Dang A Dang Radio

23/11/2023

𝗠𝘂𝗸𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝘆𝗮𝗿 (𝗟𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀 𝗙𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗿), the first solo exhibition of artwork by award-winning poet, songwriter, musician, and translator Jesús Manuel (Jess) Santiago.
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The art exhibition features 73 paintings in watercolor by Santiago, offering to all a glimpse of ​ how he quietly worked on hundreds of portraits of family, friends, colleagues, and fellow cultural workers in the Philippines arts community for almost a decade.
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Many of these artworks were made during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown when social gatherings were restricted and limited. To date, these have never been exhibited publicly as a whole body of work.
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Regarded as among the pioneers of people’s music in the Philippines, who penned and performed among the classic protest songs during the dictatorship, Jess Santiago’s original songs are compiled in albums such as Halina (1991), Obando (1993), and Puso at Isip (2008) while his writing was published in books notably the poetry collection Gitara: Mga Tula, 1975-1985 (1997) and Usapang Kanto: Kolumberso (2018). As a translator, he pioneered the Filipino translation of Ernest Hemingway’s 1951 classic novel The Old Man and the Sea, among other projects.
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Curated by Lisa Ito, Santiago’s first solo exhibition as a visual artist unveils another rich facet to his practice as a cultural worker: truly an icon in the Philippine arts and culture community.

WATCH 'MEMORY PROJECT 16: MUKHANG PAMILYAR'
https://fb.watch/ouzGugh98b/?mibextid=Nif5oz

16/11/2023

Happening this Saturday!

𝐌𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝟏𝟔: 𝐌𝐮𝐤𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲𝐚𝐫
Featuring Jess Santiago
November 18 (Sat), 2:30 p.m.
1F Lobby, UP Fine Arts Gallery
Online via FB Live
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We invite all to a Memory Project and Artist Talk for “Mukhang Pamilyar” (Looks Familiar / Familiar Faces), the first solo exhibition of artworks by award-winning poet, songwriter, musician, and translator Jesús Manuel Santiago (Jess Santiago). The show will be extended up to November 27, 2023 at the UP Fine Arts Gallery.
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On Nov. 18, the artist will be present to talk about the artworks, his songs, and multi-disciplinary projects. Curated by Lisa Ito, Mukhang Pamilyar featured his portraits in watercolor and charcoal, unveiling another rich facet to Santiago’s practice as a cultural worker and an icon in the Philippine arts and culture community. The talk highlights several stories behind these portraits of family, friends, and colleagues, interspersing these with songs that Santiago composed as among the pioneers of people’s music in the Philippines during Martial Law.
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This event is brought to you by the UP Fine Arts Gallery and the Concerned Artists of the Philippines, in cooperation with the UP College of Fine Arts Department of Visual Communication , Dang A Dang Radio, and Asian Music for Peoples’ Peace and Progress with the support of the UP Diliman OICA.
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“Mukhang Pamilyar” will be on view up to 27 November 023 at the Gallery One, UP Fine Arts Gallery, Arts & Design Building West Hall, College of Fine Arts, UP Diliman, Quezon City. Gallery hours are from Tuesdays to Saturdays, 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
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FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
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For onsite attendance, please register via bit.ly/ParolaVisitorsForm
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See you! 🧡
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10/11/2023

Mamayang gabi na ang !

Join us and experience the music of Salidummay, Kumpay, Tilaok, Ivee Bongosia Music, Ebkas Waya - Speak Free, Karlo Altomonte, and Grupong Binhi live. See you all tomorrow at the Echoes of Resistance Music Concert, 6PM at the CAP Building, Session Road.

07/11/2023

Damhin at isapuso ang mga Himig

Mga Panaghoy at Panawagan para sa Kapayapaan at Katarungang hindi lang sa ating bayan kundi sa buong sanlibutan na binabalot ng ligalig at sindak lalo na sa ating mga kapatid na Palistino.

Ang Pagtataguyod ng Kapayapaan at Katarungan ay gawaing Banal na marapat gawin ng bawat isa. Walang Kulay! Hindi Hadlang ang Pagkakaiba ng Paniniwala! Tayo'y Magkakapatid na dapat Tumindig para sa Tama at Kabutihan ng nakakarami.

Yakapin natin ang bawa't isang nanaghoy at naging biktima ng kalabisan at pagmamalupit ng mga nakaupo sa pamahalaan na dapat siyang magbibigay ng pagkalinga at pagpapahalaga sa buhay at dangal nating mga Pilipino.

