Banag Banag, Inc is a regional club that focusses on addressing basic human needs like food, shelter, clean water and education. Such things are considered a luxury in remote areas of the Philippines. Neither do these scanty towns have the basic facilities such…
Claudio Javellana - He’s the man behind the lavish costumes for the stage play “Her Son, Jose Rizal”. Each costume has been meticulously designed and stitched to depict Philippine fashion during the Spanish times.
Javellana is a master of his craft. Having held countless…
It’s a typical Saturday afternoon …or is it Sunday…and people are milling around the canteen yelling what in curious chatter handing plates piled with food they brought to share. it’s not a party – and it’s not a picnic, though it seems…
The Filipino community will be celebrating Philippine Independence on Saturday, 12 June 2010 at Rosehill Gardens, at Rosehill. This annual event is being organized by the peak Filipino organization, the Philippine Community Council of NSW (PCC-NSW).
To commemorate the event,…
Filipino Artists Collaboration, a community theatre group, has assembled a group of talented young individuals to stage the play, “Her Son, Jose Rizal.”
“Her Son, Jose Rizal” will be staged at Tom Mann theatre at Surry Hills from June 17-19 at…
Consul General Bettita at the ‘Despedida’ given in her honour acknowledged the attendees as “the movers and shakers of the community.” However, the Consul General failed to qualify her statement for not all present were really movers and shakers in the…
Witnessing community happenings recently made me remember a word my friends and I coined in our younger days. I thought age and time would have eliminated the ‘art of papelation’ but it seems not, for there are those who indulge in…
The Philippine Community Council (pee-cee-cee) has been haunted with paranormal activities for years. Such activities were heightened around election time as ghost whisperers go through their rituals of breathing life onto dead clubs. It’s been a supernatural phenomenon that has…
The 20th anniversary celebration of the Cofradia Del Santo Niño (Blacktown) was held last Sunday, 17th January 2010 at Good Shepherd Church at Plumpton.
Better known as the Sinulog Festival, the event honours the infant Jesus, and this year, over 3,000 devotees came to participate…
Collado and the Ace Team were declared the winners by default at the PCC elections which was held last Sunday, 7 February 2010 at Chester Hill. Dressed in “save the environment” shades of green, they proved that they could indeed…
