The Queen City of the South’s favorite buffet and well-loved food market recently teamed up for the ultimate Cebu fiesta – Marco Polo Plaza Cebu’s iconic culinary journey, Sugbusog.

I’ve spent the last year whipping into shape a dozen or so canvases for an upcoming group exhibit (along with Dennis D’Bayan and Julius Sanvictores) at Robinsons Galleria’s new Artablado space, but the last two weeks were the most grueling: what to paint, how big, how to mount it? Looking at Artablado (a combination of “art” and “entablado”), the open exhibit area at Level 3, Veranda, with our own eyes, we beginner artists realized we had to go bigger.

This is a unique event to raise funds for the award-winning poet, screen writer, songwriter, editor and journalist Jose ‘Pete’ F. Lacaba.

The Arts Council of Cebu led by its dynamic president Dr. Vivina Chiu continues to dedicate itself to the development and promotion of cultural activities in the Cebuano community.

It has already been four years since Lisa Macuja-Elizalde, the exceptionally gifted ballerina who dazzled the world, hung up her tutus and pointe shoes, but she still gets excited at the thought of portraying one of her dream roles onstage.