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‘Stage Kiss’ is Valentine’s theater-style
Fantasy or Reality? Which is which? When does a stage kiss cross the delicate line into a real one? In ‘Stage Kiss,’ Repertory Philippines’ season opener, the intoxicating desire for romance is...
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NCCA rolls out 2020 National Arts Month calendar of celebrations
The National Committee on Dance will once again amaze the public with the traveling danceconcert series ‘Sayaw Pinoy’ in different parts of the country A plethora of arts and cultural events all over...
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‘ALT Philippines 2020’ gather 10 galleries for new art experience
Finale Art File directors Sylvia Gascon (leftmost) and Evita Sarenas (third from right) with exhibiting artists (from left) Lyra Garcellano, Kim Oliveros, Bembol Dela Cruz, Annie Cabigting, Ayka Go,...
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Few moments of reflection for a joyful life
CARLA BIANCA RAVANES-HIGHAM What a year 2020 has been and we are only in the third week of the year. Many news cycles report of war, viruses, fires. Of course, the news cycle closest to my heart is the...
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The world’s all-time best read book (Conclusion)
Max Sucquit Jr. The Bible’s enemies The world’s most widely read book had bitter enemies too. During the Middle Ages some church leaders, for reasons which liberal-minded intellectuals of their time...
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A true hero of philanthropy
It was such a heartwarming surprise when popular hairdresser-philathropist-businessman Ricky Reyes received a Viber message from an anonymous sender that read, “My staff will deposit 100K to Childhaus...
View ArticlePhantoms in Mama’s Lungs
Whenever I am away and a sharp longing for Mother stabs at me, I would buy a stick of cigarette, light it in the dark and watch the embers chew it up. Pa used to sigh her name, “Anita, hay Anita,” and...
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Cojuangco’s ‘Oplan Exodus’ to be released in March
ON Jan. 25, 2015, 44 Philippine National Police-Special Action Force (PNP-SAF) officers were massacred in an anti-terror operation that went horribly wrong. Five years later, does anyone remember their...
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Luntiang Palihan 2020 now open to applications
THE Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center of De La Salle University (DLSU) invites undergraduate and graduate students in Metro Manila to submit their applications to Luntiang Palihan 2020: The...
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‘American Dirt’ picked for Winfrey’s book club
NEW YORK: Jeanine Cummins’ American Dirt, one of the year’s most anticipated and debated novels, is Oprah Winfrey’s new pick for her book club. Jeanine Cummins’ “American Dirt.” (Flatiron Books via AP)...
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Patrick Flores continues to create creative spaces
SINGAPORE: How does one turn an empty floor into a creative space, teeming with visually-arresting and thought-provoking art at the same time? COVER PHOTO COURTESY OF SINGAPORE ART MUSEUM Surely, there...
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Artists gather to ‘construct truths’
The exhibition dubbed “Constructions of Truths” asks observers to reflect on the truths of images which populate everyday lives and how these affect the way they view the world. Artists included in the...
View ArticleLEAF Awards to honor best of live entertainment
From solo and group performances in concerts and theaters to festivals, the best of live entertainment for the year 2019 — from October 1, 2018 to November 30, 2019 — will be honored by the Philippine...
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Art Fair Philippines continues to grow on 8th edition
Now on its eighth year, Art Fair Philippines remains dedicated to fulfilling its mission of expanding the audience for the country’s visual art. Slated for February 21 to 23 at The Link Carpark in...
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Fun family musical ‘Matilda,’ first to arrive in Manila for 2020
With a thriving theatrical scene in 2019, the Filipino audience can only look forward to more exciting productions — both local and international — as 2020 unfolds. One of the first to whet the...
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Will natural calamities ever end?
Max Sucquit Jr. In the aftermath of Taal Volcano’s eruption, you may be thinking: What does it all mean? Where is this leading us to? Will natural disasters like this never end? Members of the...
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Catriona Gray takes on new role as PH Arts Ambassador
Under Presidential Proclamation 683 by then President Corazon Aquino in 1991, the entire month of February has since been dedicated as National Arts Month (NAM) every year to celebrate Filipino arts...
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Gerard Salonga conducts for Valentine concert at CCP
THE Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra (PPO) performs under the baton of guest conductor Gerard Salonga in the PPO’s 6th season concert on February 14 at the Cultural Center of the Philippines...
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Ea Torrado presents ‘Transcendance – A Daloy Movement’
Choreographer, contemporary performer, movement facilitator, Ea Torrado will offer a three-hour interactive performance called “Transcendance-A Daloy Movement” on February 14 at Kondwi in Makati, as...
View Article‘Paper in Bloom’ exhibit at The Manila Hotel Art Gallery
“When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it is your world for the moment,” said Georgia O’Keeffe, the 20th century painter that reinvented the way flowers are represented. Flowers...
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