CALENDAR OF EVENTS MARCH-APRIL 2017

MARCH 2017

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BALLET PHILIPPINES SWAN LAKE
Category: dance, classical ballet
The Philippines premier danseur, Nonoy Froilan restages one of the greatest
classical ballets of all time, Swan Lake. A story of love and forgiveness that
transcends time and borders, this grand spectacle of dance concludes Ballet
Philippines 47th season. The Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra will perform
on gala performances, under the baton of Maestro Yoshikazu Fukumura.
Date & Time: 3 March at 8:00 PM |4 March at 2:00 PM & 7:00 PM | 5 March at
3:00 PM
Venue: Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo
(CCP Main Theater)
Tickets: P 3,000 | 1,500 | 1,200 | 1,000 | 600 | 500 | 300

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TANGHALANG PILIPINOS EURYDICE BY SARAH RUHL
Category: theater
An inventive and devastating take of Sarah Ruhl on the classic myth of
Orpheus and Eurydice as adapted to Filipino by Guelan Luarca. Acclaimed
director and stage designer Loy Arcenas directs a brilliant cast composed of
Audie Gemora, Juliene Mendoza, Alfritz Blanche and the Tanghalang Pilipino
Actors Company with Lhorvie Ann Nuevo in the title role. Be mesmerized and
transported to the underworld as you watch the play tackle universal themes
of love, life and loyalty!
Date & Time: 3 - 5 March | 3:00 PM & 8:00 PM
Venue: Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino
(CCP Little Theater)
Tickets: P 1,500 | 1,000

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PHSA THEATER RECITAL
Category: theater
Date & Time: 3 March at 7:00 PM | 4 March at 2:00 PM & 7:00PM | 5 March at
2:00 PM
Venue: Tanghalang Huseng Batute (CCP Studio Theater)

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INDAK PILIPINAS
2017 FOLKLORIC DANCE FESTIVAL AND CONFERENCE
Category: dance, folkloric dance
Presented by the Cultural Center of the Philippines and Samahang
Tagapagtaguyod ng Katutubong Sayaw ng Pilipinas in cooperation with
PASUC (Philippine Association of State Universities and Colleges)

The festival is a grand gathering of the major and university-based folk

dance troupes in the Philippines. This festivity highlights the commemoration
of the 118th birthday celebration of Francisca Reyes-Aquino, the first
National Artist for Dance and considered the Mother of Philippine Folk Dance.
Also to be showcased are the works of Dr. Lucrecia Reyes-Urtula (1988
National Artist for Dance) and Ramon Arevalo Obusan (2006 National Artist
for Dance).

The conference is a dance research forum for dance researchers and

practitioners. It will attempt to examine and explore the current dance
practices in the context of performance, teaching / learning and creation.
Also to be showcased during the conference are unpublished and new
research dances to be performed by local chapters of the Samahang
Tagapagtaguyod ng Katutubong Sayaw ng Pilipinas.
Conference
Building the Groundwork for Quality Research in Dance with performances of
select Local Chapters of the Samahang Tagapagtaguyod ng Katutubong
Sayaw ng Pilipinas
Date & Time: 7 -9 March at 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Venue: Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino
(CCP Little Theater)

Festival
Featuring Ramon Obusan Folkloric Group, Philippine Baranggay Folk Dance
Troupe, Philippine Normal University Kislap Sining Dance Troupe, Kaisahan ng
Lahi Dance Ensemble (Manila), University of Santo Tomas Salinggawi Dance
Troupe, Sining Palawan Dance Troupe, Melengas Dance Ensemble
Date & Time: 8 March at 6:00 PM
Venue:Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo (CCP Main Theater)
Featuring Bayanihan Philippine National Folk Dance Company, Kaloob
Philippine Music and Dance Ministry, Centro Escolar University Folk Dance
Troupe, Rizal Technological University Folk Dance Troupe, Hinugyaw Cultural
Dance Troupe, Sanlahi Pangkat Mananayaw of University of Perpetual Help,
Aquinas University of Legazpi Dance Troupe
Date & Time: 9 March at 6:00 PM
Venue: Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo
(CCP Main Theater)
Tickets: P 600 | 500 | 400 | 300

