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Tatler Asia
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Tatler Asia
Of jewels, myths and stones: Bowers Museum presents the couture collection of Alexis Monsanto
Filipino-born couturier Alexis Monsanto, now based in Hollywood, proudly showcases his Qin Dynasty-inspired Asian fashion collection at the Bowers Museum Gala this May 22. This is in conjunction with the highly anticipated opening of the 'World of the Terracotta Warriors: New Archaeological Discoveries' exhibition Esteemed Hollywood fashion expert Alexis Monsanto's latest collection is to be unveiled exclusively during the Bowers Museum's fundraising gala on May 22. Showcasing his signature blend of feminine, timeless and elegant designs crafted from exquisite fabrics with origami treatment, manipulation, and 3D processing, the intricate works take inspiration from the Qin Dynasty's imperial court and other important cultural elements of the era. This is in harmony with the museum's highly anticipated exhibition, World of the Terracotta Warriors: New Archaeological Discoveries. Read also: Inside the historic debut of Philippine design at Révélations Paris 2025 Above Save the date poster for the fundraising gala of the Bowers Museum, featuring the couture collection designed by Alexis Monsanto
The Province
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Province
Vancouver chef kicks off food tour to fundraise for victims of Lapu Lapu Day tragedy
'While it's difficult to move forward, I know the best way to honour those we lost is to keep showing up — with food, music, and the love that binds our community' — Top Chef Canada Season 6 runner-up Mark Singson Vancouver chef Mark Singson. By Viranlly Liemena. Photo by Viranlly Liemena Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. Filipino-born, Vancouver-raised, chef Mark Singson is healing his broken heart over the Lapu Lapu festival tragedy in Vancouver in the way he knows best. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Exclusive articles by top sports columnists Patrick Johnston, Ben Kuzma, J.J. Abrams and others. Plus, Canucks Report, Sports and Headline News newsletters and events. Unlimited online access to The Province and 15 news sites with one account. The Province ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition to view on any device, share and comment on. Daily puzzles and comics, including the New York Times Crossword. Support local journalism. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Exclusive articles by top sports columnists Patrick Johnston, Ben Kuzma, J.J. Abrams and others. Plus, Canucks Report, Sports and Headline News newsletters and events. Unlimited online access to The Province and 15 news sites with one account. The Province ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition to view on any device, share and comment on. Daily puzzles and comics, including the New York Times Crossword. Support local journalism. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors He'll be cooking fundraising dinners in Montreal, Calgary, and Vancouver to benefit those who were affected by the horrific incident that happened on April 26 in Vancouver, when a man drove a black SUV into a crowd of festivalgoers shortly after 8 p.m. 'While it's difficult to move forward, I know the best way to honour those we lost is to keep showing up — with food, music, and the love that binds our community,' Singson said of the fundraiser. In Vancouver, Singson will take over Bar Susu at 209 East Sixth Ave. from May 21 to May 23 for a three-day pop up followed on May 24 by a block party. Proceeds from the block party will be donated directly to the GoFundMe pages of victims, according to Singson. The dishes, priced from $18 to $24, will celebrate Filipino food 'in true Mark Singson style,' which means bold, inventive and modern. 'This tragedy left a mark not only on my Filipino brothers and sisters, but on the entire Vancouver community,' says Singson. 'The Filipino spirit is what makes this city so special — kind, generous and full of heart.' This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. People leave flowers, teddy bears and candles in memory of victims of the Lapu Lapu Day tragedy on Fraser street in Vancouver May 1, 2025. Photo by Arlen Redekop / PNG The celebrated chef, who was the runner-up on the sixth season of Top Chef Canada, currently operates FAM Inc., staging private events with food, art and music. Singson also contributed to the meal program spearheaded by Chef TJ Conwin, which delivered prepared meals directly to victims after the tragedy. The multi-city food fundraiser is one of several initiatives by Filipino community members to help support victims. Matthew Celestial, founder of the Toronto-based skin care brand Matte Equation recently pledged to donate 50 per cent of all sales of the brand's products through May 31 to the United Way B.C.'s Filipino Community Fund. To learn more, visit Read More Vancouver Canucks NHL Sports Vancouver Canucks News
