Designing Peace: A Show of Imagination

DESIGNING PEACE: A SHOW OF IMAGINATION

05 february 2009. discussions. politics and culture

mcad. museum of contemporary art and design

school of design and arts.dls—college of st. benilde

950 ocampo st., malate, manila

536-6752 ext. 135 to 138

sda@dls-csb. edu.ph

www. dls-csb.edu. ph

PROGRAMME:

1000 Welcome Remarks

Architect Gerard Torres, Dean, School of Design and Arts

Bro. Victor Franco, FSC, President, College of St. Benilde

1015 Keynote Address

Albert Alejo, SJ, educator and Mindanao peace activist

1030 Teng Mangansakan, Mindanao-born artist

1040 Corazon "Dinky" Soliman, pioneer grassroots organizer and DSWD Secretary during the years of "all out war in Mindanao"

1050 Jarius Bondoc, columnist, Philippine Star

1100 OPEN DISCUSSION

Moderated by Lorenzo Tan, Vice-President, World Wildlife Fund Philippines

1120 Grace Nono, Mindanao-born artist

1130 Karen Tañada, peace activist

1150 Dr. Rustom Bharucha, dramaturg, theorist, writer based in Calcutta, India

1200 OPEN DISCUSSION

Moderated by Corazon Alvina, Director, National Museum of the Philippines

1230 LUNCH BREAK

1400 Keynote Address

Bro. Armin Luistro, FSC, President, De La Salle University

1415 Dr. Nereus Acosta, Mindanao-born politician, academic, environmentalist

1425 Lav Diaz, Mindanao-born artist

1435 -Speaker to be confirmed-

1445 OPEN DISCUSSION

Moderated by Marian Pastor Roces, independent curator and symposium convenor

1500 Jagath Weerasinghe, archaeologist, writer, artist based in Colombo, Sri Lanka

1510 Dr. Jan van Alphen, Director, Museum of Ethnography, Antwerp, Belgium

1520 Manuel Quezon III, columnist, Philippine Daily Inquirer

1530 Ricky Carandang, broadcast journalist, ANC (ABS-CBN)

1540 OPEN DISCUSSION

-Moderator to be confirmed-

1600 COFFEE/TEA BREAK

1615 Gary Granada, Mindanao-born artist (to be confirmed)

1625 Bart Guingona, artist and partner in a Mindanao initiative

1635 Hon. Rufus Rodriguez, Representative, Misamis Oriental (to be confirmed)

1645 Malou Jacob, artist and Assistant Executive Director, National Commission on Culture

and the Arts

1645 OPEN DISCUSSION

-Moderator to be confirmed-

1500 TEN MINUTE WRAP-UP

Marian Pastor Roces, symposium convenor