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Category: Arts & Culture

Kinuriskuris: Jaltan Building

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).

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People’s Park

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)

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20 Caraga artists honored in inaugural festival

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

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mindaviews column review

REVIEW: Reconstructed History

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

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Kinuriskuris: Old Landmark

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).

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Towers

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

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6 Mindanao books win National Book Awards

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

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KINURISKURIS: Landmark

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

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KINURISKURIS: Long gone

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)

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Kadayawan Festival 2023 event guide

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

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MINDANAO ART 2022: Aligned. Interconnected

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,

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After 2 years, street dancing is back in CDO

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

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