Vargas After-Hours: Vinyl Night
October 12 @ 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
12 October 2024
Vargas After-Hours: Vinyl Night
7:00 PM onwards
Register, bit.ly/VargasAfterHoursVinylNight.
Are you ready to take a spin? The UP Vargas Museum presents Vargas After-Hours: Vinyl Night—an evening of art, sound, music, and more.
Like the soft crackle of a record when the needle drops, the melodic trail of this third Vargas After-Hours event began when the Vargas Museum staff discovered boxes of vinyl and phonograph records previously owned by Jorge B. Vargas. The records of fox trots and jazz standards can be dated to the 1930s to the 1940s, indicated by their form, and were most likely played in the home of the Vargas family while they entertained guests. The first home of the Vargas collection is the Kawilihan Compound in suburban Mandaluyong. Today, these objects are portals into the soundscape of a place that no longer exists spatially, but whose existence is remembered by way of the museum’s archives.
Sound and visual artist Arvin Nogueras, also known as Caliph8, will be engaging the records from the Vargas memorabilia to create a new sound art piece. Through sampling, sound manipulation, and live improvisation, Nogueras will be debuting this new work during the Vargas After-Hours event on the evening of 12 October 2024. The performance will be preceded by a discussion at 7 PM with Nogueras in conversation with museum curator Tessa Maria Guazon about sound art, the process of working with the museum’s sound archive, and Nogueras’s composition practice. This event is a prelude to the reopening of the museum’s memorabilia exhibition.
Vargas After-Hours is the museum’s recent public program—where lights are dimmed and doors are kept open beyond viewing hours to feature a series of evening events at the museum. This approach draws closely from Jorge B. Vargas’s use of the Kawilihan compound, his residential homestead. The Kawilihan was the site of various social events in the evening such as celebrations and gatherings with different cultural performances which the Vargases hosted over several decades.
This idea of a transformative use of space is amplified by the museum through various events combining music, art, and performance. Vargas After-Hours is a shift in the UP Vargas Museum’s spatial function, parallel to Kawilihan’s history as a social hub, beyond typical viewing times and when the day turns to dusk.
Experience a vinyl night unlike any other—secure your tickets to the museum after hours!
Ticket prices:
200 php for UP students*
350 php regular pre-selling (until 11 October 2024, 11:59 pm only)
500 php door price
Limited tickets are available! Buy our regular pre-selling tickets now, bit.ly/VargasAfterHoursVinylNight.
*upon presentation of ID and available only for purchase at the UP Vargas Museum reception. One discounted ticket per UP student only. PWD and Senior discounts are also only available via our museum reception.
Vargas After-Hours is a fundraising program for the museum for its future projects. The event is at the UP Vargas Museum, Roxas Avenue, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City. For inquiries and other information, email us at [email protected].
Source: UP Vargas Museum Facebook