LIVING ARTS FESTIVAL is designed as an interdisciplinary, intercultural, multi-media and multi-lingual festival of the arts in commemoration with the Year of the Ocean:
Interdisciplinary because it embraces most branches of arts – visual (painting and sculpture), theatre (plays and drama), dance, music, film, literature (poetry and fiction), and architecture
Inter-cultural and multi-lingual because it features artists and cultural workers not only from Mindanao and some parts of the Philippines, but also from the Asia-Pacific (Brunei, Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia, Pacific Islands, etc.)
Multi-media, because there will be live performances as well as projected (through film showing)
LIVING ARTS FESTIVAL immediately comes after 2009 World Ocean Conference, possibly one of next year’s biggest gatherings on response to climate change. Thousands of participants worldwide are expected and that the LAF organizers are already conferring with the WOC Secretariat to officially name the LAF as one of its official side events.
LIVING ARTS FESTIVAL will have most of its events free to the public, assuring you the widest reach in terms of audience.
LIVING ARTS FESTIVAL is an ideal venue for your demonstrate your everyone's concern for environment. People's participation will be considered as investment on “arts-for-nature” and shall form part as an “endowment fund for the future”.
LIVING ARTS FESTIVAL’s scale is unprecedented and its menu of activities is definitely one for the record. At this point, we have already confirmation from Mr. Joey Ayala, Popong Landero, Bayang Barrios and other prominent artists who will be sharing their works paying homage to Mother Nature.
Interdisciplinary because it embraces most branches of arts – visual (painting and sculpture), theatre (plays and drama), dance, music, film, literature (poetry and fiction), and architecture
Inter-cultural and multi-lingual because it features artists and cultural workers not only from Mindanao and some parts of the Philippines, but also from the Asia-Pacific (Brunei, Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia, Pacific Islands, etc.)
Multi-media, because there will be live performances as well as projected (through film showing)
LIVING ARTS FESTIVAL immediately comes after 2009 World Ocean Conference, possibly one of next year’s biggest gatherings on response to climate change. Thousands of participants worldwide are expected and that the LAF organizers are already conferring with the WOC Secretariat to officially name the LAF as one of its official side events.
LIVING ARTS FESTIVAL will have most of its events free to the public, assuring you the widest reach in terms of audience.
LIVING ARTS FESTIVAL is an ideal venue for your demonstrate your everyone's concern for environment. People's participation will be considered as investment on “arts-for-nature” and shall form part as an “endowment fund for the future”.
LIVING ARTS FESTIVAL’s scale is unprecedented and its menu of activities is definitely one for the record. At this point, we have already confirmation from Mr. Joey Ayala, Popong Landero, Bayang Barrios and other prominent artists who will be sharing their works paying homage to Mother Nature.
The Save Davao Gulf Foundation, Inc. (SDGFI) was established in 1998 by a group of people concerned about the condition of one of the country key biodiversity areas: the Davao Gulf. More specifically, SDGFI addresses the environmental degradation and the depletion of marine resources in Davao Gulf. It is involved in the marine turtle conservation, establishment of marine protected areas, coastal clean-up, tree planting initiatives, cetaceans and marine mammals rescue, among others.
With its mission to address “head on the threats to the quality of the waters of Davao Gulf”, SDGFI initiated the formation of Davao Gulf Management Council (DGMC) to effectively coordinate with the various stakeholders in the gulf composed of 5 cities and 18 municipalities, relevant government agencies, NGOs, people’s organizations and academic and research institutions. As its Secretariat, it is the lead agency in its advocacy, resource generation and support mechanism.
SDGFI is the Davao Living Arts Festival’s main proponent.
Year 2009 is declared as the Year of the Ocean. Amid the multifarious and complex social and environmental issues that shall unfold during the entire year, we believe that the year shall also be a fitting time to celebrate life, nature and art.
We need to pursue our rituals for life and embrace our arts from rituals, and thus advance our engagements for nurturing nature, most specially the oceans that bring us together.
This project is envisioned as an effective and efficient vehicle to advance our positive advocacies towards conserving nature as well as for respect and protection of life. Likewise, it shall affirm the social significance and intrinsic value of art to rally the massive engagements of all stakeholders --- local, national and international --- for sustainable living. Thus, it is hoped that with the positive institutional endorsements that the project can generate, the probability of the high-level community support and ownership would be realized.
The over-all implementing methodology of the project is participatory and the identified strategies shall engender massive community involvement. As of this writing some of the details of the festival design are still open, although the major components are already described in the broadest way possible. At the outset, however, it is clear on the minds of the organizers that this Living Arts Asia Festival will not be merely a presentation of cultural events and full-packed activities. It is resolved that through this project the following calculated statements of impacts and outcomes are achieved.
Our Creative Diversity: Bridging the Islands, Bonding with the Oceans
On the third week of the month of May 2009 (18th to 23rd) , an enormous cultural event shall take center stage in Davao City, designed as an interdisciplinary, intercultural, multi-media and multi-lingual festival of the arts in commemoration with the YEAR OF THE OCEAN. Artists of various disciplines, ethnicities, nationalities, generations and from various regions shall converge in Davao City, and, together with the Davao audiences, shall celebrate their creative works as homage to nature. Once again, the innovative showcases shall substantiate how “arts revive the spirit of creative and caring communities in pursuit of the UN millennium Goals”.
As agreed in the BIMP-EAGA Meeting held last October 28, the event is one of the components of the World Ocean’s Conference which will be held in Manado, Indonesia on May 10 to 15. It is also Davao’s contribution to the heightening awareness on the need for consistent efforts for conserving our oceans.
During the festival, the project organizers found it imperative to convene series of conferences and symposia that shall locate and affirm the concrete contributions of the arts and culture sector in the overall human strategy for building a culture of peace and for fostering sustainable development. Likewise, the event shall have spaces for cultural interactions and creativity workshops in order that the participating artists can realize more clearly the connectivity of their creative works, the particularity of their cultural contexts and their shared aesthetic visions towards a “fairer world for all”.
The BIPM-EAGA secretariat has agreed to support the cultural event in Davao City as a side event of the International Conference on the Oceans and shall convince the member-states to send it delegations to actively participate in the event.
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