LAGUNA (MindaNews/26 July) -- Edwin Jumalon has always been synonymous with contemporary art in Western Mindanao. His past forays with art have been numerous and wide-ranging: paintings that remember rustic slice-of-life and social realist scenes, pictures that channel local myths and the occult, and, in the past years, large-scale non-representational works exhibited in “Circumstance” (2003) and “Form Follows Man” (2007). Zamboanga City, Jumalon’s hometown, has served as an appreciative audience to most of his art shows.

Salvarita/Jumalon is the bold title of an art exhibit launched in the opening of The Boston Cafe Art Gallery (owned by Quddus Padilla) in Dumaguete City in November 20, 2008. It boasts of a peculiar symmetry – two brothers, two sisters, all inheritors of a family legacy.

Lang Dulay, a T’boli woman who has mastered the art of weaving T’nalak, an indigenous fabric of  the Tboli tribe woven from abaca fiber, is the artist featured in the photo exhibit that runs until July 23 at the Notre Dame of Marbel University.

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/17 November) – Could a Subanen baylan (shaman), who smokes by cultural tradition, light a native cigar in a city that implements an anti-smoking ordinance?

This proved to be a dilemma for Davao City's Tourism Office, lead organizer of the 2007 Kalimudan Indigenous Peoples Exposition.

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY -- The exhibit dubbed, “The War of Our Fathers: A Tribute to the Filipino Freedom Fighters” at The Atrium of the Limketkai Mall is postponed to June 9, from its original date of exhibit on June 2.

The exhibit, which is a project of the Philippine Veterans Bank (PVB), aims to honor heroes of World War II.