A cultural walking tour of Binondo, Manila
The district of Binondo in Manila is the oldest Chinatown in the world. It has a rich history and heritage dating as far back as the early decades of the Spanish colonial period.
January 19, 2014
The district of Binondo in Manila is the oldest Chinatown in the world. It has a rich history and heritage dating as far back as the early decades of the Spanish colonial period.
Defiant at heart, artist Alexander Charriol has sought to establish his own identity outside of his family.
Painter Norberto Carating held his first solo exhibition exactly 40 years ago at Galerie Bleue in Rustan’s Makati.
February will see the country celebrating the National Arts Month (NAM). As the chairman of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), government’s primary agency for the arts and culture, Felipe M. de Leon Jr. is not only on top of the Philippine Arts Festival, the NCCA’s flagship event to celebrate NAM; he is also vested with the duty to steer Philippine arts and culture to a fruitful and stellar direction.
Shangri-La Plaza in Mandaluyong City is host of the 8th Spring Film Festival of Chinese movies from Jan. 24 to Feb. 2.
Fantasy-world building is the basis of Rom Villaseran’s visual art practice. Villaseran’s paintings are influenced by the landscapes of the fantasy novels he read as a high-school student. The artist visualizes these stories through a technique that uses a high level of minute detailing.
The Silliman University National Writers Workshop is extending its deadline for applications for the 53rd National Writers Workshop to Jan. 31.
The University of St. La Salle-Bacolod (USLS) is inviting young writers to submit their application for the 14th Iyas National Writers’ Workshop on April 20-26, at Balay Kalinungan, USLS-Bacolod.
Roughly two months after Supertyphoon “Yolanda” caused death and destruction of horrifying proportions to Leyte, Samar and other parts of Central Philippines, the task of rebuilding lives and their land looks daunting.
After three years of reading mostly the columnists in this section, we thought we’d also give space to other fellows summing up their lives and life’s philosophies now that, as our youngest of the eight featured seniors here, 67-year-old Carlos G. Dominguez, puts it, “there’s more years behind than ahead of us.”
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