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February 17, 2021 | 12:04 am Advertisement AAA NATIONAL Arts Month kicked off via Facebook Live last Monday with a glimpse of the glittering lobby of the Metropolitan Theater, newly restored and awaiting its reopening in April. The program announced dances and films, theater programs, lectures, talks, and more that will be held throughout the rest of February and March, mostly online because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The annual celebration of National Arts Month started with the signing of Presidential Proclamation 683, in 1991, declaring February as National Arts Month. Over the years, the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), as well as other government agencies and private organizations, has been organizing events and activities to highlight the artistic brilliance of the Filipinos. ....
Published December 29, 2020, 4:57 PM Amelia Lapeña-Bonifacio (Photo from Teatrong Mulat ng Pilipinas) Filipino artists are mourning today as they bid farewell to one of Philippine theater’s greatest pillars. Teatrong Mulat ng Pilipinas announced through a Facebook post the unfortunate passing of its founding artistic director, National Artist Amelia Lapeña-Bonifacio. According to the theater company, the University of the Philippines Professor Emeritus died early morning of Dec. 29, Tuesday. She was 90. Born on April 4, 1930 in Binondo, Manila, the Filipina artist was a well-known playwright and theater director for children’s theater. In 1959, Lapeña-Bonifacio helped build the Speech and Drama Department in the University of the Philippines in Diliman where she taught theater history and speech subjects. ....