LUMAD CULTURE AND HERITAGE. Lumad members of the Katribu partylist presents the indigenous songs and dance at the Peoples Park. The cultural presentation hopes to remind the people of the significance of the indigenous people's culture and heritage. The Katribu partylist will participate in the May 2010...

Admiring friends and spectators view photographer �Tatay� Rene Lumawag�s 30 choiciest photos in an exhibit that opened at SM City Davao entertainment plaza on November 12. The exhibit was launched to remember Lumawag’s son Gene Boyd, a photojournalist killed in Jolo, Sulu, exactly five years ago....

Sayawan sa Daan 2009. A glimpse of the street dance performances during the 72nd Araw ng Dabaw celebration.(photos by Barry Ohaylan/ davaotoday.com)...

By CJ KUIZON Davao Today Side Bar Story The Other Night Markets At first I thought the white car (brand name: Cherry) displayed on the right side of Bangoy street at the Davao Chinatown night market was a prize for patrons. It turned out that it was up for sale. A few steps away, women handed out flyers. It...

By Germelina A. LacorteDavao Today Caraga, Davao Oriental� Masandag Diano-Pagsac�s face flushed when she heard another version of the story of the origin of dagmay. �It was not a tamisa (a Mandaya term for an only son) who found it,� she insisted in Mandaya. �It was a maiden taking a bath in the river.� An...

Davao City — Digital film Imburnal by Dabawenyo director Sherad Sanchez copped the best picture award during the recent CinemaOne Originals Film Festival awards night held at the Dolphy Theatre inside the ABS-CBN Broadcast Center in Quezon City. Shot in Davao City, Imburnal is a tale of two young...

By Lorie Ann A. Cascaro Davao City�Ten years after a fieldtrip in my kindergarten, I visited Davao Museum again on a Saturday morning. I would not have bothered if not for the Amorsolo�s satellite exhibit. The entrance fee piqued me a bit. It made me think that museums are not really for the common folks but...

By GRACE S. UDDIN | Davao Today DAVAO CITY- The ongoing exhibit at the Davao Museum connects the great Amorsolo�s painting �Fruit Harvesting� with the common aspiration of Davao�s Bagobo tribe for a bountiful harvest. �Celebrating Ginum: A Festival for a Bountiful Harvest,� runs at the Davao Museum until...

ART EXHIBIT. Students examine an installation art at the IMAGEnation exhibit at the Holy Cross of Davao College Museum. The exhibit, which opened October 8, was organized by CREATIVEfactory, a young art organization composed of Dabawenyo artists. (Contributed...

The result is Charlie Green. If you combine the simplicity of a Filipina-Cebuana and a British crooner, the result is unmistakably Charlie Green. Green is the newest and probably the youngest among many half-Filipinos that recently came out of their shells and went back home to trace their Filipino...

By GERMELINA A. LACORTE | Davao Today DAVAO CITY– This year’s harvest festival of Kadayawan will project the city’s abundance amidst the soaring prices of rice in Mindanao and the long lines of people buying the cheaper government-subsidized rice. Rizal Giovanni “Bong”...

By CJ KUIZON | Davao Today Davao City – Councilor Pilar Braga called attention to the city’s less famous landmarks among the historical attractions that should be promoted in the city. She said Davao’s attractions should not be limited to People’s Park, the Philippine Eagle...

The Kadayawan Festival of Davao City this August will be a celebration of abundance. During the Club 888 Forum at the Marco Polo Hotel on Wednesday, Kadayawan 2008 committee chairperson on publicity and media Art Boncato announced that, for Davao to celebrate its bounty, there is a need to value the earth,...

A TRIBUTE TO MARLEY. Raymond Aranjuez, front man of the local Ragged band, performs at the Taboan in Matina Town Square during the free Reggae Night concert on Sunday, May 11. The date happens to be the death anniversary of Nesta Robert “Bob” Marley, the British-African reggae musician who...

Lapida (gravestone), a homegrown rock band, in a concert dubbed “Metal March” along Claro M. Recto (formely Claveria) street during the Araw ng Dabaw celebration. Other local bands also play different rock genres during the event. (davaotoday.com photo by Barry Ohaylan) An ink aficionado front...

A 25-foot structure of a lumad (indigenous) in a lotus position sits along the highway in the middle of Buda and Marilog’s sitio Epol, about two hours ride from Davao city. The lumad holds a durian fruit, representing the city as a home to this foul-smelling-yet-heavenly-tasting fruit. (davaotoday.com...

This year’s 71st Araw ng Dabaw upholds the old traditions even as it welcomes a new official website (arawngdabaw.com) and other portents of more contemporary times. As always, celebrations culminated with the colourful Parada Dabawenyo from Magsaysay Park to San Pedro Street. Men, women, young ones,...

By GRACE S. UDDIN | Davao Today Davao City — For those who want to read but who are running out of few good books to widen their horizons, an alternative reading center has just opened in Davao. Located at the Lions Club Building along McArthur highway in Matina, the Do�a Luisa Villa Abrille...

UNVEILING. The inauguration of the Museo Dabawenyo highlights the grand opening of Araw ng Dabaw celebration. Created through a city ordinance, the nine million peso building houses city artifacts, documents and other priceless objects that speak of the city’s history, people and culture. The city...

By CJ Kuizon | Davao Today I should have known not to judge a meal from how it looked before it was cooked. Good ol’ tikoy should have taught me that. My involvement with tikoy has been fairly recent. Tikoy! Cooked to golden-brown perfection. (davaotoday.com photo by Jonald Mahinay) Tikoy is the...

Ferdinand Balino has always been drawn to the work of social realist authors like Maxim Gorky. It is no surprise then that the first short story he wrote was about a poor child selling softdrinks at a bus terminal. The story that won him this year�s second prize in the Palanca awards (for the Cebuano short...

As the city announced a shift in the way the annual Kadayawan Festival is celebrated — that is, for one, showcasing Lumad culture and tradition not for tourism’s sake — tribal leaders remain concerned that the festivities hardly depict the struggle of Mindanao’s indigenous peoples to...

Sherad Anthony Sanchez, a young filmmaker from Davao City, has won the “First Film” award at the 18th Festival International du Documentaire de Marseille in France for his film Huling Balyan ng Buhi: O Ang Sinalirap Nga Asoy Nila. Another Filipino, Raya Martin, won a “special...

DAVAO CITY — Rome-based sculptor Tomas Concepcion comes home to bring his art to his fellow artists and patrons in Mindanao. The artist whose works include sculptures of Pope Paul VI, on display at the Vatican University, a monument of Pope John Paul II displayed in Guam, and a two meter statue of...

by JEREMAIAH M. OPINIANO www.ofwjournalism.net QUEZON CITY – A FINGER-LENGTH shard of metal on a white tissue paper nearly made Ailyn Mateo�s mother faint. Taken from Mateo�s right shoulder, the shrapnel from a bomb that killed 22 armed combatants and 11 civilians is a terrible testament to...