A Night of Good Entertainment and Disappointments

Nora was teary when she expressed her thanks to Kuya Germs and to the audience for their support. She also apologised that she would not be able to sing [...]

Newshen’s story frees ‘prisoner’ and wins Oz award

A news story, Campbelltown’s Prisoner of War, written by young reporter Soraiya Gharahkhani whose mother is Philippine born, won the 2010 Best News Story of the Year award [...]

Filipino dancers top DanceSport competitions

The recent National Capital DanceSport Championships held at the Australian Institute of Sports Arena in Canberra during the last weekend, 25-27 June, saw Charles Laraga and Ronnie Vergara in the top five in Latin. NSW delegates Gerry Garcia and Shirley, champion dancers in Latin Open competition, for the last six years have retained their crown [...]

Filipino recipes in multicultural Australia

The ‘The Healthy and Tasty Challenge Cookbook’ contains recipes submitted by five Filipino cooks in a competition. The competition was conducted by the NSW Multicultural Health Communication Service [MHCS] and involved the Chinese, Filipino, Italian, Samoan and Sri Lankan [Sinhalese and Tamil] communities. Over two hundred recipes [...]

A hero’s life in three stages

The play Her Son, Jose Rizal oozed with emotional intensity and lifted dramatically to professional status by singer-actor JC Rosales and actress Ala Paredes. Justice was done to the late playwright Leonora Oroza-Gonquingco by a mixed cast of professional and amateur actors, overseen by part-time director Armando Reyes [...]

Gusi Peace Prize awardee Katya Grineva in Sydney

Katya Grineva is a pianist with a reputation for exceptional romantic and poetic expression. Born in Moscow, Russia, Ms. Grineva began playing the piano at the age of five, eventually attending the Moscow Music School under the aegis of the prestigious Moscow Conservatory [...]

Jose Rizal play premieres in Sydney

Fine Artists Collboration (FAC) depicts on stage the Philippines’ national hero’s life in Leonor Orosa Goquinco’s theatre magnum opus, “Her Son, Jose Rizal.”

Performances are slated on 17, 18 and 19 of June with special matinee performance on the 20th at 2:00pm at the Tom Mann Theatre, 136-140 Chalmers St, Surry Hills.

Singer-actor RJ Rosales leads the cast assembled by stage director Armando Reyes.

This one-act play, staged to commemorate the Dr Jose Rizal’s 149th birth anniversary, is about the hero’s childhood days and some significant events prior to his execution by a firing squad by the Spaniards.

Other members of the cast are Kate Roc Andres, Sally Anolin-Clark, Marilyn Mendez and Belen Mendoza (alternating as Dona Teodora), Manny Diel, Elijah Merjudio, Marcke De Vera, Ala Paredes, Isajane Noble, Angelo Refuerzo, Daniel Aguilar, Tom Merjudio, Bob Mendoza, Ross Aguilar, Danny Rosales, Antonio ‘Moses’ Gonzalez, Gerry Musa, Benny Chan, Isabelle Montillano, Reianne Urqueza, Arianne Milan, Jaime Sotelo, Moses Petersen and Elijah Abella.

To provide vocal rendition during the performances are Rachel Zarate and Jura Lassiter. Solo violinist is Louella Macalma.

Artistic and production team is composed of Albert Dimarucut, Belen Mendoza, Albert Prias, Claudio Javellana, Charles Chan, Neria Soliman, Josie Musa, Evelyn Zaragoza and Louisa Tagudin.

Meanwhile, last 17 April cast members paid respect to the memory of the Philippines’ national hero by visiting his bust monument at Plaza Iberia near Central Station in Sydney and the one in Ashfield Park.

Fruits and veges to combat obesity

Australia is faced with the malady of obesity. Just a week ago a daunting survey revealed that the number one cause of death in the country is not cancer or cardiovascular illness but obesity! It is not good to hear that Aussies are the fattest people in the globe. But that is a reality! [...]

Rizal stage play takes form

The cast of late Leonor Orosa Goquinco’s one-act stage play, Her son, Jose Rizal, went into rehearsals in earnest yesterday at a makeshift stage in Hiyas Ng Bayan child care centre, Mount Pritchard southwest of Sydney [...]

Sweet Mojo music serves sweeter with an album

After their successful Philippine tour last year, the Sweet Mojo members are now even more equipped and excited to serve Sydney with their brand of music. The band, originally formed in 2002, decided to change the course of their journey [...]