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Monday, June 04, 2007 |
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Singapore Arts Festival 2007
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Singapore’s tiger
culture
roars and leaps fast forward |
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By Rome Jorge
If you thought Singapore was a
country that was all too young, commercialized and antiseptic with a
culture that was regimented, vapid and rootless—a city state with
nothing to offer but shopping malls, themed bars and one too many
fines—then you are so embarrassingly wrong and so terribly behind.
The same people who transformed this tiny island country into a
first world wonder in less than a generation with their tiger
economy are now advancing their culture by leaps and bounds. They
aren’t just catching up with centuries-old cultures; they have
arrived.
Hear the Merlion City’s arts
communities roar with one voice at the Singapore Arts Festival 2007
ongoing until June 24. The 31-day event with a budget of $7 million
brings together 1,900 artists from 27 countries and regions for 486
performances and activities with a combined projected local and
tourist audience of 600,000 attempts to transform the city state
into Southeast Asia’s cultural hub and international center for
artistic synergy.
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O T H E R R E P O R T S
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Business as seen
through the eyes of faith
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Is faith compatible with finance?
Can one exercise his Christian prophetic role and be profitable at
the same time? These are just some of the interesting questions
American authors Robert Darden & PJ Richardson...
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The best of
Juilliard in Manila
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Imagine the world’s best
musicians performing in the most unexpected places, treading
perilous jungle trails and war-torn areas, with their expensive
instruments in tow to bring classical music...
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The extraordinary
Bernardo Pacquing
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The practice of painting is in
itself a long arduous process, a journeyman’s excursion into
self-discovery.
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Growing up in
theater
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Michael King Urieta is a
22-year-old lad from Valenzuela City who started his theater life
with a small role in the ensemble for Gantimpala Theater. From that
first outing, he now plays an active part in Gantimpala’s Actors...
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Art as Texture,
Texture as Art
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Raul Piedra’s
career in art, spanning more than three decades, is as brightly
colored and as richly textured as his paintings. Named one of New
Zealand’s most notable emerging artists early in his career...
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GLOBAL
VILLAGE
By Manny
Baldemor
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Munich,
Germany’s secret capital
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Very few cities in the world can
rival the number of honorary titles as Munich has. It has been
called the Secret Capital of Germany, Cosmopolitan City with a
Heart, Athens on the Isar and Village of a Million to name but a
few.
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PEOPLE
By Bob Garon
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Deceptions in
relationships
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“Many relationships,” writes
Dr. Charles Sell, “are deceptions. We hide our real selves,
fearing to disclose who we really are.
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