Sneeze Magazine

16/02/2024

SEE YOU LATER. Join us for a 3-day art fair at the Shops at Atria, Ayala Malls event center! We're bringing together 66 incredible artists and over 80 artworks that showcase Ilonggo's artistry and identity.

At 6:00 PM, join us for a special program where you can chat and connect with the artists!

Special thanks to The Shops at Atria and Mr. Jay Trenas for helping us make this event happen.

For more information:
09171746766
[email protected]

15/02/2024

14/02/2024

Got anything planned this weekend?

We’re collaborating with Shops at Atria, Ayala Malls for a three-day art fair starting Friday, 6:00 PM. The fair will open from 10:00 AM - 8:00 PM on Saturday and Sunday.

Tell your friends!

Special thanks to the artists who are joining us in this event, The Shops at Atria team, and Mr. Jay Treñas for making this event happen.

The artwork featured in the event poster is a sketch of Atria Park District by artist, Rey Arguelles.

13/02/2024

The Ilonggo art scene takes the spotlight this February! Together with Thrive Art Gallery, The Shops at Atria presents “Art at Atria: A Celebration of National Arts Month” from February 15 to 29, 2024!

Rediscover the creative scene in Iloilo with our exciting set of art activities:

🎨February 15, Poetika, Shops at Atria Event Center
🎨February 16-18, Art at Atria, Shops at Atria Event Center
🎨February 17, Painting Paper Mache Figures, Thrive Art Gallery
🎨February 18, Make Your Own Komiks, Thrive Art Gallery
🎨February 18, Drawing What You See, Thrive Art Gallery
🎨March 2, An Afternoon with Classical Filipino Music, Shops at Atria Event Center

Come and step into a beautiful showcase of local art here at The Shops at Atria! See you! 🧡

Artwork by Mr. Rey Arguelles, thank you sir!

16/01/2024

Join the artists in the opening of the exhibition, "Pangágda/An Invitation," on January 19, 2024 at 5:30 PM.

This exhibition features the works of artists whose art practices are based in Iloilo. It is an invitation for viewers to discover and rediscover Ilonggo art. What are the prevailing themes? What is the dominant medium? And how does the place influence an artist's artmaking?

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Gallery Hours: 12:00 PM - 8:00 PM
GALLERY IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC FOR FREE

For more information:
[email protected]
+639171746766
www.thriveart.org/gallery

Featured image:
"i o u", Jeline Laporga, 2024

06/01/2024

22/07/2023

History of zine culture in Iloilo City! Sneeze is part of the second wave according to the writer. 😌

Editor’s Note: The full version of this article was first published on Project Iloilo in March 2016. First Wave: Rebel LitA zine is a shortened term for “fanzine”. It’s a medium widely attributed to punk rock, so you could definitely see its appeal to the disenfranchised creatives, many of w...

29/11/2020

Christian's photos used to end up in the pages of Sneeze too! 👏👏👏

Christian Lozañes chronicles arts and culture events in Iloilo City, through his online platforms.

27/12/2019

12/01/2019

The Dinagyang Festival 2019 OPENING SALVO held yesterday January 11, 2019 held at the New Freedom Grandstand...

https://youtu.be/VydCtB5TZYU

The Dinagyang Opening Salvo which was held last January 11, 2019, with highlights at the new Freedom Grandstand in Muelle Loney, Iloilo City

28/09/2016

Guys! Looking for some art this week? Check this out.

SEE how love, happiness and failures are carved in wood at Jeanroll Ejar’s first solo exhibit on September 24 to October 15 at Casa Real, Iloilo City. Ejar’s exhibit dubbed “Retazo” a Spanish word which means scrap or fragments encapsulates how love can be such a numbing yet mesmerizing feeling.

The artist, who is born in a family of wood carvers from Iloilo and Negros Oriental, attempts to freeze in scraps of wood how love in all its forms can be both blissful and melancholic. Ejar’s masterpieces depict how love’s beauty and mystery can be felt and experienced in its irony like eyes with smiling tears, roses piercing tied hearts, caged hearts longing to be freed, or a heart suspended in a rib cage pleading “don’t let me fall”.

