by Margo Hannah De Guzman Quadra | Dec 23, 2020 | Good Balita
Sixth-graders from Washington DC Public School’s (DCPS) Excel Academy took part in various activities about Philippine culture and tradition, including an interactive Pinoy parol lantern-making tutorial for the holidays. Keisha Hopkins’ all-girls class was...
by Margo Hannah De Guzman Quadra | Dec 15, 2020 | Good Travel
The Giant Lantern Festival (GLF) in the City of San Fernando, Pampanga, known as the Christmas Capital of the Philippines, has gone fully digital this year to keep Filipinos safe amid the coronavirus global pandemic. Twenty-foot-tall giant Christmas star lanterns...
by Margo Hannah De Guzman Quadra | Dec 10, 2020 | Good Show
Pampanga’s famous Christmas lanterns are featured in the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) “Pasko 2020” online streaming of its annual lights-and-sounds show that can be enjoyed by Filipinos in the comforts of their own homes or wherever they...
by Margo Hannah De Guzman Quadra | Nov 17, 2020 | Good Show
Disney’s new video tutorial is teaching fans around the globe how to create festive Filipino Parol lanterns inspired by the ones “Lola” and her grandchild made for Christmas day. The “Make Your Own Parols” video was released by Disney on...
by Angie Quadra-Balibay | Dec 6, 2019 | Good Balita
Iloilo City’s holiday festivities were heralded this year with its streets adorned and lit up by over 1,500 Parols or Christmas lanterns that were hand-made by inmates of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP)-Iloilo City District Jail. The holiday...