Art & Culture

The Manila Symphony Orchestra held its third centennial concert entitled “LIBERATION: Celebrating 80 Years of the Philippine Republic” at the Metropolitan Theater last July 4. The concert marked a symbolic homecoming for the MSO, renewing its long-standing partnership with The Met, a venue associated...

Visitors have more time to experience a unique intersection of history, art, and intellectual resistance, as the Constantino Foundation and Yuchengco Museum have officially extended the run of “Pasts Revisited: An Exhibit on a Usable History and the Romance of Renato Constantino and...

Two capstone film projects from De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde were recently screened in Seattle, Washington as part of the Diwa at Pagdiriwang Festival. Programmed under the festival’s “Sometimes You Just Gotta Laugh” block shown last June 7 at the Seattle Center Armory...

Loop, pull, wrap, another pull. The crochet hook moves with a rhythm both meditative and mechanical. Crochet, popularly known in the Philippines as gantsilyo, is a traditional needlecraft that involves creating items by hand using a hook and yarn. For the thousands of Filipinos...

A New Year fire gutted a 1969 Protestant landmark in Quezon City, destroying rare stained glass and igniting urgent calls for heritage-sensitive rebuilding. Just after the new year, a fire destroyed a Protestant Church’s 1969 heritage sanctuary and similarly dated stained glass panels—a rare...

This year’s Pulilan Mandala Art Festival has successfully concluded its series of exhibitions and events, but the story does not simply end there. Not quite. A few murals have remained, becoming focal points for community dialogue and a shared sense of place. One of...