The acclaimed ethno-pop-rock modern zarzuela “Ambon, Ulan, Baha,” written by the multiawarded playwright Frank G. Rivera, marks a full-circle homecoming at the Metropolitan Theater on Sept. 26 and 27. Presented by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) and the Metropolitan Theater (Met), and produced by Pixel Art Media Production Co., the Filipino...
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An Agta wedding in the Sierra Madre demonstrates the precarity of tradition
It was not yet 6 a.m. and I was bouncing on the back of a hired motorcycle (locally called habal) navigating the rocky, slippery mountain road that leads to the sitio in General Nakar, Quezon, where I was to attend an Agta wedding. I had taken a bus past midnight in Manila and arrived a...
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Once more into the breach: Indigenous folk march against Kaliwa Dam
Some 240 tribespeople and advocates are trekking to Malacañang to press President Marcos Jr. to stop the construction of Kaliwa Dam in their ancestral land in the Sierra Madre mountains in Quezon province, and the memory of a similar protest march in 2009 against Laiban Dam upstream in Rizal province is still fresh on their...