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CCP ARTHOUSE CINEMA: CInemalaya Presents...
Category: film
Repeat screenings of selected independent films from the Cinemalaya
Festival essaying Filipino values like pagmamahal (love), pakikipagkapwa
(community), pag-asa (hope) and katarungan (justice).
2:00 PM - IN DA RED CORNER (2006) by Dado Lumibao & Alejandro Ramos;
5:00 PM - Cinemalaya Shorts: BABAE (2005) by Sigrid Andrea Bernardo;
BLOOD BANK (2005) by Pamela Miras; PANAGINIPAN (The Dreaming) [2005]
by Anna Isabel Matutina; LABADA (2006) by Raz de la Torre; SA SILAW
(Blinding Light) [2006] by Reinzi Balao
Venue: Tanghalang Manuel Conde
(CCP Dream Theater)

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SAN BEDAS FINALE: THE 10TH ANNUAL MUSIC CONCERT
Category: music, ensemble groups
The Music and Art Area of San Beda College Alabang presents Finale: The
10th Annual Music Concert, featuring Angeli Dei Chorus, HISVOCESBEDA,
Percussion Ensemble, SBCA Junior Orchestra and the SBCA Symphony
Orchestra.
Time: 6:00 PM
Venue: Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo
(CCP Main Theater)

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MAQUILING BALLET RECITAL
Category: dance, ballet
Maquiling Ballet performs the classical piece entitled Don Quijote followed
by contemporary pieces based on Blaan mythology.
Date & Time: 11 March at 7:30 PM |
12 March at 3:00 PM
Venue: Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino
(CCP Little Theater)

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UST SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CONCERT I: MOSTLY CAMILLE (THE MUSIC OF
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS)
Category: music, classical
The UST Symphony Orchestra performs a selection of great classics including
Verdis La Forza Del Destino Overture, Meyerbeers Oh Paradis from
Lafricaine, Ponchiellis Cielo emar from La Gioconda, C. Saint-Saens
Concerto No. 4 in C minor, Op. 44 and C. Saint-Saens Symphony No. 3 in C
minor, Organ. This concert also features tenor Randy Gilongo, tenor, with
conductors Herminigildo Ranera and Reynato Resurreccion, Jr.
Time: 6:00 PM
Venue: Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo
(CCP Main Theater)
Tickets: P 1,200 | 1,000 | 800 | 700 | 500 | 400

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MET OPERA IN HD: MADAMA BUTTERFLY
(Giacomo Puccini)
Category: film, opera screening
Anthony Minghellas beautiful, atmospheric production of Madama Butterfly
enhances Puccinis drama of unfortunate, doomed love. Soprano Kristine
Opolais brings all of her passionate commitment to her portrayal of Cio-Cio-
San, the teenage geisha who gives up everything for Lt. Pinkerton. Roberto
Alagna is the American naval officer who does not understand the depth of
Cio-Cio-Sans love, and whose subsequent marriage to an American woman
precipitates Butterflys suicide. Maria Zifchak is Suzuki, Cio-Cio-Sans faithful
servant, and Dwayne Croft plays the American consul Sharpless, who tries to
avert the tragedy. Karel Mark Chichon conducts. (Estimated HD runtime: 3
hrs. 30 min.)
Time: 6:30 PM
Venue: Greenbelt 3 Cinema 3
Tickets: P 450

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CLARION CHAMBER ENSEMBLE:
ALL MAIN COURSES
Category: music, classical music
Enjoy an intimate evening of classical chamber music as the countrys only
professional chamber ensemble performs an eclectic selection of pieces for
various instrumental combinations including W. A. Mozarts Quintet for Piano
and Winds in E Flat Major K452, J. Brahms Piano Quartet No.1 in G minor and
Bohuslav Martinus Trio for Flute, Cello and Piano.
Time: 8:00 PM
Venue: Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino
(CCP Little Theater)
Tickets: P 700 | 500

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PHSA VIOLIN AND VOICE RECITAL
Category: music
Time: 7:00 PM
Venue: Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino
(CCP Little Theater)
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PHILIPPINE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA CONCERT SERIES VII
Category: music, classical
Maestro Yoshikazu Fukumura continues the PPOs journey back to the
classics as he conducts the countrys premier orchestra in the performance
of classical masterpieces including Dvoraks Symphony No.8 in G,
Mendelssohns A Midsummer Nights Dream Suite, and Tchaikovskys
Variations on a Rococo Theme featuring Filipino cellist Renato Lucas as
soloist. Dont miss this concert!
Time: 8:00 PM
Venue: Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo
(CCP Main Theater)
Tickets: P 1,500 | 1,200 | 800 | 500 | 400 | 300

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PHSA PIANO RECITAL
Category: music
Time: 7:00 PM
Venue: Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino
(CCP Little Theater)

