National Artist Ryan Cayabyab has a piece especially made for the upcoming M-FLIX 2021: Da Pinoy Pandemic Palabas (Photo: ABS-CBN News)
Cover National Artist Ryan Cayabyab has a piece especially made for the upcoming M-FLIX 2021: Da Pinoy Pandemic Palabas (Photo: ABS-CBN News)

Let original Filipino songs lift up your mood amid the COVID-19 pandemic. This year, music artists come together to assemble an online event that will make our holidays merrier: "M-FLIX 2021: Da Pinoy Pandemic Palabas"

In an ideal world, COVID-19 would have gone through the Philippines like a mere cough and cold outbreak; however, this is nothing more but a wishful thinking considering that a year and eight months later, the country continues to grapple with its threats.

This harrowing truth has plagued the Filipino people who can do nothing more but stay in their homes and hope that a better tomorrow would come. In light of this, the Bonifacio Art Foundation Inc. (BAFI), the art and science foundation behind BGC Arts Center, The Mind Museum, BGC Public Art Program, Mind S-Cool, together with its NCCA-cited flagship program, the Pinoy Playlist Music Festival (PPMF) worked together to produce an online musical that can move Filipinos forward amid the darkest of times.

Dubbed the M-FLIX 2021: Da Pinoy Pandemic Palabas, the musical gathers the brightest names of the Original Pinoy Music (OPM) such as National Artist for Music Ryan Cayabyab, Moy Ortiz, and Noel Ferrer.

See also: What's a Day Like in the Life of National Artist, Ryan Cayabyab?

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M-FLIX 2021: Da Pinoy Pandemic Palabas poster
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Aside from the three PPMF curators, also part of the musical are renowned songwriters Louie Ocampo, Ogie Alcasid, Joey Ayala, Davey Langit, Edith Gallardo, Krina Cayabyab Viñas, Jude Gitamondoc, and Fr. Manoling Francisco. The entr’acte will be a creative weaving of parts of all the songs into a musical quilt by Rony Fortich. The composers have also collaborated with creative lyricists namely Floy Quintos, Jose Javier Reyes, and Therese Marie Villarante.

“We wanted to come up with a unique Pinoy musical form, given that we cannot stage musicals now, that would mainly acknowledge the emotions that we all felt during these times and capture them all as a way of expressing our continuing and deepest gratitude to our fellow Filipinos, most especially, our frontliners," said Maria Isabel Garcia, managing director and curator of the Bonifacio Art Foundation, Inc.

The original songs are hooked on the following emotional “pillars”: gulat (shock), takot (fear), pagka-gipit (pressure), malikhaing pagtugon (creative approach), pangamba (doubt), pagtuklas (discovery), malasakit (empathy), pananagutan (liability), pasasalamat (gratitude), pagbangon (rise), and pagmumuni (meditation). 

Related: "We Can Do Anything": Why Ely Buendia Says It's Important To Support OPM

Interested viewers can watch the online musical for free. It will be released in two acts: Act 1 (which will premiere on Nov. 6, 2021) and Act 2 (which will be out on Nov, 13, 2021) both at 7 p..m., on MIND S-COOL YouTube Channel.


For updates, visit bgcartscenter.org, and follow @BGCArtsCenter on Facebook and Instagram.

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