Vancouver Sun
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Vancouver Sun
Vancouver chef kicks off food tour to fundraise for victims of Lapu Lapu Day tragedy
Filipino-born, Vancouver-raised chef Mark Singson is healing his broken heart over the Lapu Lapu festival tragedy in Vancouver in the way he knows best. He'll be cooking fundraising dinners in Montreal, Calgary, and Vancouver to benefit those who were affected by the horrific incident that happened on April 26 in Vancouver, when a man drove a black SUV into a crowd of festivalgoers shortly after 8 p.m. 'While it's difficult to move forward, I know the best way to honour those we lost is to keep showing up — with food, music, and the love that binds our community,' Singson said of the fundraiser. Discover the best of B.C.'s recipes, restaurants and wine. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. A welcome email is on its way. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder. The next issue of West Coast Table will soon be in your inbox. Please try again Interested in more newsletters? Browse here. In Vancouver, Singson will take over Bar Susu (209 East Sixth Ave.) from May 21 to May 23 for a three-day pop up followed on May 24 by a 'block party.' Proceeds from the block party will be donated directly to the GoFundMe pages of victims, according to Singson. The dishes, priced from $18 to $24, will celebrate Filipino food 'in true Mark Singson style,' which means bold, inventive and modern. 'This tragedy left a mark not only on my Filipino brothers and sisters, but on the entire Vancouver community,' says Singson. 'The Filipino spirit is what makes this city so special — kind, generous and full of heart.' The celebrated chef, who was the runner-up on the sixth season of Top Chef Canada, currently operates FAM Inc., staging private events with food, art and music. Singson also contributed to the meal program spearheaded by Chef TJ Conwin, which saw prepared meals delivered directly to victims in the immediate aftermath of the tragedy. The multi-city food fundraiser is one of several initiatives by Filipino community members to help support victims. Matthew Celestial, founder of the Toronto-based skin care brand Matte Equation recently pledged to donate 50 per cent of all sales of the brand's products through May 31 to the United Way B.C.'s Filipino Community Fund. To learn more, visit
Forbes
20-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Heading To Art Basel Hong Kong? Here Are 5 Things You Shouldn't Miss.
This edition showcases the work of Pacita Abad, the late Filipino-born American Ivatan visual artist, presented by Tina Kim Gallery (New York) and Silverlens (Manila, New York) Courtesy of Art Basel Hong Kong With world-class bars and restaurants, incredible shopping, and beautiful hiking trails—you'll find fun in just about every corner of Hong Kong. There's a week in the year when it goes on overdrive: at the end of March when Art Basel Hong Kong rolls around. Since its first edition in 2013, Art Basel Hong Kong has become the default meeting place for artists, dealers, collectors and all types of art enthusiasts. This year, Asia-Pacific's premier art fair opens on March 28, and there's a whole lot of exhibitions, events, creative talks and parties to enjoy. Angelle Siyang-Le, Director of Art Basel Hong Kong, loves the fact that it's more than the usual event. 'Our fair is more than just a platform for buying and selling art; it's a dynamic intersection of global art worlds through extensive public programs that extend beyond the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre,' she says. Angelle Siyang-Le, Fair Director of Art Basel Hong Kong Courtesy of Art Basel Hong Kong Having lived in London, Dubai, and Vancouver before moving to Hong Kong, Siyang-Le says her international upbringing has profoundly influenced her approach to her current role. 'Each city has its distinct cultural identity and creative pulse, teaching me the importance of embracing and celebrating unique offerings. This experience has reinforced the idea that art transcends borders—whether they are geographic, cultural, or personal.' Siyang-Le says this sense of openness is at the heart of the Hong Kong fair and all Art Basel shows. 