Malapit na....

November 9, 6pm. Salakot Chapel, Union Theological Seminary. Sampaloc 1 City of Dasmariñas, Cavite.

Ang Espiritu ng Panginoon ay sumasaakin , sapagkat hinirang niya ako upang ipangaral sa mga mahihirap ang Magandang Balita.

Isinugo niya ako upang ipahayag sa mga bihag na sila’y lalaya, at sa mga bulag na sila’y makakakita. Isinugo ako upang palayain ang mga inaapi. Lucas 4:18

15/08/2023

NEW EPISODE! https://www.mixcloud.com/dangadangradio/ost-obrero-soundtrack-mga-awit-at-kwentong-manggagawa/

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Dang A Dang Radio x Philippine Labor Movement Archive

"OST (OBRERO SOUNDTRACK): Mga Awit at Kwentong Manggagawa"

Presented and recorded live on August 5, 2023, at No Community-run Space during the concluding event of the "Paggawa ng Alaala, Alaala ng Paggawa" exhibition by the Philippine Labor Movement Archive.

*photo courtesy of Philippine Labor Movement Archive & Kilusang Mayo Uno Collection

03/08/2023

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PAGGAWA NG ALAALA,
ALAALA NG PAGGAWA
Philippine Labor Movement Archive
15 Jul–05 Aug 2023

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CLOSING EVENT
05 Aug, Sat | 4PM-9PM

● 6:30PM–7:30PM | Film Screening
> Indigo (dir. by Ace Balbarez)
> Kino Kalye (dir. by Joel Andrei Ramirez)
> Invisible Labor (dir. by Joanne Cesario,
produced by Mayday Multimedia)

● 8:00PM-9:00PM | OST (Obrero Soundtrack): Mga Awit at Kwentong Manggagawa // co-presented with Dang A Dang Radio

**Limited seating, pre-registration required:
bit.ly/no-communityrunspace

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For online reservation of artworks:
https://forms.gle/ex4ZTAQgjUcQ6c5CA

10/04/2023

LAND IS LIFE:
Stories from the Farmers’ Struggle in the Philippines

Sunday, April 16, 8pm
Extinction Rebellion Camp
Invalidenpark, Berlin

According to recent reports by Global Witness, the Philippines is one of the deadliest countries in the world for land and environmental activists. This violence is largely targeted at indigenous and rural communities, who are leading the fight against extractive industries, such as mining and monocrop plantation farming. In this screening at the Extinction Rebbelion protest camp in Berlin, ALPAS Pilipinas will present two short films focusing on the ongoing struggle led by peasants and agricultural workers for genuine agrarian reform in the Philippines. This struggle is centered on the demand for a democratic distribution of land and for a sustainable food system that is guided by the needs of the people, rather than by the pursuit of profit. In these films, we will see how the struggle for climate justice is inextricably linked to issues of labor, human rights, and state violence.

Films:
Sa Ngalan ng Tubo (In the Name of Sugarcane/Profit), 2005
Pagkatapos ng Tigkiriwi (After the Dead Season), 2018

10/04/2023

HELLO FRIENDS IN JAPAN! 🙌🙌🙌 Great to hear that PRINTS PARA SA BAYAN Printmaking for the People-Philippines will be part of the exhibition in Tokyo alongside several other print collectives from across Asia. The exhibition will be held from April 28th to May 8th, 2023 in Chinretsukan Gallery, located on the second floor of the Tokyo University of the Arts (Ueno Campus). As they prepare for the event, they are also selling some prints for their fundraising campaign to assist with their trip to Tokyo. If you are interested in purchasing some prints, feel free to message them on FB or IG to find out more.

For more details about the "Debordering: Woodcut Printmaking Practice in Inter-Asian Context" exhibition, please visit this website: https://aai.geidai.ac.jp/debodering/

09/04/2023

In time with , we are sharing this extensive patriotic music collection by the Arkibong Bayan.

https://arkibongbayan.ph/radio/

According to the digital collection's introduction: "Malayang Musika ng Pilipinas is Arkibong Bayan's continuing work of collecting and featuring socially relevant, patriotic, progressive, nationalist, and even revolutionary songs from the Philippines intended for educational, advocacy, and non-profit purposes only. The rights to the songs remain with the individual authors, composers, and publishers. A big part of the song collection from the 1970s to 2000s came from Engr. Mon Ramirez's audio capture and editing of cassette tapes these music albums are in."

