Love in the Time of Pandemic
VIEW EVENT DETAILSA Special Exhibit and Poetry Reading
Love in the Time of Pandemic brings together two creatives and Asia Society 21 Young Leaders, collaborating to touch hearts through art. Featuring a special exhibit of Xyza Cruz Bacani and an exclusive reading of Ambahan: A Love Story, written by Quintin Pastrana.
This special exhibit will feature 12 of Xyza Bacani's photographs on printed canvas displayed in the Manila House Private Club grounds that will run for 1 month, until 11 March 2022. The event will also feature a poetry reading from the book by Quintin Pastrana, Ambahan: A Love Story, a book inspired by the traditional poetry form of the Mangyans. Each photograph of Xyza will be matched with lines from Quintin's book.
The displayed photographs by Xyza Bacani are available for purchase in limited quantity.
Another package, inclusive of postcard-sized 12 photograph collection by Xyza Bacani (printed by Fujifilm), Ambahan: A Love Story by Quintin Pastrana (published by FEU Publications), and a cocktail from Manila House, are also available to purchase. More info on how to purchase will be provided soon.
This program aims to raise funds toward the purchase of a needed ambulance for Xyza's hometown in Nueva Vizcaya and a community library. This will be the first installment in an international series of exhibits that kicks off in Manila, and that will then extend to New York and Hong Kong.
Love in the Time of Pandemic celebrates small acts of kindness and charity, which together, can accomplish great feats and save lives.
About the Artists
Xyza Cruz Bacani is a Filipina author and photographer who uses her work to raise awareness about under-reported stories. Having worked as a second-generation domestic worker in Hong Kong for almost a decade, she is particularly interested in the intersection of labor migration and human rights. She is one of the Magnum Foundation Photography and Social Justice Fellows in 2015, has exhibited worldwide and won awards in photography. She is also the recipient of a resolution passed by the Philippines House of Representatives in her honor, HR No.1969. Xyza is awarded The Outstanding Women of the Nation’s Service in the field of Humanities, one of the Asia 21 Young Leaders (Class of 2018), the WMA Commission grantee in 2017, a Pulitzer Center and an Open Society Moving Walls 2017 grantee. She is one of the BBC’s 100 Women of the World 2015, 30 Under 30 Women Photographers 2016, Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2016, Fujifilm ambassador and author of the book We Are Like Air.
Quintin Jose V. Pastrana is an entrepreneur focused on promoting renewable energy, literacy, and investment for start-ups and SMEs. He is President of WEnergy Power Pilipinas, founder and Chair of the award-winning Library Renewal Partnership, and Business Anchor at ABS-CBN News Channel. He graduated with degrees in Business, International Relations, and Creative Writing from the Universities of Georgetown, Cambridge, and Oxford. Quintin is an Asia 21 fellow of the Asia Society and was named among the US-ASEAN business council's young leaders. Ambahan: a Love Story is his third book.
This event is in partnership with Manila House, Fujifilm, and Far Eastern University.