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A 4-year-old girl who was near death in August miraculously survived her ordeal after her parents surrendered her fate to God.“We believe that Kassy’s story was chosen so people will believe in the power of faith, prayers, and miracles again,” said her father John Karlo Legarde, who grew up in Silay City, Negros Occidental, but now lives in Pasig City.Kassandra Legarde spent 30 days at St. Luke's Medical Center in Taguig, Metro Manila - 23 days in the intensive care unit, 16 days intubated, six days on a nasal cannula, one day completely off oxygen support before she was finally released from the hospital.She tested negative for COVID-19 but had caught the Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) causing severe pneumonia.“The doctors were also challenged by the fact that her body ...

“Pagpalangga,” an exhibit of the art works of renowned Negrense artist and filmmaker Peque Gallaga, opened Saturday as part of the celebration of his birthday on August 25.The exhibit will run until September 21, at The Negros Museum in Bacolod City.“Happy Birthday, El Pogi,” a 5-minute video tribute to Gallaga by Director Lore Reyes has also started airing on social mediaOn Tuesday, August 24, Gallaga will be honored as one of the awardees of the 2021 Kaisa ini Sa Sining Lunsay nga Artistang Pilipino awards given by the Cultural Center of the Philippines. This is in recognition for the outstanding artists, cultural workers, and organizations in Visayas.Pagpalangga” showcases approximately 80 of Gallaga’s artworks. Most of the pieces are of family members, colleagues, stude...

A 12-year-old student from Taytay, Rizal, penned the winning entry to the “Write to Fight Hunger” worldwide essay writing contest of the Negrense Volunteers for Change (NVC).Mikaia Raine (Mika) Araneta Sanchez, an incoming Grade 7 student at Assumption Antipolo, who won the top prize loves to read, write, and sometimes paint.NVC Foundation that turned 11 years old Friday, August 20, will feed five children Mingo Meals for six months in Sanchez’s name, its president Millie Kilayko said.Mingo Meals produced by NVC are nutritious instant complementary food made of rice, mongo (mung beans), and malunggay (moringa) that it provides to undernourished children.NVC has served 18,794,755 Mingo meals in 53 provinces to undernourished children in poor communities, remote villages and ...

Clique is a group show that involved 38 local artists who came together regardless of differences in groups and art practice because art made them click.Participating artists include A73, Billy Boy Abonado, Julius Añasca, Ayla August, Katz Baynosa, Cindy Ballesteros, Sherwyn P. Cadianza, HR Campos III, Bry Cervantes, Cresline Corsiga, John Crimson, Jay-R Delleva, Joy Anne Delleva, Leucia Delleva, Bea Dolloso, Sai Gabuat, Zechariah Guanzon, Jr., Jovito Hecita, Darel Javier, Ron Javier, Gibson Jimenea, Armilina Jolie, Jaden Kilayko, Jan Llegue, Nicole Liza, Jayvee Necesario, Kim Manday, Topax Palencia, Wen Quilisadio, Red Santillan, Ramon de los Santos, Chester Somes, John Vincent T., Nikki Teodosio, Tiborshow, Mache de la Torre, Ked Vedev and Forth Yuma.This creative initiate was fr...

Miriam Bayles' Blu's Catnip (Acrylic on Canvas, 24x24)Daniel Bayles' Tashi (12x12, Acrylic on Canvas) Konica Tracy Faustino' Kitty Cup (Watercolor, 8x11)International Cat day is an annual celebration that takes place on every 8th of August. Founded on 2002 by the International Fund for Animal Welfare, it is a day to raise awareness for cats and learn about ways to help and protect them.In line with this event, members and friends of the Christian Artists National Various Arts Society (CANVAS) and children participated in the festivities of International Cat Day through a virtual art exhibition of paintings that portray experiences with their cats and how they view them as their loved pets.Titled, “I Love My Fabulous Cat”, the virtual art exhibit features the works of Pastor A...

A 7-year-old budding artist is selling notebooks with prints of his artwork on their covers to help raise funds for the medical bills of a sick classmate.Derek Sanchez Sanson, a grade two pupil at the University of Saint La Salle in Bacolod City, is helping his classmate Casean Tambasen who was diagnosed with Pontine Glioma, with secondary hydrocephalus and cerebellar tonsillar herniation.Casean, the son of USLS first grade teacher Charette Delfin Tambasen, started with radiotherapy Wednesday that will last for 27 days.People have come together to help Casean’s family and Derek wants to do his part too, his mother ballerina Gianne Sanchez Sanson said Friday, July 23.“About two months ago, Derek asked us for an Xbox and we challenged him to save for it. He started selling no...

"Resilience | Thriving Art Amid the Turbulence" is a group exhibition featuring four visual artists Revo Yanson, RPG, Mike Borromeo, and Tiano Beto, highlighting 28 artworks done in watercolor, gouache, and mixed media.The artists’ statement articulated that to them, “resilience wells from within and is drawn from numerous factors, all summed into one’s core strengths. From belief systems to choices, it keeps the inner threads tightly locked from unraveling as we navigate unchartered terrains.""With unique levels of resilience, we are always in a learning path trying to access this anchor. We do not glorify it nor romanticize it though. Turbulence, on the other side, is the ever-present player. With or without the current crisis, there are the daily battles. Turbulence is a nec...

Since the pandemic, seemingly perennial norms have become variable. The only surfacing constant was art and the need for healing.The Island Special “All in Good Time: Through the Lens of Dumaguete Artist Hersley Ven Casero” capped the year-long V-CON 2 webinar series. The speaker was supported by moderator Onna Rhea Quizo and ExCon Director Mariano Montelibano.Multidisciplinary artist Hersley Ven Casero was on a roll pre-pandemic. His 2008 laughing boy photo, “The Sound of Laughter,” was the focal point of the global art initiative “Ha?: The Laughing Boy Project.”This initiative was launched in 2012, when Casero’s iconic photo had a brush with false claims by a Filipino food artist on national TV. Despite friends suggesting legal action against the said artist, optimistic Caser...

The latest offering of the Visayas Islands Visual Arts Exhibition & Conference (VIVA ExCon) 16 in its year-long Virtual Conference 2 is ’Museum Management Projections after the Pandemic with moderator Maria Rosario “Rica” Estrada, head of the Cultural Center of the Philippines Visual Arts and Museum Division (CCP VAMD). Resource persons are June Yap of the Singapore Art Museum (SAM) and Nikita Yingqian Cai of Times Museum.June Yap shared that SAM which opened in 1996 is the first art museum in Singapore and it underwent a change in organizational structure in 2013.From April 2020 to the present, measures were put in place to deal with the limitations of the pandemic. Their experience with "They Do Not Understand Each Other" exhibition for Art Basel Hongkong is that it took...

Art typically rises in visual forms and physical spaces, but in the dappled dusk of tactility and material sites, there is daylight on thoughts, processes, and performative notions.The V-CON 2 webinar "Kalibutan Seminar Node 4: Exhibitions | Not Exhibitions - Timing and Placing the Present" with Kalibutan Head Curator Patrick Flores and Visayan curators Guenivere Decena and Liby Limoso of Region 6, Maria Taniguchi and Jay Jore of Region 7, and Mars Briones and Nomar Miano of Region 8 was the fifteenth in a series of virtual talks.The speakers were supported by ExCon Director Mariano Montelibano and prior to the session, Jore offered a prayer for the late Leo Abaya, one of the featured artists of Kalibutan.Kalibutan speaks to the idea of the world and consciousness. This concept...