Limelight

Teenage pop iconoclast Billie Eilish dropped her James Bond theme tune, racking up 2.2 million views in just six hours as the teenage prodigy continues her rapid rise.

South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon Ho became Hollywood’s man of the hour, with his Parasite making history as the first-ever non-English language film to win Best Picture at the Oscars.

Marcelito Pomoy bowed out of the quest to be grand winner of “America’s Got Talent: The Champions” talent competition after he was named third runner-up.

I didn’t manage to catch all the ten (10) official entries to the Full-Length category of the 15th Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival recently held at the various theaters of the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) and currently showing in cinema malls of Ayala and Vista Malls Evia Lifestyle Center in the country.

Filipinos especially Noranians are heaping hosannas on Francis Tanseco, the artist who painted actress Nora Aunor in colorful canvasses he mounted them in a one-man show some years back at the upper ramp of the Rizal Park Open Air Auditorium where Nora fanatics trooped to witness the visual representations of their idol in variations. After the successful exhibit, Francis did …

Here’s a new production on some interesting and significant aspects and figures in the dark days of the Second World War in the Philippines.

I knew it.

When poet and art teacher Vim Nadera launched the first Performatura in 2015 at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP), audiences from all walks of life trooped to the venue in earnest. They, most especially the art patrons and students, savored the entertaining values and informational ingredients of the event.

It’s not every day that we encounter a Filipina who has been making waves in other countries to uphold the rights of women and their interests, to promote the Philippines and its arts and culture, to raise the level of consciousness of transnationalism among Filipino migrants in the diaspora.

It’s noteworthy for a stage production to tour nationally, particularly in the Philippines, its theater work because it helps the regions and the grassroots to appreciate the literary meaning and significance of an artistic creation. It also promotes the performing art as a venue to express ideas in crystalizing values in the growth and development of the human condition.