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AFTER its initial foray into capsule collections featuring our country’s celebrated artists from different media, Freeway is back again with...
Like a rock star, F. Sionil José entered the room wearing his black Freeway polo, black pants, black beret, and...
MANILA, Philippines—National Artist for Literature Francisco Sionil Jose lambasted on Tuesday the controversial artwork of Mideo Cruz, who put a...
Can creators of art that some find bad or offensive use freedom of expression to justify their work?
Surrounded by taller, decidedly more modern structures, the Solidaridad Bookshop stands along Padre Faura Street in Ermita, Manila, as welcoming as it did when it first opened its doors in 1965.
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From time to time, National Artist Francisco Sionil Jose poses questions like, “What is wrong with us?” or “Why we are so shallow?” And one day I got bristling mad and told him, “Speak for yourself, Frankie!”
First, a confession: “I didn’t set out with lofty ideas when this all began,” says producer Hendri Go, who started a longstanding foray into theater down south—that is, Cebu, Dumaguete, Bacolod, Iloilo, Ormoc and other places in the Visayas—with Little Boy Productions in 2001. “I just wanted to have fun.”
The social philosophy of National Artist for Literature Francisco Sionil José, who has received the Ramon Magsayay Memorial Award for Literature, Journalism, and Creative Communication and the Chilean government’s Pablo Neruda Centennial Award, can be gleaned from his latest novel, “The Feet of Juan Bacnang” (2011, Solidaridad Publishing House; available at Solidaridad Bookstore, tel. 2541068; and National Book Store).
Paul Fleischman’s “Mind’s Eye” was one of the critically acclaimed plays presented during last December’s International Theater Festival at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP). Even the normally acerbic F. Sionil José, National Artist for Literature, hailed it as “the triumph of the creative imagination over a grim reality.”