09/04/2023

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Last day today to listen to LAKBAYAN: Voices of Resistance from the Philippines. Thank you, Dang A Dang Radio for sharing your ears, archive and knowledge with us & thank you all for listening along.

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Heute ist der letzte Tag, um LAKBAYAN: Voices of Resistance from the Philippines anzuhören. Danke Dang A Dang Radio, dass ihr Eure Ohren, Archive und Euer Wissen mit uns geteilt habt und Danke an alle, die sich mit uns aufs gemeinsame Hinhören eingelassen haben.

𝄪𝄪𝄪 LAKBAYAN. VOICES OF RESISTANCE FROM THE PHILIPPINES 𝄪𝄪𝄪
Today until // Heute bis 19:00
FREE ENTRY Donations welcome // FREIER EINTRITT Spenden erwünscht
Our space is accessible by wheelchair // SAVVY ist mit dem Rollstuhl zugänglich

PHOTO .systermans

07/04/2023

The documentary „Daluyong“ chronicles the 1984 Lakbayan, showing the dissatisfaction of the Filipino people with the Marcos regime. It features the songs of tens of thousands of people marching from the different regions to the capital. The protest was met with violent repression from the government.

„Daluyong“ is screened in our exhibition to contextualize the longevity of Lakbayan as a protest tactic. It shows how in the Philippines people's artists are embedded in the struggle for social justice. They are not entertainers but comrades.

This super-8 film was made by then students Nil Buan & Joey Clemente with the support of their college friends. The last known betamax copy was digitized by Prof. Rose Roque. Subtitling was a collective effort by the Concerned Artists of the Philippines (CAP-PUP) for CAP's Memory Project and further improved for the online screening in Cinemata 2022.

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„Daluyong“ berichtet vom Lakbayan im Jahr 1984 – Protest der philippinischen Bevölkerung gegen das Marcos Regime. Er dokumentiert die Lieder der Zehntausenden, die aus den verschiedenen Regionen in die Hauptstadt marschierten. Der Protest wurde von der Regierung brutal niedergeschlagen.

Die damaligen Studenten Nil Buan & Joey Clemente konnten den Super-8-Film nur mithilfe von Komilliton:innen fertigstellen.

In unserer Ausstellung zeigen wir ihn, um die Langlebigkeit von Lakbayan als Protesttaktik zu unterstreichen. Er zeigt, wie populäre Musiker:innen auf den Philippinen in den Kampf um soziale Gerechtigkeit eingebettet sind. Sie sind keine Entertainer:innen, sondern Mitkämpfer:innen.

Die letzte bekannte Betamax-Kopie wurde von Prof. Rose Roque digitalisiert. Gemeinsam erstellten die Concerned Artists of the Philippines – PUP die Untertitel für das CAP Memory Project sowie Online Screenings auf Cinemata 2022.

𝄪𝄪𝄪 LAKBAYAN. VOICES OF RESISTANCE FROM THE PHILIPPINES 𝄪𝄪𝄪
Curated by Dang A Dang Radio

Last week // letzte Woche
Thur–Sun // Do–So 14:00–19:00

FREE ENTRY // FREIER EINTRITT
SAVVY is accessible by wheelchair // ist mit dem Rollstuhl zugänglich

PHOTOS Marvin Systermans

05/04/2023

Bring your protest tunes! In Saturday’s collective listening session everyone is invited to bring a song, an album, anecdote or sonic memory in the context of protest. You can bring them in form of a vinyl, cassette tape, digital file – or in your own voice. Through this sonic sharing we want to reflect together how music accompanies us in processes of resistance and search for justice.

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Bringt Eure Protestmusik! Wir laden Euch herzlich zu einer gemeinsamen Listening Session ein: bringt ein Lied, ein Album, eine Anekdote oder eine Klangerinnerung mit, die für Euch im Zusammenhang mit Protest stehen – in Form einer Schallplatte, Kassette, einer digitalen Datei oder in Eurer eigenen Stimme. Mit diesem Moment, in dem wir Klänge und Sounds miteinander teilen, wollen wir darüber nachdenken, wie Musik die verschiedenen Prozesse des Widerstandes und des Kampfs um Gerechtigkeit begleitet.

