Cultural Center of the Philippines

At an age when many people are expected to slow down, three senior citizens from Pasay City find themselves at the heart of the country’s cultural scene, reinvigorating their golden years through the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ special Front-of-House (CCP FOH) Apprenticeship Program, a simple apprenticeship program which becomes the start of a meaningful addition to t...

With the mission to preserve and promote the Philippine dress,  the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP), in partnership with Bench/Suyen Corporation and the local government of Binan City in Laguna, will hold a terno-making workshop from May 19 to 24, and an exhibition from May 22 to June 28, at the Sentrong Pangkultura ng Binan, Binan City, Laguna.

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For Toni Go-Yadao and Marco Viaña, the festival directors of Virgin Labfest (VLF), keeping the collaborative spirit of the country’s pioneering theater festival of untried, untested and unstaged one-act plays is the most important task they have to accomplish. They need to make sure that collaboration is not just a word thrown around, but is something infused in...

This National Heritage Month, the CCP Encyclopedia of Philippine Art (CCP EPA) highlights seven Filipina culture bearers and traditional craft artists whose historic contributions preserve the country’s rich cultural legacy. These exemplary individuals, who translate inherited knowledge and generational memories into art, have been awarded the Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan (GA...

Nominations for the Gawad CCP Para sa Sining are now open to the public.

The Gawad CCP Para Sa Sining is the highest award given by CCP to artists or groups of artists in architecture, dance, film and broadcast arts, literature, music, theater, and visual arts who have/had consistently produced outstanding works or have/had evolved a distinct style or technique that en...