August

• 2nd INTERNATIONAL SILENT FILM FESTIVAL
  August 26 - September 8, 2008
  Shang Cineplex Cinema 1, Shangri-la Plaza, Edsa, Mandaluyong City
  7:00 PM
  
  SCHEDULE OF SCREENINGS
  FILMS WITH LIVE MUSIC:
  7pm, Shang Cineplex Cinema 1, Shangri-la Plaza
  
  • August 26 - The Black Man with a White Soul/El negro que tenía el alma blanca (Spain)
    music by Novo Concertante Manila
    
  • August 27 - Cascading White Threads/Taki-no-shiraito (Japan)
    music by Bob Aves
  • September 2 - Faces of Children/Visages d’enfants (France)
    music by Jack Rufo and Yosha
    September 3 - The Oyster Princess/Die Austernprinzessin (Germany)
    music by Noli Aurillo with The Schübligs,
    (featuring Louie Talan, Kakoi Legaspi and Wendell Garcia)
    September 4 - Cabiria (Italy)
    music by Caliph8 (with Malek Lopez and Matt Deegan)
    

FILMS WITH ORIGINAL SCORE:
7pm, Shang Cineplex Cinema 1, Shangri-la Plaza

• August 28 - Erotikon (Czech Republic)
  5pm, Listening In Style, 5/F Shangri-la Plaza Free admission
  
• August 29 - The Black Man with a White Soul/El negro que tenía el alma blanca (Spain)
• September 5 - Cascading White Threads/Taki No Shiraito (Japan)
  
• September 6 - Faces of Children/Visages d’enfants (France)
  
• September 7 - The Oyster Princess/Die Austernprinzessin (Germany)
  
• September 8 - Cabiria (Italy)
  

July

• Japanese Film Festival “Eiga Sai ‘08” opens on July 8
  July 8, 2008 (Tuesday) at 7:00 p.m. (Invitational Opening)
  > Shangri-La Plaza Cinema 3, Edsa, Mandaluyong City
  July 8 to 13, 26 and 27
  
  > CCP Dream Theater, Roxas Boulevard, Pasay City
  August 7 to 10; 2pm, 5pm, and 7pm – 4 pm (Thursday to Sunday)
  
  > UP Film Institute, Diliman, Quezon City
  August 11 to 14 and 16; 4pm and 7pm – 4 pm (Monday to Thursday and Saturday)
  
  
• The Gift of Dance: An Okinawa-Manila Performance
  Philamlife Auditorium, UN Avenue, Ermita, Manila
  July 3, 2008; 7:30 pm (Thursday)
  
  
• Virgin Labfest 4
  Cultural Center of the Philippines
  June 27- July 6
  
  "Amoy ng Langit"
  Written by Hiroichi Hase
  Directed by Toshihisa Yoshida
  Tanghalang Huseng Batute
  June 26, 3 & 8 pm
  July 5, 8 pm
  July 6, 3 pm
  
  Already on its 4th year, the Virgin Labfest (VLF), a festival initiated by the Writers Bloc, with the Cultural Center of the Philippines, continues to program new plays (untried, untested, unpublished and unstaged) by both emerging and well-known playwrights, directors and actors.
  
  As contribution to Philippines-Japan Friendship Month, Japanese director Toshihisa Yoshida joins this year’s playfest as director of "Amoy ng Langit", a play by Japanese playwright Hirochi Hase. In this play, ghosts are known to roam the world of the living because of unfinished business. This small and simple play about suicide, leaving and death happens on the rooftop of a school where no one is allowed to loiter. Yet a spirit manages to reconnect before finally heading “home.

June

• Philippine-Japan Joint Photography Exhibition
  “Swarm in the Aperture:” Recent Photography in the Philippines / “Counter-Photography: Japan’s Artists Today”
  June 5 – July 31, 2008; 10 am – 4 pm (Wednesday to Sunday)
  South/North Wings, Museum of the Filipino People
  Ermita, Manila
  March 10-4, 2008

May

• Textbook Project "WEEKLY WORKSHOP"
  May 30, 2008 (Friday) 6:30p.m.-8:30p.m.
  May 23, 2008 (Friday) 6:30p.m.-8:30p.m.
  May 09, 2008 (Friday) 6:30p.m.-8:30p.m.
  The Japan Foundation, Manila (JFM Library)
  Pacific Star Bldg. (1st flr – rear lobby), Makati Ave., Makati City
  

March

• 3rd Asian Curators Conference
  March 10-4, 2008
  Ayala Museum, Makati City
  Organized by the Ayala Museum and Co-organized by The Japan Foundation
  
  The conference is a 3-day program which will consist of 2-day site visits and fora exclusively for invited/participating Asian museum curators and a whole day forum open to interested Philippine museum curators, as well as interested independent curators, art critics and artists, especially those from the younger generation.
  
  Site visits on day 1 and 2 will take place during the day. The curators/ officers of the sites to be visited will explain/present their collections to the visiting Asian curators. The fora will then happen in the evenings, when the participants can share their insights and comments on the sites visited.Papers by the participating Asian museum curators will be presented on the 3rd day of the conference.
• Textbook Project "WEEKLY WORKSHOP"
  March 14, 2008 (Friday) 6:30p.m.-8:30p.m.
  March 28, 2008 (Friday) 6:30p.m.-8:30p.m.
  The Japan Foundation, Manila (JFM Library)
  Pacific Star Bldg. (1st flr – rear lobby), Makati Ave., Makati City
  
• The Japan Foundation Lecture Series, 33rd Session
  “Japanese Culture and Society which is not written in textbooks” by the Students from Osaka University
  March 6, 2008 (Thursday) at 6:00 p.m.
  The Japan Foundation, Manila
  Pacific Star Bldg. (1st flr – rear lobby), Makati Ave., Makati City

February

• J-TASTE @ THE SHANG!
  Nihongo Fiesta
  35th Nihongo Speech Contest
  February 23, 2008 (Saturday, 2:00 p.m.), EDSA Shangri-la Plaza Mall, Mandaluyong City
  
• The 1st National Bento Competition
  February 24, 2008 (Sunday), EDSA Shangri-la Plaza Mall, Mandaluyong City

• "10th Asian Cartoon Exhibition: Asian Environmental Issues"
  January 16-31 (SM-Mall of Asia, Pasay), February 1-6 (The Podium, Ortigas) and February 16-29 (The Block, SM City, North Edsa).
  
• The Japan Foundation, Manila's Refresher Course on Teaching Technics 1　(RC 1)
  from January 8 – March 4, 2008, every Tuesday and Thursday from 6:20p.m. to 8:30p.m.
  Ground Floor, Pacific Star Bldg., Sen. Gil Puyat Ave. cor., Makati Ave., Makati City
  
• Japan Foundation Textbook Project “Weekly Workshop”
  11 January (Friday) 6:30p.m.-8:30 p.m.
  18 January (Friday) 6:30p.m.-8:30 p.m.
  Ground Floor, Pacific Star Bldg., Sen. Gil Puyat Ave. cor., Makati Ave., Makati City