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Monica Ong: Capturing Poetry's Healing Power
Visual artist and poet Monica Ong has accomplished something special with her debut poetry collection, Silent Anatomies. With it, she creates a riveting connection, through a juxtaposition of diagram and diary, of family hierarchy, medical background and creative art. It is a unique interpretation of her own ancestral history and a way for her to reinforce a personal and familial identity.
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Published on 12/12/2018 by Papagei
Categories: Arts, Culture, People
Tags: Anatomies, Monica Ong, poetry, Silent
Text To Textile
To kick off Filipino American History Month and U.N. /Philippines Indigenous Month, San Francisco’s Asian American Museum held a premiere of Mountain Spirits: Textiles and Folk Arts of Cordillera and Ilokos, the signal documentary of The Hinabi Project's third exhibit on Philippine textile arts.
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Published on 27/10/2018 by Papagei
Categories: Arts, Culture, Documentary, Mythology & folklore
Tags: Cordillera, Folk Arts, Ilokos, Textiles
Exploring The Depths Of Things: Napoleon V. Abueva And Religious Sculptures
On behalf of the Ateneo Community especially the Ateneo Art Gallery and Ateneo Fine Arts, we would like to extend our deepest condolences to the family of the late National Artist Napoleon “Billy” Abueva—his wife Dr. Cherry and their children, Mulawin, Amihan, and Duero along with their in-laws and grandchildren.
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Published on 11/05/2018 by Papagei
Categories: Arts, Culture, Religion
Tags: Ateneo, gallery, religious, Sculptures
Anting-Anting Exhibit: Where History And Art Diverge
Should you go view the exhibit ANTING ANTING | MAGIC OBJECTS by Michael Arcega (March 5-April 15, 2018 Thacher Gallery University of San Francisco) looking for anting- anting as you know it, you’ll likely be disappointed. This is not your grandparent’s anting- anting. Michael Arcega took the notion of anting-anting or amulets, roughly defined as found/manufactured objects that have been imbued, through activation or consecration, with some potency and power.
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Published on 05/04/2018 by Papagei
Categories: Arts, Culture, News and Events
Tags: Anting-Anting, art, Exhibit, History
Uncovering “The Secrets That We Keep:” A Book Review
The Secrets That We Keep is an anthology, with eight carefully-curated crime stories: Web, The Children of Truth, Where is Sandra, Tomorrow We’ll See, Sniper, Snatched, Among Us, Kate’s Retreat, and Missing Bodies. The stories in this book have their own individual twists, enough to keep readers engrossed in their well-written story lines and well-thought out plots.
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Published on 02/04/2018 by Papagei
Categories: Arts, Entertainment
Tags: anthology, Book, stories