The much-awaited event in Metro manila is back! The Aliwan Fiesta 2010 is set to unfold once again and bring the best, biggest, loudest, and the most colorful festivals from all over the Philippines to Manila!
The Aliwan Fiesta is a yearly event organized by the Manila Broadcasting Company (MBC).
This year’s Aliwan Festival 2010 is scheduled April 22-24, 2010.This year, the festival will be having a new route. The Aliwan Festival Streetdance will commence at the back of the Mall of Asia and the final dance showdown will be held in front of the Aliw Theater in Sotto Drive, just beside the CCP (Cultural Center of the Philippines.
EMERGE!2010: A Week of Global Dialogue, Creation & Collaboration
April 24 - May 2, 2010 | Manila, Philippines
A groundbreaking initiative for leaders, educators, artists and social entrepreneurs.
Join us in co-creating an emerging reality.
Presented by PAGASA Youth (Philippines)
in collaboration with Think OutWord (USA), YouthSection (Europe) and WeStrive.org (USA)
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Come celebrate the dawning of a new day through creative, indigenous and artistic happenings in various sites around Metro Manila. Be inspired and inspire others in return.
• ALAB-DIWA: Rekindling the Fire, Awakening the Spirit
April 24, 2010 from 2:00pm to 10:00pm | Sunken Garden at the University of the Philippines, Diliman, QC
Join Emerge!2010 as it kicks off with an explosion of creativity that will explore different avenues of dialogue from dance, music, spoken word to the visual and healing arts. Share your insights and ideas at the VisionCafé, and be inspired by cutting-edge initiatives in indigenous culture and integral sustainable development. Bring your dancing shoes, paintbrushes, acoustic instruments and friends.
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Creative Open Jam!
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm VisionCafe
Launch of www.WhatIsEmerging.net
6:00 pm – 10:00 pm Forum on Breakthrough Initiatives
with Bonifacio Comandante (Baybayin ng Silangan), Meth Jimenez (Sagip Pasig Movement), Datu Makalipay (Maharlikas for Cultural Recovery), Nicanor Perlas, Dr. Felipe de Leon Jr. and many others
• EMERGE! 2010 INTERNATIONAL TRAINING FOR CULTURAL CREATIVES
The birth of new Culture and the rise of Civil Society to its rightful place
April 25 – May 2, 2010 | Camp Explore at Mt. Purro Nature Reserve, Antipolo
with Orland Bishop, Joey Ayala and Walter Siegfried Hahn
An eight-day intensive process of dialogue, creation and collaboration focusing on the strategic areas of education, art and social media.
A forum for global collaboration with leaders from Asia, Europe, North America and the Philippines.
An opportunity to meet each other, share ideas and learn the tools of cultural power (the Lemniscate Process, Social Sculpture, Theory U, WorldCafé and many others).
WHO CAN BENEFIT FROM THIS TRAINING?
Artists (painters, graphic designers, graffiti artists, writers, filmmakers, dancers, theatre artists, musicians, etc) and media practitioners
Educators (teachers, facilitators, cultural workers, community organizers)
Professionals looking for training in change management techniques and organizational development
Fresh graduates searching for meaningful directions
Youth leaders desiring to empower themselves and others
Social entrepreneurs who intend to creatively engage in the world
All individuals who are interested in meaningful interaction and creative learning experiences
Cost: The true logistical cost is PHP 15000. In our desire to accommodate more people, the fee is subsidized to PHP 8,500 if you register by April 16 and PHP9500 if you register after.
Register at www.emerge2010.tk.
For more information, email pagasayouth@gmail.com or message Louise at +63921-674-25-74.
• SIKLAB: Igniting the Fire, Sustaining the Spirit
May 1, 2010 from 9:00am to 12:00nn | Various sites around Metro Manila
Get your cameras ready. Watch out for SIKLAB, an improvisational social sculpting event on the streets of Manila. Through interactive artistic happenings, various artists will explore the question: "How can we inspire everyone to participate in what is emerging?" (Interested co-conspirators, message us at pagasayouth@gmail.com!)
• SACRED SPACES
May 1, 2010 from 6:00pm onwards | Bantayog ng mga Bayani, Quezon Avenue cor. EDSA, QC
EMERGE!2010 culminates with a final gathering to celebrate all that has emerged as well as all that is to come. Come and share stories, photographs and videos from ALAB-DIWA, SIKLAB, and the EMERGE!2010 International Training. This will end with a final jam session of music, dance and visual art, as well as a contextualizing forum with keynote speakers such as Orland Bishop, Walter Siegfried Hahn, Joey Ayala and Nicanor Perlas. From this Sacred Space, sparks of a new reality will be carried out into the world.
For more info, check out the respective websites of each event:
www.emerge2010.tk.
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