TIM eMagazine Vol.2 Issue 3
Philippine High School for the Arts’s current director Dr. Victor Emmanuel Carmelo “Vim” Nadera, Jr.
(standing, extreme right) poses with PHSA alumni and students. (Photo by Kiko Cabuena)
PHSA’S 40TH ANNIVERSARY
AT CCP
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O commemorate the Philippine High School for
the Arts’s history and legacy of art education to
the Filipino youth, the CCP, in cooperation with the
PHSA and the PHSA Ibarang Alumni Association
will present a multidisciplinary production entitled
“PHSA@40: Ibarang Alumni at the Forefront of Arts
Education” on June 10, 2017, 2:30 P.M. at the CCP
Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino (Little Theater). This
show aims to highlight significant contributions of
Ibarang Alumni in art education in the various art
forms.
Established on June 11, 1977, PHSA is the only art-oriented second-
ary school in the country. It is located at the National Arts Center in Mt.
Makiling, College, Los Baños, Laguna. PHSA graduates are called Ibarang,
a coined word referring to a legendary tribe of Filipino artists.
The PHSA Ibarang Alumni Association Inc. believes that it is fitting to
officially launch and publicize PHSA’s 40th anniversary celebrations at the
CCP where the PHSA was originally conceived as its attached agency. This
event aims to deepen public awareness on what the PHSA has achieved
through these 40 years with focus on: 1) PHSA’s history and role as the
country’s premier high school with arts-focused education; and 2) the
legacy of PHSA’s art education programs as evidenced by its alumni.
More importantly, this event is an avenue for Ibarang artists to express
their gratitude to their alma mater and the Filipino people for the priv-
ilege and honor of having been “iskolar ng bayan” during their years of
stay and study at PHSA and the various opportunities which have opened
thereafter. This sense of gratitude can be best expressed by Ibarang art-
ists’ sharing with and handing down PHSA’s legacy of art education to the
next generation of Filipino budding young artists.
In a press conference held May 25 at the CCP, award-winning poet
and PHSA’s current director Dr. Victor Emmanuel Carmelo “Vim” Nadera,
Jr. presented the programs lined up in celebration of PHSA’s 40th anni-
versary year and the Annual Nationwide Search for Young Arts Scholars
(ANSYAS). He invited elementary school students from all regions and
provinces in the Philippines to apply for admission to the PHSA and later
on become artists who will contribute to nation-building.
At the press conference, PHSA alumni from the jubilarian batches
shared how PHSA has helped them grow into artists and art educators
who are now handing down PHSA’s legacy of art education to the next
generation of Filipino young artists. PHSA students and alumni also spoke
and rendered performances at the media event.
FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT “PHSA@40: Ibarang Alumni at the
Forefront of Arts Education” and the PHSA programs, please call Atty. Sim
Zuniega at 817-7998 or 752-4310.
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