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PHSA GUITAR AND VIOLIN RECITAL
Category: music
Time: 7:00 PM
Venue: Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino
(CCP Little Theater)
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32nd SAMPUNG MGA DALIRI ATBP.
Category: music, classical music
The University of Santo Tomas (UST) Conservatory Of Musics annual piano
recital which features 10 grand pianos on stage alternately played by noted
alumni, faculty members, and selected students from the Piano Department.
They will be accompanied by various Thomasian music ensembles. Also
participating in this showcase are several seasoned musicians and singers
whose talents were honed by UST.
Time: 6:00 PM
Venue: Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo
(CCP Main Theater)
Tickets: P 1,500 | 1,200 | 900 | 800 | 600 | 500

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DISCOVER OPERA!
Category: music, opera
A concert of choruses from famous operas to be sung by young up and
coming classical singers. Directed by Andrew Fernando, this is the first of a
series of opera appreciation concerts made possible through the support of
the Filipinas Opera Society Foundation Inc.
Time: 4:30 PM
Venue: Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo Lobby
(CCP Main Theater Lobby)

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CCP ARTHOUSE CINEMA: GMA Documentaries
Category: film
Screening of documentaries on women issues from CineTotoo, Front Row, I-
Witness, Reel Time and Reporters Notebook of GMA News and Public Affairs
Time: 2:00 PM & 5:00 PM
Venue: Tanghalang Manuel Conde
(CCP Dream Theater)

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PEFORMATURA 2017: PERFORMANCE LITERATURE FESTIVAL
Category: literature, performed literature, spoken word
The three-day festival celebrates Philippine literature by engaging it with
music, theater, dance, film and visual arts. Poets and artists from all over the
country will perform in line with this years theme Sa loob at labas ng bayan
kong sawi, the first line of Balagtas literary opus Florante at Laura. The
festival will also include workshops, book fair, film screenings, and
storytelling events at various CCP venues while a tribute to the Prince of
Tagalog Poets will be held at the Balagtas Shrine in Pandacan, Manila. Multi-
awarded writer Vim Nadera is the festival director.
Date & Time: 31 March to 2 April | 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM
Venue: Various CCP Venues and Liwasang Balagtas, Pandacan, Manila
Tickets: Donate books for free entry passes.
One book is equal to one day entry pass.

APRIL

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PEFORMATURA 2017: PERFORMANCE LITERATURE FESTIVAL
Category: literature, performed literature, spoken word
Date & Time: 1 - 2 April | 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM
Venue: Various CCP Venues and Liwasang Balagtas, Pandacan, Manila
Tickets: Donate books for free entry passes.
 One book is equal to one day entry pass.

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MET OPERA IN HD: TURANDOT
(Giacomo Puccini)
Category: film, opera screening
Nina Stemme takes on the title role of the proud princess of ancient China,
whose riddles doom every suitor who seeks her hand, opposite Marco Berti
as Calf, the brave prince who sings Nessun dorma and wins her love.
Anita Hartig and Leah Crocetto share the role of Li, the faithful slave girl.
Franco Zeffirellis golden production is conducted by Paolo Carignani.
(Estimated HD runtime: 3 hrs. 15 min.)
Time: 6:30 PM
Venue: Greenbelt 3 Cinema 3
Tickets: P 450

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CCP ARTHOUSE CINEMA: CInemalaya Presents...
Category: film
Repeat screenings of selected independent films from the Cinemalaya
Festival essaying Filipino values like pagmamahal (love), pakikipagkapwa
(community), pag-asa (hope) and katarungan (justice).
2:00 PM - 24K (2009) by Ana Agabin
5:00 PM - BRUTUS (2008) by Tara Illenberger
Venue: Tanghalang Manuel Conde
(CCP Dream Theater)

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LA PASSIO DE CRIST
(THE PASSION OF CHRIST)
UP SYMPHONIC BAND HOLY WEEK CONCERT
Category: music
To be conducted by musical director Prof. Rodney Ambat of the UP College of
Music, this concert will be the Philippine Premiere of Ferrer Ferrans great
masterpiece Synfona No. 2 La Passi De Crist, a three-movement large
symphonic work for band based on the writings of Jesus Christs life.
Opening the program is Richard Strauss Finale of Death and Transfiguration,
Op. 24, a tone poem that tackles the weighty subject of death. The concert
also features The Divine Comedy Symphony by Robert Smith, another great
masterpiece for symphonic band, and ends with the two-movement
symphony Give Us This Day by David Maslanka.
Time: 7:30 PM
Venue: Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino
(CCP Little Theater)
Tickets: P 500

