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Edwin Josue and Jerry Sibal wed after 23 years together
By Cristina DC Pastor Bakit labis kitang mahal, pangalawa sa Maykapal Higit sa ‘king buhay. Through a dozen of their favorite love songs, real estate professional Edwin Josue and events designer Jerry Sibal walked family and friends through an intimate journey of how they met 23 years ago and eventually married. At their May 28 […]
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Fernando Kabigting: Creating new art on old, weathered wood
By Cristina DC Pastor Disability has never become an excuse for Fernando Kabigting to stop painting. He has been painting since the Sixties and became even more prolific after he suffered a stroke in 1999 that paralyzed half his body and partially impaired his sight and right hand. As a matter of fact, he is […]
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The ‘frugal’ art of Joe Datuin
Sculptor Joe Datuin is taking his work to the global stage with sculptures and mixed media pieces inspired by his childhood in Manila. He will be part of a group exhibit at the Agora Gallery in Chelsea called “In Reverie of Form,” from June 12 to July 2. As an artist, Datuin utilizes simple forms, […]
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H.K.’s Xyza Cruz Bacani wants to meet the Filipino nannies in NYC, visit all museums
By Cristina DC Pastor What comes to mind when you hear New York? Huge city with a nice art scene and burgers! What NYC attraction are you dying to photograph? The streets of NYC. They look so interesting. Any Broadway show you’d like to watch? No idea, but I would love to visit all the […]
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Clarisse Pastor-Medina uses coffee as medium to express her Filipino identity
By Cristina DC Pastor Where some of us see nasty ring stains, she sees a sustainable art medium. For seven years now, Batangas-born Clarisse Pastor-Medina (no relation to this writer) has been painting with coffee and staging solo exhibits with nothing more than her large canvases and presumably her Batangas ‘barako.’ “I like the medium,” […]
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Virgil Carrillo creates abstract art using cake tools
Bergen County-based artist Virgil Carrillo will be featured in a group exhibit, Pathway to Abstraction, at Chelsea’s Agora Gallery. The exhibition opens on December 23 and runs until January 15, with a reception on January 8. Virgil makes use of cake icing tools and silicone wedges, in conjunction with the usual paintbrush, to craft his […]
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An artist can never be too busy to take care of his health
By Ramon Gil A few weeks ago, after a little too much ‘lechon kawali,’ I felt some tightness in my chest. Since I have a history of heart disease, I thought ‘better safe than sorry’ and went to the emergency room at Lennox Hill, just in case. While they didn’t find anything wrong at first, […]
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The Filipino Renaissance: Finding a viable balance between community dialogue and popular theater (Part 3)
This latest Investigative Reporting Project chronicles important milestones in Filipino American theater history in New York. The author, Renee Barabad Floresca, is an actor, director, educator and writer whose latest production, “Undressing the Fragments,” is playing Oct. 24th to 26th at Wow Café Theatre at the Lower East Side between Bowery and 2nd Avenue. — […]
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‘Here Lies Love’ provides full-time jobs to FilAm actors (Part 2)
This latest Investigative Reporting Project chronicles important milestones in Filipino American theater history in New York. The author, Renee Barabad Floresca, is an actor, director, educator and writer whose latest production, “Undressing the Fragments,” is playing Oct. 24th to 26th at Wow Café Theatre at the Lower East Side between Bowery and 2nd Avenue. — […]