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ONE DAY IN THE CITY: PASAY

“One Day in the City: Pasay”

by Metmuseum Manila on Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 10:50am

“One Day in the City: Pasay” opens to the public on January 25, 2012 up to March 31, 2012 at the Tall Galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Manila.

The majority of the world’s population resides in cities. Sometime in 2007 a UN study indicated that for the first time in history the number of people living in urban areas has outweighed those living in the rural. With the growth of megacities, or cities like Metro Manila with populations exceeding 10M we are seeing that for the majority of the world’s population, life in the 21st C will most likely be spent in urban areas.

The city is a space. It is composed of areas defined in many ways by different factors. The science of city planning and the politics of its management have seen our urban spaces grow in various permutations resulting in constant shifts in the physicality of the cities we live in.

The city is a place. We live, work, play within its confines and conditions. It is a repository of our memories, provides stimuli for our daily experience and defines who we are. As its inhabitants we imbue it with character and culture, and the cities grow as we do, in a symbiotic relationship that only urban citizens feel and understand. The peculiarities, moods, spaces and places of the city and its dwellers are what we want to capture in this show.

“One Day in the City: Pasay” is a photographic exhibit focusing on Pasay City. The show depicts facets of the urban fabric and the experience of city dwellers as seen thru the eyes of student photographers from the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde AB Photography program. The photography project is a way of showing how life is in one part of a 21st century Asian megalopolis like Metro Manila, and will provide a counterpoint and a response to the Spanish photography show “Photo By Photo: A Portrait of Spain” exhibited at the Met.

The show is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Manila, The De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde School of Design and Arts, The City Government of Pasay, Canon Philippines Inc. and the Spanish Embassy Manila.

MEMOIRS

Xander Calceta
cordially invites you to the opening of the exhibition:
MEMOIRS
on Saturday, February 06, 2009, 3pm at

THE WHITE CUBE GALLERY
OF THE
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF MANILA

BANGKO SENTRAL COMPLEX,
ROXAS BOULEVARD, MANILA 1004
The exhibition runs from January 19 to February 19, 2010

Gallery hours from 9am to 5pm. Mondays through Saturdays.

For more information, contact us at 09272114646 / 025831053 or visit us at http://www.xandercalceta.com

CONFRONTATION

THE ART OF GALICANO

You are cordially invited to a an artist talk and painting demonstration by Romulo Galicano on July 18, Friday, at 2 to 4 p.m. at the Tall Galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Manila. The talk/demonstration, entitled The Art of Galicano, is a sharing of the artist’s philosophy, experience,and techniques as a portrait artist. (Please see attached poster and full invitation).

The talk is an auxilliary component of POSTURA: Portraits, Prestige, Posterity, which is ongoing at the Met Museum’s Tall Galleries until August 30. Postura features more than 60 formal portraits painted by Romulo Galicano and formal costumes designed by Patis Tesoro.

Entrance fee to the talk is P100.00 and includes a pass to the Museum’s galleries. Discounted rates are given to groups of 25 and above. Educators who bring in a group of at least 10 students are given free admission to the lecture.

For inquiries and seat reservation, please call Fralynn Manalo at 523-0613, 521-1517, or 523-7855, or email info@metmuseum.ph.

Metropolitan Museum of Manila
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Complex
Roxas Boulevard, Manila 1004 Philippines
Tel. (63-2)523-7855, 536-1566, 523-0613 (telefax)
URL: www.metmuseum.ph
Email: info@metmuseum.ph

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