Don Salubayba, Baby!

CANVAS is pleased to announce that Don Salubayba has been selected as our Fellow, and is the designated artist for CANVAS Romeo Forbes Children's Literature Initiative for 2010-2011.

An artwork (or our contest piece) has now been commissioned, and its image will be used as the inspiration for the next CANVAS' annual Romeo Forbes Children's Storywriting Competition. The image of the contest piece, together will the rules of the competition and other details, will be released to the public in the first week of January 2010.

Watch out for it!

* Walang Katiyakang Pag-ibig sa Walang Katiyakang Mundo by Don Salubayba. Note: This is not yet the contest piece. :-)

Ink Stories

"INK STORIES," recent works on paper by Palma Tayona, is currently on view at 1/of Gallery, 2/L Shops at Serendra, Bonifacio Global City, Taguig.

The exhibit ends on November 17, 2009. Call 901-3152 for details.

Balloon Man

Chanced upon this man walking along Katipunan Ave. at 8am on a Sunday morning.

Stopped the car and took out my camera to get this shot.

He obliged, and jokingly told me the photo was not free. He asked me to buy one balloon - "Pang buena mano, lang."

I got one Sponge Bob balloon for P50.00 (a little over a dollar), and he went on his merry way. He was going to a nearby church, he told me, to sell the balloons to worshippers after the daily Masses.

He was smiling the whole time.

Wala lang.

The Meaning of Manny

Chances are, you've already seen and read this Time Magazine cover article. We wanted to give the link anyway.

It's a sensitive piece, one that recognizes that there are certain circles and activities where Pacquiao, despite all the acclaim and money that he has EARNED (which is more than we can say for a lot of supposedly elite folks), would not be welcome, if only because of his accent or lineage or where he came from.

It hints at some of the things that divide us as a nation - divisions that cannot be bridged by only one man, even if that man is the Pacman.

The Meaning of Passion