Philippine Asian News Today Vol 19 No 18 | Page 15

September 16 - 30, 2017
PHILIPPINE ASIAN NEWS TODAY
Women and Nature: PANCIT Art Exhibit at 5050 Joyce
Women and Nature, a
group exhibit by the community
artists of the Philippine Artists
Network
for
Community
Integrative
Transformation
(PANCIT) Art Collective, opens
on Tuesday, October 3,  at 5:00
pm at the Still Moon Arts Studio/
Gallery at 5050 Joyce Street,
a quick walk across from the
Joyce Sky train Station. 
The exhibit will feature not
only artworks by girls to young
women to mothers, but also
by Migrante’s Bert Monterona,
cultural
educator
and
internationally-awarded muralist,
who has been mentoring these
art enthusiasts in many Sunday
art workshops organized by
Migrante BC.  The exhibit is also
a timely celebration to mark
Canada’s Women’s History
Month in October.
The community artists are
Alda de Aza, Alex Lawal, Hessed
Torres, Marella Nanodiego, Lorie
Riego O, Iris O, Maylene Maranoc
and Bert Monterona. At least 35
artworks are on exhibit and more
than the majority are up for silent
auction. 
The exhibiting community
artists brought their experiences
and dreams onto their canvases
using the images of women
and/in nature. With Monterona’s
guidance, these artists have
discovered gifts that they thought
they never had or thought were
not good enough – the gifts of
using paint and colour and of
wielding a brush to transform
empty canvases into their
masterpieces. The exhibit of
artists in “Women and Nature” is
a must-see. 
Community artist Lorie
comes to the workshops with her
daughter Iris and says, “Painting
helps Iris focus and concentrate;
she enjoys doing art and brings
out the patience needed to paint.”
The workshops were originally
for Iris but mother Lorie has
also discovered the therapeutic
results of the painting sessions.
The same sentiment is echoed
by Alda de Aza who comes to the
workshops to paint together with
her son Alex who has” learned to
focus” from these sessions.
The public will get a
chance to meet the community
artists on the first opening day
and on the closing day. Some art
pieces will be on silent auction.
Viewers will get the chance
to bid on the artworks that they
wish to own by entering their
bids on the sheets posted beside
each artwork in the gallery.