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BALLET PHILIPPINES SUMMER DANCE WORKSHOP
Category: workshop, dance workshop
Dance this summer with Ballet Philippines Dance School from April 18 to May
21. Enjoy learning dance through classes in classical ballet, modern and
contemporary ballet, jazz, and hip hop. Meet Ballet Philippines dancers and
teachers; make new friends and dance in 2 grand recitals at the CCP Main
Theater.
Date: 18 April to 22 May
Venue: Bulwagang Amado Hernandez
(CCP Conference Room) & other CCP venues

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CCP NATIONAL RONDALLA WORKSHOP 2017
Category: music workshop
A gathering of rondalla ensembles from different parts of the country who
will undergo intensive training in rondalla playing and performance. The
Workshop trainors will be led by Elaine Espejo Cajucom of the Celso Espejo
Rondalla and the UP Rondalla, and faculty member of the UP College of
Music.
Date: (Workshop) 18 - 22 April | 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Venue: Various CCP venues
Date: (Culminating Program) 22 April | 4:00 PM
Venue: Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino
(CCP Little Theater)
Tickets: P 50 (Culminating Program)

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CCP Summer Arts Academy 2017
Category: workshop
The CCP Summer Arts Academy 2017 is especially designed to provide
teachers with an extensive and comprehensive training on their respective
art forms putting emphasis on advancing the level of art literacy, techniques,
processes, and art making geared towards the attainment of artistic
excellence. Teacher-applicants must be ready to commit to a process of
mentoring and critiquing by a pool of esteemed practitioners from the CCP
Resident Companies.
Date: 18 April - 27 May
Venue: Various CCP venues

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CCP ARTHOUSE CINEMA: ANIMAHENASYON at Gawad Alternatibo: Pinoy
Animation Films
Category: film
A back to back exhibition of the past winners of Animahenasyon (of the
Animation Council of the Philippines, Inc. [ACPI]) & Animation category of the
Gawad CCP Para sa Alternatibong Pelikula at Video
2:00 PM - ANIMAHENASYON Series
5:00 PM - Gawad Alternatibo Animation Winners
Venue: Tanghalang Manuel Conde
(CCP Dream Theater)

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PHILIPPINE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA CONCERT SERIES VIII
Category: music, classical
Maestro Yoshikazu Fukumura conducts the PPOs 34th season ender with
distinguished French-born pianist Monique Duphil as guest soloist. The
program is an eclectic mix of modern masterpieces that includes Gershwins
Girl Crazy Overture, and Piano Concerto in F; Coplands El Salon Mexico;
and Arturo Marques Danzon No. 2 and El Conga del Fuego.
Time: 8:00 PM
Venue: Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo
(CCP Main Theater)
Tickets: P 1,500 | 1,200 | 800 | 500 | 400 | 300

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PINK TOES GRAND RECITAL
Category: dance
Pink Toes 30th Grand Recital will be a festive homecoming of the school to
the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP). The show will highlight its music
and dance students versatility in classical , piano, voice, contemporary
dance. Along with new works, the show will highlight some of its best-loved
works in its 30 year history.
Time: 5:00 PM
Venue: Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo
(CCP Main Theater)

EXHIBIT

Until 5 March
Last Full Show
Danilo Dalena Retrospective
Category: visual arts, exhibit, painting, sculpture, installation, video
Last Full Show takes off from where the larger public was last served the
broadest sweep of Danilo Dalenas body of work in his 1990 survey exhibition
also at the Cultural Center of the Philippines. Fuelled by his virtual absence
on the gallery circuit for over 25 years, the perception that Dalena had
hibernated from art all those years is dispelled as LFS reveals suites of
drawings and paintings only recently done even as the artist has been
slowed by several health crises. Characteristic of Dalenas signature affinity
with the scatological and repellant, what could be of particular interest is his
yet unfinished series of images referencing unseemly acts and antics in
seedy movie houses. While loosely taking on the structure of cinema with
establishing sequences, transitions, freeze frames, and denouements, LFS is
posited as a grand unfolding rather than definitive account. Dalena himself
insists that the wordplay be taken in the spirit of the elaborately risqu
closing numbers of his famed Alibangbang (bar) series and the final all-star
game of the now moribund Jai Alai where the performance goes full throttle
and the one-upmanship is cutthroat and in your face.
Closing reception: 4 March at 4:00 PM
Venue: Bulwagang Juan Luna (Main Gallery), Pasilyo Guillermo Tolentino (3F
Hallway Gallery), Bulwagang Fernando Amorsolo (Small Gallery), Pasilyo
Victorio Edades (4F Hallway Gallery) and 4F Atrium

