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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 a mammoth choral ensemble composed of 200 singers from various choirs, Handel’s Messiah will once more re-assert itself as...

Fondly Remembering Spain: An exhibition by painter Phyllis Zaballero

Instituto Cervantes presents “Fondly Remembering Spain," an exhibition of Phyllis Zaballero’s Spanish paintings. It will be on view at the Instituto Cervantes' Intramuros branch from Nov. 10, 2022 to Jan. 22, 2023. This collection of paintings, including those from private collections and those from...

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...

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Archipelago Abroad: An exhibit of Philippine diaspora in Belgium

Exhibition Dates: 17 January – 1 March 2025 The Museum of Migration in central Brussels hosts “Archipelago Abroad,” a temporary exhibit on Philippine diaspora in...