The Manila lockdown, one of the longest COVID lockdowns in the world, has forced academic institutions which produce cultural and creative practitioners including the De La Salle- College of Saint Benilde School of Arts, Culture, and Performance (SACP) (now defunct Arts and Culture Cluster from its School of Design and Arts) to recalibrate and rethink their learning and instruction methodologies. SACP has been continually standing at the forefront of creative education in the Philippines through progressive, inclusive, and ethical artistic processes geared towards innovation and inclusion vis-a-vis its bachelor's programs. Through an emic approach both as administrator and lecturer, the study is an in-depth analysis on best practices in online interdisciplinary pedagogy, in the context of teaching arts and culture and its production, including the School’s programming and audience development for its participants from diverse localities through a myriad of strategies geared towards sustainable and viable artistic processes in line with their program evaluation report for the past three years. The study reveals that, while the lockdown has restricted the School in mounting their pre-pandemic activities, collaboration has prevailed as a viable method to utilize cyberspace as classroom as they attempt to stay relevant, productive, and sensitive to the needs of the creative sector through a series of dialogues, productions, performances, and conference. It also reveals that there exists an ecosystem of support, comprised of internal and external stakeholders. Initial data for this study was presented online through the International Organisation of Scenographers Theatre Architects and Technicians in 2021.

Authors:
Alain Zedrick Camiling, De La Salle- College of Saint Benilde, Philippines
Magdalena De Leon, De La Salle- College of Saint Benilde, Philippines

About the Presenter(s)
Magdalena de Leon currently serves as the Dean of the School of Arts, Culture, and Performance at the De La Salle–College of Saint Benilde Manila, the Philippines.

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