The festival showcased approximately 90 homemade parols entered into the competition. For Filipinos, hanging a parol outside your house is an expression of shared faith and hope during the ...

A basement room in the Mint Mall has been transformed into a brilliantly colored storeroom of handmade parols -- star-shaped lanterns that signal the start of the Christmas season in the Philippines.

After moving to Manitoba as an immigrant, Filipino artist Queti Azurin missed home. Making parols — star-shaped lanterns — helped soothe her homesickness. In Winnipeg, she also began teaching ...

“It’s life,” says the four-time Ligligan Parol winner and the first mural-lantern designer, the bustle that comes with the season already evident in his shop through the kaleidoscopic ...

The original parol should be made of recycled endemic materials such as bamboo, paper and coconut palm to representing the unique traditions of the SUCs. “Commercially-made parols are not ...

MANILA, Philippines — Two senior citizens were featured on broadcast journalist Noli de Castro's show "KBYN: Kaagapay ng Bayan" for the creative versions of their Christmas parol made out of ...

Sen. Cynthia A. Villar and Deputy Speaker Camille Villar with the winners of the Parol Making Contest Sen. Cynthia A. Villar and Deputy Speaker Camille Villar led the celebration of the 18 th ...

MANILA, Philippines — A Christmas lantern crafted by Oriental Mindoro students shined brightest and bagged top honors in a nationwide parol-making contest, the Department of Education (DepEd ...