Art World: Tugtugang Musika Asyatika (TUGMA)

All people whose activities are involved in producing "art" make up the art world. I guess the easiest art world to write about would be a small one, so I will write about my department organization: Tugtugang Musika Asyatika (TUGMA).

Our organization meets every weekday 5:30pm - 8pm. Every day is a different ensemble. Mondays: Chinese Sizhu, Tuesdays: Philippine Kulintangan, Wednesdays: Javanese Gamelan, Thursdays: Japanese Koto, and Fridays: Korean Samulnori. Each ensemble has their own leader (usually higher year level and knowledgeable and skillful of the instrument/s). The leaders would submit to the president the objective and results for/of the day's meeting. Attendance is important and absences without prior notice typically earns criticism and looked at as disrespectful of other people's time and efforts.

When a concert is approaching, the schedule changes and the organization devotes meeting time to prepare for the concert. I'll talk a little bit about a TUGMA X. It was a concert to celebrate the 10th year anniversary of the organization. The whole concert was funded by the organization's treasury and sponsors. The members were the ones who vigorously wrote and sent letters to several possible sponsors. Members also wrote new music for the concert. Another concert was the one held at UP Los Banos. A nice feature of the stage design were cloud cut-outs of styrofoam, cut and painted by the members.

Aside from officers (president, vice president, secretary, treasurer, PRO), the organization has five committees, each with a committee head.
1) Production Committee
2) Internals Committee
3) Externals Committee
4) Finance Committee
5) Education and Research Committee
The existence of committees encourages certain members to document, make videos, record, research, and handle issues among the members and other groups.

I consider TUGMA as an art world for all these things.