At the closing of the recent J. Elizalde Navarro (JEN) National Workshop on Criticism of the Arts and Humanities in Baguio City, organized by The Varsitarian of the University of Santo Tomas (UST), literary scholar and teacher Oscar Campomanes, one of the leading critics in the country, said that in the Philippines where art criticism went quite unrecognized, still, “critics must persist.”
“Field of Schemes” is how the journalist character played by Alessandra de Rossi in the Cinemalaya film “Liars” puts it, a clever allusion to another baseball movie, “Field of Dreams.”
So it picks up nearly two decades later after their first parting in Vienna, two almost-lovers bound to where their desires will take them—or will be rerouted elsewhere.
After taking a bite of the Big Apple during their first movie outing in 2011, “The Smurfs” take on the romantic paradise of Paris, France.
The winners of the 2013 Ateneo Art Awards were announced last August 8 in ceremonies at the Shangri-La Plaza: Charles Buenconsejo for “Reality Is a Hologram,” shown at Art Informal; Buen Calubayan for “Fressie Calupong,” at Blanc Peninsula; and Raffy Napay for “Thread Experience,” at West Gallery.
Four young artists, all from different fields, will represent the Philippines in the 2013 Association of South East Asian Nation (Asean) Youth Camp in Singapore Aug. 26-Sept. 1.
It’s a spellbinding spectacle like nothing else.
Before there was Amityville, there was Harrisville.
The legacy of National Artist for Music Andrea Veneracion continues. The Andrea O. Veneracion International Choral Festival, named after the founder of the Philippine Madrigal Singers, opened last Aug. 8. It was the sixth international choral fest to be staged at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) and the first international choral competition in the country. Festival director is Melissa V. Mantaring of the CCP.
Two deadly enemies representing two antipodal forces of Philippine society—the soldier and the communist rebel—are brought together and somehow reconciled ironically through a teenager representing rebellion and defiance.
