The "Songs for Courage" concert featuring Per Warming, back to back with Noel Cabangon, rocks the PETA Theater Center on April 18, 2009.
The event, sponsored by the Asia Pacific Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD) and Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC), is an event that celebrates and strengthens the unifying power of art in bringing people together to promote social and collective action.
Per Warming is a Danish writer, composer, singer and songwriter who has worked in Nordic folk high schools, composed music, written and translated songs for songbooks and platforms of popular movements. He is the leader of "Laboratory for Political Song" in Copenhagen and is active in the Danish "Artists for Peace" group (PAND International--Performers and Artists for Nuclear Disarmament) as well as the World Social Forum movement.
Together with Noel Cabangon and other international artists he published the CD "Art in Resistance-Resistance in Art." In the "Voices from the World Social Forum" in Mumbai 2004, they recorded some of their songs, pictures, poems and thoughts on a CD to encourage and inspire other artists.
Folk singer, artist and composer Noel Cabangon has produced the albums "Bukid at Buhay" (about the lives and struggles of Filipino peasants), "Tatsulok" (about human rights), "Sa Kandungan ng Kalikasan" (on the environment), and a number of albums for the Jesuit Music Ministry.
Tickets for the concert are at P300, which comes with a free drink. For inquiries, call PETA Marketing 4100821 or Julie Bautista 0917-5138698.