LISTENING SESSION :: Bring your protest tunes
08.04.2023 16:00
�LANGUAGES ㅤIn English with spontaneous shared translation // SPRACHEN ㅤAuf Englisch mit spontaner Übersetzung�
FREE ENTRY ㅤDonations welcome // FREIER EINTRITT ㅤSpenden erwünscht�
ACCESS ㅤOur space is accessible by wheelchair // BESUCH ㅤSAVVY ist mit dem Rollstuhl zugänglich

PHOTO Marvin Systermans

05/04/2023

Last SAVVY tongue tour and last week to catch LAKBAYAN. VOICES OF RESISTANCE FROM THE PHILIPPINES ✊✊✊

06.04.2023 17:00
Tour in English
With Manuela Garcia Aldana & Lili Somogyi

Listening forward to welcome you

Photos: Snapshots of the tours in the last two weeks – thank you all for joining & listening with us ✨

02/04/2023

This year, Maerzmusik was less concerned with reconfiguring terms and more invested in opening new auditory experiences

02/04/2023

Expanding to the visual arts, the songs in our current listening exhibition by Dang A Dang Radio are accompanied by works from Federico "boyD" Dominguez, a visual artist and musician from the Philippines known for putting a focus on farmers and indigenous peoples in his art. The featured works entitled “Dayaw” (2009), “Pangiyaki, I Matoy” (2007), and “Sandugo” (2016) draw inspiration from indigenous culture and experience to portray the struggles faced in the countryside and the united response of the communities to call for their rights. Besides tracing his ancestry to the indigenous Mandaya people of Davao Oriental, boyD also embodies the indigenous heritage through active participation in the plight of the indigenous people across issues that encompass the environment and the right to ancestral domain.

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Die Lieder in unserer aktuellen Hörausstellung von Dang A Dang Radio werden durch Werke von Federico "boyD" Dominguez begleitet, einem bildenden Künstler und Musiker von den Philippinen, der dafür bekannt ist, dass er in seiner Kunst die ländliche und die indigene Bevölkerung legt. Die ausgestellten Werke mit den Titeln "Dayaw" (2009), "Pangiyaki, I Matoy" (2007) und "Sandugo" (2016) sind von der indigenen Kultur und Erfahrung inspiriert, und stellen die Herausforderungen auf dem Land und die vereinte Reaktion der Gemeinschaften, mit denen sie ihre Rechte einfordern, dar. boyD stammt nicht nur von der indigenen Gruppe der Mandaya in Davao Oriental ab, sondern verkörpert dieses indigene Erbe auch durch seine aktive Beteiligung an der Notlage der indigenen Bevölkerung in sämtlichen Belangen, die von Umweltfragen bis zum Anrecht auf Land der Vorfahren reichen.

𝄪𝄪𝄪 LAKBAYAN. VOICES OF RESISTANCE FROM THE PHILIPPINES 𝄪𝄪𝄪
is open today // ist heute geöffnet
14:00–19:00

FREE ENTRY Donations welcome // FREIER EINTRITT Spenden erwünscht
Our space is accessible by wheelchair // SAVVY ist mit dem Rollstuhl zugänglich

PHOTO Marvin Systermans

31/03/2023

TODAY!!!!

Join Lili tomorrow at 18:00 for a tour in English through our listening exhibition curated by Dang A Dang Radio:

𓂈 LAKBAYAN: Voices of Resistance from the Philippines 𓂈
SAVVY TOURS IN SAVVY TONGUES :: Exhibition tours in Tagalog, Deutsch, English, Español & +++

Listening forward to welcome you tomorrow!

31/03/2023

29/03/2023

There will be a tour in Spanish for LAKBAYAN. VOICES OF RESISTANCE FROM THE PHILIPPINES on March 30 at 4PM. Please do visit the show!

Manuela les invita cordialmente este jueves 30 de marzo a las 4pm a unirse a un recorrido en español a través de nuestra exposición LAKBAYAN: VOICES OF RESISTANCE FROM THE PHILIPPINES, dentro del marco del Festival MaerzMusik. La exposición es curada por el colectivo Dang A Dang Radio y presenta una colección de música de protesta y expresiones sonoras de disidencia y luchas sociopolíticas en Filipinas. Las "estaciones de escucha" y el material adicional de texto e imágenes brindan información sobre el archivo y enriquecen la comprensión contemporánea de la protesta a través de la vibración, la frecuencia y la tonalidad de la voz, el sonido y la música.

