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Category: Arts & Culture

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    Categories Arts & Culture Editor's Pick

    “Mas Radikal ang Magmahal”—Intentionality in an Art Exhibit

    By R.C. Ladrido. All images are screenshots from www.radikal.ph  |  Feb 24, 2022 9:34 PM

    Opening amidst the 36th anniversary of the EDSA People’s Power Revolution, “Mas Radikal ang Magmahal” is an online exhibit (www.radikal.ph) with more than 100 artists and artworks in a variety of medium.

    36th anniversary EDA People's Power Revolution, EDSA People's Power Revolution, Mas Radikal ang Magmahal

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    Categories Arts & Culture News

    How Cecile Licad coped during the pandemic

    By Elizabeth Lolarga  |  Feb 20, 2022 6:59 PM

    Even a world-class pianist like Cecile Licad gets the blues, more so at the height of the lockdowns and quarantines resulting from COVID-19’s spread in 2020. Her home base in New York City wasn’t spared. Her live performances were cancelled.

    Cecile Licad

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    Categories Arts & Culture PHL Vote 2022

    ‘Radikal’: Artists unite for the future

    By Elizabeth Lolarga
    Photos courtesy of CANVAS
      |  Feb 04, 2022 11:20 AM

    It’s a virtual Who’s Who of the personages in contemporary Philippine visual arts. That’s the online exhibition that Gigo Alampay, founder and executive director of Center for Art, New Ventures and Sustainable Development (CANVAS), is organizing and is setting to open on Feb. 14 at this site: www.radikal.ph.

    CANVAS, Leni Robredo, Radikal

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    Categories Arts & Culture

    Transparency, integrity and accountability in an island university

    By Pablo A. Tariman  |  Feb 02, 2022 7:21 AM

    Formerly with a New York-based IT-outsourcing company, Dr. Patrick Alain Azanza came back to the country middle of last year as the 7th president of the Catanduanes State University.

    CatSU, Patrick Azanza

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    Categories Arts & Culture

    Maria Y. Orosa: The idea of public service

    By R.C. Ladrido  |  Jan 21, 2022 7:43 PM

    A “Filipino food scientist, war hero, and humanitarian,” says Google Doodle in honoring Maria Ylagan Orosa on her 126th birth anniversary in 2019.

    Maria Y. Orosa

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    Categories Arts & Culture

    Cecile Licad performs for virtual audiences in Manila Feb. 22

    By Pablo A. Tariman  |  Jan 20, 2022 6:10 PM

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    When pianist Cecile Licad interprets Chopin and Beethoven on February 22, 2022 for Manila audiences, she’ll be performing without her usual live audience.

    Cecile Licad

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    Categories Arts & Culture

    ​ Sisid: love, lust and marine life

    By Pablo A. Tariman  |  Jan 20, 2022 8:12 AM

    In Sisid, t​he latest ouvre of Brillante Mendoza (first Filipino to bag the Cannes best director trophy) took notice of a man-made calamity.

    Brillante Mendoza, Sisid

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    Categories Arts & Culture

    Maupay: When film imitates recent reality

    By Pablo A. Tariman  |  Jan 19, 2022 10:20 PM

    It was uncanny that another super typhoon hit Visayas and Mindanao before Christmas last year.

    Carlos Manatad, Kun Maupay Man It Panahon

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    Categories Arts & Culture

    Heritage lessons: Saving the Gabaldon schoolhouses

    By R.C. Ladrido  |  Jan 08, 2022 10:45 AM

    A familiar and often taken-for-granted sight when going to the province: public schoolhouses with its symmetrical design, colonnades and arches, wide cemented steps, large capiz windows, and a flagpole in front amidst noisy children in school uniforms.

    Gabaldon schoolhouses

  • Frankie-and-Babeth-at-the-CCP-lobby-on-his-90th-birthday-e1641541596701-750x511.jpg
    Categories Arts & Culture Editor's Pick News

    F. Sionil Jose came at the right moments in my life

    By Elizabeth Lolarga
    Photos from the author’s collection
      |  Jan 07, 2022 6:43 PM

    The gamut of memories on the National Artist for Literature who passed away January 6.

    Frankie Sionil Jose

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