Category Archives: Arts and Culture

Bencab Museum

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 A definite MUST SEE when you go to Baguio!  Even if you go to Baguio just to see this, it is all worth it!!!  It’s beautiful and so rich in art and culture! Thank you Bencab for showing the world true beauty through your works of art and making us proud to be a Filipino!

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Click below to go to the website for more information

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O Bistro and Cafe

By | Arts and Culture, Events and Launches, Foodie | No Comments

In the Oracle Hotel, there is the O Bistro and Cafe.  Sheila used to own Azzuro and had her catering business, so of course she is knows her food business.  That evening Mikee and Sheila served us a wonderful meal and we were surrounded by their beautiful art collection.  Mikee and Sheila really take time out to look and search for the art pieces that they like and after 10 years they have accumulated a valuable collection.  Thank you for sharing them with us and for letting us appreciate the works of our very own Filipino artists  

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Undaunted The Lopez Legacies

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Heart2Heart is honored to have been part of the launch of the book, Undaunted

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Tito Oscar is truly one Heart2Heart’s idols.  As I follow him in his books, in his speeches and in his work, He is very consistent in his message and very LOUD AND CLEAR!

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I am so happy that he takes time out to document everything.  I quote from one of his speeches:

Our great national hero once made an observation that is oozing with truth that goes beyond the ages. Jose Rizal said: “Ang hindi marunong lumingon sa pinangalingan ay hindi makararating sa paroroonan.” Loosely translated, he is saying that a people with no sense of history have no future. A proper appreciation of history gives a people faith in its future. And once people have faith, attitude and behavior change happens that will secure that bright future. 

It is through documenting and passing on stories and sharing experiences that the legacy can be passed on to future generations.  We always think of what we can give to our children and the future generations to come.  And aside from financial stability, I think that what is more important is to impart to your children how to survive and how to live and make a difference in other people’s lives through good values and being a good example.  And Tito Oscar has done such a great job imparting this to his family, to his companies and to society! I really believe that he would make a good president for our country

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Devotion to the Peñafrancia

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Last year, we visited the ( click below )

Church of Nuestra Señora de Peña de Francia, Naga September 9, 2009

 This year, we were able to visit two other churches.  One of the reasons Heart2Heart loves Naga is because there is something about the city, the people who are all so warm and hospitable and so respectful and kind.  Is it because they are so religious an devoted to the Peñafrancia?  I asked our tour guide Brian if the people are religious in Naga and his answer was, if you will notice in every greeting there is always the word “DIYOS” before the greeting. ” Diyos Marhay”

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Our Lady of Penafrancia Basilica

Thank you again to Allan Cu for arranging our visit with the bishop and we were able to visit the original Peñafrancia image.   

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Then the Basilica which is right beside it 

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You can touch the image of the Miraculous Lady who they call “Ina” 

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Dedicated to Tita Ina 🙂

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There is a hole for you to put your arms in and touch the image from the back of the altar.  Heart2Heart prayed for all viewers of Heart2Heart 🙂 

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Again another place to worship and pray 

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 What beautiful churches they have!

Naga Cathedral

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There is a museum beside the Cathedral, no photos really allowed 

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I should have bought this book! 

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Zero In Extensions

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Extensions openly hopes to evoke notions of slippery territoriality, of spatial protrusions in a variety of aspects—altitude, frequency, depth, and breadth.  As this exhibition closes out Lopez Museum’s 50th anniversary year, it plays at a sobering self-injunction to intently think upon how this institution attempts to breach fences and reach its variously defined publics.  

In acknowledging its own implication in the propelling of inclusionary and exclusionary mechanisms of institutions engaging with the contested construct of culture, LMM assembled three collaborative formations (Pilipinas Street Plan, Plataporma, and Rock Ed Philippines) and the Bicol-Manila shuttling artist, Maya Munoz. Opening up the spaces and object/image trove of the museum and library for their potential intervention (by way of painting, sound and video, photography, as well as installation) was a calculated bid to have them come alongside our own looking back and thrusting forward vis-a-vis the multifaceted and hopefully even more constructively interdisciplinary direction that LMM intends to increasingly apply itself to.  

 

(ELR) 

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Click below to go to the blog and read more about the exhibit

 

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Francisfest 2010 Saya at Saya

By | Arts and Culture, Fashion, Giving Back | 3 Comments

Congratulations Tito Joey Soriano, President of the Parish Pastoral Council, Santuario de San Antonio,  for a successful fund raiser!  It’s amazing what you have done for the Parish and we are so proud of you. We heard that you raised more than what your goal was.  WOW!  

It was a beautiful evening of Filipino food, music, dance and fashion 

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