Culture and Arts Notebook

The Yongsan Spring International Art Exhibition invited 77 visual artists, including 32 foreign residents of Korea, to display their works for “Joyous Itaewon 2023,” which officially opened for public viewing on May 8 and was held until May 12 at…

Kabyle poet writer Ameziane Kezzar on tour in North America May 5, 2023 at 3 p.m. under the theme: “Destruction, denaturation and recovery by Islam of certain elements of ancient pagan culture: rites, festivals, poetry, songs and tales”. City University…

Ameziane Kezzar is a Kabyle poet writer and philosopher. He was born in 1962 in Maraghna (Kabylia) and has lived in Paris (France) for several decades. He is known in the world of culture where he has written for several…

Before anything else, who is the author of this book, George Balarezo? Born in the USA, George Balarezo, known as the intrepid global citizen, is an expat who has been living in South Korea for the last 15 years.  It…

Earth Day poem #2     Before the old streetsweeper comes I take a lingering look at the leaves now burnt brown crusty and curled on their new concrete bed down their original home still standing up to the clearing…

Earth Day poem #1     This morning, I picked flowers on the wayside as the sun tarried with its light, pinched off a stem with orange blooms just dotting palm-sized leaves, then a solitary hibiscus queenly in yellow and…

by Maria Veronica G. Caparas The year 2021 marked the Philippines’ quincentennial or 500-year relationship with Spain – a relationship that made the Philippines the capital country of Catholicism in Asia. Through Proclamation No. 1128, then-Philippine President Rodrigo R. Duterte…

a book launch review by Agnes Prieto All weddings are full of smiles, looking for the fulfillment of dreams. Expectations beckon. Too swiftly, life crashes; there is nothing to look at, only a yawning emptiness that nothing reckons with. Weddings…

POEM     Wearing the cape of meaning-maker I go forth. Seeking intimations along the way. Signals from the sea, wind, leaves, and sky. Signals from the moon, sun, horizon, and clouds. All those things hard to come by in…

Sandwiched with the skyscraper Shangri-La Hotel and the less imposing The Keg betwixt Thurlow and Bute along West Georgia Streets downtown, Lani Maestro’s installation art, sculpted glass texts and neon light that reads on two columns, No Pain Like This…