A CELEBRATION OF PEOPLE’S THEATER FOR
DEVELOPMENT
ALL SET FROM OCTOBER 24 - 29
The Philippine Educational
Theater Association (PETA), recipient of the 2017 Ramon Magsaysay Awards is
organizing a week-long festival that highlights the role of arts in
development, as exemplified in the various advocacy campaigns the pioneering
theater company has engaged in the past 50 years – Children’s Rights, Women,
Gender, Health and Sexuality, Youth and the Millenials, Environment and
Disaster Risk Reduction, and Human Rights.
Happening on October 24-29,
2017, the festival will feature PERFORMANCES, WORKSHOPS, LECTURES and
DISCUSSIONS. It will showcase some the best advocacy PLAYS of PETA and its partners. There will be 13 performances from
Metro Manila, Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao, 3 Performances from Cambodia and
Thailand. Festival participants can expect to learn new skills through workshop
sessions on songwriting, Shadow
Puppetry, Physical Theater, Improvisation, BOAL Forum Theater, Circus
Techniques and more! Exciting Keynotes,
Lecture Performances and Special Interest Group Discussions will give participants
a look into the experiences, success stories and the challenges of
practitioners and experts, particularly in the areas of Building
creative communities, Public spaces and awareness, Participation, Capacity Building,
Participation, and Partnership and Stakeholder Building.
The Festival of Windows will
gather more than 120 performers, 40 experts and speakers, hundreds of artists, arts
managers, audiences and participants from different parts of the globe.
Festival passes are
available at P 4,500.00 each (P3,500 for students) and entitles holder access
to all the opening and closing reception, lecture performances, main stage performances
and one workshop or 2 huddles a
day. Day passes are also available for P
1,000 per day (P 800 for students). For
those interested to watch specific shows, tickets are also available for all Lecture-performances
and Main Stage performances.
The Festival of Windows is
presented by PETA in partnership with Starbucks, Save the Children, Development
and Peace and the Festival’s Major Hotel Sponsor, Madison 101.
For details of Festival, visit
the official website – www.petafestivalofwindows.com. For more information and
registration, please call the FESTIVAL OF WINDOWS SECRETARIAT at 7256244 or
email us at festivalofwindows@petatheater.com.
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