Ejar captures love complexities - how a stubborn mind rules over a persistent heart or how a stubborn heart is restrained by rational mind; and how a heart that is free refuses to fly or a heart that is loved refuses to love back.

The artist, who finds comfort working in the farthest corner of his beloved father’s workshop, also looks at love as healing in itself as depicted in a piece that shows how a broken man picks up his heart’s pieces one by one, savoring each moment, as if reminding himself that brokenness, too, shall pass. Ejar shows how love can be so pure, peaceful, and patient when nurtured at the right time; how the same feeling can be destructive when loosen free at the wrong time; or how love can be deceiving when we do not look beyond what our eyes can see.

Most of all, Ejar tries to capture how love can be the answer to all our woes despite the woes love brings. Two of his sculptures – “When There’s Love, There’s Peace” and “Look Inside” will leave us challenged. The artist, who believes art is not only for art’s sake, asks us to plunge into the depths of our hearts and try to set our minds free from biases that hinder us from loving others, especially those in the periphery, the marginalized or the retaso ng lipunan, purely.

Written by:
M.A. delos Santos

Photos by:
Christian Evren Gimotea Lozañes
(Head, VIVA EXCON 2016 Iloilo Documentation Team)

More photos here:
https://goo.gl/JZRYl1

10/05/2016

26/02/2016

Andrew Bird has collaborated with Fiona Apple on "Left Hand Kisses," the second song he's shared from his upcoming album Are You Serious after the rocking "Capsized." "My inclination was to write a song about why I can't write a simple love song. The song began as an internal dialogue," Bird says of…

26/02/2016

dumb asses.

The latest music, band and film blogs from the NME.COM team

26/02/2016

We’re pleased to debut the official poster for the upcoming film MILES AHEAD, starring Don Cheadle as Miles Davis. In select theaters April 1!

25/02/2016

Replays on YouTube .

The BRIT Awards paid tribute to David Bowie tonight with a performance from Lorde and some members of Bowie's backing bands over the years. The segment kicked off with a medley of some of his most enduring hits before Lorde comes out to sing "Life On Mars?" Bowie was posthumously awarded the Icon Aw…

24/02/2016

Damnnnn..

Directed by Ringan Ledwidge

21/02/2016

Well finally

20/02/2016

20/02/2016

If you've never seen someone play pantyhose tug of war with their head, you're in for a seriously WTF surprise.

20/02/2016

Hmmmmmm

One country that has always been popular with U.S. expats is France and, if you’re at all concerned about your health then it’s never been a better time to head across the pond.

20/02/2016

Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson exiting Columbia Pictures offices after signing deal to make Bottle Rocket, which was released 20 years ago this week.

19/02/2016

Treat yourself to The Witch this weekend. The scariest movie I've seen in years. An instant classic from A24 by first time writer/director Robert Eggers.

19/02/2016

From BBC News.

18/02/2016

Hehehehehe

A man, who believes he recently spoke to God while in the depths of a k hole, has claimed he was told there was a “rave of Biblical proportions” held at the base of Mount Sinai after Moses had come...

18/02/2016

BOSTON, MASS. – Grammy-nominated, singer/songwriter and founding member of three of the most influential and successful bands of the post-punk era, Tanya Donelly (Breeders, Throwing Muses, Belly) w…

17/02/2016

Speed metal or thrash metal? The consensus seems to be that the terms are interchangeable and probably not even applicable in 2016, although the term "thrash" metal doesn't elicit the groans that "speed" metal does when experts on the subject are asked. In fact, this list of the best speed/thrash...

16/02/2016

Career-spanning homage included "Space Oddity", "Changes", "Ziggy Stardust", and more.

16/02/2016

Hell yeah.

Over Dr. Dre, Drake, Nicki Minaj, and J. Cole