Islands are unique because of their biodiversity and their people’s ethnicity, culture and history. But without proper care, it may be difficult to help these communities retain their heritage and identity amid a sea of change.
Manila raised a furor recently over Dan Brown’s best-selling novel “Inferno.” The novel follows the adventures of fictional art historian Robert Langdon.
Dick Wolf is a perfect name for the hero of a series of detective novels. But the real-life Wolf—his real name really is Richard A. Wolf—is an innovative award-winning American TV writer/producer best known for creating the “Law & Order” franchise, characterized by its distinctive sound effect (Dun, dun!) and basing a lot of its plots on current headlines.
The deconstruction of ethnic Filipino motifs has been the signature style of abstract painter Jane Arrieta Ebarle. But in her seventh solo exhibit, “Hibla 7,” she departs from her free-flowing lines and simple brushstrokes.
Choreographer Agnes Locsin has an advocacy: Save the trees. We need to recoup our forests to check the flooding of our cities, she said.
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.
Poetry and music will take center stage at this year’s Maningning Miclat Awards on Sept. 25 at the Abelardo Hall of the College of Music of the University of the Philippines, Diliman, QC.
Our workaday world is indifferent to us, and instead of becoming aware of this baffling experience, we cower, accept our fate, or assume a blasé attitude.
A special fundraising exhibition of new works by abstractionist Camille Ver opened at Galerie Stephanie last Aug. 27.
“Jazz is a vehicle to promote unity and for Filipinos to come together, unifying cliques. It is different from the usual activities the CCP (Cultural Center of the Philippines) promotes, but it is global art and we are becoming global.”
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