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As the creativity and innovation hub of the Ateneo de Manila, Areté provides the space and freedom for groups from different fields and persuasions to create, collaborate on, and share knowledge, skills, and practices.
A Generative Space
A Generative Space
Our complex features theaters, art galleries, studios, laboratories, a makerspace, teaching and meeting rooms, and several open areas.
A Supportive Community
A Supportive Community
Using these facilities enables us to host, support, and connect academics, artists, professionals, and leaders of different talents and interests whose exchanges, we hope, will spur the kind of creativity and innovation that creates unforeseen paths and betters our communities.
An Evolving Concept
An Evolving Concept
Areté is thus betting on the desire of a growing many, coming together to impart and to learn, to be inspired and to be challenged, to focus but still to wander in all that could be done as a collective concerned with what is possible.
Meet the Team
Meet the Team
OFFICE OF THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Jerry C Respeto, PhD
RESIDENT TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
D Cortezano
THEATER & EVENTS OFFICER
Janelle Audrey L Camon
THEATER CREW
Ralph Joseph O Adarlo
Nilo Beriarmente
Arnold E Narido
Jethro B Nibaten
Christofer T Peñafiel
Justine Ray B Santos
Rey G Sotto
Adriane Mark E Ungriano
John Robert B Yam
OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Estelle Marie M Ladrido, PhD
SANDBOX PROGRAMS COORDINATOR
Skilty C Labastilla
SANDBOX RESEARCH ASSITANT
Karlo Antonio E Erfe
MAKERSPACE OPERATIONS OFFICER
Isabelle Louise C Arellano
PROGRAM & MARKETING OFFICER
Grace A Ng
MULTIMEDIA ARTIST
Timmy General
OFFICE ASSISTANT
Ma Erika M Bautista
Latest Events
Latest Events
Design in 3D: A 3D Modeling Workshop
October 1, 2025 (new date)
Eugenio Lopez Jr Makerspace
LAMAN LOOB: Dalawang Dulang Katatakutan
October 11-12, 2025
Joselito & Olivia Campos Interactive Teaching Lab
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