CURATOR’S NOTES: Handuraw Marawi: Bearing witness to war
By Leonardo Rey Cariño
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews / 30 Nov) – The modern age is accustomed to graphic images of war. From Francisco...
REVIEW: IPAG mounts Gervacio’s Datu Mankalasi: Explorations of folklore versus reality
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews / 22 Nov) – The plight of the Lumad, in particular, the Agusanon Manobo, took center stage when the Mindanao State...
KURI-KURI: Lanao Art Makes A Splash in The Big Apple
I follow the night
Can't stand the light
When will I begin
My life again?
(“One Day I’ll Fly Away”)
It is perhaps providential that an art exhibit that...
Bangsamoro film wins 2 top prizes at World Premieres festival
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/ 05 July) – “Daughters of Three Tailed Banner,” the first part of multi-awarded Bangsamoro filmmaker Gutierrez “Teng” Mangansakan’s film, “Moro2mrw, “...
Identifying heritage in canvas
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/06 October) -- What makes art Filipino?
That's an inquiry posed by art critic and curator Virgilio Cuizon during a one day workshop...
Kuntaw Mindanaw off to Uzbekistan for Asian music fest
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/25 August) -- A Mindanawon performing group will be flying to Uzbekistan to represent the country in one of Central Asia's biggest...
A glimpse of the world’s folklore
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/ 14 August) -- How did a small city in Mindanao get to be host to an event that brings in over...
Butuan’s out of the box art gallery
BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/03 July) -- It's absolutely far-out, both in terms of concept and exhibition. Count in its location and isolation. But painter Jon...
Is dance still a relevant medium? UP Mindanao dancers answer and show their best...
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/04 May) -- Besides entertainment, the purpose that dance has long served included conveying ideas, emotions, and messages that no other medium...
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...
Finding common ground: Five Davaoeño artists share one vision for an art exhibit
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/20 April) -- Staging an art exhibit with well refined oeuvres in different media may seem confusing and disorienting to the curious...
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,...
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...
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...
Junia: Music makes geniuses: Musikgarten opens first Mindanao branch
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...
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...
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...
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...
INTERVIEW: Luczon on Cine Totoo: filming Mindanao throwbacks
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...
INTERVIEW: Gohetia on Cine Totoo: capturing stories that withstand time
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...
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...
3 Mindanawons fellows to 53rd SU National Writers Workshop
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...
A SOJOURNER’S VIEW: The precious gift of reading a book
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 6 Feb) – Is reading a book these days - which I have always thought was a rare precious gift...
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....
An afternoon of poetry at the 1st Mindanao Book Festival
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 6 Feb) – Award-winning poet, writer, artist and professor Ricardo de Ungria was among a number of Mindanawon poets who...
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...
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...
Surigaonon singer wows Voice of Philippines judges with song from “Uwahig”
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...
‘Lageng,’ an anthology of Bukidnon tribal songs, gets good raves
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,...
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...
Bukidnon eyes title as world’s “Soil Painting Capital”
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...
Exclusive rights for big sponsors defeat spirit of Kaamulan’
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/05 March) – The provincial government should have disallowed some companies from enjoying exclusive rights during the Kaamulan even if they were...
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...
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...
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,...
TAMBARA: A film that debunks the myths of modernity and helps us to revisit...
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 goes indigenous in celebrating National Arts Month
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews) – This city is celebrating the National Arts Month by pushing indigenous arts more than popular arts and those from other...
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.”
Dam, burial site issues divide lumads and academics
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/16 Nov) - The Pulangi V hydro electric project and the claim of a sacred burial site of the Manobo...
Mardoquio's film, Sheika, competes in Asiatica Film Mediale Festival in Rome
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...
Damulog's Apu Mamalu site to be declared "national cultural treasure"
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/13 November) -- The National Museum of the Philippines is set to declare the Apu Mamalu burial ground in Misakil, Damulog, Bukidnon...
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...
“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...
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...
Valencia feast opens with a “Lumad” mass
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...
Moro film for Venice Film Fest to be shown in Davao Friday
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,...
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...
Book on education among Bukidnon Pulangiyens launched
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/03 August) – The Apu Palamguwan Cultural Education Center or APC launched a book on the Bukidnon Pulangiyen tribe titled “Learning Sustainable...
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.
1st Bangsamoro full-length film debuts in Indie filmfest
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...