Scenes from six decades of Cecile Licad’s art and life
I first met pianist Cecile Licad at the Cagsawa Church Ruins in Daraga, Albay one day in August of 1975 when she was only 14 and I was 26.
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I first met pianist Cecile Licad at the Cagsawa Church Ruins in Daraga, Albay one day in August of 1975 when she was only 14 and I was 26.
Some 33 years ago, in 1991, Presidential Proclamation 683 declared the month of February as the country’s National Arts Month “to celebrate the artistic excellence and pay tribute to the uniqueness and diversity of the Filipino heritage and culture.”
What do Lucio San Pedro, Lucrecia Kasilag, Fides Cuyugan-Asensio, Ramon Santos, Antonio Molina, Francisco Feliciano, Ernani Cuenco, and Ryan Cayabyab have in common?
It was the year the performing arts came back with a vengeance after the uncertain years of 2020, 2021, and 2022.
The National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) and the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) have called on nominations of possible National Artists in several categories.
The Met-CCP season of high definition opening nights ends with another Mozart favorite, Così fan tutte, on Dec. 5.
The 49th edition of the Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) is all set to unfold December 25 of this year, with 10 films vying for assorted festival prizes and awards.
This year, on the 39th concert season of the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra (PPO), a new music director—in the person of seasoned Polish conductor Grzegorz Nowak—took over.
Instituto Cervantes de Manila, in collaboration with the Embassy of Spain in the Philippines, presents the concert “Born in Manila (A Tribute to Aute),” on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the birth of the Manila-born singer-composer and painter Luis Eduardo Aute.
There is no doubt that the feast of Our Lady of Peñafrancia is Bicol’s runaway religious celebration.
The University of the Philippines Diliman College of Mass Communication will be awarding this year’s Gawad Plaridel on October 11 at 2 p.m. at the UP Film Institute’s Cine Adarna to actor, satirist, and advertising creative Manuel Urbano Jr., popularly known on television, film, and the Internet as “Mr. Shooli.”
Real name, Robert F. Ylagan. Actor, writer, director, producer, advertising executive, one-time TV Patrol newscaster; married to Barbara Perez; father of Anna, Gina, and Christian; son of Eustacio Ylagan, aka Tito Arevalo, composer/musical director, and Guadalupe Francisco, teacher and pre-school proprietress, grandson of Hermogenes Ylagan, acknowledged “father” of the Filipino zarzuela, a known descendant of Francisco “Balagtas” Baltazar.
John Lloyd Cruz did it again.
I have good memories of Mario Dumaual. In 1982, we both wrote for the Times Journal. I covered the arts and he was into entertainment. But as I was also into film reviewing, our paths crossed during premiere nights and movie presscons.
Much is known and has been written about Mario V. Dumaual’s near-legendary coverage of entertainment news for ABS-CBN, where he served for three decades as, one report put it, “the face” of the network’s entertainment, elevating it to a dignified genre, away from the stereotypical “tabloidish” fare of screaming headlines on scandals.
The Carlos Palanca Foundation, Inc., the sponsor and organizer of the 71st Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, is reminding aspiring authors to submit their entries before the deadline on May 31, 2023.
With the sudden widespread urge to modernize our road system through road widening and road restructuring, a dilemma exists in confronting heritage structures that have been standing along these corridors for as long as anyone alive can remember.
De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde inches its way closer to a grand slam of the country’s oldest existing student film competitions by dominating the annual interschool tilts by Mapúa University’s School of Media Studies and University of the Philippines Film Institute-based student organization UP Cinema.
The Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) through the Artist Training Division, is now accepting applications for the Virgin Labfest (VLF) 18 Writing Fellowship Program. Deadline for application is on or before May 16, 2023.
Images courtesy of Noel Layon Flores
It seems like yesterday when the Philippines marked its Centennial of Independence in 1998, the first country in Asia to break the bondage of western colonization. We would subsequently become a constitutional republic a few months later, another first on the continent.
Images courtesy of Memories of the Orient
Student filmmakers from Far Eastern University recently grabbed the majority of the awards in “REALIFILM 2023 | Haze of Truth: Underlying Gap of Life,” an interschool film competition organized by the Silip@Lente Adamson University (SILAU), in collaboration with the AdU Cultural Affairs Office.
The Philippines and India are two Asian countries which share so many things in common in terms of history, culture, and way of life, which date back to centuries before they were colonized by Western powers.
For most of the Indigenous People’s (IP) community throughout Mindanao and in other parts of the country, keeping their indigenous cultural practices and traditions has been a struggle and a constant fight amid the changes brought by modernity and adhering to material infrastructure and monetary progress.
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