VERA Files
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.
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.
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.
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.
A “Filipino food scientist, war hero, and humanitarian,” says Google Doodle in honoring Maria Ylagan Orosa on her 126th birth anniversary in 2019.
When pianist Cecile Licad interprets Chopin and Beethoven on February 22, 2022 for Manila audiences, she’ll be performing without her usual live audience.
In Sisid, the latest ouvre of Brillante Mendoza (first Filipino to bag the Cannes best director trophy) took notice of a man-made calamity.
It was uncanny that another super typhoon hit Visayas and Mindanao before Christmas last year.
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.
The gamut of memories on the National Artist for Literature who passed away January 6.