Arts & Culture

Night Market at Davao Chinatown

By CJ KUIZON | Davao Today

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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 took a moment for me to notice that the large picture frame was not a painting but a picture of a clubhouse. The women were real estate brokers selling subdivision lots. Now I hadn't seen that in any of the country?s night markets.Read on.

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Dreaming of the dagmay


Various designs of the dagmay(davaotoday.com photo)

By Germelina A. Lacorte
Davao Today Among the Mandayas, the dagmay has been worn as women?s skirts but it is also used as blankets and to wrap the dead. Each design, however, carries with it a certain story. Most of the traditional designs, which can easily date back to over a hundred years, have come to them in dreams.

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Ginum and Amorsolo painting


NOSTALGIA. A reproduction of Armorsolo's Fruit Harvesting (1950) on display at the Davao Museum until January 13 next year. (davaotoday.com photo by Jonald Mahinay)

By GRACE S. UDDIN | Davao Today

?Celebrating Ginum: A Festival for a Bountiful Harvest,? runs at the Davao Museum until January 13 next year, the 13th of the 20 Amorsolo retrospective satellite exhibits slated around the country. Related story Amorsolo?s ?Fruit Harvesting? and the life of the people
By Lorie Ann A. Cascaro 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 for tourists who would like to see in capsule the city?s history.

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