REVEALING FACETS OF MODERN FILIPINO PERFORMANCE ARTISTRY
Firing off a passionate start for 2017, the BGC Arts Center will celebrate its identity as the home of the Filipino artist. True to its word, it will launch a 2-day Arts Festival on January 14-15, hosting performances and events that will illuminate the many layer that modern Filipino artists are animating to give voice to the range of the hum
condition.
The BGC Arts Center is the centerpiece of BGC’s Cultural District. A project of the nonprofit, Bonifacio Art Foundation, Inc., it is the first and only stand-alone theaterestablished through private donations. It is dedicated to providing a cultural andeducational experience that will inspire the public to explore their creative side andembrace Filipino artistry. A collaboration by award-winning architects and designers, the BGC Arts Center is composed of the Maybank Performing Arts Theater, the Alveo Central Plaza, and the Sun Life Amphitheater.
The BGC Arts Center Festival is aligned with how the Bonifacio Art Foundation, Inc. (BAFI) recognizes the integral role of culture, the appreciation of art and its meaning, in a city’s identity. Aiming to keep art alive and accessible through various cultural activities, BAFI endeavours to make art a way of life that everyone can share together.
Making BAFI’s mandate come alive is the range, from totally original Filipino creations to brilliant local adaptations of works with universal themes, that the BGC Arts Center
Festival is offering.
As such, the festival will have children’s plays from Artist Playground and Kids Acts Philippines, several dance performances by STEPS, staged readings of selected scenes by The Egg Theatre Co., a performance of an original play by Artist Playground, a supremely engaging performance by a pioneer Filipino Improv group, SPIT Manila,
acclaimed local production from Twin Bill Theater, an award-winning original Filipino
musical from Philippine Stagers, and opera pieces from MusicArtes, Inc. Completing the Arts Festival are art talks, outdoor events such as BGC Art Mart that
regularly feature the work of local artisans and other surprise offerings at the Sun Life
amphitheater.
Check out the BGC Arts Center Festival event page on Facebook for the schedules and details of the performances.