For Filipinos abroad: Nothing beats ‘Paskong Pinoy’
Experiencing “winter wonderland” for a Filipino living in Canada was fun but nothing beats Christmas celebrations in the Philippines.
January 21, 2013
Experiencing “winter wonderland” for a Filipino living in Canada was fun but nothing beats Christmas celebrations in the Philippines.
A white Christmas is far from a Filipino Christmas, but there was a snowman display at Manor Hotel in Baguio last Christmas that caught Alice Pascual’s fancy.
The fashion crowd battled the elements in Paris Sunday as snow covered the city on the last day of the menswear shows.
There’s an inner glow in the women of Remy Boquiren, as if a mysterious fire like that which radiates from a gemstone has been placed at the heart of the figures, highly idealized and unabashedly romantic, as only a woman of the old school could render them. Boquiren calls them “that radiant, luminous effect,” an inner light that she situates at the chest and core of the figures.
At long last the Philippines will have a Museum of Natural History.
The recent inauguration of the Museum of Community Heritage at Casa San Miguel—that haven for the arts in San Antonio, Zambales—turned out to be a celebration of Philippine music, dance, visual art, and even cuisine and eco-tourism.
National Artist José Joya had a peculiar way of greeting each New Year. On New Year’s eve, Peping, as he was known to family and friends, would lock himself in his studio, away from the charivari and excess of the holidays, to work on a painting and would emerge only after the revelries had the died down.
Inquirer Lifestyle columnist Emily Marcelo is holding her fourth one-woman painting exhibit until Feb. 5 at Chef Jessie Rockwell Club (Makati, tel. 8906543, 8907630). The prevailing theme in her paintings is the quiet splendor of nature—sweeping, elegant, colorful and uplifting to the spirit. From vivid, rolling valleys to breathtaking landscapes of sand, wheat fields and grass; from depiction of vibrant flowers to the lumbering immensity of age-old trees, her paintings convey a peaceful, beatific ambience of serenity, comfort and peace. Never pretentious, angst-ridden or moody, she paints an optimistic viewpoint of the best our world can be, without the wanton defilement of human ignorance and carelessness.
Anvil Publishing Inc., 2011 Publisher of the Year, is launching its new website with an online book sale until Jan. 31.
The Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra, under music director Olivier Ochanine, opens its fifth season with a concert on Jan. 25, 8 p.m., at the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo (CCP Main Theater). PPO associate concertmaster Dino Decena is featured artist.
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