Isles and islands: Cultural flows between the UK and Philippines
Key information
- Date
- Time
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6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
- Venue
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Room
- RB01
About this event
About the project
Isles and islands features opportunities to enhance the growth of creative collaborations between the Philippines and the UK. These collaborations are not only a story of creativity, but a story of navigating bureaucracy. Making collaborations visible and identifying how institutional infrastructure can support Filipino relationships with the UK and with the lived histories of the contemporary Filipino diaspora is key to this growth.
This anthology explores the cultural relationships and shared knowledge circulating between the United Kingdom and the Philippines from the perspective of those who criss-cross that space. It brings together contributions from writers, artists, and academics – identifying as British, Filipino, Filipino-British and as global citizens – all working to make contemporary convergences visible.
The British Council is one of the main facilitators for exchanges between the UK and the Philippines. Founded in 1934 and working in the Philippines since 1978, the organisation has developed several programmes to encourage convergences within arts, culture and education. With a recent series of shifts emerging in the Philippine-UK relationship, this anthology, commissioned by the British Council, explores what it means to build complex cultural relationships through the arts, across geographies and within entangled global contexts.
Philippines Studies at SOAS is a forum for Philippine-related teaching, research and cultural production in the UK and Europe. Established in part by a Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs grant to the SOAS Centre of South East Asian Studies in 2017, the PSS Committee develops and coordinates academic research and teaching on the Philippines and functions as an organising centre for conferences, public lectures, film screenings and language classes.
Programme
|
Time |
Description |
|---|---|
| 6:30pm |
Assembly; drinks are served (lobby area) |
| 7:00pm–7:25pm |
Welcome remarks |
| 7:25pm-7:40pm |
Remarks from editors |
| 7:40pm-7:55pm | Philippine monuments in global discourse, Kimberly Weir, Independent writer, London, UK |
| 7:55pm-8:10pm |
Artistic production and international solidarity, A conversation between artist, Pio Abad and writer, Marv Recinto |
| 8:10pm-8:30pm | Film showing of ‘Chasing Dreams’, followed by a conversation between – filmmaker, Baby Ruth Villarama and playwright, Rogelio Braga |
| 8:30pm-9:30pm |
Closing remarks and invitation to reception – Networking. Moderated by Malaya del Rosario, Head of Arts, British Council in the Philippines |
Editorial team
Lead editors
- Arianne Mercado, Independent curator; Writer, London, UK
- Rafael Schacter, Curator; Lecturer, Anthropology and Material Culture, University College London
- Deirdre McKay,Senior Lecturer in Social Geography and Environmental Politics at Keele University; Chair, ASEAS-UK
- Malaya del Rosario, Head of Arts, British Council in the Philippines
Pool of writers
- Cristina Martinez-Juan, Project Head, Philippine Studies at SOAS
- Eva Bentcheva, Historian; Curator, Germany,DE
- Kimberly Weir, Independent writer, London, UK
- Michelle Cabildo, Independent writer, Manila, PH
- Rogelio Braga, Independent writer London, UK
Registration
This event is free and open to public. Please note that this event will be held both in person and online.
If you would like to attend the event, please register via Microsoft Forms.
The event will take place on site at SOAS University of London. Participants from other countries will receive a Zoom link.
