When there is a wedding people gather to watch the dalan-dalan; or the groom’s entourage as these people walk in single file with the groom dressed in white shirt with a white turban on his head and he is at the head of the line. He walks under an umbrella held by the prettiest among the groom’s family.

The Davao Writers Guild  is calling on writers of fiction or short stories to participate in the “DWG-NCCA (Davao Writers’ Guild- National Commission on the Culture and the Arts) contest in Writing Fiction in Bisaya.”

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.

MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/4 June) – This old woman wants to leave a legacy
to her tribe’s youth.

Rosita Into Salvo -- or Nanay to family, friends and relatives -- is one of Bukidnon’s silent Old Warriors
from the Talaandig tribe.

At 79, she vows to teach “until she can” about their tradition of mat-weaving, a craft she thought would have a growing demand but  “there are only few remaining laborers."