Should you be at a party where guests literally let their hair down, frolic and dance atop benches, then you know you are at an Oktoberfest. More »
Should you be at a party where guests literally let their hair down, frolic and dance atop benches, then you know you are at an Oktoberfest. More »
"I have learned that
people will forget what you said ,
people will forget what you did;
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
Make people around you
feel happy today.
Share your blessings!"
Lito Casaul, NAIA
That's right dear readers, make the SVD missionary priests of the Mission Angels and the cancer patients and survivors of the Joy in Living Foundation folks happy by going to their concert this Thursday at the Meralco Theater at 6:30 p.m.
The angels and the joy-givers to cancer patients and survivors are featuring top-class musicians and singers - violinist John P. Lesaca, sax legend Eddie K., soprano Pinky Marzquez, tenor Ramon Acoymothe who is also U.P. College of Music dean and a multi-Aliw awardee, "best instrumentalist" Nonoy Libanan, commissioner of the Bureau of Immigration in a pre-Christmas concert, and another Aliw awardee for being "the best singing group in a major concert" - the Angelos.
At 45, we tend to liken ourselves to that pistol with a hammer that allows us to always move forward.
For more than four decades, there has been an institution that seemed to share the same positive or possibility thinking with us.
That is, Mga Agos Sa Disyerto!
In Philippine fiction, the said ''literary barkada'' made it.
More like the Gothics or the Beats with social conscience.
On November 19, from 1 p.m. onwards, at the University of the Philippines' Pulungang Recto they will be again committed!
Social realists Efren Abueg, Rogelio Ordoñez, and Edgardo Reyes (plus or minus the departed Eduardo Ordoñez and Rogelio Sicat) have consigned to preserve their legacy via a reunion made possible by UP Departamento ng Filipino at Panitikan ng Pilipinas' new chair Jimmuel Naval.
The UP College of Arts and Letters, Cavite Young Writers' Association, and UP Ugnayan ng Manunulat have collaborated for this historic event called Agos@45: Mga Kuwento ng Muling Pagtatagpo in which National Artist Bienvenido Lumbera, who wrote the introduction to their book in 1964, will contextualize everything with their colleague's daughter, Luna Sicat-Cleto, and veteran fictionists Fanny Garcia, Jun Cruz Reyes, and Roland Tolentino.
Ateneo de Manila University's Corazon Lalu Santos, will let us peek into her dissertation entitled Mulang Talambuhay Tungong Antolohiya.
Ask among Filipino parents back in the day if their kids could be artists and they'd immediately give you a resonant and firm no.
It has been almost a century since the brutal execution of the Romanov family, and yet their deaths and last days at the Ipatiev House still remain a mystery.
History has recorded violent deaths, and even dumbfounding conspiracies.
The recently concluded international conference on the ''Galleon and the Making of the Pacific'' organized by the Intramuros Administration reminds us of when Manila was a major center of world trade.
Goods from all over Asia were brought to Manila, from where the Nao de China brought them across the Pacific to Acapulco, eventually reaching the rest of the Americas and Europe.
If there be a dominion of archangels, then the Swiss German painter Paul Klee is an archangel-artist.
Klee was born under a lucky star; he was anarch, angel, evangel; commissioned by his star to innovate art by making pure art poetic, lyrical, musical; by revolutionizing through drawing and the right creatively-used of the wheel of colors to draw out the essence and being in man in their pristine existence as it was in the beginning of time when man was in pure bliss in his first creation.
''Just flowers?'' asks an uninitiated viewer, while passing by the master painter's flora and fauna exhibit in an art gallery. ''Well, he's not that good of a painter then, eh?'' says another one in a smart-aleck manner, appearing sort of chagrined by what he had just seen.
Of late, we have all witnessed nature's onslaught - raging floods that killed thousands and left many homeless, tons of mud that buried people alive, catastrophic landslides and erosions, heavy winds that uprooted trees and toppled homes.
It was the Beatles that did it.
It's no joke to be an artist: you carry worlds-within-worlds on your shoulders.
You have exactly a week to catch one of the most successful National Commission for Culture and the Arts projects, in terms of ''impact or effect on the community and the number of people who will benefit from it.''
There's a fine line separating hero and martyr.
Now that the Arroyo administration has threatened to put up a monument for the late President Cory, first things first must be the rule of thumb, otherwise the monument will be anything but.
A prayer for friends --
Dearest Father,
This prayer is for all the true friends I have, some are near, some are far.
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