Culture

This is a really really short post. I am on a GV Florida bus bound for Vigan, Ilocos Sur. I’m going to attend the third Kannawidan Festival of Ilocos Sur! It’s also my first time to really set foot on Vigan and explore this World Heritage City. Needless to say, I’m excited. Here’s the...
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In preparation for the Kannawidan Festival on the last week of January 2010, the Ilocos Sur Governor commissioned a song to be produced, recorded and distributed to Ilocos Sur. The title of the song is Kannawidan, which comes from the Ilokano root word “tawid,” meaning tradition or culture. The Kannawidan Ylocos festival is held...
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Hey folks, just got wind of this release a couple of days ago. You might want to join this one if you fit the rules and regulations. Too bad blogs aren’t counted and I’m not a student anymore. As part of the National Arts Month (NAM) celebration on February 2009, the National Commission for...
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February is just around the corner and this means that the National Arts Month celebration prepared by the National Commission on the Culture and the Arts will be on full blast! Check out the Press Release below from the NCCA. ————– Known the world over as the month of love, February is commonly painted...
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Ilocanos, Kapampangans, Pangasinense, and Maranaos among others are as Filipinos as Tagalogs are. It’s just that Tagalog, together with English, has long been the dominant language in the Philippines and the others have been marginalized! Other languages are being considered by many as the language of the barrios and of the less educated. Dang!...
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Woot! SM City San Fernando will host the launching of Kalam the first ever Kapampangan soap opera on August 27, 2008! And if you’re planning to go there, it will be for free! Whoa! Manila has been the cultural center of the Philippines. It is where radio programs, television shows and major cultural products...
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Woot! The Eiga Sai is here again. I attended Eiga Sai 2006 and I liked it! I missed it last year though. Good thing, it’s here again and I’m so excited! Free Film Festivals are a gift from God! Eiga Sai features Japanese film. July, after all is the Japan Friendship Month. Eiga Sai...
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When a sequel becomes successful, the producers would naturally go for a trilogy. When a trilogy proves to be a success, then they would go for a fourth installment! Man! How do they stretch the storylines of these movies? Since, we’ve seen a flurry of Sequel number 4’s recently, Paul W.S. Anderson seems to...
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According to Cirilo Bautista, an award-winning fictionist and poet in the Philippines, the Philippine people: “are victims of popular entertainment which engenders low taste. Television programs and the movies are dominated by stories, talk shows and contests that perpetuate intellectual and aesthetic stagnation with their stereotype techniques and shallow subjects. In the long run,...
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Here comes another movie from Hong Kong invading the world’s movie screens. “The Warlords,” featuring Jet Li, Andy Lau, and Takeshi Kaneshiro, will be shown in Manila theaters very very soon. The movie features the lives of three warlords who have sworn as “Blood Brothers,” and agreed to be brothers for life. If anybody...
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