KABUWANAN SA CUBAO EXPO: An Artists’ Fair
Experiencing Cubao Expo through Music, Poetry, Painting, Photography, Film, Fashion
Cubao Expo pays homage to the Artist on Saturday, April 5, 2008
during the KABUWANAN SA CUBAO EXPO: An Artists’ Fair.
Poets, musicians, painters, sculptors, photographers, filmmakers,
art lovers, art students, patrons of the arts – all converge in Cubao Expo
to celebrate Art in its diverse forms through activities suited to the theme.
KABUWANAN signifies several facts;
1) that Cubao Expo (formerly known as The Marikina Shoe Expo),
is in its final throes of reemerging from its former shoe-store mecca identity
into that of an Artists’ Village;
2) that the time of the Fair signifies the height
of artistic inclinations of our participating artists; and
3) (as an allusion to a particular southern expression), it is a time where certain modes of communication between parties sensitive to unvoiced emotions are given right of way, and born are moments made more spectacular because they are just as unexpected.
Here are glimpses of what the day has to offer:
A Poetry Competition will be judged by noted Artists of the Pen
Jose Wendell Capili, Danny Sillada, & Sonny Villafania. The performance of the entries will highlight the Poetry Reading Program that begins at 3pm on the day of the Fair.
A street fair will dominate the Entrance driveway of Cubao Expo,
where participating local noted & recreational artists are given free rein
to display their artworks in a no-wall free-form manner. Some of the artworks as well as handicrafts made by the artists themselves will be sold.
A PhotoWall by LOMOMANILA will be specially arranged for the Artists’ Fair,
featuring the collected works of participating LOMOMANILA members.
A Photo-Op stage will be erected where all aspiring models & muses can pose to their hearts’ content, as well as get their pictures taken, of course.
A FILMFEST sponsored by Mogwai Restaurant will feature films
specially selected for the Fair, starting at 7pm.
A FASHION WALK-OFF will have models fully coiffed & made-up, wearing the designs of participating up & coming designers, walk around Cubao Expo starting 5:30pm.
On the exit side of Cubao Expo, a carefully selected exhibit of Functional Art as embodied by vintage Volkswagons, Vespas as well as bicycles will dominate the scene.
Participating Artists will donate signed artworks & other valuable items to a Silent Auction, where 75% of the proceeds will go to the family of the late Noe Tio, musician (of Joey Ayala’s group); the remaining 25% will be given to the Cubao Expo Night Light Fund.)
An “Installation Art Parts” Repository will be set up where people are encouraged to deposit their CLEAN or cleaned-up junk for artists of that noble discipline can pick what they want to create into fantastic pieces of absolute beauty.
These activities coincide with the tenant art galleries’ exhibits & workshops that will be held simultaneously on the day of the Fair.
Finally, and most importantly, there is the KONSYERTO, where 20+ bands of diverse disciplines are geared to perform for the audience starting 5pm.
These activities are an opportunity for artists to meet & greet each other, to learn from each other, to be exposed to art of different disciplines. It is also a venue for the common Juan to see, up close & very personally, what art is really, and should be, about.
For the Artist, by the Artist, Cause: the Artist.
KABUWANAN SA CUBAO EXPO ORGANIZERS’ CONTACT DETAILS:
SANDY ALLAN / 0917-5222100 / soulcardreader@gmail.com
TRICIA DATA / 0906-3105815 / info@oohwables.com
HALMEN VALDEZ / 024738474 / haloproducts@yahoo.com
SPONSORED BY:
YAMAHA / SENNHEISER
LUMINARE MINERAL MAKE-UP
THE SHOPS of CUBAO EXPO
PSYKEYS INC., ATTY. ARLENE ROURA, DR. MYT GUPIT, MICHAEL CAASI CPA
In Memory of Maximi Capuli & Noe Tio
Alam mo ba, yung Noe Tio nakakainuman ko dati sa Conspi? 
