Alumni Events

英語能「ペ・ポンギ」 / BAE BONG-GI: An English-Language Noh

October 03, 2026

• Location:
• Japan

• Tags:
• Performance
• Sherwin Yang

Bae Bong-gi was brought to Okinawa from colonial Korea and forced to serve soldiers as a “comfort woman.” She walked day after day all over postwar Okinawa, never feeling settled. She passed away on October 18, 1991 without ever returning home. This October, her spirit will be back to life on the Noh stage as we memorialize the 35th anniversary of her passing. Based on House with a Red Tile Roof by Kawata Fumiko, Bae Bong-gi tells of trauma, pain, and endurance. It meditates on one survivor’s harsh experiences, but also on how all survivors’ unique stories might best be honored. Noh’s blend of austere staging and emotive richness draws the imagination deep into the characters’ inner lives, and is thus a uniquely powerful vehicle for sharing human experience.

Image:  Omura Sadamu

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The Empire's Fuel: Curry, Girls, and the Battlefield's Stomach

September 23, 2026 - October 03, 2026

• Location:
• Japan

• Tags:
• Exhibition
• Chen Ching-Yao

This solo exhibition centers on Taiwanese contemporary artist Chen Ching-YAO's (ACC 2008) new series “War and Food” and takes “The Empire’s Fuel: Curry” as its theme. Britain’s expansion into India intensified in the seventeenth century, and curry became increasingly commercialized in the eighteenth. This history is itself a global history of colonialism, woven from spices and imperial expansion, dispersal and fusion.

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Eksena PH - SHORTS AND BRIEFS

September 18, 2026 - October 04, 2026

• Location:
• Philippines

• Tags:
• Theater Festival
• Karl Jingco

SNB, which stands for SHORTS AND BRIEFS, returns for the 12th edition, and will run from Sept 18-20, Sept 25-27, and Oct 2-4, 2026 at Halxyon Club, Poblacion, Makati.

The popular theater festival presented by Eksena PH brings to light six exciting productions by emerging talents in playwriting, directing, lighting & acting as they explore the theme of WHAT IFS.

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The Orchid Pavilion

August 29, 2026 - October 03, 2026

• Location:
• Manila

• Tags:
• Exhibition
• Wawi Navarroza

The Orchid Pavilion, the first of Wawi Navarroza’s trilogy of exhibitions, considers the exchanges and acculturations that accompanied the movement of people and objects through the Philippines before and during the centuries of the Manila Galleon trade. It focuses on the country’s pan-Asian heritage and, more specifically, on the longstanding Chinese presence woven into Filipino culture and identity.

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