Culture and Arts Notebook

On 19 April, the Gimpo-based Jumma community celebrated the Boishuk Sangrai Bizu festival, also known as Boisabi, for the 21st time in Korea, at the Hangang New Town Lake Park in South Korea. This is the traditional Year-end and New…

by Maksuda Lisa (Dhaka Bureau) The Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur bore witness to an emotional milestone in Bangladesh cricket. The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) officially honored the speedster Rubel Hossain, who announced his retirement from international cricket after…

By Nazrul Islam (Dhaka Bureau) Standing in the mid-2026s, tobacco control has become a major point of discourse in Bangladesh, one of South Asia’s most densely populated nations. On December 30 last year, the interim government issued the ‘Smoking and…

by Zahida Parvez Chhanda (Dhaka Bureau) On Tuesday, with the rising sun of the New Year, Bengali New Year-1433 was celebrated across Bangladesh with unique enthusiasm. This year’s festivities were not limited to welcoming the season; they evolved into a…

From Thought to Form. You can experience how abstract ideas take tangible form in In-Sight—an exhibition by the SeekArt Collective at the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) Gallery, running from April 13 to 30 in Intramuros, Manila.…

By: Angel de Castro III April 12, 2026. A Sunday like so many others. The day began the way resistance often does—not loudly, but quietly. A heaviness in the body. A reluctance not to the work itself, but to the…

SORSOGON CITY, Philippines — Adolescents aged 10 to 19 from the province of Sorsogon are taking an active role in addressing adolescent sexual reproductive health (ASRH) challenges and gender-based violence (GBV) through a three-day creative workshop held in Sorsogon City,…

The National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) Gallery formally opened INI-ININ on April 6, 2026, presenting a compelling exhibition by Butil Collective. On view until April 30, the exhibit reflects on the lived realities of Generation Z as…

by Andrelyn B. Gayudan, Maybeline F. Nacis, and Ruther Ray C. Ruado When the calendar turns its page to February, Baguio City exhales, and the world holds its breath. The “City of Pines” sheds its emerald solitude, trading its heavy…

The Center for Humanist Studies of the Americas (CEHA) is honored to present an upcoming cultural program entitled “Bathala – The Myth of the Tagalog People,” which will be held on March 29 at 10:00 a.m. in Punta de Vacas.…