In December last year, just before Christmas, at the rooftop bar of Suazo in Davao, I sat down and recorded a podcast with two of the most promising Davao filmmakers: Conrad dela Cruz and Joshua Cesar ‘Wowa’ Medroso, who started
Jaltan Building on Magallanes Street, Davao City. (Sketch by Keith Bacongco) (Kinuriskuris is the urban sketching page of Mindanawon journalist Keith Bacongco. Kinuriskuris is Hilgaynon word for doodles).
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 17 March) – In a rare display of Mindanao talents and arts, 14 theater groups awed around 3,000 spectators here during the celebration of the Mindanao-leg of a nationwide theater festival from March 14-16. The
New Asia Restaurant along Villa Abrille st, Davao City. (Sketch by Keith Bacongco)
People’s Park, Davao City ( Sketch by KEITH BACONGCO)
(Kinuriskuris is the urban sketching blog of Mindanawon journalist Keith Bacongco. Kinuriskuris is Hiligaynon word for doodles)
BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews / 22 February)—Twenty artists from the Caraga Region were honored on Tuesday in the inaugural Creative Caraga Festival aimed to acknowledge and celebrate the accomplishments of outstanding creatives who originate from and are based in the region
Davao: Reconstructing History from Text and Memory, 2nd editionAuthor: Macario D. TiuResearch and Publication Office, Ateneo de Davao University, 2021, 571 pages Postcolonial feminist scholar Saidiya Hartman’s revelatory essay titled “Venus in Two Acts” (2008) probes the politics and limits
(MindaNews / 04 Feb) — Alvin Q. Larida’s academic background in Physics did not deter him from pursuing his love for writing. Captivated by the allure of the Hiligaynon language, Larida, even without formal training in writing or connections with
BOOK REVIEW: San Rafael by Leila Rispens-Noel8 Letters Bookstore & Publishing, 2023 One sweltering afternoon, Isabel headed for the lagoon. She walked through a rocky narrow track with dense cogon and other grasses on either side. Ice-cold water cascaded down
Aldevinco Shopping Center had been one of the most prominent landmarks in downtown Davao City for five decades until it was shutdown in 2021. Today, it is overshadowed by towering condominium buildings. Sketch by Keith Bacongco
(Kinuriskuris is the urban sketching page of Mindanawon journalist Keith Bacongco. Kinuriskuris is Hiligaynon word for doodles).
MindaNews presents its latest podcast from The MindaNews Podcast: Running About, with Bobby Timonera, Boy Mordeno, and Yas D. Ocampo. “Running About” features our conversations about running various roads (and off-roads) around Mindanao and the rest of the world. The
During the 2022 Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival—a Filipino film festival still largely Manila-centric—four films tackled Mindanao in their narratives, whether as a central subject and setting, or tangentially, with the 2017 Marawi Siege in the background. The production of these
When the Royal Mandaya Hotel along Palma Gil St. in Davao City was inaugurated in the 1990s, it was one of the tallest buildings in the city then. Today it is dwarfed by the recently built Avida Towers Davao along CM Recto Avenue. KEITH BACONGCO
Ateneo de Davao University along Roxas Avenue in Davao City. Sketch by KEITH BACONGCO
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 10 December) – Six Mindanao books are among 35 winners in the 41st National Book Awards. The Best Anthology in English is “Kalandrakas Part 1, 1890-1945: Stories and Storytellers of/on Regions in Mindanao, 1890-1990” and “Kalandrakas Part
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 07 December) – Pioneering Tausug poet, fictionist, and essayist Said K. Sadain, Jr. died of heart failure on Sunday, December 3, in Davao City. Jun Sadain was born on March 15, 1958, in Jolo, Sulu, the
NABIFILMEX continues to showcase cinematic visions that magnify social realities in a landlocked province sitting on a goldmine but whose people are left at the margins.
