After the success of last year’s hilarious “Shakespeare in Hollywood” (written by American playwright-director Ken Ludwig), Repertory Philippines is staging another Ludwig comedy, “Leading Ladies,” as its second offering in 2012.
The 2012 Philippine Arts Festival (PAF) has for its theme “Tradisyon at Inobasyon.” The National Commission for Culture and the Arts, which organizes the festival, says it seeks to foster tradition while encouraging innovation.
Today is Friday, Feb. 3, 2012—a Day of Remembrance. Flashback to Feb. 3, 1945—a day that brings to mind the stark events of a war that begs not to be forgotten.
Sayaw Pinoy is about to get bigger. Now on its 10th year, the longest-running Arts Month flagship project organized by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, is aiming to enjoin some 35 Philippine dance groups to participate in the event and beef up audience numbers.
The good news for the opera-starved is that Verdi’s “La Traviata” will be mounted at the Cultural Center of the Philippines with Filipino lead singers on March 3.
A stunning selection of a hundred self-portraits by Filipino artists, titled “Imagining Identity,” will be on view this month.
When employed as a central conceit in fiction, time travel is often either treated whimsically or as an overarching device for traveling to the Jurassic Era or the far future. But put it in the hands of the master of horror Stephen King and time travel becomes both possible and dangerous.
The Philippine cultural scene is as tumultuous as its politics so it is no surprise that for the Filipino, getting a grip on his own culture may be alienating.
University of Santo Tomas closed the yearlong celebration of its quadricentennial as Asia’s oldest university last Jan. 27 with a High Mass celebrated by all bishops of the Philippines and a grand chorale consisting of 40,000 singers singing, among other tunes, Abba’s “Thank You for the Music” and “I Have a Dream.”
When Stieg Larsson died of a heart attack in 2004, he was to many just a 50-year-old Swedish journalist, a reporter at one of Sweden’s largest news agencies, Tidningarnas Telegambyrå (Newspapers’ Telegram Bureau). Then they found the manuscripts.
“The concept of limits, both of experience and of self, is the main starting point in my current investigation,” says Lui Medina of her upcoming exhibit titled “Ascetics (Unbound).”
