GRACEFUL MOVES Skilled Tausug dancers showcase their skills during the Pangalay competition, an activity under Zamboanga City's Summer Verano Festival (Zamboanga City LGU photo) Recently a lawmaker friend called to consult me about the cultural mapping of her district. All I could say was,...
In the world of music, a young native son also rises, wielding a baton that casts a musical spell on a foreign stage across the Pacific. His name is Jose Lorenzo Reyna Jr., a promising young Filipino maestro whom I met during my last year as chairman of the National Commission on Culture and the...
Still, proceed with caution. The virus has not gone away. Here’s a piece of advice from experts in travel, retail, dining, drinking, and clubbing, fashion, finance, arts and cultural activities, and other fields to help us surely and safely reclaim life as we used to know it. * Love Marie...
Despite the ongoing pandemic, the Filipino heritage and culture will continue to be celebrated in this year's National Arts Month through diverse activities to be led by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA). National Arts Month 2022 (Photo from National Commission for Culture and...
Bringing the love of kundiman back By NICK TAYAG For the past few weeks, an online musical show has been generating buzz in Filipino homes here and in other countries. The show is called “ Kung Hindi Man ” and is produced by the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ Office of the President...
After more than two decades of closure, the Metropolitan Theater (MET) will now come back to life with the National Commission for Culture and the Arts' (NNCA) "Lapulapu, Ang Datu ng Mactan" musical—the first production to be staged in the newly-conserved playhouse. Lapulapu at MET. (Photo from...
A new musical entitled "Lapulapu, Ang Datu ng Mactan" is set to be staged at the Metropolitan Theater (MET) next month, the first production to be mounted in the newly-renovated playhouse. (Photo from National Commission for Culture and the Arts) National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA)...
DESTINATION: ART Arsenio “Nick” J. Lizaso, NCCA chairman and CCP president Dubbed as the “City of Fun and Adventure”—and for a good reason—Legazpi is located in the province of Albay in the Bicol Region and its claim to fame is Mt. Mayon, which is partly within its borders. Mayon, of...
DESTINATION: ART Arsenio “Nick” Lizaso, CCP president and NCCA chairman I am a native son of Bulacan, the town of Sta. Maria to be more specific. So if I seem to be superfluous or excessive in the way I speak about the province, I hope you will forgive me. There are so many things of interest...
Human connection is as equally important as infrastructure, and a Department of Culture and the Arts can help facilitate that Lately, as I was traversing through the latest portion of the Skyway over EDSA, I suddenly had this thought: These are physical interconnections and they are all wonderful...
Celebrating arts month in the most interesting of times QUEEN OF ARTS NAM 2021 officially opened with a short program involving arts ambassador Catriona Gray, NCCA chairman Nick Lizaso, and other NCCA executives at the Metropolitan Theater British philosopher Bertrand Russell once said that...
Art is encoded in our DNA. It is innate for humans to create and appreciate. Creativity has allowed us to flourish over hundreds and thousands of years. Our imagination is a defining factor for our constant evolution. Art is the materialization of human experience, and so it can be said that art is...
