Tag: September 26, 2015

RELIGIOUS organizations in the University are set to hold spiritual activities to encourage the youth to be involved in works of mercy ahead of the upcoming Extraordinary Jubilee Year.

Leaders of religious organizations like the Marian Evangelization Council (MEC), the Bosconian-Thomasian Youth Movement (BTYM), and Youth for Christ (YFC) are planning a number of programs and activities to encourage Thomasians to perform works of mercy.

“Aside from our activities such as youth camps and worship nights to evangelize the youth, meron din kaming youth power na tumutulong sa ibang tao through community development and outreach,” said Andross David, president of YFC.

PILGRIMS will get a glimpse of St. Dominic de Guzman’s life by visiting places related to the foundation of the Order of Preachers, which is set to mark its 800th year next year.

The Coordinator of the Jubilee of the Order, in cooperation with the provincial promoters of the Jubilee, has published an itinerary guide titled “The Path of Dominic,” that contains information on places pilgrims can visit.

“To cross, 800 years later the same roads, towns and to see homes and churches that have marked Dominic’s itinerary, allows us to understand and to internalize the spirituality and the charisma he left to his Order,” the guide says.

BENJAMIN “Ben” Farrales, recognized by his colleagues in the fashion world as the “Dean of Philippine fashion designers,” has received the Gawad CCP Award for Fashion Design—the highest distinction given to artists and scholars who has eked out distinguished careers in the arts and cultural scholarship by the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP).

Farrales was honored for his remarkable contributions to the Philippine fashion industry through the use and integration of Philippine and Muslim culture in his works.

FAITH and the Filipino family are subjects that drove Thomasian Alexander Jorge Pingol to create Traces of Memory, an ensemble of paintings depicting the close family ties of Filipino culture.

The exhibit, which featured 25 oil-on-canvas paintings depicting tradtional Filipino family and rural life, was staged at The Podium Mall, Mandaluyong City and Galerie Raphael, Taguig City.

Works like “Unica Hijo,” “Banana Boat,” “Lola’s Favorite,” and “Mother’s Love” portray the intimate relationship between parents and son, happy family moments spent in the beach, the tender embrace between a grandmother and grandchild and the classic image of a mother and her child.

ABSTRACT ethnic motifs from Philippine native weaves are further abstracted and reworked in Jane Arrieta Ebarle’s eighth edition of “Hibla” series of paintings at the Hibla ng Lahing Filipino Gallery of the National Museum of the Philippines.

Threads on Canvas: Interweaving of Different Artistic Traditions showcases Ebarle’s abstract-expressionist acrylic-on-canvas works.

A graduate of Advertising Arts from the old UST College of Architecture and Fine Arts, Ebarle studies the works of traditional weaving communities such as the Ifugaos, Kalingas and Tausugs and interprets them in her abstract style.

But for the new series, Ebarle researched on the collection of ancient weaves from the National Museum collection.

PLAIN wooden blocks were brought to life through different artistic media by 25 artists including two Thomasians, in BaBel, or Building a Better Edifice Leisurely, an art exhibit held at the Underground Gallery in Makati Square.

Exhibit curator Nice Buenaventura designed four wooden, irregularly-shaped blocks originally intended to be stacked and re-stacked by the viewers which served as the blank slates for the artists. This structural limitation ties the whole exhibit as different artists unveil intricate and bizarre designs the given blocks can be.

THE AGING narra tree in Lourdes’ garden sported a vibrant new mane. Lemon-colored flowers bloomed amidst its leaves. “Summer is here,” it seemed to convey, as it eagerly displayed its beauty under the May sun, as it had for more than a hundred summers.

For twenty of these summers, its elderly caretaker found herself in a peaceful siesta on an antique rocking chair beneath its branches. But on this day, a car horn had broken her slumber, and she willed her arthritic legs up the stone steps back to the house, towards the living room and on to the front door.

She was greeted by a man in his forties, whose ragged jaw reminded her of her late husband.

“Mother!” he said.

THOMASIAN winners in this year’s Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature included a former Varsitarian editor and their works tackled contemporary concerns in social realist style.

Faculty of Arts and Letters alumnus John Pacala won first prize in Maikling Kuwento for his entry, Ang Reyna ng Espada at ng mga Pusa, about an old homosexual prisoner who turns down the executive clemency granted him for obvious humanitarian reasons because he would rather stay behind bars and enjoy the freedom he has ironically discovered there which he never felt outside.

The Political Science alumnus said his victory was merely added pleasure to his pursuit of his passion for writing.

THIRTY minutes until the next stop

His tired body colliding

With shoulder after shoulder

After shoulder

He arrives, he departs

Steps quick

Impersonal

Doors now closing

His static reflection

Staring back

Face leaden by

Crunching numbers and juggling deadlines

Sitting through meetings

Where each face

Is an electric fence

And after the toil and the talk

And the toil and the talk

He stands up

Rushing

Towards caves of steel

Pausing

Honking

Speeding to nowhere

Is there nothing left

KAWALAN ng suporta sa pagsasalin at kakulangan sa pondo ang ilan sa mga pangunahing suliranin sa panitikan ng mga bansang kasapi sa Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), ayon sa mga iskolar at mga propesor na dumalo sa Asean Literary Symposium sa Ateneo de Manila University mula ika-26 hanggang ika-28 ng Agosto.

“We love [the] English and American writers so much, we don’t know anything about our [Southeast Asian] neighbors. It’s always about translation,” ani Prop. Nor Faridah Binti Abdul Manaf ng International Islamic University Malaysia sa unang araw ng symposium.

Ani Manaf, ang kawalan ng pagtangkilik at pagsasalin ng mga akda mula sa rehiyong Asean ay sanhi ng kanluraning pag-iisip, o mataas na pagtingin sa mga akda ng kanluran.