Only the older Dabawenyos will remember this landmark — the building along Cabaguio Avenue in Davao City that housed the Social Security System for several years until it transferred to another part of the city. Sketch by KEITH BACONGCO
Signage of an old cinema house along CM Recto Avenue in Davao City. Davao Theater closed decades ago. Along the same street, signages of cinemas long gone, remain. (Sketch by KEITH BACONGCO)
SARANGANI (MindaNews / 27 August) – Members of the Sarangani Writers League (SWL) showcased their work and promoted the thriving literary scene here at the Philippine Book Festival in Davao City last week. Held from August 18–20, 2023, at the
Here’s a map to the exciting events of this year’s Higalaay Festival. Click on the pins to see the details and directions for each event. powered by Proxi Here’s the list of events sourced from the Higalaay 2023 official Facebook
Events: mini pop-up, film screenings, live art performances, DJ Love (Live) Wondering where to go, and what to do amid the Kadayawan 2023 rush? Click on the X on the interactive map for the event’s location and details of Palawud
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 07 August) — The Kadayawan Festival in Davao City is an annual celebration of culture and thanksgiving. The city government-led event celebrates the 11 ethnic groups of Davao City and is a must-see for tourists visiting
In our pursuit to discover Mindanao music gems, the MindaNews Podcast interviews Aubrey DS, a Filipino singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, radio personality and visual artist, who started recording music in 2019, according to her Spotify profile. We discuss the ways
In this first music edition of the MindaNews Podcast, Yano co-founder and Davao-based guitarist Eric Gancio shares with journalist Yas D. Ocampo the ups and downs of iconic Filipino rock icon Yano. Gancio discusses the band’s beginnings, their rise to
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 24 April) — I’m no dance critic. I’m just a fan of the works of our National Artist Agnes Locsin, and I was in the audience at Samsung Theatre in Manila on Friday night of April
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 25 February) – The two-volume book on a century of Mindanao literature — from 1890 to 1990 — will be launched at the Ateneo de Davao University on Monday, February 27. Edited by the multi-awarded writer Ricardo
MARAWI CITY (MindaNews / 23 October) – Ten years after the Philippine government finally and officially recognized the “Bangsamoro” and three years after the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) was born, the Bangsamoro celebrated yet another historic day on
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 23 October) – The Ngilngig Asian Fantastic Film Festival, featuring acclaimed films created by Filipino and international filmmakers from different parts of Asia, will be held in Davao City from October 27 to 30. Jay Rosas, festival
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 16 October) – Mindanao Art 2022 opened Friday night at The Club at Northtown in Cabantian, a huge venue for hundreds of paintings, sculptures and installations by Mindanawon artists inside and outside the exhibit halls, on the
There must be more to being connected than how we connect today.There must be more to alignment than the lines we draw and say.Drawn away from what’s essential, always enticing, ever inviting,AI shackles us to the mundane — dancing, arguing,
(Opening remarks delivered by artist Ray Mudjahid “Kublai” Millan of Lawig Diwa at the gala night of the 4th Mindanao Art Fair on Friday, 14 October 2022 at The Club at Northtown, Cabantian, Davao City) Welcome to the 4th Mindanao Art
LANTAPAN, Bukidnon (MindaNews / 15 October) — A School of Living Traditions was opened to the public on Friday in Barangay Songco, at the foot of Mt. Kitanglad. Aduna Llesis Saway, project-in-charge said the school is intended to teach Talaandig
CAGAYAN DE ORO (MindaNews / 27 August) — Carnival street dancing is back in Cagayan de Oro’s fiesta celebration after two years of absence due to COVID-19 restrictions. The dancers in colorful costumes performed on the streets from Rodelsa Circle
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 15 June) – The collective launch of 59 Mindanao books published during the pandemic (2020 to 2022) and two books published in late 2019 during the opening of the 2nd Mindanao Book Festival on Monday drew a
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 11 June) – Dance icon Agnes Dakudao Locsin of Davao City is among eight National Artists for 2022 named by President Rodrigo Duterte through Proclamation 1390 on Friday. Locsin, National Artist for Dance, is the sixth artist
ALABEL, Sarangani (MindaNews / 26 May) – For Karlo Antonio Galay David, there is no such thing as a monolithic Mindanao literature. He considered Mindanao as one of the most culturally diverse islands in the world, and its creative expressions
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 23 January) – The COVID-19 pandemic did not stop Mindanawons and non-Mindanawons from writing books about Mindanao: at least 35 books, mostly on history and literature were published in 2020 and 2021. Two of these won
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 07 August) — The independent film festival Cinemalaya stages its 17th season with its second online festival from August 6 to September 5, featuring two award-winning Mindanawon films, a documentary on Marawi evacuees and a full-length
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 22 May) – A special online screening and discussion of the award-winning documentary, “A House in Pieces” will be presented by Stories Beyond and MindaNews on May 23, the 4th anniversary of Day 1 of the
ILIGAN CITY ( MindaNews / 3 February) – While the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic ravaged the global economy forcing many businesses to shutdown, Babu Kwan restaurant managed to find opportunities that kept it afloat amidst these trying times. The
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 26 July) – “For the love of one’s right to life,” artists mostly from Northern Mindanao have mounted an online art exhibit which can be viewed on Facebook or Instagram until August 15. On exhibit since
