In San Fernando, two famous 20-foot parols are paraded through the streets with a kaleidoscope of blinking lights. But nothing beats the simplicity of a homemade parol, Canlas said. Both he and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

“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 ...

Parol is dervied from the Spanish word for lantern, 'farol' FILSPARC's parol contest highlights the use of recyclable materials as means to reduce wastes The contest shows how Filipinos are ...

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 ...