Clutching their preserve jars, Tupperware boxes and cloth shopping bags, Berliners can now buy their groceries package-free in a “precycling” first for the environmentally switched-on city.
The prizewinning dance ensemble from Mindanao, Next Moves Modern Dance Company, takes centerstage in two free dance concerts on Sept 23, at Rodelsa Hall, Liceo de Cagayan University in Cagayan de Oro City.
Near-forgotten inner stories, buried in the artists’ sub-conscious, tinged with adult pathos and awakenings of nostalgia, a melancholia for a more innocent romantic time and an adventure across borders of quantum time and space—all these are explored in the exhibit, “The Untold.”
The Center for Art, New Ventures & Sustainable Development (Canvas), in partnership with Project Bakawan, presents “If Trees Could Talk,” an environment-themed group exhibition featuring the works of 27 of the country’s most promising and admired young artists.
In 1957, composer Felipe Padilla de Leon wrote the first full-length Philippine opera, a dramatization of Rizal’s “Noli Me Tangere.” With libretto by eminent sculptor Guillermo Tolentino (both would later be named National Artists), the production was mounted at the historic auditorium of Far Eastern University.
Dayaw, the national celebration of indigenous cultural communities, will be held October in three locations in the three major island groups, according to the National Commission for Culture and the Arts.
The over-romanticized treatment of vampires and werewolves in the West may have infiltrated and conquered the imagination of lovelorn Filipino young adults, likewise pushing the equally and perhaps more diverse world of the kapre, manananggal, diwata, and duwende into obscurity; but if there’s ever a time for them to be brought back into the limelight, this will be it.
In keeping true to its aim to make art accessible to all, the Metropolitan Museum of Manila has launched a benefit exhibition gathering more than 200 art pieces in different
ManilArt 2014 next month will feature an exhibit on surrealism by local and foreign artists. “Endangered Visions,” organizers said, will focus on “the Surreal, the Visionary and the Fantastic as a means to counterbalance an art world driven by a rapacious market with something more contemplative, subtle and challenging.”
What becomes a legend most? So goes a famous advertising campaign for a fashionable mink fur, Blackglama, which featured some of the most famous faces in the movie firmament, from Bette Davis down to Sophia Loren and Janet Jackson. The campaign ran for years and was proclaimed “one of the most iconic advertising campaigns in America.”
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