Photos by Ricky Villabona
Ricky who lives in a high-rise has been taking photos of the city in lockdown: eerily beautiful shots of cityscapes without people, skies so clear you can see the fires of Mordor, or alien spaceships hovering. They look like science-fiction stories waiting to be told. Where did everyone go? Why did they leave? What terrors lurk in the silent spaces?
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You can watch the recorded reading and talk at Mt Cloud’s Facebook page.
Every year Gabe Mercado and Lissa Romero-de Guia do a dramatic reading of Nick Joaquin’s story May Day Eve on May Day Eve (April 30) at Mt Cloud Bookshop in Baguio. As we are all indoors this year, they will do the performance online and Fifi of Mt Cloud has asked me to provide commentary. I am happy to play Waldorf and Statler of The Muppet Show, and to provide trivia (Traditionally April 30 is Walpurgisnacht, when witches supposedly walk the earth, and War Pigs by Black Sabbath was originally titled Walpurgisnacht, so there’s your Black Sabbath-Quijano de Manila connection. Also I don’t know of a film version of May Day Eve, but there is a very bad one of Joaquin’s Summer Solstice).
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