Sining Kamalig

05/11/2019

Please share with someone (artist/creative worker) you care about.

Artists Welfare Project Inc. (AWPI) is an artists’ initiative, community action, collaboration, education and empowerment organisation. Realising the lack of creating support mechanisms by government and private institutions, there was a coming together of artists from various disciplines who knew that collectively, they can improve their lot and live a dignified life. It is formed by the artists community with the support of friends from various sectors who realise that the wellbeing and development of artists correspond, in many ways, to the wellbeing and overall development of the country. It pursues the recognition of the artist as a professional and productive citizen. AWPI is a non-profit, non-stock, non-government organisation registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in 2007. It is currently headed by its Board of Directors: President Carmela Manuel Millado, Vice President Ronnie Lazaro, Chairperson Fernando “Nanding” Josef, Vice Chairperson Simoun Balboa, Secretary Dennis Marasigan, and Treasurer Lisa Macuja Elizalde. Other Board Members are: Ibarra Mateo, Kate Lim, Ted Camahalan, Mae Paner, Jonas George Soriano, Emmanuel Dela Cruz, Monet Pura, Raffy Tejada, Anthony Falcon with Jennifer Lee Bonto as its Executive Director.

Ano ang benepisyo ko sa pagiging kasapi nito?
AWPI is an inclusive organisation that promotes and advocates the rights and welfare of all Filipino artists and cultural workers in the creative industry. AWPI provides important information and relevant knowledge that will benefit its members. It also connects artists to both public and private organisations to address concerns in health, housing, legal aide, rights, livelihood and other interests that benefit the members, increasing their capacity to live and work professionally using their respective art form. Current AWPI Programmes are the following: affordable HMO (Health Insurance) for Artists, An Artists’ Village, Lawyers for Artists, Masters Degree for Artists (at a reputable University), BIR for Artists, Botika Panatag, Lobbying for the Creative Industry Welfare Law, AWPI Talks and more in the offing…

For membership, collaboration, donation and sponsorships
pls email: [email protected] |
Contact No.: +6309266165206

Please click the link to complete this form.

05/11/2019

Please share with someone you care about.

Artists Welfare Project Inc. (AWPI) is an artists’ initiative, community action, collaboration, education and empowerment organisation. Realising the lack of creating support mechanisms by government and private institutions, there was a coming together of artists from various disciplines who knew that collectively, they can improve their lot and live a dignified life. It is formed by the artists community with the support of friends from various sectors who realise that the wellbeing and development of artists correspond, in many ways, to the wellbeing and overall development of the country. It pursues the recognition of the artist as a professional and productive citizen. AWPI is a non-profit, non-stock, non-government organisation registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in 2007. It is currently headed by its Board of Directors: President Carmela Manuel Millado, Vice President Ronnie Lazaro, Chairperson Fernando “Nanding” Josef, Vice Chairperson Simoun Balboa, Secretary Dennis Marasigan, and Treasurer Lisa Macuja Elizalde. Other Board Members are: Ibarra Mateo, Kate Lim, Ted Camahalan, Mae Paner, Jonas George Soriano, Emmanuel Dela Cruz, Monet Pura, Raffy Tejada, Anthony Falcon with Jennifer Lee Bonto as its Executive Director.

Ano ang benepisyo ko sa pagiging kasapi nito?
AWPI is an inclusive organisation that promotes and advocates the rights and welfare of all Filipino artists and cultural workers in the creative industry. AWPI provides important information and relevant knowledge that will benefit its members. It also connects artists to both public and private organisations to address concerns in health, housing, legal aide, rights, livelihood and other interests that benefit the members, increasing their capacity to live and work professionally using their respective art form. Current AWPI Programmes are the following: affordable HMO (Health Insurance) for Artists, An Artists’ Village, Lawyers for Artists, Masters Degree for Artists (at a reputable University), BIR for Artists, Botika Panatag, Lobbying for the Creative Industry Welfare Law, AWPI Talks and more in the offing…

For membership, collaboration, donation and sponsorships
pls email: [email protected] |
Contact No.: +6309266165206

Please click the link to complete this form.

29/08/2019

Check it our art/support group "Boxless Society" (a support group for mentally ill artists and their caregivers) at Mega Fashion Hall in SM Megamall. Exhibit runs until 1 September 2019!

12/05/2019

Thank you Inquirer: https://lifestyle.inquirer.net/333472/last-full-show-at-sining-kamalig/

Please visit us, the Last Full Show until may 31. After we have more in stock, and then we close our office in Ali Mall by june 30.

We hope to see you.

04/05/2019

GERI MATTHEW CARRETERO

How do images translate the concepts of continuity of daily life of informal settlers beyond their living conditions in the context of displacement, dislocation, migration and urban decay?
Painting and Photography are main expressions that capture the movement or passage of people and their living conditions. As a method of documentation, painting and photography are also oftentimes conducted for enquiry of unmediated chance accounts and random experiences in public spaces.
Everyday we are confronted by overcrowded places such as buildings, fences, tents, and other spaces of containment or restriction or strangers and countless bodies arranged in assembly lines, often running and walking in a hurry. In my works, these are representations of the displacement, dislocation and ephemerality/temporality of the same images taken by the artist which are dialogues between the artist, people and spaces. These dialogues are grounded on the exploration on the idea of continuity, movement of getting to and out of places, of identities in space and spaces of identities in the context of displacement, dislocation, migration and urban decay.
Throughout its history, visual art has played an important role in documenting the movement of people in terms of portraying their plight, the objects they bring with them, what identities they adopted themselves while on their journey, and what kind of geographical and cultural borders they are crossing or occupying. Images of continuity of daily life of informal settlers beyond their living conditions in the context of displacement, dislocation, migration and urban decay were found to be well represented in my work.
Thus, art having a very broad spectrum in art practice and serving as apparatus of documenting the everyday lives of people, shows that there is more than romanticizing displacement and poverty and that there still dignity even in poverty.