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Keyboard savvy: How long it takes to play the piano

This is usually the question frequently to a music teacher: “How long does it take to learn to play the piano?” The usual answer...

Portrait of the National Artist as a musician

The pinnacle of artistic achievement in the Philippines is when you are named a National Artist. This is the reward given to the best...

Handel’s Messiah at the CCP on December 16

The Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra  celebrates the Yuletide Season with Handel’s Messiah at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) main theater on Dec. 16. With...

Weaving the tapestry of life

  Tingguians, they are called. She of the sub-group Illaud. Her name: Norma Agaid Mina, 78. And she has spawned generation after generation of loom...

PELÍCULA Spanish Film Festival celebrates its 21st edition; returns to the big screens in Manila, Malaysia and Australia

From Oct. 5 to 16, the 21st edition of PELÍCULA-Spanish Film Festival will return to face-to-face screenings. After two years of having a virtual festival, PELÍCULA will screen around 20 movies in three venues of Metro-Manila -–Shangri-La Plaza, Cine Adarna at UP Diliman,...

National Museum receives Philippine archaeological specimens from the University Of California Los Angeles; hosts book launch of Indigenous Archaeology In The Philippines: Decolonizing Ifugao...

The National Museum of the Philippines hosted two important events last July 21—the turnover of Philippine archaeological specimens from the Fowler Museum of the University of California Los Angeles and the launching of the book Indigenous Archaeology in the Philippines: Decolonizing Ifugao History. These...

Otras Realidades of Javier Galvan

Former Director of the Instituto Cervantes Javier Galvan—a sentinel and vanguard of Spanish culture and language—is holding his first solo exhibition at the Leon Gallery International, under Derek Flores’s art management. Evocatively billed as Otras Realidades (Other Realities), the exhibit consists of photographs and...

Heber Bartolome sculpture unveiled at Erehwon

A life-sized sculpture of folk rock icon Heber Bartolome silently playing his guitar sits at the center stage of the open-air venue, Behn Cervantes The Roofdeck of the Erehwon Center for the Arts. The sculpture is surrounded by the floor painting of artist Leeroy...

Stepping out while staying in

“The times they are a-changin’, come gather round people, wherever you roam...” No doubt those lyrics of Bob Dylan were progressive and attuned to the zeitgeist of 1960s America. Yet poetically inspiring as they were back then, its context in the age of coronavirus...

Spotlight on Filipino women writers

ABOVE PHOTO (Clockwise from top right) Aileen Cassinetto, event moderator; Luisa A. Igloria, Gayle Romasanta, Migs Bravo Dutt, and Cecilia Manguerra Brainard WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Philippine Embassy in the United States marked International Women’s Day on 8 March this year with a virtual program...

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