Entertainment

Conclusion (For the second part of this column, click here) Like in Mercury is Mine, a bond also plays a central part in Roderick Cabrido’s splendidly shot and deliberately paced Tuos (Pact). This bond is different, though: it’s deeper and tighter, spans generations, and is marked by memory and myth, as well as by blood. 

The Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) and Ma-Yi Theater Company, in association with Tanghalang Pilipino and Philippine Air Lines and with the support of Stage Craft International, will stage Asian-American playwright Lloyd Suh’s The Wong Kids in the Secret of the Space Chupacabra Go! at the Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino (Little Theater) from Sept. 16 to 25. 

Story and photo by Jill R. Beltran Philippines News Agency  Millennials—those born between the early 1980s and early 2000s—will be the focus of the 27th Philippine Travel Mart (PTM), to be held at the SMX Convention Center in Pasay City from Sept. 2 to 4, event organizer Philippine Tour Operators Association (Philtoa) announced last week. 

By Alvin I. Dacanay Renowned international publisher Penguin Books is set to publish a collection of the major works of the late National Artist for Literature Nick Joaquin a few weeks ahead of the centenary of his birth next year, it was learned late last week. 

The Intertextual Division of the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) invites teachers, students and lovers of Philippine literature to the opening ceremonies for the celebration of the 100th birth anniversary of National Artist for Literature Francisco Arcellana at the CCP Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino on Sept. 6 at 3 p.m. This event is free and open to the public. 

Second of three parts (For the first part of this column, click here) If there’s one film that can claim to be the most “unconventional” among Cinemalaya’s full-length entries this year, it would be Cenon Obispo Palomares and David R. Corpuz’s Kusina (Her Kitchen), the screenplay of which won Palomares first prize in its category at the 2006 Carlos Palanca Memorial …

Eduardo Roy Jr.’s Pamilya Ordinaryo (Ordinary Family), a compelling portrait of two teenage street dwellers and their desperate search for their kidnapped baby, scooped five major awards at the conclusion of the 12th Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival on Aug. 14.

An early Shakespearean comedy and a towering work of German literature, three one-act plays by a Palanca Hall of Fame inductee, and a drama about a postwar Filipino artist best known for his unusual depiction of Jesus are set to be staged by the Dulaang Unibersidad ng Pilipinas (Dulaang UP or DUP) for its 41st season.

The Association of Pinoyprintmakers (A/P), formerly known as the Printmakers Association of the Philippines (PAP), will hold an exhibition, titled Papers and Layers, at the Cultural Center of the Philippines’s (CCP) Second Floor Hallway Gallery and Little Theater Lobby from Aug. 27 to Sept. 25. 

As the Philippines commemorates National Heroes Day on Aug. 29, Richmonde Hotel Ortigas will give honor to all the men and women in the nation’s history whose acts of courage helped build the country and made the lives of others better by offering a special “Bayani ng Bayan (Hero of the Country)” room promo for the long weekend.