Women and Poverty

"...women’s responsibility of child bearing and rearing, household management, and productive activities which give mounting pressures on their time and energy, have significant consequences for human resource development, agricultural productivity, and environmental sustainability. The risk of poverty is therefore greater for women than men. Thus, the sex of household head may be considered as a proxy variable for poverty. If a family is headed by a male, there is a prospect of higher income due to more time devoted to economic activities compared to a female-headed household whose responsibilities cover both economic and domestic functions. And if the risk is greater for women then the vicious cycle of poverty continuous as well as on the reliance and pressure on natural resources. Therefore, the higher the percentage of the community headed by a female, the higher is their pressure index to biodiversity."

I have angsts, too many angsts about domesticity and economic responsibilities. But, of course in performing both male and female duties (no matter how much i want to debunk these dualities, I'm just domestic superhero and nothing more), i don't have time to dwell on the angsts even if at times i almost drown on them.

If you're utterly domesticated and obliged to earn, then you read these kinds of scholarly stuff, what are you to feel?

Catch Pinikpikan this Friday at 2nd Friday Film Bar!

Pinikpikan, the country’s highly acclaimed world-fusion band, will grace the Friday Film Bar (FFB) this coming Friday, August 17, 2007 at 6:30 in the evening. Pinikpikan’s music is an explorative mixture of rhythms, instruments and melodies from north to south of the Philippine archipelago fused with Latin American, African and Arab influences. The band’s performance will be witnessed alongside a screening of the 2006 film “In Da Red Korner”, by Dado Lumibao and Bong Ramos. The film’s musical score showcases Pinikpikan’s music.

Pinikpikan supports the FFB project of the University of the Philippines Film Institute (UPFI) as it sees the innovative vision of the event series to be an avenue for better and substantial experience in film viewing through incorporating musical performances and other art forms.

FFB, supported by the New Zealand Embassy and Cordillera Coffee, is held every Friday at the Ishmael Bernal Gallery of UPFI (formerly UP Film Center). The FBB theme in August 17 is Against the Flow which is intended to highlight alternative perspectives in art practice and film creations. Tey Clamor’s award-winning experimental short film “Sakdal Laya” will also be featured.

For ticket inquiries, reservations and information on FFB schedule, feel free to contact fridayfilmbar@gmail.com or mobile nos. 09175685939 / 09164081550, or log on to www.upd.edu.ph/~film_institute. Tickets are available at Php 80 only with free bottomless coffee or tea.

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Pinikpikan, the country’s highly acclaimed world-fusion band, will grace the Friday Film Bar (FFB) this coming Friday, August 17, 2007 at 6:30 in the evening. Pinikpikan’s music is an explorative mixture of rhythms, instruments and melodies from north to south of the Philippine archipelago fused with Latin American, African and Arab influences. The band’s performance will be witnessed alongside a screening of the 2006 film “In Da Red Korner”, by Dado Lumibao and Bong Ramos. The film’s musical score showcases Pinikpikan’s music.

Pinikpikan supports the FFB project of the University of the Philippines Film Institute (UPFI) as it sees the innovative vision of the event series to be an avenue for better and substantial experience in film viewing through incorporating musical performances and other art forms.

FFB, supported by the New Zealand Embassy and Cordillera Coffee, is held every Friday at the Ishmael Bernal Gallery of UPFI (formerly UP Film Center). The FBB theme in August 17 is Against the Flow which is intended to highlight alternative perspectives in art practice and film creations. Tey Clamor’s award-winning experimental short film “Sakdal Laya” will also be featured.

For ticket inquiries, reservations and information on FFB schedule, feel free to contact fridayfilmbar@gmail.com or mobile nos. 09175685939 / 09164081550, or log on to www.upd.edu.ph/~film_institute. Tickets are available at Php 80 only with free bottomless coffee or tea.

Catch Pinikpikan this Friday at 2nd Friday Film Bar!

Catch Pinikpikan this Friday at 2nd Friday Film Bar!

Pinikpikan, the country’s highly acclaimed world-fusion band, will grace the Friday Film Bar (FFB) this coming Friday, August 17, 2007 at 6:30 in the evening. Pinikpikan’s music is an explorative mixture of rhythms, instruments and melodies from north to south of the Philippine archipelago fused with Latin American, African and Arab influences. The band’s performance will be witnessed alongside a screening of the 2006 film “In Da Red Korner”, by Dado Lumibao and Bong Ramos. The film’s musical score showcases Pinikpikan’s music.

Pinikpikan supports the FFB project of the University of the Philippines Film Institute (UPFI) as it sees the innovative vision of the event series to be an avenue for better and substantial experience in film viewing through incorporating musical performances and other art forms.

FFB, supported by the New Zealand Embassy and Cordillera Coffee, is held every Friday at the Ishmael Bernal Gallery of UPFI (formerly UP Film Center). The FBB theme in August 17 is Against the Flow which is intended to highlight alternative perspectives in art practice and film creations. Tey Clamor’s award-winning experimental short film “Sakdal Laya” will also be featured.

For ticket inquiries, reservations and information on FFB schedule, feel free to contact avie33@yahoo.com or mobile nos. 09175685939 / 09194906569, or log on to www.upd.edu.ph/~film_institute. Tickets are available at Php 80 only with free bottomless coffee or tea.

love coffee? love feature films? love short films? love live music performances?

you'll get all that in one night, all for only 80 pesos! show starts at around 6:30pm at the Bernal Gallery side of UPFI Cine Adarna (formerly UP Film Center) in Diliman, Quezon City.

come to the launch of UP Film Institute's first semester event called the FRIDAY FILM BAR (FFB). every friday of this first semester (aug sept til oct 1st week) will have different sets of stimuli for the senses.

...smell the aroma of free endless refill coffee from the coffee bar courtesy of Cordillera Coffee...
...watch the 20-minuter works of outstanding UPFI film students...
...watch classic cinematic works from the best of Philippine cinema...
...listen to groove-inducing and thought-provoking music of veteran contemporary alternative musicians...

...all for 80 pesos!

For inquiries, send email to avie33@yahoo.com or text 09175685939 / 09194906569

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August 10 | 6:30 PM (Launch Night)
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THEME: Roots and Identity.

Featured Performer: Sammy Asuncion (of world music fusion group Pinikpikan and blues-funk group Spy)

Rock-blues-jazz- reggae-world icon and veteran musician Asuncion shows off a rare moment with the Hegalong (Kuglong), a Filipino indigenous instrument of his hometown of Bukidnon in Mindanao. Budeths Casinto plays the Debakan (Mindanao indigenous drum)

Student short film: "Gabon" (2006)

Directed by Emman dela Cruz, winner of the Best Directing (Short Film) award at the recent 2007 Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival. Set in a rural Muslim environment , Gabon (The Cloud) intends to tackle the purity of a Maranao child's love to her parents as manifested in her desire to fulfill her duties, even after life.

Featured Film: "Badjao" (1957)

Directed by National Artist Lamberto Avellana, a classic of Philippine cinema starring Rosa Rosal and Leroy Salvador in a love story set amidst the sea-dwelling indigenous group based south of the Philippines.