La exposición es una invitación a explorar un paisaje sonoro específico. La cultura musical que emerge de las marchas de protesta, Lakbayan, trasciende las fronteras ideológicas, las preferencias musicales y las realidades vividas: abarca un archipiélago de resistencia. Dang A Dang Radio explora los métodos de producción, los encuentros casuales que generaron los casetes y CD, y las personas detrás de las cuentas de Soundcloud y YouTube que se esfuerzan por archivar sus propios encuentros con la música.

📸 Raisa Galofre

26/03/2023

TODAY!!!

During Women‘s History Month Alpas Pilipinas and Gabriela Germany will be kicking off a new event series in Berlin: FILIPINX CHAPTERS ✨

Vol. 1 will be about WOMEN, ARTS & STRUGGLE. Please join us for music, poetry and food. Entry is free, Donations are welcome. Special guests: Dang A Dang Radio (🇵🇭)

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ALPAS Pilipinas
www.instagram.com/alpas_pilipinas

Gabriela
www.facebook.com/gabriela.germany.org

Dang A Dang Radio
www.mixcloud.com/dangadangradio

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hase.studio
Weisestr. 22
12049 Berlin

24/03/2023

Hello friends in Berlin! We will be having our second archive and radio session tomorrow, March 25 at SAVVY Contemporary. Please come and see/hear the exhibition.

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𓂈 𓂀 COMING UP THIS WEEK AT SAVVY 𓂀 𓂈

:: Thursday–Sunday 14:00–19:00
LAKBAYAN. VOICES OF RESISTANCE FROM THE PHILIPPINES
A listening exhibition by Dang A Dang Radio

:: Thursday 23.03.2022 18:00
SAVVY TOURS IN SAVVY TONGUES :: Exhibition tours in Tagalog, Deutsch, English, Español & +++
In German / Auf Deutsch with / mit Lynhan Balatbat & Anna Jäger

:: Saturday 25.03.2022 14:00–18:00
Soundings with MaerzMusik:

14:00 Sonic Meditation XI (1971), GONG by Pauline Oliveros, performed by Marisol Jimenez, Solistenensemble PHØNIX16 as a part of Grenzraum Hören

14:15 Second archive activation and radio session by Dang A Dang Radio – in the SAVVY space as well as on SAVVYZΛΛR

16:00 Performance Teach Yourself to Fly by PHØNIX16 (Veronika Böhle, Goh Lee Kwang, Michael Taylor, Timo Kreuser) as a part of Grenzraum Hören

17:00 Exhibition tour in English with the curators of Dang A Dang Radio

The exhibition is an invitation to inhabit a specific aural landscape. The music culture that emerges from the protest marches, the Lakbayan, transcends ideological boundaries, musical preferences, and lived realities – encompassing an archipelago of resistance. Dang A Dang Radio seeks to explore the methods of production, the serendipitous encounters that brought forth the cassettes and CDs, the people behind the Soundcloud and YouTube accounts that try to archive their own encounters with music. Through this archival and curatorial mediation, Dang A Dang Radio carves another role for activism as a source for aesthetic production.

Come all, come all!

FREE ENTRY Donations welcome
ACCESS Our space is accessible by wheelchair

PHOTO von Marvin Systermans

𓂈 𓂀 COMING UP THIS WEEK AT SAVVY 𓂀 𓂈

:: Thursday–Sunday 14:00–19:00
LAKBAYAN. VOICES OF RESISTANCE FROM THE PHILIPPINES
A listening exhibition by Dang A Dang Radio

:: Thursday 23.03.2022 18:00
SAVVY TOURS IN SAVVY TONGUES :: Exhibition tours in Tagalog, Deutsch, English, Español & +++
In German / Auf Deutsch with / mit Lynhan Balatbat & Anna Jäger

:: Saturday 25.03.2022 14:00–18:00
Soundings with MaerzMusik:

14:00 Sonic Meditation XI (1971), GONG by Pauline Oliveros, performed by Marisol Jimenez, Solistenensemble PHØNIX16 as a part of Grenzraum Hören

14:15 Second archive activation and radio session by Dang A Dang Radio – in the SAVVY space as well as on SAVVYZΛΛR

16:00 Performance Teach Yourself to Fly by PHØNIX16 (Veronika Böhle, Goh Lee Kwang, Michael Taylor, Timo Kreuser) as a part of Grenzraum Hören

17:00 Exhibition tour in English with the curators of Dang A Dang Radio

The exhibition is an invitation to inhabit a specific aural landscape. The music culture that emerges from the protest marches, the Lakbayan, transcends ideological boundaries, musical preferences, and lived realities – encompassing an archipelago of resistance. Dang A Dang Radio seeks to explore the methods of production, the serendipitous encounters that brought forth the cassettes and CDs, the people behind the Soundcloud and YouTube accounts that try to archive their own encounters with music. Through this archival and curatorial mediation, Dang A Dang Radio carves another role for activism as a source for aesthetic production.

