For many Filipinos, the approaching holiday season will be one tinged with nostalgia. After close to two years of living and coping with the pandemic, people are longing for a sense of normalcy, with ...

CHRISTMAS is just around the corner which is probably why I cannot help but reminisce about all the Christmases I spent as a young boy in Candaba, Pampanga. More than the hot bibingkas and puto ...

After moving to Manitoba as an immigrant, Filipino artist Queti Azurin missed home. Making parols — star-shaped lanterns — helped soothe her homesickness. In Winnipeg, she also began teaching ...

CEBU, Philippines — The Caballes family, natives of Barangay Guadalupe in Cebu City, has made thousands of Christmas star lanterns or parol since the late 1970s. Back then, orders for their ...

Make this your preferred source to get more updates from this publisher on Google. Christmas lanterns shaped like stars are commonly seen all over the Philippines, but those inspired by fishes? Only ...

You will never miss to notice the presence of colourful and brilliant lanterns that commonly hang in every home of Filipinos during Christmas. Various versions of the ...

Parol is dervied from the Spanish word for lantern, 'farol' FILSPARC's parol contest highlights the use of recyclable materials as means to reduce wastes The contest shows how Filipinos are ...