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CCP’s Pasinaya draws in the crowds with a dose of culture
Children climb the Pasinaya sign on the CCP's front lawn on Saturday, March 15. The one-day multi-arts gathering is the largest in the country. Danny Pata
There are probably two occasions in the year when the Cultural Center of the Philippines Main Theater Building is packed with people. One is the Cinemalaya film festival, and another is the now-established Pasinaya open house festival. For one Sunday, CCP’s grounds are filled with curious visitors who, according to the event’s brochure, “pay what [they] can [to] watch all [they] can.”
A minimum donation of P50 was all it took for visitors to explore the the center’s ongoing art exhibits and dozens of performances and demonstrations not only by CCP’s resident companies but also by other performing arts companies. (A special “fast pass” for P300 was available, guaranteeing both priority access to venues and a decent souvenir of the day.)
Each performance venue within the CCP grounds played host to a particular genre. For instance, the Little Theater (Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino) hosted a string of student musicians and ensembles performing everything from marimba music to opera and musical excerpts, such as one from the recent rock ballet about Andres Bonifacio, "Rock Supremo." Its day ended with a lively performance by a percussion ensemble from UST.
The Tanghalang Huseng Batute—which hosts that annual event highlighting one-act plays, Virgin Labfest—this time hosted student theater groups from schools like the Ateneo de Manila, De La Salle-College of St. Benilde, and the Philippine High School for the Arts.
In a notable coda to an event that probably drew as good a crowd to CCP as either Cinemalaya or Pasinaya, the Sipat Lawin Ensemble premiered a short theater piece called "A Wake: Kids Killing Kids," in which members of the company discussed the impact of the 2012 Battalia Royale stagings.
Apart from the performances and exhibits, the festival also featured a free jeepney service taking people around Manila’s museums and the Intramuros district (which was also where a monthly street event called Pasyal Sunday was happening).
There were also food trucks and a bazaar on the premises, and a specialty coffee stand that was challenging to find but was worth the search. The night concluded with a gala staged by CCP’s resident companies.
The goal of this yearly event is to draw as wide a segment of the community as possible to the CCP for them to experience part of what the arts and culture scene in town has to offer. The hope, of course, is that the interest sparked by Pasinaya would encourage people to explore this world more—and hopefully there would be a bit more of a crowd at other times of the year too. — BM, GMA News
A minimum donation of P50 was all it took for visitors to explore the the center’s ongoing art exhibits and dozens of performances and demonstrations not only by CCP’s resident companies but also by other performing arts companies. (A special “fast pass” for P300 was available, guaranteeing both priority access to venues and a decent souvenir of the day.)
Each performance venue within the CCP grounds played host to a particular genre. For instance, the Little Theater (Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino) hosted a string of student musicians and ensembles performing everything from marimba music to opera and musical excerpts, such as one from the recent rock ballet about Andres Bonifacio, "Rock Supremo." Its day ended with a lively performance by a percussion ensemble from UST.
The Tanghalang Huseng Batute—which hosts that annual event highlighting one-act plays, Virgin Labfest—this time hosted student theater groups from schools like the Ateneo de Manila, De La Salle-College of St. Benilde, and the Philippine High School for the Arts.
In a notable coda to an event that probably drew as good a crowd to CCP as either Cinemalaya or Pasinaya, the Sipat Lawin Ensemble premiered a short theater piece called "A Wake: Kids Killing Kids," in which members of the company discussed the impact of the 2012 Battalia Royale stagings.
Apart from the performances and exhibits, the festival also featured a free jeepney service taking people around Manila’s museums and the Intramuros district (which was also where a monthly street event called Pasyal Sunday was happening).
There were also food trucks and a bazaar on the premises, and a specialty coffee stand that was challenging to find but was worth the search. The night concluded with a gala staged by CCP’s resident companies.
The goal of this yearly event is to draw as wide a segment of the community as possible to the CCP for them to experience part of what the arts and culture scene in town has to offer. The hope, of course, is that the interest sparked by Pasinaya would encourage people to explore this world more—and hopefully there would be a bit more of a crowd at other times of the year too. — BM, GMA News
