Skip to the content
VERA Files banner logoVERA Files
  • Fact Check
    • Fact Check Filipino
  • Latest
    • Podcast
    • News
    • Commentary
    • Arts & Culture
  • Special Coverage
    • THE ICC PROBE Duterte’s Drug War
      • ICC-related resources
    • Marcos Files
    • PHL Vote 2022
    • Seeing through the Smoke
      • How the tobacco industry interferes in policy making
    • The Chit Estella Road Safety Page
    • On The Record, where VERA Files was seen and heard
    • COVID-19 Watch
    • Health
    • Earth Files
    • PWD Files
      • PWD Vote
    • Trafficking Casewatch
    • SONA 2020 Promise Tracker
    • SONA 2019 Promise Tracker
    • SONA 2018 Promise Tracker
    • SONA 2017 Promise Tracker
    • SONA 2016 Promise Tracker
    • ARMM Watch
    • PHL Vote 2019
    • PHL Vote 2016
    • ASEAN at 50
  • Learning Corner
  • Fact Check
    • Fact Check Filipino
  • Latest
    • Podcast
    • News
    • Commentary
    • Arts & Culture
  • Special Coverage
    • THE ICC PROBE Duterte’s Drug War
      • ICC-related resources
    • Marcos Files
    • PHL Vote 2022
    • Seeing through the Smoke
      • How the tobacco industry interferes in policy making
    • The Chit Estella Road Safety Page
    • On The Record, where VERA Files was seen and heard
    • COVID-19 Watch
    • Health
    • Earth Files
    • PWD Files
      • PWD Vote
    • Trafficking Casewatch
    • SONA 2020 Promise Tracker
    • SONA 2019 Promise Tracker
    • SONA 2018 Promise Tracker
    • SONA 2017 Promise Tracker
    • SONA 2016 Promise Tracker
    • ARMM Watch
    • PHL Vote 2019
    • PHL Vote 2016
    • ASEAN at 50
  • Learning Corner
  • fb
  • tw
  • instagram
  • linkedin
  • yt

Category: Arts & Culture

  • Categories Arts & Culture

    Handel’s Messiah is 280-years old and still the world’s Christmas favorite

    By Pablo A. Tariman  |  Nov 20, 2022 12:02 AM

    Music sources noted the first performance of Handel’s Messiah took place on April 13, 1742 in Dublin’s newest concert hall at the time. How come it is still the most performed choral masterpiece during Christmas time all over the world until 2022?

    Handel's Messiah, Mark Anthony Carpio, Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra

  • Categories Arts & Culture

    Triangle of Sadness: Ode to the rich and famous

    By Pablo A. Tariman  |  Nov 18, 2022 11:56 PM

    The 2022 Quezon City International Film Festival opened Thursday night (Nov. 17) with a timely social satire and with a Filipino actor as the celebrated protagonist.

    Dolly de Leon, Triangle of Sadness

  • Categories Arts & Culture

    The harp and Lourdes de Leon Gregorio

    By Elizabeth Lolarga  |  Nov 16, 2022 4:05 AM

    For one who has sacrificed most of her life to music, Lourdes de Leon Gregorio, the country’s pioneering harp player and once stellar accompanying artist on the piano, is getting an overdue gratitude concert, “Hommages,” on Nov. 26 at 6 p.m. at Manila Pianos, fourth floor of Ronac Lifestyle Center, Paseo de Magallanes, Makati City.


  • Categories Arts & Culture

    Everardo Napay: Portrait of the Bicolano as an artist

    By Pablo A. Tariman  |  Nov 14, 2022 10:35 PM

    Everardo Nery Napay was born on February 24, 1924.
    I met him in Bicol in 1974 and watched his Bicol zarzuela, Burac Sa Jardin Ning Pagkamoot (Flower in the Garden of Love) on the same year.


  • Categories Arts & Culture

    A painter deals with the virus

    By Elizabeth Lolarga  |  Nov 12, 2022 9:58 PM

    The now seasonally rapacious COVID-19 has served as an unlikely creative inspiration for painter Popo San Pascual in his latest exhibition “Popo: Contagious Series” at Gallery Ninety in Baguio City.

    Popo San Pascual

  • Categories Arts & Culture

    The Filipino connection of Martha Argerich

    By Pablo A. Tariman  |  Nov 10, 2022 12:12 PM

    Argentinian piano icon Martha Argerich connects very well with Filipino musicians.

    Martha Argerich

  • Categories Arts & Culture

    Oton death mask: Celebrating the afterlife

    By R.C. Ladrido  |  Nov 08, 2022 10:32 PM

    Every May, the town of Oton, Iloilo celebrates its Katagman Festival where high school students are dressed in colorful costumes, with their eyes and noses covered with gold-colored paper.

    Oton death mask

  • Categories Arts & Culture News

    Double victory by PH Youth Choir in South Korea

    By Pablo A. Tariman  |  Nov 08, 2022 12:48 AM

    Is the country better off singing together than participating in national elections?

    Mark Anthony Carpio, Sing Philippines Youth Choir

  • Categories Arts & Culture

    A Cambodian royalty in Turandot

    By Pablo A. Tariman  |  Nov 04, 2022 9:42 PM

    The cast of Turandot which opens December 9-11 is a gathering of opera luminaries from all over the world.

    Cambodian Prince Ravi, TurandotManila

  • Categories Arts & Culture

    Filipino wins 2022 Thai International guitar contest

    By Pablo A. Tariman  |  Nov 03, 2022 3:45 PM

    The winning streak of classical guitarist Adrik Cristobal continues.
    After winning the 7th Valerio International Guitar Competition in Yogyakarta, Indonesia in 2019 and the National Music Competitions for Young Artists (NAMCYA) in 2020, Cristobal again copped the top prize in the 2022 Thailand International Guitar Competition which ended last week of October 2022.


Posts navigation

← Newer Posts 1 2 3 … 113 Older Posts →

Network Memberships

VERA Files IFCN Badge
VERA Files Meta Third-Party Fact Checking Badge
GIJN Member
  • About
  • Privacy Policy

Be relevant. Subscribe to the VERA Files newsletter.

* indicates required


  • fb
  • tw
  • instagram
  • linkedin
  • yt
  • Viber

© 2023 VERA Files

Privacy Policy

  • Share on Facebook
  • Share on Twitter
  • Share on Reddit
  • Save to your Google bookmark
  • Save to Pocket