Culture and Arts Notebook

ENVIRONMENTAL ESSAY We must safeguard the web of life and care about the other living species that we share this planet with. Pygmy tarsiers eat and host bugs that we’ve seen at home — insects, spiders, lizards, bedbugs, lice, fleas,…

ON PEACE     by Genevieve Balance-Kupang “I wish people would love everybody else,  the way they love me. The world would be a better world.” -Muhammad Ali Muhammad Ali’s wish of a better world is imprinted in our DNA…

Migrant Igorots Welcomed on a Tauranga Marae by New Zealand’s Tangata Whenua (Locals)   Indigenous Culture by Genevieve Balance-Kupang National Indigenous Peoples Month is held every October. This October 10, the Catholic churches in the Philippines commemorate the Indigenous Peoples Sunday.…

“I am speechless” was all Maria Ressa, co-founder and CEO of Rappler, a Philippine independent news agency, could say when she was awarded the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, an award shared with Dmitry Muratov, co-founder and editor of the Russian…

When I started writing this interview with Ilhan Sami Çomak, I imagined a way to escape from prison. If I were in Ilhan’s position, I think I would think about it all the time. Lacking any handyman skills, I wouldn’t…

An Interview with Sr. Anne-Marie Brittain, NDS about her book: A No-Word   by Genevieve Balance-Kupang The trees, flowers, and plants grow in silence. The stars, sun, and moon move in silence. Silence gives us a new perspective… We need…

POEM     Poverty and ignorance must end and the Violence that perpetuates them.   I write to change the world.   I write to live my life twice.   I don’t write for money. This is my power.  …

Culture and the Arts     A committee for the Reformation of the Residency Status System for Migrant Cultural Artists held a press conference on 29 September 2021 in front of the Sejong Center for the Performing Arts, Gwanghwamun square…

POEM   Many beaches we have been to You and I We have travelled along the coasts of continents You and I Exploring the edges of what is known And not yet known Travellers, You and I.   The sea…

POEM     Wake my womb from icy slumber There where all good things are born   Kindle the fire in the belly Send a Light straight to my Heart   Spine erect and energy strong Upflowing, unhindered Unto my…