Landscape by Dominador Castañeda | Photo by Bengy Toda III This week’s Art Stroll Sunday, the National Museum of the Philippines features the oil painting “Landscape” (The University of the Philippines site in Diliman),” a circa 1951 work by Dominador Castañeda...
Salidumay is officially selected in the 11th International Film Festival Manhattan in New York City to be held on October 14-17, 2021. Salidumay is a short film highlighting Cordilleran Culture on Courtship and Marriage. It features “Ayo” (Mai Fanglayan), a Tingguian...
Diwdiw-as consists of small bamboo pipes of differrent lengths tied together, closed off and joined at the bottom. Played by the Kalinga and Bontoc people, its music is usually heard while resting in the rice field after work or for entertainment....
Patatag derived its name from “pateteg“, an Ilocano term for one of the indigenous musical instruments in the Philippines, the bamboo xylophone. Patatag is also known as patteteg among the Kalinga people. The group of bamboo blades is meant to sound...
Sulibao and Sulibaw Sulibao and Sulibaw are both conical drums common in Cordillera specifically among the Ibaloi of Benguet. Strikingly, some are long and narrow shaped drums like the sulibao. Sulibao is a longitudinal lightly barrel shaped hallowed out logs with...