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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...

Korean American K-pop stars promote mental health awareness

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — K-pop star Eric Nam was having a meeting in New York when he suddenly felt a pain in his chest. “I thought I was going to have to call 911,” he said, recounting the experience from 2019. But instead...

Kurit-Lagting, a collective artistic collaboration of Bicolano artists from Sorsogon, Albay, Catanduanes, Masbate and Camarines provinces with art advocacies on human rights and the environment initiated the Kurit Art and Design Academy (KADA) Hands-Online Workshops to help their fellow artists and members who were...

When literature is a rap

Text and photos by Bernard Testa “Ma’ kung saan ka man ngayon, ok lang ako, huwag kang mag-alala, mag-aaral ako. Huwag kang malulungkot dahil hindi ako sumasama sa masasamang barkada, kakanta lang ako… ” Seventeen-year-old Vin Andrei Laxamana Montañez is an underground rapper. A resident of Sitio Lower Lucban, Barangay...

Glancing at Ermita: From Rizal Park to Solidaridad

Rosario arrived in Alabang at 2 o’clock in the morning. We needed to wait for the dawn before travelling to our destinations for the day, so we stayed in a 24/7 coffee shop to kill the time. We reached Rizal Park just right after...

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Artists Lead Sorsogon City Edition of Scott Kelby’s Worldwide Photowalk

Sorsogon City, Philippines – The Kurit-Lagting Art Collective, in partnership with Delta Beta Omega (DBO), and the Concerned Artists of the Philippines Bicol Chapter...

Noticing Makati from underneath the sky

My feet were nailed for a while to the ground after seeing what was happening before me: The half-human half-horse creature, a tikbalang, was...

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...

I, me, mine: Master of Fine Arts students express themselves in photos and mixed media

  Denizens of the art scene would know Sining Kamalig—said to be the oldest running art gallery in the Philippines. It was first set up...