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Bring your passion projects to life at the Benilde Open Design and Art
Celebrating its 35th year, the De La Salle College of Saint Benilde launches the Benilde Open Design and Art 2024 (Benilde Open). This initiative calls artists of all mediums to submit project proposals for financial assistance to help bring them to fruition. Everyone is welcome to show off their creative passion, from architects, technologists, engineers, industrial designers, craftsmen, illustrators, textile designers, and animators to playwrights, composers, poets, filmmakers, cinematographers, lighting designers, fashion designers, and chefs.
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Following the theme of curiosity, Benilde Open focuses on the curiosities of movement and its relationship to sustainability, the dynamic between craft and technology, and the connection of the virtual with the real. The Benilde Open Call ultimately urges creatives to innovate and satiate their thirst for knowledge—exhausting every possible means to move forward.
Every proposal will be reviewed and selected by a jury of local and international advocates representing the creative industry. 10 projects will then be awarded a grant of up to PHP 300,000 net of taxes to help realise their fullest potential.
Benilde Open is dedicated to shaping art and design by championing innovative and collaborative projects across diverse creative disciplines within and outside the school. The call is facilitated by a team of convenors who are faculty, associates or consultants in service of the school—Ayi Magpayo, Rita Nazareno, Gabby Lichauco, Joselina Cruz, and Dindin Araneta, together with Benilde president, Br. Dodo Fernandez.
“It's the kind of creative democracy that should be encouraged, cutting across geography, social status, privilege, gender, power, disciplines, and even education. The inquisitiveness of a curious mind could well be the impetus in articulating a multiplicity of creativities. In a similar way that knowledge is different, creativity is fleshed out through the most surprising of modes. As in the spirit of any Open, we affirm that it welcomes all proposals across disciplines and inspirations,” shared the convenors.
Benilde Open also features the Best of Benilde, a juried degree exhibition of student works that explores the unknown—the intersection of craft and technology, digital and reality. It seeks to answer queries such as: Is there such a world? Can such a world be more than imagined? Can we create foundational designs and proposals for such worlds to become more than fanciful ideas?
Submissions of proposals run from December 1, 2023, until January 31, 2024. All selected proposals will be announced by March 2024. For more information on the Benilde Design and Art Open 2024, visit the official website here: open.benilde.edu.ph
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Gabriel found his passion for writing through poetry in high school. He sharpened his skills at Ateneo de Manila University and hopes to write a play worthy of Broadway one day. A self-proclaimed geek, he loves to spend his free time playing video games and board games. When he's not clicking heads on Valorant or roleplaying as a barbarian in Dungeons and Dragons, you can find him exploring art galleries or watching stage plays.
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A creative writer who writes about anything and everything, Gabriel loves to dive deep into the arts and culture scene—as well as going on long road trips for travel pieces.
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