For 18 years now, the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) has been organizing the National Arts Month (NAM) in the month of February with a series of festivities and activities mounted throughout the country celebrating Filipino artistry and promoting the arts and the artists. For 2009, the celebration takes ...

Good news to all Ilokano bloggers! Ilokanoak badges are now available for use for free by Ilokano bloggers. Created by Eli Avellanoza of http://blographics.wordpress.com, a talented Ilocano painter and graphic artist, the Ilokanoak badges are envisioned to help Ilocano bloggers proudly display their ethnicity/race in their resp...

Schedule of Activities Coalescence – Science and Art Photographs by Dr. Gil Jacinto 13 November 2008 – 16 January 2009 The Edge Gallery G/F, UP Vargas Museum The UP Jorge B. Vargas Museum will open Coalescence – Science and Art on 13 November 2008, Thursday, 6:00 PM at the Edge Gallery, a photo exhibition by Dr. Gil Jacint...

Dusk has set in, and the GMM special board meeting was already adjourned. But we — Mighty, Jake, Giovanni and I — decided to stay and talk about things young writers talk about these days. Writing, of course. And blogging. At one point during our discussion, we shared some of the blogs we check out. Mighty [...]...

Photos by Antonio Bayona, III The Philippines is a multicultural society. According to the National Center for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), the country is home to more than 80 major ethno-linguistic groups, plus numerous subgroups. Centuries of colonization have ensured that the countries’ indigenous peoples (IP), as well as t...

Every serious writer dreams of writing not only for his people but also for the whole world. He dreams of transcending the language barrier and holding the attention of the world if only for a moment. To do so, however, he must first write for his own people and consider them his whole world. Indeed, [...]...