He kept hearing voices in his head—like Joan of Arc—although he was not quite a candidate for canonization. And he descended into the darkness, again. In the early 1980s, young
The Manila debut of French pianist François Chaplin with the Philippine Philharmonic under maestro Yoshikazu Fukumura was crowned with big success after an all-Ravel program billed as “Ravel Unraveled.” The
The spotlight is on animé and manga when Eiga Sai, the yearly Japan film festival in Manila, opens July 1 with the screening of an award-winning, manga-based animated film at
Bigger venues, a longer run, more collaborating artists–this year’s festival promises to be truly ‘Wagas’ (all out).
The tycoon is the main patron of CCP’s resident theater company Tanghalang Pilipino–because ‘For us, people who love theater,
this will continue to be relevant’
The Cultural Center of the Philippines is turning 50 years old in 2019. A creation of Imelda Marcos, it initially met with public outcry because of the huge sum of
The Fringe Manila Festival opened its third year last Wednesday, Feb. 8, at Pineapple Lab with new, daring and exciting works for fans of dance, film, visual arts, multimedia
A “Chinoy” from Binondo, Manila, Jerry Sibal had been a folk dancer since he was 16 when one day a kind of Joycean epiphany occurred and he decided to leave
Sen. Loren Legarda administered the oath-taking of Michelle Nikki Junia as the latest member of the Board of Trustees of the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) recently in her
It’s been about 20 years since Canadian singer-songwriter Bryan Adams first performed in Manila, at the old Folk Arts Theater. We didn’t see the concert, but according to one anecdote, Adams walked around the CCP complex a few hours before the show to shake off a temporary ailment.
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