TO ALL
ARTISTS/ART ENTHUSIASTS (either in the field of Photography, Painting, Drawing,
Theater, Sculpture, Film Making and Storytelling), THIS ONE IS FOR YOU! So, I
invite you to PLEASE READ THIS:
Sir/Madame:
The
Kurit- Lagting, an art organization (based in Sorsogon City, Philippines) with
the thrust of promoting the culture and arts among the youth of Sorsogon
through alternative art education and practice will be
launching this April 6-7 2013 at the Sorsogon State
College Main Campus the KURITon Series:
A Community Arts Project which is an alternative roaming Art Education
Program travelling to different towns, municipalities, barangays, schools, and
other places in the Bicol Region together with Childfund Philippines and FACE Inc. (Federation of Associations for
Communities and Children’s Empowerment, Inc) with the shared goal to educate, initiate, map out and enrich the
potentials of the members of the community in the field of the arts through
Arts and Crafts as well as Photography, Painting, Drawing, Theater, Sculpture,
Film Making and Storytelling workshops.
Inspired
by Efren Penaflorida’s Kariton classroom,
KURITon Series is the very first
mobile art education programin Sorsogon 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..The words KURIT (to draw, to write,
to mark) and KARITON (a make-shift wooden pushcart) when combined as KURITon
gives a more solid grasp on the mobility and bayanihan of art education. Thus,
these words call for the development of relationships between art, 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. 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.
This
Community art project 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. artists and cultural workers
indeed need to travel beyond borders to extend their scope of activities and
meet new audiences, to find new sources of inspiration to make their creations
evolve, and to exchange experiences and learn from each other with a view to
developing the needs of the people in the community.
In this regard we would like to invite all the members of the
Press including local and national media and also school-based student
publications to attend our launching on April 6-7 2013 at the Sorsogon State College Main
Campus at 10:00am.Attached is a copy of our
organization’s profile and selected achievements for your reference and the
copy of our press release. Your involvement will make our KURITon Series
an extra special event.
Very truly yours,
Geri
Matthew D. Carretero
Officer in Charge
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| Fruit of the Art |
Kurit-Lagting is an art organization that incorporates almost all artistic
disciplines in teaching the creation, production, and presentation of the arts.
It is a collective artistic collaboration of individual artists and
interdisciplinary writers envisioning to be an important part of the community
art scene in Sorsogon. Through art education and practice as its primary
objective as a group, this group also aspires to cultivate the innate or
emergent potentials among Sorsoganons in the arts. By utilizing the different forms of the arts, Kurit-Lagting as an art organization
together with Sorosogn Arts Council believe that Visual Literacy through Art Education is one of the key elements in
bringing up social welfare to educate individuals and families in the
community.
Our group is currently
affiliated with Sorsogon Arts Council (Visual Arts Discipline) where we
collaborate to create interesting programs/workshops and activities that
strive to create a fun learning environment which motivate and inspire the
youth, while providing them with the up to date educational approach needed to
establish a firm foundation for lifelong learning. The approach would be a
step by step process wherein the participants are guided accordingly by giving
them concepts and ideas which they can fully grasp and put into practice.
KURIT-SERIES
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| Kurit-Lagting on the GO! |
This
series resulted as a product of the successful events of KURIT-LAGTING as a group which was
first initiated by a group of Sorsoganon Artists in 2001 but has never really
been formally established as a group until December 2011. In January to
February 2012, a proposal to launch the
group was conceptualized as part of the
group’s Art Director’s requirement for his
MA in Museum Studies at the University of the Philippines hence opening
the door for the founding members of the
group to affiliate Kurit-Lagting with Sorsogon Arts Council as its newest
member in the Visual Arts discipline. In February also, the KuritSeries ( a
multidisciplinary arts workshop and competition) with the theme was also launched to educate its members and the community of Sorsogon in the field of the arts .
The group conducted its 2nd
KURIT SERIES first pilot academic project “KULTURANG SORSOGANON: IKURIT ‘TA”
last April 2012 at the Sorsogon State College where 150 participants joined the
said art workshop in the fields of Photography, Story Telling, Basic Drawing,
Basic Painting, and Editorial Cartooning.After the successful summer workshop,
Jollibee (Sorsogon Branch) invited Kurit-Lagting to head the art workshop for
their kiddie club last May. Last August of 2012 another workshop as the 3rdKurit
Series for students and professionals alike was held in the same venue
exploring the concerns on the quality of Education in the Philippines with the
theme “Guihapon: An PagSid-Ip (Again: Looking Through). This activity was
participated by 50 students, followed by an arts competition at the end of the
lecture-workshop in Photography, Painting, Poster-Making, Cartooning and Music
Video Editing.
By October 2012, the group
launched its 4thkurit Series Artworkshop exclusively for the
Sorosogn National High School in the field of the visual arts and
photojournalism. The first major exhibit was staged and curated by the Art
Director of the group as the one of major activities of the Kasanggayahan
Festival held at the Sorsogon Museum and Heritage Center. The art show gained a
large number of audiences and was successfully included in a number of Press
Releases and Reviews. The exhibit was also the longest running activity of the
Festival from October1-31, 2012.
Another activity was also
set forth and spearheaded by the group which was Scott Kelby’s 5th
ANNUAL WORLDWIDE PHOTOWALK in Sorsogon—a social event across the globe
happening simultaneously. Participated by over 50 participants, it was also the
first time that Kasanggayahan was featured in this International event. A
culminating activity (workshop and competition) was held at Sorsogon State
College Pavilion and the poetry night was launched at UNA Pizzeria dubbed as
KASANGtulaan: A Night of Sorsoganon Poetry in cooperation with UNA Pizzeria,
Sorsogon State College,Sorsogon Arts Council, Aguador Water Refilling Station,
Independent Sorsogon Artists. Over 25 students participated in the said event
from Schools in Sorsogon City.
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| ...behind the success of Kurit Lagting, are these hardworking people... |
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PRESS RELEASES/ACHIEVEMENTS
- 2012: 3rd
Place KASANGGAYAHAN 2012 MURAL PAINTING COMPETITION (Organized by: DOT), Sorsogon
City
- 2011: 1st
Place, IRIBA 2011 MURAL PAINTING COMPETITION (Organized by: UPLB Sorsoguenos),
Sorsogon City
- 2005: 1st place, Kasanggayahan Festival MURAL PAINTING COMPETITION, Sorsogon City
- 2005: 1st place, Kasanggayahan Festival MURAL PAINTING COMPETITION, Sorsogon City
- “GUIHAPON:
AN PAGSID-IP” ART EXHIBIT
KURIT LAGTING ART GROUP, Sorsogon City, October
2012
•ORGANIZER
SCOTT KELBY’s
5TH ANNUALWORLDWIDE PHOTOWALK
Sorsogon
City, October 2012
• ORGANIZER
5th
Kurit-Lagting Art Workshop and Seminar
Sorsogon
City, October 2012
• ORGANIZER
4th
Kurit-Lagting Art Workshop and Seminar
Sorsogon
City, October 2012
• ORGANIZER
3rd
Kurit-Lagting Art Workshop and Seminar
Sorsogon
City, August 2012
• ORGANIZER
Kurit-Lagting
Art Workshop and Seminar
Jollibee,
Sorsogon City, April 2012
• ORGANIZER
Kurit-Lagting’s
2nd KURIT SERIES Art Workshop and Seminar
Sorsogon
State College, Sorsogon City, April 2012
• ORGANIZER
Kurit-Lagting’s
1ST KURIT SERIES
Art Workshop
and Seminar
Sorsogon
State College, Sorsogon City, February 2012
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