Monthly Archives: October 2023

Zamboangueño Filmmaker competes in 36th Tokyo Int’l Film Festival

The Gospel of the Beast of award-winning director Sheron Dayoc from Zamboanga City, Philippines, is competing at this year’s 36th Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) from October 23-November 1, 2023. The Tokyo International Film Festival is a film festival established in 1985. The event was held biennially from 1985 to 1991 and annually thereafter. According to FIAPF statistics, it is one of Asia’s competitive film festivals, …

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New Isuzu D-Max Limited debuts at NMADI T.G.I.F.

North-Min Auto Dealership Inc. (NMADI), the official Isuzu dealer for the cities of Cagayan de Oro, Butuan, Dipolog and Pagadian in Mindanao, launched the New Isuzu D-Max Limited simultaneously during The Great Isuzu Fridays (T.G.I.F.) Holideals on Friday, October 27, 2023 at its four locations.  “The new Isuzu D-MAX Limited makes the already appealing D-MAX pick-up even more attractive …

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The sparks that lit the Uptown Explosion

From a sleepy little town in the 50s to the 80s, Cagayan de Oro City has gradually expanded its environs: first towards the Cogon Market area, thence to the Lapasan Central Business District when the Limketkai Clan put up its Limketkai Center. This was the first wave of its urban expansion. However, it would be …

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𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑨𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒇 A𝒓𝒕 : 𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒃𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒛𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑨𝒏𝒕𝒊-𝑾𝒂𝒓 M𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒂𝒈𝒆

A professional lecturer at the Asian Center of the University of the Philippines-Diliman has adopted an interesting tack in historiography through the art of two Japanese soldiers stationed in the Philippines during World War II. 𝐊𝐚𝐫𝐥 Ian 𝐔𝐲 𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐡𝐮𝐚’s lecture  The Afterlives of Art: Problematizing the Anti-War Message proposes the creation of a space …

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Liceo Music Conservatory Professors featured in Lyric Opera double bill

Two of the celebrity professors of  Liceo Conservatory of Music, Theatre & Dance will feature in a double bill of the Lyric Opera of the Philippines and Hong Kong Opera Tutti next month. Professors Horst-Hans Bäcker and Cipriano M. de Guzman Jr. are joining the cast and crew of the double-billed opera “Cavalleria Rusticana/I Pagliacci” …

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Association of Cagayan de Oro Symphony Orchestra holds first general assembly

The Cagayan de Oro Symphony Orchestra is professionalizing its management with the organization of an association tasked with overseeing its human and financial resources, scheduling and production; negotiating and fulfilling contracts with musicians, venues, and vendors; and managing the details of the orchestra’s recording, electronic media, and outreach projects. During the first general assembly of …

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Safety & Sanitation issues constrain more food products refilling stations

Before the advent of single use plastics and most especially plastic sachets, homemakers were already used to buying their daily food needs from the neighborhood sari-sari store and tiangge,  and brought along used glass bottles for their cooking oil and condiments, and bayongs for their meat, fish and vegetable purchases. As the late National Artist Nick Joaquin coined it, the …

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Misamis Oriental Tourism shines with 7 ATOP-DOT Pearl Awards

By GERRY LEE GORIT Misamis Oriental continues to shine in the tourism industry, securing several prestigious awards at the recently concluded Association of Tourism Officers of the Philippines — Department of  Tourism (ATOP-DOT) Pearl Awards 2023. The event, held during the 24th ATOP National Convention on October 5, 2023, at the Boracay New Coast Convention …

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Xavier Ateneo Hosts CCP Lakbay Sine

By Tito Mike Xavier University-Ateneo de Cagayan will host the Cultural Center of the Philippines Lakbay Cine on October 11-14, 2023 at the Xavier Ateneo Downtown Campus. Xavier Center for Culture and the Arts partnered with the CCP Film, Broadcast, and New Media Division featuring the best of Cinemalaya Films, intensive workshops and masterclasses by …

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