Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid
While going over activities being planned for the forthcoming Philippine Quincentennial, I suddenly recalled an observation made during the Globalization Lecture series held 20 years after James Fallows wrote his essay, “A Damaged Culture.” It stated: “The Philippines is just going around in circles while other countries have progressed. What is innate in Filipino culture that keeps development slow and the gap between extreme rich and extreme poor wide?”
The quincentennial celebrates the achievement of science, our part in the circumnavigation of the world for the first time, and the 500th anniversary of the Victory at Mactan and 500 years of Christianity.
Song for the dearly departed, Adrian Jones
This post is also available in: French, German The author and artist at the launch of the Museo ng Kaálamáng Katutubò at the
Museé du quay Branly, Paris, 2013. Source: TAO INC
Elegy and eulogy by critic and curator Marian Pastor Roces for an artist
He entitled an exhibition “Songs for the dearly departed:” his elegiac installation for the long-deceased composer and proto-ethnomusicologist Percy Grainger. For it, he made an overlarge concrete vat with an exquisite concavity, and set in it a university garden; filled it with gently rotating water and petals.