Until May 7
YOU ARE HEREE
Selections from the CCP Visual Arts Collection
Curated by Arianna Z. Mercado
Category: visual arts, exhibit, painting
You Are Here is a survey of various figurative and abstract works from the
Visual Arts Collection of the Cultural Center of the Philippines. It is a
deconstruction of presence and absence, missing and found, ebb and flowa
flux of coming and of going. This curated endeavor is meant to work as a
dialogue between the works and the viewer, to engage visitors to make
inferences and connections on how each work is situated as a part of a
whole. The exhibit aims to help students and new museum visitors learn how
to look at and appreciate modernist, especially abstract works, by prompting
questions to reflect upon while looking at the pieces as contextualized in a
curated show.
Curators Talk: 11 March 2017
Venue: Bulwagang Carlos V. Francisco
(CCP Little Theater Lobby)

22 March to 23 April
Kristo Y Kristos
Auggie Fontanilla
Category: visual arts, exhibit, painting, illustration, collage, mixed media,
installation
The central theme of the exhibit revolves around the concept of the image of
Christ as portrayed by the residents of Manila. The artist explores his concept
by immersing in the community of artisans, fanatics and devotees who
themselves are enthralled in its symbolic nature. Quiapo, Manila will be the
focal point of the immersion due to its long and rich history with the Black
Nazarene. Residents of the area will be consulted in order to gain insight on
their beliefs and crafts. Fontanillas learning will be translated into one large
work inspired by the Christs of the streets (mga kristo ng lansangan).
Furthering the idea, the exhibit aims to illustrate the contrast between the
different depictions of Christ in Manila, that that despite having metaphorical
similarity, their natures could not be more distant.
Opening reception: 22 March at 6:00PM
Artist talk: 7 April, 4pm
Venue: Pasilyo Victorio Edades
(4F Hallway Gallery)

28 March to 30 April
Another World
Russ Ligtas
Category: visual arts, exhibit, painting, sculpture, installation, video
A process that goes back to his formative years, the phantom insistence of
assembling objects that manifest an alternate reality has been consistently
apparent in Russ Ligtas practicefrom manipulating the three-dimensional
platform that was ATCO, an imitation of the more ubiquitous and expensive
LEGO, to the manifestation of fantastical visions via the two-dimensional
drawing and painting, onward to the fashioning of devices that demonstrate
the atmospheres of his performance work, and finally, the present nostalgia
towards the familiar environs of toys and iconographythe construction of
artifacts based on an accumulated visual language of mythologies from his
cultural and religious origins. Ligtas performances, which have become the
prime synthesizer of his creative energies now recede to a level closer to his
otherwise subdued channels in this exhibition format, giving time and space
for the more tangible and material creations, proofs of the world of ones
isolation, ironically inhabited by all.
Opening reception: 28 March at 6:00 PM
Venue: Silangan Hall, Bulwagang Fernando Amorsolo (Small Gallery) and 4th
floor Atrium

2 April to 4 June
Roots, Routes, and Open Engagements
National Artist Cesar Legaspi Centennial Exhibition
Category: Visual arts, exhibit, painting, installation, video
This launching exhibit of National Artist Cesar Legaspis birth centenary will
be pegged on the artists public art projects and state commissions including
those from the collections of the Cultural Center of the Philippines, the
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, the National Museum of the Philippines, the
Development Academy of the Philippines, and the kilometer markers done
for the Bataan Death March. With some works no longer being extant such
as Legaspis contribution to the Kulay Anyo ng Lahi mural project this
exhibition will solicit the interventions of younger generations of artists to
possibly effect a conversation between those who were caught up in the
polarities of affinities between creative agents who either chose to
distantiate themselves, or were effectively positioned beyond the radar of art
spaces activated by the state during martial law.
Opening reception: 2 April at 6:00 PM
Venue: Bulwagang Juan Luna (Main Gallery), Pasilyo Guillermo Tolentino (3F
Hallway Gallery), and Pasilyo Vicente Manansala (2F Hallway Gallery)

Artworks from the CCP Visual Arts Collection may also be viewed at the
following exhibitions:

Until March 2017

Philippine Contemporary Art: To Scale the Past and the Possible
Upper Galleries, Metropolitan Museum of Manila

Until May 2017

Reflections: the AAG in Review
Ateneo Art Gallery, Ateneo de Manila University

Until November 2017

Reframing Modernism: Painting from Southeast Asia, Europe and Beyond
Singtel Special Exhibition Gallery, National Gallery Singapore

Until August 2018

Between Declarations and Dreams: Art of Southeast Asia Since the 19th
Century
UOB Southeast Asia Gallery, National Gallery Singapore