By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
Artists from the United States, Canada, Italy, Germany, Australia and Thailand defended Cruz and said the campaign of vilification against Cruz was unjust.
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
” It did more than just shut the doors of a gallery exhibiting Kulo, it surrendered the rights of artists and allowed censorship in.” – National Artist Bienvenido Lumbera
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA — A new formation of Filipino artists and civil rights defenders calling themselves Palayain ang Sining (Set Art Free) have taken up cudgels in defense of beleaguered artist Mideo Cruz. In a manifesto, the group said the whole controversy surrounding the Kulô exhibit at the CCP — particularly [...]
Tuesday, August 9, 2011By ALMA B. SINUMLAG Northern Dispatch BAGUIO CITY – Old and new generations of the Cordillera cultural workers met and shared experiences on their 20th anniversary here, July 31. Under the theme, “Ibandera ti Kultura ti Wayawaya” (Foster the Culture of Freedom), Dap-ayan ti Kultura iti Kordilyera (DKK), an alliance of cultural worker organizations in [...]
Thursday, July 28, 2011By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com PATIKUL trailer MANILA — For most Filipinos, education is deemed as the key to a better life and a better future. But in Patikul, Sulu, a town south of the Philippines, the children trek a dangerous road just to get an education. This pushed multi-awarded director Joel Lamangan to [...]
Monday, July 25, 2011By ALMA B. SINUMLAG Northern Dispatch BAGUIO CITY — “Entayo agpabuya, paypayew kalkalsada, salidummay salidummay ay ay. Minas ken kabakiran, teatro pay ti babaknang, salidummay salidummay ay ay. Bannog, pudot ken bisin, tudo pudot ken lammin, salidummay salidummay ay ay. Uray kasta karigat na gana-ganasen tay latta, salidummay salidummay ay ay,” Let us perform on [...]
Wednesday, July 20, 2011By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com The phenomenon ended in this latest movie, in the second and final installment of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The final scene in both the book and the movie evoked the sadness of last goodbyes – for us, at least, there’ll be no more new twist to anticipate come the [...]
Wednesday, July 20, 2011By TERENCE KRISHNA V. LOPEZ Bulatlat.com MANILA — Travel back in time when Tagalog films were almost always great and make it a three-decade trip via Mula sa mga aninong gumagalaw: behind the scenes 1971-2001 by noted University of the Philippines Fine Arts professor Cesar Hernando at the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ Bulwagang Fernando [...]
Tuesday, July 19, 2011By TERENCE KRISHNA V. LOPEZ Bulatlat.com At last year’s Cinemalaya Film Festival, the First Quarter Storm drama Sigwa directed by Joel Lamangan and written by Bonifacio Ilagan was one of the featured full-length films. This year, two progressive documentary films are being featured in the documentary section of the festival, running currently until July 24 [...]
Tuesday, July 19, 2011By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA – What does it take to fix the world? Two activists Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonnano tried to fix the world from its endemic defects in the documentary film The Yes Men Fix the World (2009). Given the current global crisis that the present “free market” ideology has [...]
Friday, July 15, 2011By LYN V. RAMO Bulatlat.com BACACAY, Albay — The main road from Cagraray Island port to the village of Cabasan in this town was beautifully lined with mats, the leaves still green, some with neon strips of yellow, pink and green. Like the Central Luzon highways lined with yellow corn or unhusked rice, the unpaved [...]
Filipinos join protests against NATO in Chicago, US (Photo by Brett Jelinek / Bulatlat.com)
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