis na kinakaharap ng mamamayan.

MUSIKA

Bobby Balingit
Gapos
Jeff Pagaduan

TULA

Kilometer 64 Poetry Collective
Tata Raul Funilas
Mao Dela Cruz
Roselle Pineda

PELIKULA/MULTIMEDIA

Yasnina Jumalon
Ali Alejandro
Raphael Fernandez
Renz Fernandez

Acclaimed film director Joel Lamangan, who was at the helm of such well-received films as The Flor Contemplacion Story, Bakit May Kahapon Pa?, Filipinas, and the recent Manay Po series, will be one of the guests in a poetry and music night for the so-called “Tagaytay 5” on April 29, 6 p.m. at the Conspiracy Bar and Garden Cafe along Visayas Avenue, Quezon City (facing the Shell gas station). This time, the director becomes a performer.

The “Tagaytay 5” are Axel Pinpin, a consultant of the Kalipunan ng mga Magsasaka sa Kabite (Kamagsasaka-Ka) and a poet who was a fellow in the 1999 University of the Philippines (UP) National Writers' Workshop; Riel Custodio, a Kamagsasaka-Ka member; Aristides Sarmiento,  a freelance researcher for people's organizations; and Tagaytay City residents Enrico Ybañez and Michael Masayes.

They were abducted by a composite Philippine Navy and Philippine National Police (PNP) team on April 28, 2006 in Tagaytay City. Pinpin, Custodio and Sarmiento had just come from a meeting with coffee farmers in the city and were on their way to Manila for the forthcoming Labor Day rally – with Ybañez driving for them and Masayes accompanying Ybañez. Three days later, they were presented to the media as “communist rebels” who were conspiring with “dissident soldiers” in a destabilization plot against the Arroyo administration. They were subsequently charged with rebellion.

This April 28 they will have spent a full two years in detention at the PNP's Camp Vicente Lim in Calamba City, Laguna. Their lawyers are contesting the legality of their “arrest,” but the Tagaytay City Regional Trial Court is sitting on their case – conducting hearings as seldom as once every three months. Thus, nearly two years into their detention, they have yet to be arraigned.

The “Tagaytay 5” are among the more than 200 political prisoners under the Arroyo administration.

April 29 is exactly two years and one day since the five's abduction. The April 29 event at Conspiracy will call for freedom for the “Tagaytay 5” and all other political prisoners.

Lamangan hails from Cavite, like most of the “Tagaytay 5.” He is expected to recite one of Pinpin's poems at the April 29 activity, which is being spearheaded by the poetry group Kilometer 64 and the Artists' Response to the Call for Social Change and Transformation (Artists' ARREST).

Lamangan will be joined at the April 29 activity by a number of award-winning writers – among them Romulo “Joey” Baquiran Jr., executive director of the Filipinas Institute of Translation, Inc. (FIT); and poets Raul Funilas and Alexander Martin Remollino.

The FIT recently sponsored the text-poetry contest “Katext Mo sa Katotohanan,” of which Funilas and Remollino were among the winners.

Also slated to perform at the April 29 event is Bobby Balingit, frontman for the punk bands The Wuds and Juan Isip.

Conspiracy Bar and Gardens, Visayas ave, QC*

Artists' Response to the Call for Social Change and Transformation (ARTISTS' ARREST) and Lupon ng mga 

Alagad ng Sining Para sa Hustisya at Katotohanan (LUMAHOK) 

present 

pRICEless

Featuring

Kilometer 64

Musicians for Peace

Sinagbayan

Bobby Balingit

Lourd De Veyra 

Datu's Tribe

The Outlaws

Jeff Pagaduan

Musical Performace by Internal Refugees from Southern Tagalog

Raul Funilas

and more

8 April 2008, Tuesday. 7.00 pm to 9.30 pm. Conspiracy Garden and Cafe. Visayas Avenue, Quezon City. 

A discussion on the current "pRICE crisis" will be held before the program. Starts at 5.00 pm to 7.00 pm. Invited speaker -  Sonny Africa of IBON Foundation. 

Admission is Free. 

Among the performers will be Lourd De Veyra, Bobby Balingit, Datu's Tribe, The Outlaws, Jeff Pagaduan, Kilometer 64, and Musicians for Peace. There will also be a musical performance by some internal refugees from Southern Tagalog. A discussion on the present rice crisis by IBON Foundation's Sonny Africa will be held before the program.

Admission is free.