SORSOGON CITY, March 2 – A
group of Sorsoganon Artists will be launching the KURITon Series: A Community Arts Project in Sorsogon City on April 6-7 2013 (at the Sorsogon State
College Main Campus) through a Kuriton Forum as
part of their advocacy in educating less-privileged children in various
barangays to help and encourage them to engage in artistic activities to
cultivate their innate or emergent potentials in the field of arts.The art group called Kurit-Lagting, is a collective artistic collaboration of individual
artists and interdisciplinary writers’ organization that incorporates almost
all artistic disciplines in teaching both the theories and production of art.
Capitalizing on the idea to come up with a community art project to reflect the
conditions of an ever-changing Bicolano society through movements of the people
in their own cultural landscapes and the places or communities they help shape
as they leave and settle in, is best exemplified through the concept of
bayanihan and mobility of art in this activity.
The
words KURIT and KARITON when combined as KURITon
give a more solid grasp on the mobility and bayanihan of art education. It represents mainly the
ability for art to move around, to go to places and to reach its destination in
healing people and touching lives by making it available to its target audience
for a certain period of time, and develops – often in collaboration with local
artists – a community project. In KURITon Series, the mobility of art in
different forms is the main objective in reaching communities and engaging its
members in social activities that advocates in educating children call for the development of relationships between
artists, community and environment to help shape initiatives in community
development to ensure and establish foundations on which the people can build
and develop themselves through collaborative unity and effort.
In
partnership with Childfund Philippines, an organization with a firm belief that advocacy work and community
education programs help promote the rights of children and youth so that they
can lead the families of tomorrow, this KURITon Series: A Community Arts Project indeed advocates social
awareness with regards to children/youth protection in making art education
accessible to them in their community. ChildFund is partnered with the
Federation of Associations for Communities and Children’s Empowerment, Inc., a
federation composed of three parent Associations primarily organized to respond
to community’s broad and varied concerns of child poverty aiming for a greater
impact by implementing programs and services that will aid in the in the
improvement of these youth and children.
The main
activity under the Kuriton Series dubbed as KURIT KAN SARADIT, is a one month actual community work from April 9-May 3, 2013 travelling to
selected barangays as a Pilot Project including Brgy. Sampaloc ,Brgy.Piot,
Brgy.Talisay and Brgy.Bitan-o to encourage children to go to school,
help parents understand the need for child protection and raise awareness in
recognizing both the problems and responsibilities of the youth and their
potential to play key roles in becoming productive members of their families
and communities.As art educators,Kurit-Lagting members believe that it is
important to understand the
key concepts of community welfare and development through the examination of
the role of Art in shaping communities as an
important mobilizing agent in the social, economic, and communal sphere of the people
in Sorsogon.
This
community arts project is composed of volunteers, artists and cultural workers with
the aim to developing the youth’s artistic capabilities and hones their skills
in improving their community’s way of life by teaching awareness and
rehabilitation through different disciplines in arts and crafts in their own cultural landscape.
For further information
about the KURITon Series Community-based Art
Workshopplease email kuritlagting@gmail.com or visit
www.kurit.weebly.com and
Kurit-Lagting’s Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/KURITLAGTING. (GMCarretero, KL/PIA Sorsogon))
Contact
Details:
Mr.Geri
Matthew Carretero
Contact address: Sto. Nino Compound
Bibincahan, Sorsogon City
Telephone Number: 09158779491
Email:kuritlagting@gmail.com
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