Young filmmakers from Pampanga share their stories on overcoming the pandemic, and their plans to tell more stories about their people and the culture they love A muscular guy is seated on a sofa beside his frail-looking father. He used his shirt’s collar to wipe his tears trying and hide his emotions to no avail. …
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This bar in Angeles provides free space for artists
Looking for a new place to chill this new year? 5 O’clock allows artists to connect, see, and be seen. It is located inside VIP Hotel in Friendship Hi-way, Angeles City. Artists can display their works in the gallery for free and get to sell them to other bar-goers. For interested exhibitors, you may message …
6 gardening hacks to delight your plantito, plantita self
Remember when we were in school and our teachers would tell us to look into something green, plants preferably, if we want to rest our eyes for a while? Since then, we have often associated the color to nature, relaxation, and calmness. Maybe this is also the reason why most of us have turned into …
Watch Pampanga’s Giant Lanterns, anywhere
Online class, virtual meetings, online shopping, mobile banking… the list goes on and on. This COVID-19 pandemic changed our way of living, but thanks to the miracle called technology we can still enjoy the things we love or need to do. This technology has also allowed a century-old tradition in our beloved Pampanga, specifically in …
Kapampangan film ‘GULIS’ competes in Shanghai festival
The Kapampangan local cinema celebrates another feat! ‘GULIS’, written and directed by Kapampangan filmmaker Kyle Jumayne Francisco, is a nominee at the Shanghai Queer Film Festival – Asian Short Film Competition. The Kapampangan short film premiered internationally on December 12, and is competing against entries from Japan, South Korea, China, Taiwan, Singapore, and Israel. Shanghai …
Relearning our language, identity through a Kapampángan folk song
Being a Kapampángan who went to UST, I was often asked by my classmates about the famous folk song Atin Ku Pûng Singsing as a conversation starter. I honestly loved how the song was associated with my roots, for it was also the first Kapampángan song I learned when I started talking. And it’s not …
This pandemic will not dim San Fernando’s giant lanterns
THE world stopped this 2020. The social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic were and are being felt by every human being and institution, big and small. But despite all the adversities we went and are still going through this year- we somehow find a way to smile and look for the light at …
Reviving a language one post at a time
Kapampangan vloggers maximize social media use to save their native tongue. Six-year-old Nicole gets her white dress soiled while playing kurang-kurangan (toy kitchen set) with her cousins in their verdant backyard in the rural town of Minalin, Pampanga on a hot Saturday afternoon. Without minding the plastic pan, the makeshift stove, and the leaves she …