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As you read this, I would have just returned from a 40-day residency at the Civitella Ranieri Center in Umbertide, Italy — still dizzy, no doubt, not just from the long plane ride via Doha, but also from nearly six weeks of immersion in the thickest of cultural brews: the company of a dozen artists, writers, and musicians in a castle in Italy’s medieval heartland.

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I saved the Pangasinan leg from last week’s piece on our “Northern exposure” trip for another installment because I thought it merited its own report, given the two delightful architectural discoveries I mentioned.

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In any international company, of course I’d hit it off instantly with a Scotsman. And this idyllic sojourn at Villa Serbelloni has not been an exception.
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Pardon the mundane rhetoric, but only such modest queries this side of incredulity may introduce eventual journal entries.
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On Friday the 20th of June, not so humbly did we stand among the ranks of creative individuals chosen to receive the Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan awards as part of the serial activities celebrating the 432nd anniversary of the Noble and Ever Loyal City.
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(Part 2)
What’s it like to be a fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation’s study center in Bellagio, Italy?
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As you read this, I would have just returned from a 40-day residency at the Civitella Ranieri Center in Umbertide, Italy — still dizzy, no doubt, not just from the long plane ride via Doha, but also from nearly six weeks of immersion in the thickest of cultural brews: the company of a dozen artists, writers, and musicians in a castle in Italy’s medieval heartland.

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I saved the Pangasinan leg from last week’s piece on our “Northern exposure” trip for another installment because I thought it merited its own report, given the two delightful architectural discoveries I mentioned.

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In any international company, of course I’d hit it off instantly with a Scotsman. And this idyllic sojourn at Villa Serbelloni has not been an exception.
[DatePublished] => 2003-11-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804845 [AuthorName] => Alfred A. Yuson [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 225704 [Title] => Of Bellagio: Che bella, bellissima [Summary] => What does one do for an encore after Bellagio? What will it take to get through imaginably severe withdrawal pangs once the sojourn is over? In the first place, how did one deserve such an idyllic period of beauty and tranquility?

Pardon the mundane rhetoric, but only such modest queries this side of incredulity may introduce eventual journal entries.
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On Friday the 20th of June, not so humbly did we stand among the ranks of creative individuals chosen to receive the Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan awards as part of the serial activities celebrating the 432nd anniversary of the Noble and Ever Loyal City.
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(Part 2)
What’s it like to be a fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation’s study center in Bellagio, Italy?
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[DatePublished] => 2002-10-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135214 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804847 [AuthorName] => Butch Dalisay [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) ) )
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