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Bringing ART closer to the People
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February is the season of the arts, the National Arts Month in the Philippines. The Art Association of Bacolod – Negros is staging the Second ARTE KALYE Festival (arte kalye – street art) with the theme: Art for Earth. As depicted in this year’s logo, the incorporation of the different areas of arte kalye arts (painting, sculpture, dance, film, literary, , music, digital, tattoo & “cooking”) into vehicles for preserving the environment (specifically the environmental concerns of the island) with the figures of the Tree of life, spotted deer, tarictic hornbill, warty pig, carabao, and even the mountain areas. Such that the festival itself becomes part of the cycle of life.
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By and large, the festival is bringing ART closer to the People. Artists are transforming the whole stretch of the Arte Kalye Street into a real canvass where they paint together with the people, with the kids, with the visitors – with the images of nature, with the message: Art for Earth. Passersby now have the opportunity to appreciate artworks beyond the corners of the galleries, right on the road they are stepping in.
The NamitNamit Pagkaon kag Taliambong of Nunelucio & Sally Alvarado is an integral dynamo of the festival, the festival being conceived by concerned artists right on one of the tables of the restaurant cum gallery; namitnamit is the host of all the indoor activities and the central office of the AAB-Negros, Pintor Kulapol and of the Arte Kalye Collective. This is the home of the artists, the home of the festival.
This is a yearly “fiesta” for the artists and for the people of Negros. A “fiesta” driven by the yearning among artists all for culture – the real culture, beyond the icing of “commercialization” and political infighting. Arte Kalye hopes to inculturate a cultural “transformation” among its artists and the people.
Find where your heart is… in the visual arts, in music, in dance and even in food.
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