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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 (1904–1967) Landscape (The University of the Philippines site in Diliman) Circa 1951 Oil on … Read more

Salidumay is officially selected for 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 from Abra with mixed Ibaloi blood who goes on her first date with “Franz” … Read more

Diwdiw-as consists of small bamboo pipes of different 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. You may want to read: Sludoy Suklang 3 Main Streams of Philippine Music

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 like a xylophone and is played by striking the blades with bamboo sticks. It … Read more

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 deer skin on one end. The sulibao accompanies the Ibaloi flat gong ensemble with … Read more