Arts & Culture

The Arts & Culture Committee, through its member foundations, put together their capabilities, resources, network, and seeks possible funding agencies to support advocacy of the arts and culture in promoting the importance and relevance of the arts in nation building. This is to be achieved through the enhancement of current practices in art education in the school system and by elevating appreciation of the arts in the business sector, civic organizations, and other groups through seminars, cultural tours, and other art-related activities

ArtConnection

In 2007, the Arts and Culture Committee of the LCF received a grant from Charities Aid Foundation of Australia (CAF) to implement a 3-year arts education program.

ArtConnection is the banner program of the committee. During the first year, ArtConnection program provided whole day arts appreciation workshops for over 2,000 elementary public school teachers in the NCR and 7 other province in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao. This was conducted in partnership with various museums and some of the most respected art educators in the country.

Since then ArtConnection has evolved into a more comprehensive and multidisciplinary art education seminar-workshop, providing extensive trainings to public school teachers from selected pilot schools in the NCR region and Central Luzon. The program is aligned to the current curriculum of the Department of Education in Makabayan specifically in subjects, Arts, Music and Social Studies (HeKaSi).

In 2008, CAF granted another project under ArtConnection, the “Art-as-Therapy” in partnership with Kythe, a foundation for young cancer or terminally-ill patients. This program is designed to provide opportunities for hospitalized children to achieve healing and a better quality of life through art. The components of the program are the art workshops, art exposure trips and an art exhibition.

LCF believes that as we work towards enhancing the quality of education in our public schools, arts and culture education must play an important role. It is through arts and culture programs that we can instill in students a strong sense of pride and appreciation for our country’s history and culture, an important factor in nation building.

*ArtConnection Workshop