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COVER STORY: Towards a real arts and culture agenda
While it is still said that cultural work is “for arts’ sake” and that the public’s apprecia-tion of arts and culture is payment *enough* for the amount of creative blood sweat tears that artistic...
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High noon in the storm It glares, the light streaming in constant fluid wonder on the window glass, a corporeal thing that wails. Bewildered as a child, you gape in restive silence at the tempest,...
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Sonnets
1. when i behold the old westering sun and feel over me the fall of the night when bamboo leaves i hear humming as one sweet symphony ‘neath the gleaming moonlight and summer’s breathing attemper and...
View ArticlePH participates in Unesco Workshop on Trafficking of Cultural Property in SEA
Acting Assistant Director of the National Museum (NM) Angel Bautista led the Philippine delegation to the Unesco Sub-Regional Workshop for the “Fight Against Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Property in...
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Recommended Pinoy millennial reading
If the first love chronicles the beginning of romance, mythology tells the beginning of things and how people began making sense of the world. To discuss Filipino mythology is to therefore discuss the...
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The Medalla-Nankervis London Biennale comes to Manila
The first ever 2016 London Biennale Pollination Manila: Synchronisation Syncopation will take place from September 15 to October 17 2016. This is an artist-initiated event composed of a series of...
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Country’s best honored in Choose Philippines Awards
There are many great things about the Philippines and the Filipino. And this greatness for media giant ABS-CBN should be recognized in a bid to support Philippine tourism via the 5th Choose Philippines...
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Of love and life with Kim Henares
CARLA BIANCA RAVANES-HIGHAM It would have been a typical ending to a young professional’s workday—a cup of coffee and dessert while waiting for the rains to die down before heading home. What made this...
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Jackie Ejercito inherits MARE Foundation chairmanship from mom Loi
Former Senator Luisa “Loi” Ejercito Estrada relinquished her decades-long chairmanship of the board of MARE Foundation to her daughter, Jackie Ejercito, in turnover rites held at San Andres Stadium,...
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The best sites to visit, according to its flag carrier’s PH honcho
Turkey, the exotic country straddling Eastern Europe and Western Asia, should be in every traveler’s bucket list as a destination steeped in history and culture. Turkish Airlines General Manager Erhan...
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Turkish Airlines’ ‘brave’ flight in PH skies
Erhan Balaban is the young General Manager of Operations of the equally young company Turkish Airlines With a name that translates from his language as a “brave-fair ruler,” Erhan Balaban is every bit...
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Rite of Passage
In 1990, Ballet Philippines 2 (BP2) was formed to legitimize the emerging artistry of the company’s young talents, where they were allowed to explore choreography and technique at a very radical pace....
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The state of the (Ateneo) Art Awards
How long before what we value as worthy, exciting, “young” art becomes nothing but a display of the aesthetics— now fixed and expected—of the powers-that-be of the art world, i.e., the collectors and...
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Alessandra Pineda exemplifies the modern Filipina
CARLA BIANCA RAVANES-HIGHAM Alessandra “Sandra” Pineda may not know it but she inspires me. Though we have only personally hung out a couple of times during work-related events, her Facebook posts,...
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Mentorship program brings hope of UP education
From almost working as a house help, in lieu of studying, to support her poor family, Clarence Gamez (second from left) is now a proud University of the Philippines–Visayas graduate—thanks to an...
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Championing molders of young Filipino minds
Superstar Nora Aunor at a previous Teacher’s Fest event Did you know that it takes around 200 teachers to help an average Filipino student achieve his or her dream career? For their undying passion to...
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PEN to host launch of poetry book by three contemporary writers
The Philippine Center of International PEN (Poets, Playwrights, Essayists, Novelists) will host the launching of Be Ye Steadfast. Poems of Carlomar Arcangel Daoana, Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta, and Allan...
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It is Not True that Only His Own Mother can Love a Nasty Child He had clawed his way through a Danish custard like someone trapped under rubble. It was easily forgiven. Not many children of six can...
View ArticleRemembering Franz Arcellana (Part 2)
Now I like to share my experience in the selection of Franz as National Artist (1990). I was then chair of the literary arts committee under a subcommission of the arts headed by Eddie Romero in the...
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Cold Morning Tea
MY POEM TODAY coincides with the daily breaking news. More disasters, hunger among children caught in the havoc of war. One gets up from bed, looks out of the window—another gloomy day, overcast sky,...
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