An ode to the mostly handmade in Baguio
Yes, only the Baguio climate is hospitable to an outdoor weekend event like the recent Arts and Crafts Fair, now on its tenth year.
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Countertenor resumes MCOF’s Young Artists Series
It just seems part of nature’s course that a boy’s falsetto lowers as he moves out of puberty. But some retain or choose to keep that voice the way countertenor Paul Ryan Arcolas does. In his case, he experienced an identity crisis with his voice post-puberty.
Son, behold your mother
To young Araos, his Inay is “the woman behind Ama (Jerry) and our family. It is the greatest honor to pay tribute to her. All her life she has never been given that kind of tribute. She’s the woman who’s the pillar of and behind the genius of Ama.”“Tribute” runs until Dec. 14 at Crucible Gallery. Gallery hours are from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Baguio’s poets of black and white film photography
To a certain community in Baguio, film is the way to go to capture a different rhythm of life, far from the easy-to-capture pixels of smart phones and digital cameras.Ongoing at the iBAG-IW 2025 exhibition at the basement of the Baguio Convention Center are the “Silver Gelatin Print Exhibition” and “B: Show! A Community Exhibit of Analog Photography and Silver Gelatin Prints” at Oh My Gulay at La Azotea building, Session Road.
A day of wine and roses with Pablo Tariman
Whenever I’d complain aloud to Pablo about the financial challenges of being a freelance writer, he would quiet me down by saying, in his serious baritone voice, “It’s the only good thing we know how to do.”
The bold but reverent collages Del Tolentino left behind
His sudden death in May this year left the academic and art community of Baguio bereft. Prof. Delfin L. Tolentino Jr. wasn’t just a hardworking literature teacher, he was a wit, a raconteur, an aesthete, an artist himself.Proof of this is his current, posthumous exhibition “Our Mother of Pearl” at the café of Museo Kordilyera at the University of the Philippines Baguio. The show runs until the end of the month as part of the university’s celebration of Buwan ng Wika.
Unforgettable encounters with the arts’ leading lights
From the weight and thickness of Pablo A. Tariman’s Encounters in the Arts alone and the starry names that fill the contents page and photo folio, the author has veritably compiled his life’s work. And what a compilation it is, with a knockout cover featuring international pianist and national treasure Cecile Licad and art patron Nedy Tantoco in the inset.
Naked Baguio
On extended run until Jan. 8, 2025 at the basement of the centrally located Baguio Convention Center, “Naked City: Futures from the Crossroad,” the visual arts exhibition that’s part of the recent Ibagiw Creative Festival, indeed strips from the city all those romantic, nostalgic notions and reinstates the significance of the once shunted indigenous peoples and culture.
Sock it to ’em, Pete Lacaba
At Friday’s Gawad CCP awards night, Jose F. Lacaba, apart from speaking truth to power, what he has done was to shake the perfumed set in the audience out of its comfortable complacency. His speech was the night’s golpe de gulat, in a manner of speaking, that for a second shushed the audience in awestruck silence before a sector broke out cheering loudly for the man.
In Baguio, lively art mixes with a business setting
Coming from a family of art enthusiasts, businesswoman Gianina Emille “Gia” Mendoza- Bongco of the BHF Baguio Group of Companies came up with something related to art for the family restaurant Lemon and Olives in the mountain city. She timed the event, called “Let’s Paint and Dine,” on a Sunday when droves of families, local and out-of-towners, streamed out of their rained-in shelter for lunch.
