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March 12, 2024, 6:20 pmI’ve come across this article by Philippine Collegian circulating on Facebook recently. The author, I summarized, believed that “art should be a universal experience, but exorbitant costs in art are prohibiting us from experiencing and contributing to it meaningfully.”
Let’s say you are producing a play. You need a theater production team – a playwright, a director, a librettist, and a composer if it is a musical, a light designer, a sound engineer, a costume/set designer, a production manager who would do all the logistics and paperwork, and stage managers. You need more people if you’re mounting a big production. Of course, you need to pay all these people.
While these organizations understand that everyone has different purchasing power and that not everyone can afford a P500 ticket for Dulaang UP or P1,500 for Tanghalang Pilipino’s Pingkian, there is a need to recoup their production capital so they can produce more shows in the near future. Some institutions offer free arts and cultural events. CCP, for instance, has been balancing its artistic programming with ticketed and free events. Yes, they have art events that don’t require participants to shell out their hard-earned money. Last February, CCP had its Pasinaya, where participants can pay what they can and experience what they can.
If you want to start art collecting, this is the place to be. You can find artworks that fit your budget, with a cap of P70,000.
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