'It's about fostering dialogue, embracing diverse voices, and expanding perspectives through art,' she adds. With the upcoming edition more ambitious than ever, a quick glance at the offerings and calendar could make one feel overwhelmed. If you're heading to Art Basel Hong Kong 2025, heed Siyang-Le's advice on this year's highlights. There are dozens of exhibitors at Art Basel Hong Kong, but it pays to prioritise the new arrivals. 'It's always exciting to see what first-time exhibitors bring to the fair. Anant Art Gallery, in Insights, is showcasing three decades of works by Pakistani artist Aisha Khalid,' says Siyang-Le. Aisha Khalid, I Am and I Am Not Series (Diptych), 2023 Gouache on wasli paper 7.5 x 10 inches each Courtesy of Art Basel Hong Kong She also recommends Blank Projects, which is presenting a solo booth by Igshaan Adams featuring large scale tapestries inspired by Indigenous South African dancers. Hong Kong gallery, Property Holdings Development Group (PHD Group) is also making its debut this year. 'They're premiering an interactive installation by Michele Chu that transforms a domestic kitchen into a space exploring themes of cooking and mourning.' After you've walked a bit of the fair, make your way to the Encounters sector, which houses large-scale projects that go beyond the art show stand. 'It will feature 18 exceptional installations foregrounding the realms of digital art, design and architecture, textiles, nature, and human interactions,' says Siyang-Le. 'Out of the total number of pieces, 14 works are being created specifically for the fair.' Jessica Silverman presents 'Cosmic Trees' by Istanbul-born artist Hayal Pozanti Courtesy of Art Basel Hong Kong 2025 Another highlight is Kabinett, a 'jewel box' sector woven throughout the fair rather than in one concentrated space. 'With 38 participating galleries—the highest number in the fair's history—it offers a unique way to experience focused presentations.' This year's film program is in collaboration with Para Site, Hong Kong's leading contemporary art center and one of Asia's oldest independent art institutions, which will steer the curatorial direction. 'The reason for this partnership is to provide a platform for young curators to engage with an international audience. By collaborating with them, we also aim to inject fresh perspectives and energy into the fair,' says Siyang-Le. What to expect? Para Site's curatorial team put together a compelling lineup of seven screenings featuring works of 30 artists, exploring themes ranging from ecological interdependence and resilience under societal constraints to human desires and the evolving technological landscapes shaping our increasingly hybrid world. 'A standout in this year's program is Vampires in Space (2022), a feature film by Isadora Neves Marques, which will have its own special screening. It's definitely one to put on your list!' There are numerous highlights of the public program, which are entirely free for everyone to enjoy. Siyang-Le singled out three, the first of which is Night Charades by Ho Tzu Nyen, a co-commission with M+ and presented by UBS. 'This is set to transform the M+ facade into a dynamic tribute to Hong Kong cinema, visible from many parts of Victoria Harbour.' Pacific Place hosts 'Lanternfly Ballet' by Monster Chetwynd Courtesy of Pacific Place It's an easy hop from the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre to Pacific Place where Lanternfly Ballet by Monster Chetwynd is displayed. 'This interactive, site-specific installation combines live performances with nature-themed sculptures, creating a fantastical ecosystem,' she shares. Lastly, Art Basel Hong Kong has a collaboration with Tai Kwun called The Artists' Night, which 'promises an experimental experience with performances across Tai Kwun's sites.' This year marks the launch of the new MGM Discoveries Art Prize, dedicated to supporting emerging artists at a pivotal stage in their careers. Earlier this year, Art Basel announced a shortlist featuring three outstanding artists: Shin Min, represented by P21 gallery in Seoul; Kayode Ojo, represented by Sweetwater in Berlin; and Saju Kunhan, represented by Tarq in Mumbai. 'Each brings a distinct and compelling perspective to the fair. The winner, who will be announced during the fair, will receive $50,000—shared with their representing gallery—along with an exhibition in Macau, further amplifying their work on an international stage.' Art Basel Hong Kong runs from March 28 to 30, 2025.
