The country is currently celebrating National Arts Month (NAM), in line with Presidential Proclamation 683 signed in 1991. This year’s theme, “Ani ng Sining, Bayang Malikhain” underscores the idea that the abundant harvest of the Filipino creative nation stems from collective human imagination rather than individual aspirations. The National Commission…
MORE than a celebration of Filipino artistic excellence, this year’s National Arts Month (NAM) serves as an advocacy for the “integration of the arts into our social fabric,” according to National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) chairman Victorino Mapa Manalo. Leading last week’s press conference for the upcoming…