Events

• In the City

Sincerely Yours, The Philippines is an allusion to the motto “Love the Philippines” used by the Philippine Government in Tourism. Eisa Jocson continues her exploration of the connections between embodiment, labor migration, and the construction of Filipino identity. 13:00 Be Your Own Festival Queen (Mousontum Foyer) 14:00 Cooking as Performance Art (Mousonturm Lokal) 18:00 Speak…

• In the City

Read Your Roots celebrates the Filipino diaspora experience in German-speaking Europe through storytelling, stand-up comedy, and literature. Featuring multitalented Filipino-Austrian singer and standup artist Vincent Bueno and hosted by Cyndi Kurleto, the evening combines humor and reflection to explore identity, belonging, and the role of books in shaping cultural pride across generations. 17:00-19:00

• In the City

Sincerely Yours, The Philippines is an allusion to the motto “Love the Philippines” used by the Philippine Government in Tourism. Eisa Jocson continues her exploration of the connections between embodiment, labor migration, and the construction of Filipino identity. 15:00 Reflexion und Debatte I (Mousonturm Lokal) 18:00 Re-claim (Mousonturm Studio 1) 18:00 Bibingka (Mousonturm Probebühne 1)

• In the City

Sincerely Yours, The Philippines is an allusion to the motto “Love the Philippines” used by the Philippine Government in Tourism. Eisa Jocson continues her exploration of the connections between embodiment, labor migration, and the construction of Filipino identity. 19:00 Reflexion und Debatte II / Aswang (Mousonturm Studio 1)

• In the City

In light of the dynamic practice of visual culture across time in the Philippines, this exhibition presents a diverse selection of photographic works from an archipelago in Southeast Asia. The artists explore a range of concerns: personal identity, tradition, spirituality, storytelling, migrant labor, urban life, survival, memory, and the concept of home. All these shed…

• In the City

In light of the dynamic practice of visual culture across time in the Philippines, this exhibition presents a diverse selection of photographic works from an archipelago in Southeast Asia. The artists explore a range of concerns: personal identity, tradition, spirituality, storytelling, migrant labor, urban life, survival, memory, and the concept of home. All these shed…

• In the City

A Filipino Literary Powerhouse Iconography Exhibit turns the library into a shrine of Philippine Book Publishing Cultural Chaos. Butch’s vintage fountain pen, delicate but deadly, the one that’s killed more fictional lovers than heartbreak ever could. Bebang’s bicycle helmet with a collection of picked-up coins around the metro, accompanied by her daily notes and struggles…

• In the City
• Exhibition

The exhibition surveys the history of Severino Reyes’s Mga Kwento ni Lola Basyang from its initial production to its iterations in various media: illustrated book, dance, television, and cinema. Stories for children form an important part of the Philippine literary tradition. And as this particular example demonstrates, they have belonged to the collective imagination of…

• In the City
• Exhibition

The exhibition focuses on texts of the Passion of Christ from the Philippines. The Passion texts reveal the story of the suffering of Christ and his death that leads to salvation. These texts testify to the production of text and image in the telling of a religious narrative that became a performative tradition during the…

• In the City

The program presents select films from Filipino filmmakers Kidlat Tahimik and Nick Deocampo. These films do not only honor the achievements of the filmmakers—they also signify important aspects of Philippine cinema from the '70s onward, namely the complex conditions of a Filipino subjectivity through the history of successive colonialisms and state control over the years.…