The Guardian
10-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
‘We love involving everyone': these married artists want you to work on their giant cardboard sculpture
Using cardboard, make habitation a better place. Draw a tree of your imagination or that you can see. Have fun and clean up. These are some of the instructions you will be invited to follow if you visit Bundanon Art Museum on the New South Wales south coast in the coming months. Should you accept, you will become part of a new large-scale installation by Filipino-born husband-and-wife artist duo Isabel and Alfredo Aquilizan that explores the tree as a symbol of home and community. 'We really love involving everyone in the actual process of making work,' Isabel says. 'It demystifies the idea of art as an individual pursuit.' The Aquilizans' Reflections/Habitations is part of Bundanon's group exhibition Thinking Together: Exchanges with the Natural World, and consists of two parts: a wall of drawings, and a large-scale 'accumulative' sculpture of a toppled tree, made from a grid of timber beams covered in small cardboard sculptures. Visitors are invited to create their own sculptures and drawings in the adjacent gallery to be added to the installation over the course of the exhibition. 'It's such a generous offer they make,' says Sophie O'Brien, Bundanon's head of curatorial and learning, 'which is: 'We'll make this work together'.' By welcoming audiences to co-create, the Aquilizans also hope to prompt reflection: how do trees – fallen or living – provide homes for humans and non-humans? How are deforestation and overdevelopment connected? And, what does it mean to create a 'home'? This final question is one that the Aquilizans have been asking themselves and their audiences since 2006, when they moved to Australia with their five children. From that point onwards, home has 'always been a recurring narrative in our work', says Isabel – 'because we are migrants', Alfredo adds. They joke, in their characteristically warm and self-deprecating manner, that they now have three citizenships – as Filipinos, Australians and senior citizens. One of the Aquilizans' first explorations of 'home' was at the 2006 Biennale of Sydney, which coincided with their move. 'We always try to share our story depending on what is happening, our art and our life have never been separate,' Isabel says. Their biennale installation, Project Be-longing: In Transit, documented their relocation to Australia via 12 neat stacks of personal items, each perfect cube creating the illusion that the cardboard of a packing box had vanished to reveal its contents. Referencing the Filipino migrant tradition of sending balikbayan (returning home) boxes of items to family members, it was a deeply personal portrait of a home in flux. Many of the Aquilizans' works similarly draw on everyday objects, including thongs, bed sheets and sickles. However, it is their large-scale cardboard sculptures built with community participation (like the one at Bundanon) for which they have become most well-known. They trace their interest in co-creating to their roots in south-east Asia, where sharing and helping each other is part of everyday life, as well as to their five children, who were involved with their parents' artworks from an early age. This has continued into adulthood, with the family now working as 'a kind of collective', Isabel says. Over the past two decades the Aquilizans have built iterations of their striking ephemeral sculptures with a huge number of communities on almost every continent, at major institutions such as the Art Gallery of NSW, Groninger Museum in the Netherlands and Museum MACAN in Indonesia, as well as community spaces. Perhaps their most significant co-made cardboard work is In-Habit: Project Another Country, a multi-year travelling sculpture that began in 2010. As it has toured and been rebuilt and added to by different audiences – first in Australia then Japan, Indonesia, the Philippines and many other countries – it embodies its themes of change, displacement and settlement. Reflections/Habitations is similar in approach to their previous sculptures but reflects an expansion of their ideas around home to include nature, specifically trees and canopies. 'This exhibition is asking everyone to reflect not just within, but also especially what's happening around us,' Alfredo says. It feels fitting that the Aquilizans are exploring what 'home' means in Bundanon, the former home of prominent husband-and-wife arts figures Arthur and Yvonne Boyd. The Boyds saw their home as somewhere they could foster a creative community, protect the environment and leave a lasting legacy for Australian culture. 'They knew from the very beginning they were going to give it away,' O'Brien says. 'Arthur spent years churning out paintings, to be able to afford to pay it off and gift it [to the Australian government, in 1993]. It was a real social project.' When I ask the Aquilizans' question back to them – 'What does home mean to you?'– they speak of their decision to move back to the Philippines in 2024. 'We feel we have more to contribute by being there,' they say. 'We have political issues, economic problems and so on – at the end of the day, you cannot just rely on the system. You have to find alternative ways to do things.' To this end, they are currently building a new collective workspace, studio and home that will support local artisans and preserve endangered craft skills through art projects and international collaborations. Like the Boyds, the Aquilizans recognise the power of the art market to support their endeavour. While they have historically made non-commercial works, they are increasingly collaborating with local metalsmiths, artisans and re-skilled farmers as well as their gallery, Ames Yavuz, to create collectible pieces, often drawing from their co-created sculptures for details and inspiration. So: should you contribute to their sculpture in Bundanon, a little part of your work may live beyond the exhibition –helping to create a generously expanded notion of who and what art is for, and what a home can be. Reflections/Habitations is part of the exhibition Thinking Together: Exchanges with the Natural World, on until 8 June at Bundanon Art Museum, Shoalhaven
