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Textile Symposium

January 20, 2009

   

Mabuhay!

Continuing on the success of the 1st ASEAN Traditional Textiles
Symposium held in Jakarta in December 2005, we are pleased to inform
you that a second symposium is planned in Manila, from 1 to 3 February
2009. The National Museum of the Philippines and the Museum Foundation
of the Philippines will host the forthcoming event with primary
funding from the ASEAN Foundation/Japan ASEAN Solidarity Fund and the
support of the Himpunan Wastraprema (Indonesia), the forum’s founding
organization.

The 2nd ASEAN Traditional Textiles Symposium theme, Habi: Sustaining
Traditional Textiles of the ASEAN, will discuss ways of promoting,
preserving, and keeping sustainable the many weaving and dyeing
methods deeply rooted in the cultures of ASEAN communities. Through
textiles, the symposium also wishes to draw attention to historical
and contemporaneous relatedness in Southeast Asia.

This invitation is a call to all textile enthusiasts. Papers by
outstanding academic specialists and demonstrations by expert weavers
from three continents will present on the art, aesthetics,
manufacture, and sustainability of Southeast Asian traditional textiles.

The symposium proper begins Sunday (February 1) and ends Tuesday
(February 3, 2009). It is followed by an optional two-day textile tour
to Iloilo, on the island of Panay in the Visayas (central Philippines)
on Wednesday and Thursday, 4 to 5 February. Return to Manila from
Iloilo is on Friday morning, February 6, and subsequent departures to
respective home countries are on the same day.

Information on travel to and from Manila, accommodations, and meals
throughout the symposium period and the textile tour, should you wish
to join the latter, may be found on our website:
http://aseantextile s09.museumfounda tionph.org. We value your interest
in textiles and hope that you will join these exciting events. Please
contact the 2nd Symposium on Traditional Textiles Secretariat at your
earliest convenience with any queries and if you are able to come to
Manila.

With all best wishes,

Corazon S. Alvina, Co-chair, Second ASEAN Textile Symposium
Director, National Museum of the Philippines

Maria Isabel G. Ongpin, Co-chair, Second ASEAN Textile Symposium
Ex-Officio Director, Museum Foundation of the Philippines

Purissima (Petty) Benitez-Johannot, Convenor, Workshops & Lectures
2nd ASEAN Traditional Textiles Symposium 

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