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CULTURAL CENTER OF THE PHILIPPINES (Into the 1980s (One of the more…
CULTURAL CENTER OF THE PHILIPPINES
When?
September 1966
Where?
Manila,Philippines
served as the primary venue for many stage plays, operas and zarzuelas and other notable events of national significance.
In 1961
the Philippine-American Cultural Foundation started to raise funds for a new theater. The structure, designed by Leandro Locsin, was to be built on a 10-hectare (25-acre) lot in Quezon City.
Early into the 1970s
The Center was in the red mainly due to the costs of constructing the Theater of Performing Arts.
the board of the CCP asked Members of Congress to pass House Bill 4454, which would convert the Center to become a non-municipal public corporation and allow it to use the principal of the CCP Trust Fund to pay off some of its debt.
Other notable developments during the year included the institution of the National Artist Awards and the foundation of the CCP Philharmonic Orchestra, the center's first resident company that would later become the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra.[]
Construction of the new theater, which was also designed by Leandro Locsin, was completed in a record 77 days and was inaugurated on July 1972 with the grand parade, "Kasaysayan ng Lahi" ("History of the Race").
Into the 1980s
One of the more infamous additions to the Center was the Manila Film Center, built in 1981 for the Manila International Film Festival.
An accident occurred on November 17, 1981, when scaffolding collapsed and sent construction workers into quick-drying cement. Despite this, construction proceeded, and finished some 15 minutes before opening night of the Film Festival.
The building's ownership would be transferred to the CCP in 1986, when the Experimental Cinema of the Philippines was dissolved.[5] Straying from the brutalist style typical of the buildings in the CCP is the Coconut Palace, a showcase on the versatility of coconut as an export product and construction material, designed by Francisco Mañosa.
986 saw the end of the Marcos regime through the peaceful People Power Revolution.ogether with its vice president, Florendo Garcia, the new leadership consulted with various stakeholders to formulate a new direction for the CCP and officially redefine its mission and objectives in pursuit of "a Filipino national culture evolving with and for the people".
Aquino would later confer the same award to Leandro Locsin in 1990, in recognition of his contribution to the field of architecture in the Philippines and in spite of his many contributions to the Marcos regime's architectural projects.
In 1987, three groups joined the roster of the Cultural Center's resident companies: the Philippine Ballet Theatre, the Ramon Obusan Folkloric Group and Tanghalang Pilipino.