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conferences, presentations, and workshops
Performance and the Environment Student Exchange Program:
UPD x LaSalle Singapore x UNATC Romania
Project Lead
Some 30 students and faculty members from the Philippines, Singapore, and Romania have participated in a series of workshops focusing on performances in natural environments centered on ecological themes.
Organized by the UP Diliman (UPD) Department of Speech Communication and Theatre Arts (DSCTA), the workshops are part of the department’s Theatre 197 course, which aims to explore contemporary performance practices with a focus on ecology.
The workshops, held from May 5 to 10, are part of DSCTA’s partnership with LASALLE College of the Arts-University of the Arts Singapore and I.L. Caragiale National University of Theatre and Film in Bucharest, Romania. Maria Stella Rossa M. Lopez and Ma. Teresa S. Jamias, assistant professors at DSCTA, and Jonas Gabriel Garcia, instructor at DSCTA, are its project leaders.
Dramaturgy 101: The Theatre's Science of Signs for the Cultural Center of the Philippines' Pasinaya Para sa Lahat 2025
Workshop Facilitator of Dramaturgy 101: The Theatre's Science of Signs for the Cultural Center of the Philippines' Pasinaya Para sa Lahat 2025, the festival extends its reach to regional sites, including Clark Development Corporation, Batangas City, Sorsogon City, Iloilo City, Himamaylan City, and Tagum City), offering an enriching and inclusive cultural experience for all.
IFTR - ATWG #16 Saitama University, Japan
“Festivals & Festa – Performing the Public Space”, 22-23 March 2025
Presenter for International Federation for Theatre Research Asian Theatre Working Group Colloquium #16: Festivals & Festa – Performing the Public Space. Presented my paper Ibong Dayo: Performances of Migration, Ecology, and Sustainability in a Birding Festival. The abstract is as follows:
This paper examines the intersection of performance, migration, ecology, and sustainabilitypractices within the context of a birding festival, focusing on the annual Ibong Dayo Festivalheld in Barangay Pto. Rivas, Bataan, in the Philippines, every end of February. The festival,which celebrates migratory birds, provides a platform for exploring the complex relationshipbetween a community, its environment, and the constant flux of climate its participants areinvolved in. Through looking at the performances and the curation of the festival, this paperinvestigates how the Ibong Dayo Festival functions as a site of cultural exchange, environmentaleducation, and community engagement. By analyzing various performance elements, such asbird watching activities, workshops with members and non-members of the community, andcultural presentations, this paper delves into the ways in which the festival assembles ecologicalawareness, sustainable practices, and cultural heritage into a community’s performative identity.Ultimately, this paper aims to argue the place of the festival in fostering environmentalconsciousness and inciting action towards sustainability in practice and heritage.
Working Group details may be found here: https://iftr.org/asian-theatre/
IFTR Asian Theatre Working Group 15:
War, Memory, and Theatre in Asia
Presenter for International Federation for Theatre Research Asian Theatre Working Group Colloquium #15: War, Memory, and Theatre in Asia. Presented my paper Response in Reliving - The Reenactment of the Bataan Death March. The abstract is as follows:
Among the nations ravaged during the Second World War was the Philippines. Within the country, none have probably witnessed as much atrocity as the province of Bataan; whereas history had recorded: the Filipino and American soldiers stood their ground in what was known as the Fall of Bataan. What followed after April 9, 1942, came to be known as the Bataan Death March. In commemoration of what took place on that day, the Provincial Government of Bataan stages a re-enactment annually on every 9th of April. The definition of a re-enactment in the West, as an authentic reliving and immersion into particular events in history, has mostly dominated what a re-enactment is. In my presentation, I shall discuss the performance of the Re-enactment of the Bataan Death March held in the Province of Bataan in the Philippines, and how it turns the definition of a re-enactment on its own head, by renegotiating a community’s cultural memory through performance and repertoire. I shall do this by highlighting the unique aspects of the Re-enactment of the Bataan Death March where apart from replaying and redoing, the performance adds festive designs and features to the re-enactment of struggle and determination that Filipino and American soldiers went through during the Fall of Bataan.
