EMERGE! CULTURAL EVENTS

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.

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ALAB-DIWA

Rekindling the Fire, Awakening the Spirit
April 24, 2010 from 10:00am 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.

10:00 am – 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), Nicanor Perlas, Dr. Felipe de Leon Jr. and others

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. Social Sculpture is built on a belief in the power of universal human creativity, and the potential of art to bring about radical social transformation. 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!)

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SACRED SPACES

May 1, 2010 from 6pm 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.