by Felipe Castelblanco | May 7, 2015 | Blog The Philippines, Felipe Castelblanco, The Philippines
Today is my last day in the Philippines. A few hours ago I landed in Manila, after waiting for over an hour while the Presidential airplane was landing at the Bacolod airport. I was already installed in my airplane seat, all buckled-up, and through the tiny window I...
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by Felipe Castelblanco | Apr 20, 2015 | Blog The Philippines, Felipe Castelblanco, The Philippines
It’s a hot Saturday afternoon and I feel my voice resonate strongly inside my chest while my hearing still recovers from the pressurized cabin of the airplane. I can even hear an echo leaking through the century-old walls of the Negros Museum in Bacolod… Well, the...
by Felipe Castelblanco | Apr 12, 2015 | Blog The Philippines, Felipe Castelblanco, The Philippines
A week ago, I was just landing in Manila and getting ready to start the American Arts Incubator (AAI) program. Our first stop and “home-base” was Makati City, nowadays considered the Financial District of Manila and also an area that makes evident the...
by Felipe Castelblanco | Jan 12, 2015 | Blog The Philippines, Felipe Castelblanco, The Philippines
From November 3rd to the 7th I had the incredible opportunity to visit ZERO1 in San Jose, California to meet with the team at ZERO1, the representative from the U.S. State Department, and the other three artists invited to the AAI program. I was coming from London, so...
by Felipe Castelblanco | Sep 15, 2014 | Blog The Philippines, Felipe Castelblanco, The Philippines
A tropical cyclone (Typhoon Kalmaegi) hit the north of the Philippines today, September 15th, 2014, causing floods and landslides, and killing several people. The list of catastrophic typhoons in the Philippines is huge, but still, perhaps one of the most destructive...
