lesson 6

1. SUPPORT SYSTEMS,
INSTITUTIONS, AND
INITIATIVES ACROSS
THE REGIONS
LESSON 6

2. What is Support System of Arts?
◦ Support Systems can be government-initiated, community or
municipality-based, privately supported, university-oriented, artist-run,
or internet-based.Collectives and artist organizations are composed of
individuals who share similar or related practices.

3. What do we mean by Support Systems of the Arts?
 Support Systems of Arts includes:
Institutions Organizations and
Collectives
Media Alternative
Platforms
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where people can
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team or simply
communicate with
each other.

4. What are the different types of Institutions,
Organizations, and Platforms?
 Support Systems can be government-initiated, community or municipality-
based, privately supported, university-oriented, artist-run, or internet-based.
COLLECTIVES AND ARTIST ORGANIZATIONS
• are composed of individuals who share similar or related practices. They are committed to
experiment and develop their particular forms.
THE ANINO SHADOWPLAY COLLECTIVE AND THE SIPAT LAWIN ENSEMBLE
• are groups that challenge our concepts of theatre productions by mixing up performative
media and even trying out new modes of public engagement.
 Organizations can also emphasize their regional affiliation.

5. What are the different types of Institutions,
Organizations, and Platforms?
o Educational Institutions such as school and universities offer formal artistic training
and grant degrees upon completion of an academic program at the tertiary or post-
graduate level.
o Academy is an extensive training ground for artists, curators, scholar-critics, and
other practitioners in the arts.
 PHSA (Philippine High School for the Arts)
 Casa San Miguel
 PETA (Philippine Educational Theater Association)
 1970s
- A National Artist named Leonor Orosa Goquingco created the
Filipinescas Dance Troupe.
- Frank Rivera Frankformed the Sining Kambayoka Theater Group.

6. Philippine
High School
for Arts
The Philippine High School for the
Arts (PHSA) is a specialized public
high school in the Philippines offering
arts-focused education established in
1978 by virtue of Presidential Decree
1287.[2] An attached agency of the
Department of Education, it consults
with the Cultural Center of the
Philippines for policy and program
implementation of its arts program.
Aside from the Basic Education
curriculum prescribed by the
government, it offers various
specializations in the field of arts.

7. Philippine
Educational
Theatre
Association
Founded in 1967 by Cecile-Guidote
Alvarez, the Philippine Educational
Theater Association (PETA) is an
organization of creative and critical
artist-teacher-cultural workers
committed to artistic excellence and a
people's culture that fosters both
personal fulfillment and social
transformation.
It is the UNESCO-International
Theater Institute Center in the
Philippines. It is a non-profit, non-
stock, non-governmental, and a
registered donee institution. It was
awarded the Ramon Magsaysay
Award in 2017.

8. Leonor
Orosa
Goquingco
Leonor Orosa-Goquingco
was a Filipino national artist
in creative dance, who was
also known for breaking
tradition within dance. She
played the piano, drew art,
designed scenery and
costumes, sculpted, acted,
directed, danced and
choreographed.

9. Filipinescas
Dance
Troupe
The late National Artist Leonor
Orosa-Goquingco (1917-2005),
the creator of the renowned dance
troupe Filipinescas, was the
descendant of several great clans
of Batangas—the Agoncillos and
the Orosas from Taal and the
Lunas from Batangas City. Her
story illustrates how the heroic
formation of a nation is eventually
reflected in achievements in art,
music and literature

10. Frank G.
Rivera
Rivera was born on 29
February 1948 in Paete,
Laguna. He received his AB
English-Filipino degree from
the University of the
Philippines. He led the
movement for the theater
when he established the
Sining Kambayoka, a folk
theater company on the
campus of Mindanao State
University in the 1970s.

11. Sining
Kamboyaka
Theatre Group
The Sining Kambayoka, founded in
1974, is the only Filipino Muslim folk
theater company in the country. In its
less than two decades of existence, it
has reaped prestigious awards and
enthusiastic, critical acclaim. It won
the 1977 Aliw Awards for Most
Promising Cultural Troupe of the
Philippines, the 1977 Kalilangan
Awards for the Best Cultural Troupe
of the Philippines, the 1978 Aliw
Awards for the Most Outstanding
Theater Group of the Philippines, and
the 1981 Balagtas Award for Filipino
Drama.

12. What are the different types of Institutions,
Organizations, and Platforms?
 There are several provincial dance companies which still perform traditional
folk dances and compete regularly in folk dancing competitions.
 Kalilayan (old name of Tayabas, Quezon) Folkloric Dance Group
 The University of San Carlos Dance Troupe
 The Hiyas ng Maynilad Dance Troupe
 The Leyte Dance Theatre
 The University of the Philippines Filipiniana Dance Group
 The Lyceum of Batangas Folk Dance Company.

13. Kalilayan
Folkloric
Group
The Kalilayan Folkloric Group
(KFG) carries the ancient name of
the old province of Tayabas, which
is now known as Quezon. The
group traces its humble beginnings
in Quezon and promotes the rich
traditions of the region. Founded in
1997 by artist Rommel Padillo
Serrano, a former member of the
Ramon Obusan Folkloric Group
(ROFG), it is composed of talented
locals from the municipality of
Catanauan, Quezon who seek to
preserve and promote Filipino folk
dance and music through the
performing arts.

