Culture and Arts Notebook

A POEM AND A NOTE     by Erlie Lopez From a solitary tree, leaves started falling one by one on the ground. Then, the wind almost unfelt, blew one leaf to the south, another to the north, and another,…

A POEM AND A NOTE:     I love the way your presence comforts me The grace of your being The lightness of your touch.   I long to have you by my side In the morning light In the…

ON INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE     by Romeo Sani Ndzengi and Genevieve Balance Kupang The Call to Dialogue: The Church Response  Thank you for reading the first part of this series. In case you missed the previous article, here is the…

PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT     In this bustling city, the Metropolitan library and the city hall’s spacious buildings in Central Seoul are very citizen-friendly places, open to the general public. Often, the area hosts cultural activities, exhibits, or social meetings for…

POEM     A grim specter has been haunting the four corners of the world. North, South, East, West, An unseen virus, like a whirlwind Has wreaked havoc on the lives of all and sundry.   Lives and livelihoods are…

ESSAY We must safeguard the web of life and care about the other living species that we share this planet with. Pygmy tarsiers eat and host bugs that we’ve seen at home — insects, spiders, lizards, bedbugs, lice, fleas, roundworms,…

The Cultural Cooperation Team of Korea hosted a successful concurrent exhibition in five venues at the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) areas through its first Art & Peace Platform from September 15 to November 15, 2021. Organized by the Inter-Korean Transit Office,…

MEDIA/CINEMA     by Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury Indian actor, Dev alias Deepak Adhikari alias Raju, who currently is a member of Lok Sabha (General Assembly) from Trinamool Congress has made an outrageous attempt to directly insult the Kingdom of Saudi…

ESSAY We must safeguard the web of life and care about the other living species that we share this planet with. Pygmy tarsiers eat and host bugs that we’ve seen at home — insects, spiders, lizards, bedbugs, lice, fleas, roundworms,…

POEM   by Erlie Lopez “Gray November in My Soul” it was, that literati’s folk house in Manila dim and other-worldly with cigarette smoke dancing over heads huddled close to hear each other’s pains being drowned by guitar strings and…