Archive - Arts & Culture

Many ethnolinguistic groups in the country use three sources of colorants: yellow ginger or turmeric for yellow dyes, morinda or noni tree for red dyes, and indigo for blue-black dyes.

It is a week of music and memories as friends, musicians and Iloilo city officials including civic organizations pay tribute to violinist and music missionary Gilopez Kabayao in the last days of viewing at the Gegato-Abecia Memorial Homes at Tanza, Iloilo City.

Fil-American singing actor Yna Tresvalles is only 23 but she is playing the role of Anne Boleyn who was married to King Henry VIII at age 31 on January 25, 1533. She was later beheaded for high treason on May 19, 1536.

Baguio City’s music lovers savored rare vocal treats during the weekend with two back-to-back concerts featuring the magic of cinema through their music and a balanced program of opera and Neapolitan favorites.

Can you ever imagine living and cooking without electricity or running water? For a very long time, Filipinos cooked with firewood and charcoal in their smoky kitchen.

After a successful season opening concert of the Philippine Philharmonic under Maestro Grzegorz Nowak, the national orchestra goes breezy and light in an evening of film music with Gerard Salonga on November 22, 2024, 7:30 p.m. at the Samsung Theater for Performing Arts.

One could safely conclude the PPO has risen to high expectations with Richard Strauss’s tone poem Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40, which elicited a screaming standing ovation.

A rare treat for lovers of books is the ongoing exhibition of book art and allied arts until October 2, 2024 at the Ortigas Foundation Library (2nd Floor Unimart), Greenhills, San Juan. Participated by over 20 artists and their creations of artists’ books mostly made of handmade paper, found objects, and organic materials.

There is sudden interest on Puccini after the 2022 staging of Turandot courtesy of the CCP, the Filipino Opera Society and the PPO Society, Inc.

As difficult as it is to grasp the idea, there are homeless people in Singapore and Liyana Dhamirah was one of them.

Shlomo Mintz, a winner of several international competitions who will be the soloist of the Philippine Philharmonic in the Bruch violin concerto on Friday, Sept. 27, said competitions are not a perfect way to determine the future of a young talent.

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.

Stephanie Syjuco’s first solo show in the country, a photographic series titled Inherent Vice, runs until 5 October 2024 at Silverlens Galleries, Makati.

The musical life of Nena del Rosario Villanueva will be recalled in a special concert at the Manila Pianos on September 22, 2 p.m. with special lecture on her life and works by Dr. Alegria Ferrer.

Julie Lluch is one of those who will be given special tribute by the CCP in the awards night on September 20, 7 p.m. at the Samsung Theater for Performing Arts in Circuit Makati.

Lea Salonga leads the list of Gawad CCP awardees to be given special tribute in the awards night on Sept. 20, 2024, 7 p.m. at the Samsung Theater for Performing Arts in Circuit Makati.

Sharing their inner world of idyllic innocence, Vision Arcadia, an exhibit by the alumni artists of the University of Santo Tomas (UST), runs until September 22, 2014 at ArtistSpace, Ground Level, Ayala Museum.

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.