Supporting artists begins with how we speak about them. Many people casually use the label “local artists,” but this term can unintentionally shrink t...
On July 28, 2026, I was honored to be invited by the Federated Student Council of West Visayas State University to serve as a judge for their Binalayb...
This year’s theme for National Arts Month, Ani ng Sining: Katotohanan at Giting, immediately invites reflection, as it speaks not only to artistic pra...
This essay is my personal response, shaped by both conviction and caution, and by a dream that I believe we can responsibly pursue in the coming years...
Every February, I am reminded that National Arts Month exists not because I suddenly feel festive about art, but because the state itself once admitte...
Every year, institutions such as Oxford Languages present a Word of the Year as an opportunity to introduce the public to a newly prominent term that ...
Yesterday, January 27, 2026, I found myself interrupted in the most productive and unexpected way. While seated at my table in the faculty room of UP ...
Every year, when the Ani ng Dangal awards season comes around and the National Commission for Culture and the Arts once again fills our feeds and conv...
In truth, Dinagyang does not really end on the day the winning tribes are announced, nor when the last drumbeat fades at the Freedom Grandstand or the...