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The controversy began when conferred the Order of National Artists to seven individuals in July, 2009. [4] Controversy arose from the revelation that musician Ramon Santos had been dropped from the list of nominees short-listed in May that year by the selection committee, and four other individuals had been nominated to the title via "President’s prerogative": [1] [2]
Poleteismo was an installation art project by Filipino artist and curator Mideo Cruz. Previously exhibited starting in 2002 at the Ateneo de Manila, the UP Vargas Museum, among other venues, without much controversy, its 2011 iteration, exhibited at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP), became the subject of a public outcry from the Philippines' overwhelmingly Christian population.
The Manila Film Center is a building located at the southwest end of the Cultural Center of the Philippines Complex in Pasay, Philippines. The structure was designed by architect Froilan Hong where its edifice is supported on more than nine hundred piles [ 1 ] which reaches to the bed-rock about 120 feet below.
The Cultural Center owns and operates several performance venues in the Cultural Center of the Philippines Complex located in the reclaimed area shared between Pasay and Manila known as Bay City. Its flagship venue is the Tanghalang Pambansa (National Theater) which also houses its principal offices. The building contains three performing arts ...
The order is administered by the Cultural Center of the Philippines by virtue of President Ferdinand Marcos's Proclamation No. 1001 of April 2, 1972, and the National Commission for Culture and the Arts. The first award was posthumously conferred on Filipino painter Fernando Amorsolo.
This led to controversy, however, when the nominating committee for the award, composed of representatives from the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) and the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP), revealed that Caparas and three other individuals that year had not originally been recommended by the committee for ...
The Cultural Center of the Philippines Complex, also known as the CCP Complex, is an 88-hectare (220-acre) art district managed by the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) located along Roxas Boulevard in Metro Manila, Philippines.
Filipino Freethinkers (also known as FF) is the largest and most active organization for freethought in the Philippines. It aims to promote reason, science, and secularism as a means of improving every Filipino's quality of life. [1] FF is active in the secularism movement, working to promote the passage of the Reproductive Health Bill.