LIKE towns all around the country, Victorias, Negros Occidental held regular town fiestas. So, it comes as no surprise that while growing up there in the 1970s, the young Chris B. Millado developed a fascination with carnivals or the local perya.

ILOILO-BASED contemporary artist Allain Hablo’s works in steel are the focus of “Sacred Journey” — his third exhibition with Salcedo Private View which is ongoing until June 10.

WITH this year’s theme, “Sulong Sining,” the Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corp.’s 55th National Students Arts Competition (NSAC) challenges Filipino youth to take the lead in directing the country towards a brighter tomorrow through their art.

AFTER two years of online performances and the streaming of archived works, the Virgin Labfest (VLF), the festival of untried, untested, and unstaged plays, returns to live stage with 12 new works slated on June 16 to 26, at Tanghalang Huseng Batute (CCP Studio Theater).

THE MUSICAL We Will Rock You will be coming to Manila on Oct. 27 to Nov. 20, with performances at the newly constructed Samsung Performing Arts Theater in Circuit Makati.

PARIS, — The Mona Lisa was left shaken but unharmed on Sunday when a visitor to the Louvre tried to smash the glass protecting the world’s most famous painting before smearing cream across its surface in an apparent climate-related publicity stunt.

LIMA — A team of archaeologists has discovered a network of passageways under a more than 3,000-year-old temple in the Peruvian Andes.

CAIRO — Archaeologists working near Cairo have uncovered hundreds of ancient Egyptian coffins and bronze statues of deities.

ANNE Curtis makes her comeback to the concert stage in Luv-Anne: The Comeback at Resorts World Manila’s (RWM) Newport Performing Arts Theater on June 11.

ABS-CBN and PCCW’s pan-regional OTT video streaming service Viu will stream the Philippine adaptation of the Korean thriller Flower of Evil (2020) in 16 markets across Asia, the Middle East, and South Africa.

LOS ANGELES — Tom Cruise may have pulled off one of the most daring stunts of his career — getting audiences to go to the movies for something that doesn’t involve superheroes.

LOOK back at the socio-political landscape of the 1980s Manila through the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) Arthouse Cinema’s back-to-back screenings of National Artist for Film Lino Brocka’s Macho Dancer and National Artist for Film Ishmael Bernal’s Manila By Night on June 3, starting at 2 p.m., at the Tanghalang Manuel Conde.