Something of a bombshell landed in the Dumaguete art scene at the tail end of April 2021: a group exhibition...
DUMAGUETE—Not too long ago, an exhibit that attempted to be a survey of the Dumaguete visual arts scene made...
To read John Jack Wigley’s “Home of the Ashfall” (University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, 2014) is to fall under the stealthy spell of a born storyteller.
The musicalization of a beloved tale has always been par for the course in theater. Think of the reinvention of fairy tales in “Into the Woods,” or the seemingly endless parade of old movies redone for Broadway.
For theater director Amiel Leonardia, it must have been an interesting sort of homecoming—the kind that speaks of the beautiful symmetry of coming full circle—as he finds himself assembling on the Claire Isabel McGill Luce Auditorium stage at Silliman University the elements that would recreate a story of war-torn Dumaguete.
WE BEGIN with stories of how things began. The story of the Silliman University National Writers Workshop in Dumaguete—which celebrates...
