Alliance Française de Manille presents “Home Works,” a collaborative four-woman exhibition by sculptor Julie Lluch, filmmaker Sari Dalena-Sicat, multimedia artist and musician Aba Dalena, and filmmaker-visual artist Kiri Dalena. Home Works creates a space where four artists, bound by blood, reflect and represent how their individualities interact, shared histories converge, and artistic influences intersect. The exhibition centers on their own … READ
Category Archives: Arts & Culture
Miguel Syjuco and the ‘Ilustrado’ life
The award-winning novel Ilustrado by Miguel Syjuco follows the tradition of ‘the great Filipino novel’: it is political and outwardly rooting for social change. Its title alone is pregnant with possibilities of exhortation and uprisings. After all, the original Ilustrados in Philippine history launched the Propaganda Movement more than a century ago, creating literary gems that inspired Filipinos to unite and revolt against colonialism.
Sex & desire: What exactly do women want?
The New York Times: No matter what their self-proclaimed sexual orientation, they showed, on the whole, strong and swift genital arousal when the screen offered men with men, women with women and women with men. They responded objectively much more to the exercising woman than to the strolling man, and their blood flow rose quickly ? and markedly, though to a lesser degree than during all the human scenes except the footage of the ambling, strapping man ? as they watched the apes.







