The ASIAN SCHOOL

Interactions between professional artists and students, and between theologians and lay people are common activities in the Center.

SAMBA-LIKHAAN PROGRAMS seek to address the need to place art, music dance, or other cultural activities in the service of the community where it is found, not merely for aesthetics but as catalyst for mobilizing community energy towards enhancement of life and spirituality.

Samba-Likhaan pursues activities that focus on the artists' work with specific communities, expansion of the network of artists, church workers and leaders, and the continuing development of art programs that can be adopted as tools in highlighting socio-cultural concerns of the communities and churches.

Interactions between professional artists and students, and between theologians and lay people are common activities in the Center.

Samba-Likhaan is coined from the roots of two words in Filipino, the Philippine national language. Samba means worship while Iikha means creation. Joining these creates a new word that, with the prefix -an endows it with not just one but, like the best works of art, multiple meanings. Samba-Likhaan is both the place and the process of creation, where artists render their homage to God through their work.