Come all, come all!

FREE ENTRY Donations welcome
ACCESS Our space is accessible by wheelchair

PHOTO von Marvin Systermans

23/03/2023

Kababayans in Berlin! Please join us on March 26 from 3PM to 7PM for this meaningful and fun gatherings with friends from ALPAS Pilipinas and Gabriela-Germany. Just follow the music and the smell of adobo for the location of the venue 😁 Kitakits!

23/03/2023

FRIENDS IN BERLIN! will be having a tour of the LAKBAYAN exhibition in German language later at 18:00. There's also a tour in Spanish and English in the next few days. Please come and see/hear the show.

photo courtesy by SAVVY Contemporary
📸 .systermans

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SAVVY TOURS IN SAVVY TONGUES

19.03.2023 | 16:00
in Tagalog with Dang A Dang Radio

23.03.2023 | 18:00
in German with Anna Jäger and Lynhan Balatbat-Helbock

25.03.2023 | 17:00
in English with Dang A Dang Radio

30.03.2023 | 17:00
in Spanish with Manuela García Aldana

31.03.2023 | 18:00
in English with Lili Somogyi

06.04.2023 | 17:00
in English with Manuela García Aldana and Lili Somogyi

AUSSTELLUNGSTOUR :: morgen auf Deutsch
SAVVY TOURS IN SAVVY TONGUES :: Exhibition tours in Tagalog, Deutsch, English, Español & +++

Lynhan & Anna laden Euch herzlich ein, morgen an einer Tour auf Deutsch durch unsere Ausstellung LAKBAYAN: VOICES OF RESISTANCE FROM THE PHILIPPINES teilzunehmen. Im Rahmen von MaerzMusik kuratiert das Kollektiv Dang A Dang Radio die Hörausstellung LAKBAYAN: VOICES OF RESISTANCE FROM THE PHILIPPINES, die eine Sammlung von Protestmusik und klanglichen Ausdrucksformen des Dissenses und der soziopolitischen Kämpfe auf den Philippinen zeigt. Anhand von "Hörstationen" und zusätzlichem Text- und Bildmaterial werden Einblicke in das Archiv gewährt sowie das zeitgenössische Verständnis von Protest durch Schwingung, Frequenz und Tonalität von Stimme, Klang und Musik bereichert.

Die Ausstellung ist eine Einladung, eine spezifische Klanglandschaft zu erkunden. Die Musikkultur, die aus den Protestmärschen, den Lakbayan, hervorgeht, überschreitet ideologische Grenzen, musikalische Vorlieben und gelebte Realitäten – sie umfasst ein Archipel des Widerstands. Dang A Dang Radio erforscht die Produktionsmethoden, die zufälligen Begegnungen, die die Kassetten und CDs hervorgebracht haben sowie die Menschen hinter den Soundcloud- und YouTube-Accounts, die sich bemühen, ihre eigenen Begegnungen mit Musik zu archivieren.

AUSSTELLUNGSTOUR AUF DEUTSCH
LAKBAYAN: VOICES OF RESISTANCE FROM THE PHILIPPINES // STIMMEN DES WIDERSTANDS AUS DEN PHILIPPINEN
23.03.2023 18:00 Mit Lynhan Balatbat-Helbock & Anna Jäger aus dem SAVVY-Team

FREIER EINTRITT Spenden erwünscht // Keine Anmeldung erforderlich
BESUCH SAVVY ist mit dem Rollstuhl zugänglich

PHOTO von Marvin Systermans

18/03/2023

TODAY IN BERLIN, Dang A Dang Radio invites you to a listening exhibition with SAVVY Contemporary in the framework of the MaerzMusik 2023

LAKBAYAN. VOICES OF RESISTANCE FROM THE PHILIPPINES
⏰ 18 MARCH–09 APRIL 2023
📌 SAVVY Contemporary // Reinickendorfer Straße 17, Berlin, Germany

18 March SATURDAY
12:00 Opening
14:00 BERLIN / 21:00 MANILA Archive activation and radio session by Dang A Dang Radio – in the SAVVY space as well as on SAVVYZΛΛR

19 March SUNDAY
16:00 The curators of Dang A Dang Radio will take you on a tour through the exhibition in TAGALOG.

25 March SATURDAY
14:15 BERLIN / 21:15 MANILA Second archive activation and radio session by Dang A Dang Radio – in the SAVVY space as well as on SAVVYZΛΛR
17:00 The curators of Dang A Dang Radio will take you on a tour through the exhibition in ENGLISH.

