Heritage workshops usher in Kabilin festival
VARIOUS interactive culture and heritage workshops were held yesterday to mark the 1st Kabilin Festival in Cebu City.
VARIOUS interactive culture and heritage workshops were held yesterday to mark the 1st Kabilin Festival in Cebu City.
A Makati City street beckons to art lovers this weekend. The city government is closing a lane of Nicanor Garcia Street (formerly known as Reposo) for an art fair dubbed “Sining Kalikasan sa Reposo,” which will run this Saturday and Sunday as part of the celebrations for Makati’s 343rd foundation anniversary.
The commemoration of the 433rd founding anniversary of Pangasinan highlighted the revival of cultural awareness of Pangasinenses through language, literature and history.
Confetti rained down and children with angelic voices sang praises for the Risen Lord as Catholics around Metro Manila Sunday welcomed a new dawn with one of the most cherished of Filipino Easter traditions—the “salubong.”
Cagayan Rep. Jack Enrile on Friday called for collective action to restore the Banaue rice terraces, saying the cultural heritage has been suffering from neglect for so long.
IT’S better to regulate rather than prohibit baile or benefit dances in Sta. Fe town, Bantayan Island in Cebu, a Provincial Board (PB) Member said yesterday.
BAILE is a Spanish word which means “to dance.” During the Spanish colonial period, this meant Filipino men and women dancing in formal wear.
She just closed her eyes the entire time, but not even her frail figure could stop the oldest Sinulog dancer and “heritage keeper” from attending the annual prayer-dance held on Jan. 21, a day after the Feast of the Holy Child Jesus in Cebu, at Casa Gorordo Museum on Lopez Jaena Street in Cebu City.
With a P500-million budget, the government is set to “retrofit” the old Department of Tourism (DOT) building in Rizal Park as an extension facility of the National Museum, the country’s repository of its natural and cultural heritage.
Dr. Jose Rizal might just give the Philippines a strong push for cultural tourism, a top official of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) said.
Here’s a tip to children coming from no less than a Roman Catholic priest: Don’t grouse if you failed to see your godparents on Christmas Day to ask them for gifts. You still have until New Year’s Day to hunt them down.
French authorities have pleaded with New Age fanatics, sightseers and media crews not to converge on the tiny village some believe will be one of the few places spared when the world supposedly ends on Friday.
The chirping of the birds, the sound of bumblebees, and the brisk motions of the hawk, monkey and frog were some of the sounds that Rodelio “Waway” Linsahay Saway mimicked with pride during his recent visit to Cebu to present the rich musical and artistic heritage of the Talaandig tribe.
