With the beat of gongs, rhythm of tongatong, tambi, saggaypo, and kubing, and of course with the progressive Salidummay lyrics, the Dap-ayan ti Kultura iti Kordiyera (DKK) has been a channel for safeguarding the Cordillera cultural heritage and promoting cultural diversity since it was founded in 1991. BY ALMA SINUMLAG Northern Dispatch CULTURE Posted by…
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Ex-CCP Exec Says Globalization Has Ill Effects on Culture
Cultural worker, actor and art activist Fernando “Nanding” Josef talks about globalization and cultural imperialism. He insists that both are detrimental to the indigenous arts and culture of the Filipinos. BY NOEL SALES BARCELONA Correspondent Bulatlat CULTURE For Fernando “Nanding” Josef, former vice president and artistic director of the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP),…
Literary Folio for Jailed Peasant Leader Launched
Relatives, colleagues, and supporters of jailed peasant leader Randall “Ka Randy” Echanis launched the 58-page literary folio Panata sa Paglaya (Vow to Freedom) last Feb. 3. The folio contains poems by and for Echanis, as well as other literary and artistic pieces. BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO CULTURE Bulatlat Anong kapalaran itong biglang dumating? Tila makapal…
Classic Musicale Brings Out Romance at Burnham Park
The public will be treated to a new kind of entertainment on February 14 with the staging of a musical Phantom on the Lake, an adaptation of the Broadway play Phantom of the Opera, at the Burnham Park in Baguio City. BY LYN V. RAMO CULTURE Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat BAGUIO CITY (246 kms.…
Beauty in Morbidity: Young Camille de la Rosa Swims in the Sea of the Surreal
If the saying “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” is universally acceptable, it can thus be said that there’s real beauty in the “morbid” canvases of the young painter in bloom, Ms. Camille Jean Verdelaire D. de la Rosa. BY NOEL SALES BARCELONA Correspondent Bulatlat CULTURE If the saying “beauty is in the…
Dreaming of the Dagmay
Among the Mandayas, the dagmay has been worn as women’s skirts but it is also used as blankets and to wrap the dead. Each design, however, carries with it a certain story. Most of the traditional designs, which can easily date back to over a hundred years, have come to them in dreams. BY GERMELINA…
Book on Cordillera Land Issues Out
A new book on the Cordillera land question is just off the press. BY PIO VERZOLA JR. Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat BAGUIO CITY (246 kms. North of Manila)—A new book on the Cordillera land question is just off the press. The Cordillera Peoples Alliance announced on Dec. 20 the publication of Ti Daga Ket…
Hit and Run
Hagunot muli ang bus. Tumawag ang konduktor: “Timog na! ‘Yung mga Timog diyan, alisto na! Kilos-kilos! Galaw-galaw!,” aniya. Napansin niyang malapit na sa GMA. Tinuktok niya ang mga balas sa itaas. Alisto ang drayber. Tumabi. Dali-dali siyang bumaba, habang nag-iinat-inat at inaayos ang nalukot na polo barong. NI NOEL SALES BARCELONA Bulatlat Katulad ng mga…
Amorsolo’s “Fruit Harvesting” and the Life of the People
Have our peasants shown the same delightful faces during harvests since the war years ended? Is the same reason to celebrate a bountiful harvest still found in their hearts? BY LORIE ANN A. CASCARO CULTURE Davao Today Posted by Bulatlat Davao City—Ten years after a fieldtrip during my kindergarten years, I visited Davao Museum again…
Serve the People, Ang Kasaysayan ng Radikal na Kilusan sa Universidad ng Pilipinas: A Book Review
To present-day activists of the UP community, the book is a must reading. For no progressive movement could ever develop and achieve victory without drawing lessons from history . For the un-initiated or to the mass of UP students and faculty, the book is a wealth of information and knowledge, from trivia about the names…
Three Lorenas
Review of the play “Ang mga Lorena”, staged Dec. 9 and 11 by Sinagbayan Lorena Barros is not from the same period in the country’s history as Karen Empeño and Sherlyn Cadapan. But in the play “Ang mga Lorena” (The Lorenas), staged Dec. 9 and 11 by the cultural group Sinagbayan at the University of…