Visit https://savvy-contemporary.com/en/events/2023/lakbayan/ for the full program and schedules.

13/01/2023

The General Strike album is now available on Spotify 👇

Nasa Spotify na rin kami!

spoti.fi/3kgW1Cc

At YouTube Music: https://tinyurl.com/4y92ew5t

04/01/2023

Ilagan says: 'While the man didn’t say outright that they would kill me, his point was all too clear: They could'

04/01/2023

ACCOUNT OF A DEATH THREAT
By Bonifacio Ilagan, CARMMA Convenor

At around 3 p.m. of January 2, 2023, I was in an aquarium shop in Cherry Foodarama along Congressional Road in Quezon City looking for plants to put in my fish tank. By 3:14 p.m., my mobile phone rang. What registered was not a name but a number — 09655976472. I heard a man’s voice. He wanted to talk to Mr. Bonifacio Ilagan. I asked who he was. He said he was Kumander (I failed to get the complete name), and that he belonged to a unit (whose name I also was unable to remember but I recall him mentioning a “sector”).

Sensing that it was not going to be a harmless call, I said that Mr. Ilagan was not around. But the man ignored me and proceeded to talk. He said that his unit was tasked to wipe out communists and told me to desist from my activities. He said he “knew enough of me and still had some respect for me,” but he and his unit were just waiting for “the final order from the higher-ups,” and they would surely get me, and that I should not ask for mercy, it would be futile, because I had already been warned. Then, his phone went silent. He had spoken for one minute.

While the man didn’t say outright that they would kill me, his point was all too clear: They could.

In the past, I’ve received quite a few text messages that cursed and threatened me on account of my activism. This is the first time that I got a call that said much more.

Photo of Bonifacio Ilagan after he filed a blotter report at the Visayas Avenue Police Station 15 in Quezon City yesterday, January 3, 2023.

02/01/2023

“No Songs, No Struggle” is a two-part episode featuring songs from the music label Paredon Records, founded in 1969, which aimed to publish recordings of cultural expressions from around the world, especially protests, in order to preserve them.

In Part 1, we have Theodore Gonzalves, curator at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, sharing with us Paredon's contributions to the international anti-imperialist and antifascist movements of 70s Southeast Asia via the albums produced and disseminated by label co-founders Barabara Dane and Irwin Silber, with the help of politically active artists and progressive organizations in Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, and their global support networks.

In Part 2, we'll listen to more tracks from the Philippines Bangon! Arise! album released in 1976, as well as a firsthand account of the sociopolitical conditions of artmaking during the 70s from Filipino activist and Martial Law survivor Bonifacio Ilagan. In between snippets of his interview, we’ll hear a new version of “Ang Masa” (“The Masses Are the Makers of History”) performed by members of the Cavite Cultural Alliance for Social Change. Then we have Lisa Ito, secretary-general of the Concerned Artists of the Philippines (CAP), sharing her experiences as a student journalist in the late 90s, and later as an educator-activist at the University of the Philippines and her subsequent membership with CAP. She will also comment on the ongoing sociopolitical crises following the results of the May 2022 Presidential Elections.

Finally, to express intergenerational solidarity, Dang A Dang Radio presents contemporary renditions of other select tracks from the Philippines: Bangon! Arise! album, performed by this current generation of Filipino activists and musicians:

Mara Peralta singing “Araw na Lubhang Mapanglaw” (“Day of Deep Mourning”),

Alyana Cabral performing “Luksam-pati” (“Song of Grief and Courage”) and the band The General Strike’s version of the song “Mendiola Street.”

LISTEN:

Part 1 - https://www.mixcloud.com/Nusasonic/nusasonic-radio-11-no-songs-no-struggle-part-one/

Part 2 - https://www.mixcloud.com/Nusasonic/nusasonic-radio-11-no-songs-no-struggle-by-dang-a-dang-radio-part-two/