‘The need to change the order of things’

Today is the 85th birth anniversary of stage and film actor and director Benjamín Roberto “Behn” Holcombe Cervantes, founder of the University of the Philippines Repertory Company. He was also a founding member of the Concerned Artists of the Philippines, the Philippines Education Theater Association and the Manunuri ng Pelikulang Pilipino.

Artists, cultural workers: #StandWithRappler

“The SEC’s move to revoke Rappler’s papers is censorship by closure, happening on the cusp of a Duterte-Marcos term. It is an attack not only on the institution but to freedom of the press and expression. We as concerned citizens and cultural workers must stand with media workers in holding the line and carrying on the struggle for truth.”

A tribute to the best father

Neil Doloricon’s daughter writes about the artist as father. This essay shares what few knew about the country’s most eminent social realism artist who died yesterday of illness.

Mga tula para kina Nonoy at Neil

Mga nangugunang tagapag-tanggol ng kalayaan sa pamamahayag at ekspresyon, huling nagkasama sina Neil at Nonoy sa pinakalamalaking pagkilos para sa karapatang ito ng bansa noong 2020 sa harap ng ABS-CBN sa Lungsod Quezon.

Eminent artist Neil Doloricon dies

The UP Artists’ Circle said Doloricon was one of the pillars of social realism in the Philippine art scene and was popular for his paintings, murals, and relief prints that depicted the struggles of the masses.

“Babangon Tayo (We Will Rise)”

Official lyric video for “Babangon Tayo (We Will Rise),” an original composition of the Concerned Artists of the Philippines released in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, March 2020. This song is a tribute to our frontliners, and the power of the Filipino people.

KUNDIMAN by Chickoy Pura and friends

The Concerned Artists of the Philippines organized a benefit concert for Chickoy Pura last September 27 at the University of Philippines Hotel. Here is Chickoy Pura and his musician friends performing “Kundiman”.