Silliman University Cultural Affairs Committee Launches Its 48th Cultural Season with Philippine Opera Company’s ‘Harana’
The Silliman University Cultural Affairs Committee presents the Philippine Opera Company in Harana, which will be performed in the Claire Isabel McGill Luce Auditorium on June 25 as part of the launch of the cultural season, and on June 26 for regular patronage.The June 25 launch, which will start at...
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Death by Potpot in a Sweaty Race for Earth
When I first heard about Race Across Dumaguete, it was through Facebook, and it was a little too late for me to do anything about it. There, plastered on my Facebook wall late last year, were pictures of many of my friends—Angeline Dy, Zara Dy, John Philip Uy, among others—in various poses of sweaty...
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The Amazing DGT-CEB Trip (Part 3): Twin Lakes
This is a continuation of our trip in Dumaguete. The previous post, we toured the Casaroro Falls with Kuya Glenn, the tour guide/driver from Harold's Mansion and Ms. Gigi Neal, a fellow tourist from Germany who is an assistant director for TV. (Punchline: Who worked previously with Mr. Christoph Waltz!)
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Taking on Godard
[edited with new material]“The way to criticize a movie is to make another movie.”—Jean-Luc GodardTo make a film is the province of mad people. And the director in the midst of it all—the circus ringmaster, if you will—is the king of mad men. You will have to be when you consider an art form...
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Done! Done!
These are the other two events I've helped midwifed -- with the help of Mariekhan Edding and Bogy Lim, who really sweated big for these -- for Kisaw 2010, the National Arts Month celebration of Dumaguete City. One is a showcase of local poetry (balak) and folk music (balitaw), with a little kumparsa...
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Art Direction
By the time I've upload this piece here, Kisaw 2010—Dumaguete’s fledgling attempt at a celebration of the National Arts Month, which is now on its second year—would be in the last stretch, with a culminating burst of activity at Quezon Park during a special Tayada sa Plaza presentation that would...
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The Search for Christmas in a Small City
Because Christmas is a season whose very heart lies in the fond memories of all brilliant and shining Christmasses in our childhoods, and because our adult lives are simply a more chaotic attempt to recapture much of that long-lost innocence in gifts and Santa Claus and delicious noche buenas, the search...
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The Magicians
Part Five of a Series on Night Life in DumagueteRead Part 1 | Read Part 2 | Read Part 3 | Read Part 4“It’s not easy being an event organizer. It’s all just flash, and more flash.”—POL CADELIÑA, local event organizerLet it be said that, as with any profession worth its salt, an excess of passion...
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Party Pooper
Saturday night ended all too abruptly when the club we went to for the weekend’s respite exploded with the sudden brawl led by one ugly white man—a Dutch guy with a history of explosive tantrums. There were broken bottles in the air. Chairs crashing down. A chase through a cramped space that had...
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