sangandaan 2003

Sangandaan 2003
http://www.up.edu.ph/sangandaan.html

Sangandaan 2003 is a cultural commemoration that highlights the arts and media
produced by Filipinos, Americans and Filipino-Americans in the course of
Philippine-US relations from 1899 to 2002. The cultural commemoration will be
held in the Philippines on July 6-30, 2003 under the sponsorship of the
University of the Philippines, the Cultural Center of the Philippines and the
San Francisco State University, in collaboration with numerous public and
private institutions in the Philippines such as the National Commission for
Culture and the Arts, the National Historical Institute, the National Library,
the National Museum, the Metropolitan Museum, Ateneo de Manila University, and
De La Salle University, and in the United States such as the City College of
San Francisco, and the University of San Francisco.

The Sangandaan 2003 activities will commence with the opening ceremonies at the
National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), Manila, followed by an
international conference at the University of the Philippines. Exhibits and
performances in the Quezon City area will complement the Conference in the
first week. The theatre productions, dance performances, concerts, film and
broadcast series, exhibits, literary events and culinary events in the second
week will be held in the Manila Bay area. The commemoration will conclude with
an outreach program.

The tentative schedule is as follows:

July 6, 2003
Grand Opening
NCCA, Manila

July 7-11, 2003
Sangandaan 2003 International Conference (Quezon City)
University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City
(with the Ateneo de Manila University and De la Salle University)

July 12-19, 2003
Sangandaan 2003 Events (Manila)

July 20-31, 2003
Sangandaan 2003 Outreach Begins (Regions)
Baguio, Dagupan, Clark, Los Banos, Legazpi, Iloilo,
Cebu, Tacloban, Bohol and Davao



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Sangandaan 2003 International Conference

Conference Goal


To commemorate one hundred years of Philippine-American relations, the
conference will confront, understand, and come to terms with the fact of
American colonization in order to hasten the processes of decolonization and
nation-building in the Philippines, on the one hand; and the creation of a
strong identity and galvanization of all Filipino-Americans into a dynamic
force in the United States, on the other.

Conference Objectives


Within the perspective of reflexivity for empowerment, Filipino, American and
Filipino-American academics and cultural workers now come together to:


1. examine the arts and media produced by Filipinos, Americans, and Filipino-
Americans during the processes of colonization and decolonization both in the
Philippines and the United States in the last one hundred years; and


2. explore the ways by which the arts and media produced by Filipinos and
Filipino-Americans can utilize the legacies of colonization so that Filipino
and Filipino-Americans can strengthen their own cultural identities and thereby
empower themselves as persons and as citizens of their respective nations.

Conference Guidelines


1. The Conference will highlight the arts and media produced by Filipinos,
Americans and Filipino-Americans in connection with: