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ON ITS 30th year, Artistang Artlets (AA), the official theater guild of the Faculty of Arts and Letters, employed a new production tack to draw in the audience.

Anatomiya ng Pag-ibig, staged last September 15 to 17 at the Albertus Magnus Auditorium, is about the lives of several people whose love stories take a tragic turn as they try to fill in the void in their respective lives.

A new twist — the theater-in-the-round, where the audience is situated close to the performers to provoke a feeling of involvement, marked AA’s adaptation of award-winning playwright Allan Lopez’s drama on love and its wages.

Directed by Keavy Vicente and choreographed by Jhuneil Antipala, the play narrates 12 love stories told in episodic sequence.

FOUR acclaimed Thomasian artists delighted not only art aficionados but also real estate investors in the exhibit titled Masters at Edades, which was held at the Edades Model Unit in Power Plant Mall last September 9 to 16.

The exhibit displayed the works of painter Lydia Velasco, glass sculptor Ramon Orlina and National Artists for Visual Arts Ang Kiukok and Arturo Luz. Works of Hernando Ocampo, Federico Aguilar, Juvenal Sanso and Fernando Amorsolo were also showcased.

Held simultaneously with the exhibit was the opening of a showroom for a three-bedroom model unit of the Edades Tower, named after National Artist for Visual Arts Victorio Edades, the founder of the school of fine arts of UST and generally acknowledged as the father of Philippine modern art.

UST SYMPHONY Orchestra presented eminent classics in its first concert for the academic year, titled UST Symphony Orchestra in Concert last September 12 at the Main Theater of the Cultural Center of the Philippines. Featured pianist was UST alumnus Heliodoro “Dingdong” Fiel II.

Conducted by Jeffrey Solares, assistant conductor of the UST Symphony Orchestra, the event featured Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “Symphony No. 35” also known as “Haffner Symphony.” It was divided in four movements namely “Allegro con spirito,” “Andante,” “Menuetto” and “Finale-Presto.” The delicacy of the wind instruments complemented the simplicity of the musical form, and the smooth chromatic harmony of the piece evinced inner serenity for the audience.

WITH UST’s quadricentennial anniversary next year, the Conservatory of Music and its guitar department presented Guitarra 2010: The First UST International Guitar Festival to advance the ageless art of classical guitar in the University.

From August 23 to 27, the PhilamLife Auditorium served as the official venue of concerts while masterclasses and lectures were held at the Albertus Magnus Building. The event was conducted in cooperation with the Foundation for the Musical Filipino.

“Our primary goal here is to impart the knowledge of all the guest artists to the students,” said Angelito Agcaoili, one of the main organizers.

UNLIKE her poignant family movie Tanging Yaman (2000), Laurice Guillen fails to present her arresting vision of family dynamics in the melodramatic Sa’Yo Lamang (2010).

Produced by Star Cinema, written by award winning writer Ricky Lee and topbilled by the famous actors such as Lorna Tolentino, Christopher De Leon and Bea Alonzo, Sa’Yo Lamang is too pessimistic and weighted dons by the miseries of the characters whose plight are presented in convoluted family.

ALREADY a familiar persona in art galleries here and abroad, Thomasian Prudencio Villamor Lamarroza have indeed gone a long way before his homecoming. Only now at age 64 did he mount his first exhibit in his alma mater which ran from Sept. 1 to 15 at the Beato Angelico Main Gallery with the title The Colors of Amor Lamarroza.

“Having an exhibit here [in UST] was just a dream to me before,” Lamarroza said.

The exhibit is a part of Artistang Tomasino Ako, a series of art exhibitions throughout the year in preparation for the Quadricentennial celebration.

THE STUDENT Organization Coordinating Council (SOCC), is showcasing a three-part event titled Pintig: Kulturang Tomasino, which highlights an amalgamation of fashion and cultural shows and artwork exhibition.

The fashion and dance presentations already took place at the Medicine Auditorium last August 31. Meanwhile, the art show will be mounted at the UST-Tan Yan Kee Student Center on September 30.

The fashion show and dance exhibitions aimed to relive the four significant periods in Philippine history, from the Spanish conquistadores to the World War II at the Pacific Rim. The fashion designers also decided to include the pre-colonial epoch in the fashion show.

IBA’T IBANG mga obra ng mga batikan at baguhang Tomasinong alagad ng sining ang ipinakita sa ikalawang pagsasama-sama ng iba’t ibang mga galeriya sa Pilipinas sa ManilArt 2010. Ito ay inorganisa ng Bonafide Art Galleries Association (BAGO) sa SMX Convention Center na idinaos noong Hulyo 29 hanggang Agosto 1.

Ang ginamit na piyesa bilang opisyal na larawan ng ManilArt 2010 ay ang obra ng UST Fine Arts alumnus na si Andres Barrioquinto na tinawag na “Crystal Gazer.”

Kabilang sa mga pintor na nagmula sa UST na sumali sa ManilArt ay sina Arturo Luz, Roberto Chabet, Lydia Velasco, Jomike Tejido at Anton Balao.

Lumahok din ang sikat na iskultor na si Ramon Orlina na kilala sa paggamit ng salamin bilang medium sa paggawa ng iskultura.

PANINGIN ang karaniwang ginagamit upang humusga ng kagandahan, ngunit ipinababatid ng Sensorium of Portraits: The Inner Connectedness of Everyone and Everything, isang tactile exhibit para sa mga indibidwal na hindi nakakikita, na ang diwa ng sining ay hindi lamang limitado sa mga kulay o guhit-balangkas.

Ang tanghal na ito ni Allison Wong-David ay matatagpuan sa Metropolitan Museum of Manila mula noong Hunyo 2009 at tatakbo hanggang sa katapusan ng taon. Ito ay parte ng programang Touch the Artist Vision na sinusuportahan ng UST Graduate School-Center for Conservation of Cultural Property and Environment in the Tropics.

DALAWANG mag-aaral mula sa College of Fine Arts and Design ang nagpakitang-gilas sa kanilang exhibit na tinawag na Ulap sa Lupa na ginanap sa Botong’s Up Bistro sa A. Venue Mall sa lungsod ng Makati mula Agosto 2 hanggang 20.

Tampok dito ang mga gawa nina Kevin “Gripo” Balboa at Frances Nicole “Biwan” Delos Angeles na kasalukuyang nasa kanilang ikaapat na taon sa kursong Painting.

“Ang konsepto ng aming mga gawa ay umiikot sa paghahanap ng mga simpleng pangyayaring nagbibigay kaligayahan sa mga tao, na kung minsan ay nakakaliligtaan ng nakararami,” ani Balboa at Delos Angeles.