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Category: Arts & Culture

Maguindanao bags Tugtog ng Aliwan top prize

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

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Bonney Read gives back

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

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Going beyond museums

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

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Preserving Davao’s culinary traditions

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

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Storytelling through songs

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

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Art for communities

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

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UnbeLEAFable: A green version of the Mona Lisa

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,

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Filipino film on Palawan tribe inspires Lao cinema

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

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Writing Mindanao, Righting Mindanao

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

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Sharing artworks, exchanging cultures

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,

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NCCA now accepting project proposals for 2014

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

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Comics series on Bukidnon tribe out

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

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National Museum-Butuan branch temporarily closed

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

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Kalagan Art Gallery. Photo Courtesy of Gualberto Licong's Facebook

New art center opens in Butuan

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

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("Uwahig" will also represent the Philippines in the 2013 UNESCO-ITI APB Drama Fest in Binh Dinh Vietnam. It was featured in the 2006 UNESCO-ITI Intl Festival at the CCP, the 2007 Taipei Intl Festival, and the 2012 Tanghal University Theater Festival.)

Watch “Uwahig” at CCP on Nov. 10

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.

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TAMBARA: A film that debunks the myths of modernity and helps us to revisit our past

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!

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3rd Cinema Rehiyon film fest opens

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.”

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Artists show Mindanao's colors in Brussels exhibit

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.

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“We have debating clubs but no dialogue clubs”

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

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Oro history reflective of IP marginalization

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

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Fiction-Writing Contest in Bisaya now open

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”.

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Moro director’s film invited to Venice Int'l Film Fest

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.

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2nd Davao Writers Workshop begins

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

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