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‘Magiting’| Filipino artists pay tribute to frontliners
About 50 musicians both here and abroad collaborated under the umbrella of Musika Publiko to produce “Magiting” By REIN TARINAY Bulatlat.com MANILA — A community of Filipino musicians, composers,...
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Ethno-epic musical play Lam-Ang to stream online
Poster of Lam-ang (Tanghalang Pilipino Facebook page) By REIN TARINAY Bulatlat.com MANILA — Missed the staged production of Lam-Ang? Worry no more! Coming from a successful run last December 2019, the...
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Activism hits BTS fandom
Downloaded from https://www.trendsmap.com/ Fast track this to the current Duterte regime and the Filipino artists, in the mainstream or alternative circles, continue to fight for causes, even at the...
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Performance art at ang sining para sa pakikiisa sa gitna ng pandemya
Ni BOYET DE MESA Naglunsad ng apat na performance solidarity event ang Solidarity in Performance Art Festival (SIPAF) nitong lockdown: #Ekinoks (Marso 20, 2020), #Igpaw: Solidarity in Performance for...
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From the Fire of Prometheus
By WILLIAM SAUNDERS, JR.* Hold fast to the gift of fire! I am rage! I am wrath! I am ire! The vulture sits on my rock, Licks at the chains that mock Emancipation’s breath, Reeks of death, death, death...
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Review of ‘Aswang’| The worst monsters prey on the poor
Family members of Oplan Tokhang victims stage a symbolic protest to demand justice from the government. (Photo screengrabbed from ‘Aswang’ free movie screening.) A review of documentary “Aswang” Alyx...
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Pinoy woke artists sing of tyranny, rage and hope
Members of the Concerned Artists of the Philippines join a protest action at the Bantayog ng mga Bayani during the National Heroes Day, Aug. 30. (Photo from CAP Facebook page) Artists have up their...
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Online confab on historical revisionism slated 3rd week of September
MANILA — A five-day online conference on negative historical revisionism in the Philippines titled “BALIK KA/SAYSAY/AN” will be held from September 21 to 25, 2020. Organized by the Asian Center of...
View ArticleA conversation on ‘Filipinx’ and its vicissitudes
With Freedom Siyam, May Penuela, Charlie Samuya Veric, Jeffrey Cabusao, Michael Viola, and Delia Aguilar, initiated by Delia D. Aguilar with the collaboration of E. San Juan, Jr. Controversies over the...
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Artists give voice to the poor’s woes during quarantine
The songs try to “capture the struggles of poor communities in the Philippines subjected to their government’s Enhanced Community Quarantine rules.” By RITCHE T. SALGADO Bulatlat.com MANILA — As the...
View ArticleGrief and rage for Ina Nasino and Baby River
Artists show their sympathy to political prisoner Reina Mae Nasino by creating artworks that depict their grief and rage over the death of her daughter Baby River. The post Grief and rage for Ina...
View ArticleWATCH: ‘Hindi namin kayo titigilan’
Written by RANDALL ECHANIS Performed by IAN LOMONGO Video by MALU MANIQUIS Produced by THE FREE THE ARTIST MOVEMENT Bulatlat.com In this Peasant Month of October, Free the Artist Movement (FAM) wishes...
View ArticleLullaby for Baby River
Singer Bituin Escalante sings “Ugoy ng Duyan,” a favorite Filipino lullaby, for Baby River, the three-month-old daughter of political prisoner Reina Mae Nasino who died on Oct. 9 due to acute...
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First Person | Slapshock’s Agent Orange
By SARAH RAYMUNDO Bulatlat.com Rest in peace, Jamir Garcia. Thank you for the music. It was and is still great. Last semester, I played Slapshock’s Agent Orange in a General Education Course on...
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A poet in the service of the people
Book Review: Pandayan ng Paninindigan: Pagbisita at mga Tula ng Pakikibaka ni Benito Concio Quilloy by JOSE MARIA SISON The poems of Benito Concio Quilloy are a major contribution to poetry created in...
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Requiem Panayanon
‘REQUIEM PANAYANON’ by PG Zoluaga (A tribute to the Tumandok victims of police & military operations in Tapas & Calinog)18 X 24 inchesPen & ink on paper2021 By TOMAS TALLEDO* Bulatlat.com...
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COVID-19 filmmakers’ diaries get candid on death, despair, coffee and chaos
Watching all 16 films and trying to relate to each and every one of their stories feels like reliving all ten months of the lockdown—exhausting as if stuck in an oven, baking for a protracted amount...
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Painting the presence of freedom
The mural painted by various artists along Katipunan. (Photo courtesy of SAKA) By ILANG-ILANG QUIJANO Bulatlat.com “Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All...
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National Artist’s birthday wish is for Duterte to ‘go away’
Screenshot of the event celebrating National Artist for Literature Bien Lumbera’s 89th birthday.Poet, social commentator and literary scholar Bienvenido Lumbera only had two words when asked what...
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The story of Macliing Dulag and the fight for indigenous peoples’ land
By REIN TARINAY Bulatlat.com In commemoration of the 37th Peoples’ Cordillera Day, an online storytelling featuring the life of Cordillera hero, Apo Macliing Dulag was held last week. Dulag was a...
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