THE Abbey Church of Our Lady of Montserrat in Mendiola, Manila came to existence as an Abbey in 1924, the same year that the late National Artist Francisco Sionil Jose was born. The Church serves as the college chapel of the Colegio de San Beda, where Jose’s daughter Brigida “Jette” Jose Bergkamp used to teach.
THE first time I saw him was in 1965 and I was about five to six years old. He came to our house in Roxas District, Quezon City to attend the birthday bash of my late father, short story writer, and public relations man Clemente M. Roxas.
They started in 2002 as a mural painting group based in the Bicol region’s province of Sorsogon—home to gentle beaches, the Bulusan volcano, and the delicious pili nut.
For one whole month, in February of every year, the country celebrates the National Arts Month (NAM).
With black-rimmed eyeglasses dominating her small, unmade-up face, diminutive Jayme Emille C. Lucas, 22—clad in maong pants, a dark-blue blazer, and a sky-blue blouse with a properly closed neckline—did not fit the stereotype of an avant garde, bohemian artist of the old school mold.
Daylight penetrates with ease the clean glass walls of Cydnei’s Cafe and Coffee Shop in Project 4, Quezon City. And between the door entrance and the cashier’s cubicle, there is just enough space for a few tables and chairs. Neat, spare, and modern, the ambiance is welcoming, the bread and pasta, nourishing.
Born on January 8, 1972, home-grown talent and stylized pointillist painter Dolpee Alcantara grew up in Angono, finishing elementary at the Angono Elementary School and high school at the Angono Municipal High School.
A small glass with a lit candle is carefully balanced on top of the head, while each hand deftly holds a similar lit glass.
THE street where her home is situated is named Mayaman, a word that means rich in Pilipino.
DEVELOPED in 2014 by the United States Agency for International Development (Usaid), the Program for Young Parents (PYP): Giving Second Chances to Teen Moms, was one of the projects nominated for Project of the Year at the recent Mission: PHL, the BusinessMirror Envoys&Expats Awards.
IT was a project established by the Czech Embassy in collaboration with the three main cultural agencies of the Philippine government: the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), the Komisyon ng Wikang Filipino (KWF), and the National Book Development Board (NBDB).
Science is empirical. Six years since it first opened its doors to the public in 2012, the Bonifacio Art Foundation, Inc.’s Mind Museum continues to shore up impressive stats that buttress its claim to being “a world-class science museum in the Philippines.”
We had studies. Like I said, I was proud of the process of doing the Museum. When we were trying names with Science in it, the Filipinos didn’t like it. We conducted Focus Group Discusssions (FGDs) and surveys. When we put Science in, natatakot sila (they become scared). It’s not that they don’t like it, but they would say, they did not like science education. So we said, how do we go about this? The framework is “what you know, how you know it, and what to do with it”—this is what science is. So it has always something to do with how the mind works. So we latched on that. When we were just starting, it was just me and my managing director Manny Blas. When the results came out of our research, we found out that if you put “Mind” into “Museum,” it was okay with Filipinos. They got intrigued. The Board loved the name Mind Museum right away.
HIS is the voice that has traveled through the decades and, literally, across space. Well, there is a science to this.
In their glamorous dresses and suits, the winners and nominees to the Fourth Dakilang Adhikain ng Ating Lahi—more popularly known as the Dangal Awards—took center stage on October 5 at the Unilab Bayanihan Center in Pasig City.
By Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
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