Conference Program may be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qhNNqcbM9nCDZbf0N5uIynUx5XwG6nKl/view?usp=drive_link
DSCTA x Goethe Institut Philippinen:
DokuTheater Dialogues - An Exchange with Artists
Moderator for the Department of Speech Communication and Theatre Arts and Goethe Institut Philipinen's DokuTheater Dialogues - An Exchange with Artists. This workshop/conversation between artists such as Hans-Werner Koresinger and Reginde Dura was done for the benefit of the College of Arts and Letters student population, which includes majors from Art Studies, English and Comparative Literature, European Languages, Filipino and Philippine Literature, & Speech Communication and Theatre Arts.
CAL Faculty Conference 2024:
KALbataan sa Susunod na 10 Taon
Kinabukasan ng KAL sa Pananaw ng mga Junior Faculty
Panelist for the UP Diliman College of Arts and Letters' Faculty Conference 2024: Panel 4 Discussion - Kinabukasan ng KAL sa Pananaw ng mga Junior Faculty.
(The Future of the College of Arts and Letters from the Perspective of the Junior Faculty)
Served as a panelist for a panel discussion among other members of the UP Diliman College of Arts and Letters Junior Faculty (representing departments such as the Department of Speech Communication and Theatre Arts, Department of Art Studies, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Department of European Languages, and Departamento ng Filipino at Panitikan ng Pilipinas; said representatives include Erika Yasmin Beldia, Augusto Xavier Ledesma, Miguel Caculitan, and John Carlo Santos.
CAL BAHAGINAN:
A Very Good Artist - Theatre Arts and The Creative Industry
Presenter and Resource Speaker for the UP Diliman College of Arts and Letters' Bahaginan Research Forum 2023: A Very Good Artist. Presented my paper titled Philippine Dramaturgy in the Technoself Age.
The abstract is as follows:
From its earlier conceptions as the intellectual elite of a production, a researcher, and a dramatist, the role of a dramaturg, as it redefines itself, has taken its leaps and bounds throughout the development of Philippine Theater; none more so, than the age we live in: proposed by the author to be the “Technoself Age”. In turn, the paper evaluates, examines, and acknowledges Philippine dramaturgy in the technoself age by looking at select experiences of the author’s recent dramaturgical work which includes plays and productions staged this 2023 such as “Kung Paano Nanalo Sa Karera si Rosang Taba”, “Duyan Ka ng Magiting: Pagpupugay sa mga Bagong Hirang na Pambansang Alagad ng Sining mula sa UP Diliman (UPD)”, “O’Donnell”, and the ongoing 46th season of Dulaang UP - “Sidhi’t Silakbo”.
Publicity and Articles on the Research Forum may be found here: https://upd.edu.ph/a-very-good-artist/
IFTR Asian Theatre Working Group 14:
War, Memory, and Theatre in Asia
Online Performance Presenter for International Federation for Theatre Research - Asian Theatre Working Group Colloquium #14: Towards a Post-Covid 19 Asian Theatres - MonoVlog Performance Panel Ayuda Mula Sa Langit.
Ayuda Mula Sa Langit
A man starts a weekly pray-over session on his Facebook feed with the goal to interact with his
church-members and followers. He continuously reminds his viewers to continue in their generosity
towards God’s church amidst these trying times and to give even if they have nothing left.
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Panel Moderator for International Federation for Theatre Research - Asian Theatre Working Group Colloquium #14: Towards a Post-Covid 19 Asian Theatres - Online Performance Panel - C-SAW: Creative Sensory Attunement Workshop.
Conference Book may be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GXdatAV4lvRvEdfh4uPFJ4TYTgAH8Zg_/view?usp=sharing