DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/24 April) – The Sagayan Festival contingent from Maguindanao bagged the first prize of the Tugtog ng Aliwan Festival Music Competition in Pasay City on Thursday evening. The win carried with it a cash prize of P100,000. The
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/20 April) — Staging an art exhibit with well refined oeuvres in different media may seem confusing and disorienting to the curious viewer and the art enthusiast alike. But the five men who comprise the art group Tabula
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/17 March) — Australian rock band Bonney Read had a very simple objective for their first gig in the Philippines: as musicians, the band members wanted to use the same influence that they had on their followers to
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/10 March) — Gone are the days when art was strictly confined in museums or meant to be enjoyed by the more privileged. These days, a larger segment of the general public is becoming witness to the efforts
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/09 March) — One of the 62nd foundation year celebration highlights of the Philippine Women’s College of Davao (PWC Davao) was the launching of the book Davao Cuisine: Recipes of the Ten Tribes of Davao City. It features
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/02 March) — As she formally opened her school’s first branch in Mindanao, singer and music educator Nikki Junia brought to the south a unique educational program that puts emphasis on the importance of music in children during
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/27 Feb) — When words are not enough to tell a story, music and melody come into play to bring life to various human experiences—the inspiration of the songs encased in the first ever studio album published and
The Davao chapter of the Guild for Upholding and Harnessing Indispensable Talents (GUHIT) Pinas spread the art love last weekend as they held their first major exhibition for the benefit of the Badjao community in the city. The exhibit, called
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/15 November) — Mishael Pueblas has something what he calls an “artvocacy.” In 2009, he started working on a masterpiece using greener art materials to address an environmental message. That art piece, which took three years to make,
An upcoming documentary film festival presented by GMA News TV will be featuring works of two Mindanawon filmmakers. Nef Luczon is one of them. The film of the Cagayan de Oro-based journalist and media instructor is one of the 11
An upcoming documentary film festival presented by GMA News TV will be featuring works of two Mindanawon filmmakers. Filmmaker, editor, and writer Charliebebs Gohetia is one of them. His documentary for Cine Totoo is one of the 11 that will
VIENTIANE, Laos (MindaNews/21 March) — An independent film that depicts the indigenous tradition and beliefs of the Palawan tribe in the Philippines opened a curtain with new light in Lao cinema. Young Lao filmmakers and audience, including Filipinos and foreign
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/06 March) — Three Mindanawon writers are among the 12 fellows for this year’s Silliman University National Writers Workshop, the Edilberto and Edith Tiempo Creative Writing Center said in a statement Wednesday. Prescilla Dorado of UP-Mindanao was chosen
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 6 Feb) – Is reading a book these days – which I have always thought was a rare precious gift – an endangered species in our day and post-modern age? There are days – especially when
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/06 February) – Watch out for the “punto de vista” (point of view) and “omissions, silences.” This was the challenge posed by Dr. Macario Tiu, National Book Awards winner for History in 2005 and a four-time winner in
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 6 Feb) – Award-winning poet, writer, artist and professor Ricardo de Ungria was among a number of Mindanawon poets who joined the poetry reading during the opening of the 1st Mindanao Book Festival at the Ateneo
VIENTIANE, Laos (MindaNews / 5 Aug) – Images of people’s movements portrayed with layered oil-based colours on canvases filled the white walls of the two-story M Gallery at Samsenthai Road in this city. The paintings were created by two artists,
NCCA now accepting project proposals for 2014 DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/19 July)—The National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) is calling on cultural and art groups, individual artists, non-government organizations, local government units and academic institutions to submit project proposals
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/07 July) – A 21-year old singer from Surigao City made all four judges of the Voice of the Philippines contest turn around Saturday night with her rendition of a song from the Mindanao theatre production, “Uwahig.” Juvie
MALAYBALAY CITY (MIndaNews/07 June)– The Bukidnon State University community-based recording studio’s “Lageng” (voice), a collection of 14 traditional songs from Bukidnon’s seven hill tribes, was met with “excited and optimistic support from industry players and music enthusiasts in Metro Manila,”
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/21 May) – In a marked departure from their mainly oral tradition, the Bukidnon-Daraghuyan tribe has published a series of four comics depicting their history and culture. Titled “tribal comics series,” the illustrated materials will be used in
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/10 March) — Bukidnon-based artists are organizing a soil painting festival in April 2014 to put the province on the map as the “Soil Painting Capital of the World. ” Rodelio “Waway” Saway, an artist and musician from
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/05 March) – The provincial government should have disallowed some companies from enjoying exclusive rights during the Kaamulan even if they were major sponsors of the annual festival showcasing Bukidnon’s indigenous cultures, a Lumad leader said on Monday.
BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/ 29 December)- The National Museum branch here has been temporarily closed to the viewing public due to repair and retro-fitting works. George Abcede, the museum’s officer-in-charge, said the museum was closed sometime in November. One of the
BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/25 October) — The first ever privately-owned art center in Caraga Region recently opened in Butuan City, to cater to the needs of art patrons, buyers and enthusiasts wanting to acquire works by homegrown painters and sculptors. The
The Cultural Center of the Philippines presents the MSU-IIT IPAG in Steven P.C. Fernandez’s “Uwahig,” the Mindanawon Indarapatra epic and the Bukidnon water legend, of an environment degraded by war transporting us to scenes that waft into the mythic realms.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/30 June) — I am very glad that the first film I watched on the first day of the First Sineng Pambansa National Film Festival sponsored by the Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP) is Orvil Bantayan’s TAMBARA. As Davao City is this festival’s host, a film touching tangentially on the indigenous belief system of Davao’s original people – the Bagobo – is a must see!
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews) – This city is celebrating the National Arts Month by pushing indigenous arts more than popular arts and those from other countries. “We need to uphold our beliefs and values to promote our indigenous arts and our
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/9 Feb) – The 3rd Cinema Rehiyon kicked off here this morning with its opening ceremonies at the Pinnacle Hotel. Gracing the ceremonies were members of the National Center for Culture and the Arts-Cinema Committee, including its chairperson, Dr. Mike Rapatan. Cinema Rehiyon, flagship activity of the NCCA-Cinema Committee for the Philippine International Arts Festival (PIAF), bears the theme “Forging Philippine CineDiversity.”
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/16 Nov) – The Pulangi V hydro electric project and the claim of a sacred burial site of the Manobo ancestors have divided the lumads in southern Bukidnon and North Cotabato and academics in the anthropological
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/13 November) – Sheika, a film written and directed by Davao-born Arnel Mardoquio is competing at the 11th Asiatica Film Mediale Festival in Rome, Italy this week. The film premieres on Saturday evening, November 13 (Rome time) at
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/13 November) — The National Museum of the Philippines is set to declare the Apu Mamalu burial ground in Misakil, Damulog, Bukidnon a national cultural treasure, Sen. Juan Miguel Zubiri said at the opening program of the three-day
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/09 November) —Through their artworks exhibited in Brussels, the Belgian capital, in September this year, Mindanao artists have sent Europe the message that there’s more to Mindanao than just war, according to Tanaw Mindanaw organizer Mabel Guia Acosta.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/30 August) – “How can we promote dialogue and cultural cohesion if in schools we churn out graduates every year who are not used to dialogue?” Jesuit priest Albert Alejo asked the Philippine Economic Society’s “Regional Conference on
CAGAYAN DE ORO (MindaNews/26 August) — The ancestors of Cagayanons could be the sea-faring sub-tribe of the Manobo, the Higaonons. Ethno-historian Dr. Antonio Montalvan, currently the curator of the Museum of Three Cultures in Capitol University said the deeper history
VALENCIA CITY(MindaNews/23 August) — For the first time in the parish’s history, the feast of San Agustin in Valencia City will be opened with a mass in Binukid, the language of the indigenous peoples. The 5 a.m. mass in Binukid
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/19 August) – For the first time since its Metro Manila debut, the first Bangsamoro full-length movie, “Limbunan” by Gutierrez “Teng” Mangansakan, will be shown in Davao City Friday, August 20, for its first Mindanao screening before its
DAVAO CITY (DWG/08 August) — In line with the thrust of the National Commission on Literary Arts to help develop creative writing in the regional languages, the Davao Writers Guild is holding a literary contest, the “Fiction-Writing Contest in Bisaya”.
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/03 August) – The Apu Palamguwan Cultural Education Center or APC launched a book on the Bukidnon Pulangiyen tribe titled “Learning Sustainable Life” in three cities recently. Author Peter Walpole, a Jesuit priest, led launching events at the
DAVAO CITY – Gutierrez “Teng” Mangansakan II’s film, “Limbunan,” the first Moro full-length narrative film has been invited as the closing film in the International Critics’ Week of the Venice International Film Festival next month. No Filipino film has ever been featured in the line-up of Venice Critics’ Week, but the film done by the 33-year old Mangansakan, a Moro from Maguindanao.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/21 June) – See the world through Moro eyes. Watch Limbunan, the first BangsaMoro full-length narrative film that will have its debut at the sixth edition of Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival at the Cultural Center of the Philippines
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/21 June) – To say that Malaybalay came from “walay balay” (no house) is inaccurate, an old-time Bukidnon ethnographer and cultural scholar said. Malabalay “is the name of a forgotten spring,” Ludivina Opeña or “Nanay Ludi” clarified. Opeña
MUSUAN, Maramag, Bukidnon (MindaNews/15 May) – Ninety-five public school teachers across the province yesterday ended what organizers said was a groundbreaking initiative in Philippine education with simple graduation rites at the Central Mindanao University here. Dressed in white, pink and
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews / 7 May) – A historical monument will rise in the city to mark the creation of Malaybalay as a village under Spain in 1877. The monument’s official name is Erecion de Pueblo or the Creation of
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/06 April) – This city was bursting at the literary seams when writing luminaries gathered on Monday May 3 at the Lispher Inn to kick off the 2nd Davao Writers Workshop. The panelists for this year include award-winning
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/26 April) – The National Museum is set to declare a sacred tribal burial site in Bukidnon a national cultural treasure, a Lumad rights advocacy group today said. In a statement, the Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center
