Ceramics, films, creative disaster mitigation: Talks and exhibits to keep you busy in November

Museum and Galleries Month may have been in October, but November is still a busy month for the Lopez Museum and Ayala Museum.

With a handful of events to choose from in either, ranging from disaster mitigation projects to ancient Chinese pottery lectures to film screenings, the artsy and the cultured will not run out of pickings.

Lopez Museum

Calling all film lovers! Lopez Museum will be having two different film screenings two weeks apart.

The first is on Nov. 15, with a screening of “Mga Uod at Rosas,” followed by an open forum with director Romy Suzara and film critic Teddy Co. It will be from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

On Nov. 27, expect a showcase of short films in “Trenta” from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. One guess as to how many short films may be shown.

Nov. 29 will mark the third Reading Group series, this time on “Archives and Alternative Art Practices” with Merv Espina from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Registration fee is P130 (P115 for students and museum members) on Nov. 15 and 29. Admission comes with free access to all current exhibitions.

For more information and to pre-register, call 631-2147 or email lmmpasig@gmail.com.


Ayala Museum

Have you begun blasting Christmas songs at home or in your car? Take it up a notch with three editions of Season's Symphonies. Sway to the melodies of the Philippine Madrigal Singers on Nov. 13, Nohmer Nival on Nov. 21, and the Manila Symphony Orchestra on Dec. 4.   

Meanwhile, the Earth Manual Project is a special exhibition about creative disaster mitigation projects. Opening on Nov. 8, just in time for the Yolanda Anniversary, the project is in partnership with the Japan Foundation in Manila and the KIITO Design and Creative Center Kobe. On Nov. 8 and 15, the public will get a chance to meet the project's designers at the Earth Manual Project Talks.

Yuan blue-and-white porcelain ceramics have been a staple of Philippine culture since the Chinese first sailed to Philippine shores and began trading. Pottery lovers and history geeks might like the “New Discoveries on 14th Century Blue and White Ware” lecture and panel discussion on Nov. 22, in which rising expert May Huang from the Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute, local ceramic specialist Rita Tan, and Yuan blue and white collector Larry Gotauco will give a short presentation.

Nov. 25 will be the opening of Pandy Aviado's “Graven Images,” a series of prints from one of the Philippines's most distinguished printmakers.

Nov. 26 is a two-event day, featuring the opening of the “Filip + Inna” 2015 collection of indigenous Philippine clothing-inspired modern fashions and the book launch of “Art and the Order of Nature” by Dr. Patricia Araneta and Amihan Lim. The latter explores the design principles and universal language of indigenous textiles; there is also an exhibit of the same nature on the fourth floor of the museum.

Finally, noted historian Ambeth Ocampo will be giving a talk that exposes the secrets of historical revolutionary group the Katipunan on Nov. 29 in his History Comes Alive! series.

For further inquiries, email hello@ayalamuseum.org or call 759-8288 (loc. 35). — JDS, GMA News