14. The University
of San Carlos
Troupe
The University of San Carlos
Dance Troupe is a performing
arts group dedicated to the
preservation and promotion of
Filipino culture through its
repertoire of cultural dances. It
is composed of students from
various colleges in the
University. The group serves
as the cultural arm of USC
through its cultural
performances in the local,
national and global scenes.

15. The Hiyas
Maynilad Dance
Group
The Hiyas ng Maynilad Dance Troupe is
the official and premiere cultural dance
company of the Pamantasan ng
Lungsod ng Maynila. The company,
consisting of student-performers under
the umbrella PLM President’s
Committee on Arts and Culture,[1] made
its debut performance during the
University’s anniversary celebration in
1982.[2] Since then, it has presented
dances in costumes that reflect the
traditional culture of the Philippines.
Together with the PLM Rondalla, the
company has also appeared as the
Hiyas ng Maynilad and Cultural Group.

16. Leyte Dance
Theatre
The Leyte Dance Theater was
founded in 1995 by
choreographer Jess De Paz,
whose skillful blending of folk
dance with other dances, like
ballet, created a unique way of
storytelling, one that
showcased both energetic
prowess and emotional
intensity especially in his
interpretation of the country’s
colonial past.

17. UP
Filipiniana
Dance Group
The UP Filipiniana Dance Group is
the official folk and modern jazz
dance group of the University of
the Philippines, Diliman. Through
the years, the UP Filipiniana has
been representing both the
university and the Philippines in
various international festivals
across the globe including, United
Kingdom, Switzerland, Italy,
Japan, Thailand, and France.

18. The Lyceum of
Batangas Folk
Dance
Company.
The dance troupe is the official folk
dance company of the Lyceum of the
Philippines University Batangas
which features various Philippine folk
and cultural dances across the
country. The group is regularly invited
to perform in important events of the
National Commission for Culture and
the Arts (NCCA), the Cultural Center
of the Philippines (CCP), and the
Department of Tourism.
LahingBatangan has produced their
own dance concerts and has
represented the Philippines in
international dance festivals in Asia
and Europe as well.

19. UP Kontra-
Gapi Group
As part of its commitment to promoting
artistic excellence as an official student
performing arts group of the University of
the Philippines-Diliman, the
Kontemporaryong Gamelan Pilipino
(Kontra-GaPi) brought its distinctive mix of
music, dance and mime to Iligan City,
Lanao del Norte last February 16 to 20,
2017. With the support of the UP Diliman
Office for the Initiatives for Culture and the
Arts (OICA) and the gracious hosting of the
Mindanao State University – Iligan Institute
of Technology (MSU-IIT), Kontra-GaPi
staged three full shows, conducted four
workshops and engaged in a discussion-
interaction with the people from the “City of
Majestic Waterfalls” in five short days.

20. What are the different types of Institutions,
Organizations, and Platforms?
MUSEUMS
• are traditionally based on a collection of objects.
• tasked to preserve heritage for the enjoyment and education of present and future generations,
museums are often linked to ideas of permanence and authority.
• a museum may be as large-scale as the National Museum, which houses an art gallery and
ethnographic collection in its main branch. Or it may also operate at a small-scale like
community museums that privilege memory and the local people’s pride of place.
Example:
The Museo San Ysidro de Pulilan in Bulacan
- founded by the town’s historical society comprising of young artists and cultural
workers.

21. What are the different types of Institutions,
Organizations, and Platforms?
NCCA (National Commission for Culture and the Arts
• provides the infrastructure for either wholly or partially government-funded projects on
Philippine art and culture.
• Sungdu-an
- is a Waray term which means “confluence”.
- is a national traveling exhibition funded by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts
(NCCA).
- It is the flagship project of the NCCA Committee on Visual Arts, featuring contemporary
works by visual artists from Mindanao, Visayas, Luzon, and National Capital Region (NCR).

22. What are the different types of Institutions,
Organizations, and Platforms?
CONTEMPORARY ART EXHIBITIONS
• need not be confined within the “white cube” environment of galleries and museums.
• It can take place in alternative spaces, or the outdoors, in public spaces within a limited period
of time.
• Alternative Space
- is an independent and/or artist-run initiative that deviates from rigid institutional models
where exhibition parameters are usually less flexible.
 Surrounded By Water
 Project Space Pilipinas (PSP)

23. What are the different types of Institutions,
Organizations, and Platforms?
FESTIVAL
• it is a mode of exhibition that is transitory and participatory.
• closely related to religion, ritual, culture, and tourism, the festival’s ebullience and significance
draw the multitude to publicly accessible and less intimidating spaces.
• Festival of contemporary art in some ways have appropriated the protocols of festivals in
order to link art more closely with everyday life.
> The Neo-Angono Public Art Festival
- its name comes from the artist collective that organizes the festival year after year just
before the official town fiesta.
PUBLIC ART FESTIVAL
• the buildings, the streets, and the waterways, are used as sites for exhibitions, performances,
film viewings, and other activities

24. What are the different types of Institutions,
Organizations, and Platforms?
 If museums are spaces of knowledge production, and galleries, of consumption, auction houses
and art fairs are places that specifically respond to the market. In this context, art is regarded as
a commodity and therefore potential property and investment.
GALLERIES
• provide representation for artists, exhibiting their works and transacting with patrons or “clients”
on their behalf.
ART FAIRS
• are short-term events where several galleries exhibit and sell art in one large venue, like a park,
or inside a mall or even a parking area converted into fairgrounds.