The Cultural Center of the Philippines, through its Cultural Exchange Department and the Andrea O. Veneracion Sing Philippines Foundation, welcomes the newest batch for Sing Philippines Youth Choir (SPYC). This, in total, will be its fourth batch. Fourth batch of the Sing Philippines Youth Choir...
Marking the sixth National Rondalla Workshop, the Artist Division of the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) announced that the workshop, that has been known to be open to just group applications, is calling for individual applications for conductors and instrumentalists in response to popular...
The Philippine International Literary Festival happens this month and onward Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa describes literature as “the most agreeable way of ignoring life.” Simply put, it’s the best kind of distraction. If so, then literature could easily be considered an “essential...
CCP Festival of Arts goes online Every February, we would always look forward to Pasinaya: The CCP Open House Festival. I had been invited many times to talk about film literacy. Busloads of students nationwide come to the CCP grounds to witness theater, musical performances, exhibits and film...
On its 29th year, the Embassy of the Republic of Korea and the Korean Cultural Center in the Philippines, together with the United Korean Community Association in the Philippines and the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, will be bringing the 2020 Philippines-Korea Cultural Exchange...
K-Pop dance party at home is set to be as easy as one to three as Korean Cultural Center in the Philippines (KCC) teams up with well-loved and K-Pop Dancing Diva Dasuri Choi to bring the party into the Filipino homes starting this October 16. K-Pop fans are in for a huge treat this October, until...
A question of procedure Images by NOEL PABALATE Over the past weeks, much has been said about the recent goings-on at Ballet Philippines. It’s a topic of conversations—often passionate, sometimes hushed—among friends who, for one reason or another, are invested in the future of the Cultural...