ARTS

Folk architecture

is the living environment people have created for themselves.

Local architecture

is one of the most important sources of information to allow us to understand

and explain the ideas, views, traditions, customs and belief systems, family and relationships, and neighborhood relations of a community.

Local architecture

defined as architecture formed in the process of anonymous design which later becomes traditional under the influence of various factors.

Maritime Transport

Port operations are a necessary tool to enable maritime trade between trading partners.

Maritime Transport

It is the shipment of goods (cargo) and people by sea and other waterways.

Paraw (Philippine Spanish: Parao)

are various double outrigger sail boats in

the Philippines.

Paraw (Philippine Spanish: Parao)

It is a general term (similar to the term bangka) and thus can refer to a range of ship types, from small fishing canoes to large merchant lashed-lug plank boats (balangay or baloto) with two outriggers (katig) propelled by sails (usually a large crab-claw sail opposite a smaller triangular foresail).

Darhata Sawabi

It is used as a clothing ornament or headdress of the Tausug men that symbolizes the wearer's rank in society.

Darhata Sawabi

is a Pis Yabit weaver from Barangay Parang, Jolo, Sulu.

Pis Yabit

is a square multi-colored traditional cloth that serves as the head cover of the Tausug of Jolo.

Alonzo Saclag

Fueled by intense passion, he succeeded in keeping the treasured culture of Kalinga alive.

Alonzo Saclag

is a master of dance and performing arts

from Kalinga. He did not receive any formal education in performing arts but still, he mastered the choreography and musical instrument of Kalinga just by observation and practice.

Masino Intaray

came from the indigenous community in southern Palawan called the Palawan. Intaray was a musician and a poet whose expertise was the basal, kulilal, and bagit.

Masino Intaray

is a notable storyteller and epic chanter. For many nights, he chanted numerous epics, narratives, and myths of the Palawan. Intaray was a true man of art who preserved the tradition, music, and culture of his people.

Basal

is a kind of musical ensemble played

Basal

Basal is composed of the gimbal or tubular drum, sanang or pair of small gongs, and one to agungs or gongs with wide tunes.

Tambilaw

a ritual of rice sharing among the Palawan people as an offering to the Lord of rice

Kulilal

is a lyric poem about love being sung to the accompaniment of kusyapi, a two-stringed lute, and pagang, bamboo zither.

Tinapay

a rice wine drinking ceremony.

Samaon Sulaiman

He is a master in playing the kutyapi, a two-stringed plucked lute.

Samaon Sulaiman

is a Maguindanaon musician from Mama sa Pano, Maguindanao.

Salita Monon

is a Bagobo textile weaver from Bansalan, Davao del Sur. She started weaving at the age of 12 through the guidance of her mother.

Fidel Go

His works find themselves displayed in several of the country’s plush hotels reaching as far as Palawan and Davao in the south.

Fidel Go

is a Filipino-Chinese mestizo from Vigan, Ilocos Sur. Watching him perform intently at his craft with his hands and feet was an inspiring experience.

Haja Amina Appi

is the master mat weaver of the Sama indigenous community from Ungos Matata, Tawi-tawi.

Haja Amina Appi

Mat weaving is one of the treasured traditions of the Sama people.

Haja Amina Appi

Their mat is made up of Pandan leaves which undergo tedious processes from stripping, sun drying, dyeing, up to weaving.

Haja Amina Appi

It takes a lot of time, effort, and creativity to produce a mat.

Lang Dulay

is a T’nalak weaver from the indigenous community of the T’boli in Lake Sebu, South Cotabato.

T’nalak

is a kind of fabric made up of fine abaca fibers weaved with different designs which reflect the tradition of the T’boli.

Magdalena Gamayo

She started weaving at the age of 16. Her years of practice, eye for details, creativity, and innate skills caused her to produce excellent quality abels.

Magdalena Gamayo

is an Ilocano master weaver who came from Pinili, Ilocos Norte.

Abel

Her expertise dwells in weaving high-quality Ilocos' textile called

Abel

It is a kind of blanket made up of cotton woven in different patterns.

Eduardo Mutuc

He did intricate decorations for churches

Eduardo Mutuc

is a metal smith from Apalit, Pampanga, who created numerous woodcarving and metal art with religious and secular themes.

Eduardo Mutuc

He started woodcarving house furniture when he was 29. Then several years later he learned the art of silver plating because of a friend.

kutyapi

is one of the most difficult to master indigenous Filipino instruments, but Samaon Sulaiman was able to play it with grace and exemplary talent.

Uwang Ahadas

is the exemplary musician of the Yakan of Lamitan

kwintangan kayu

Basilan whose expertise dwell in playing the indigenous instrument called

Uwang Ahadas

This is being played after the planting of rice to serenade the palay

Uwang Ahadas

This instrument is composed of five wooden logs of different sizes, arranged from shortest to longest, and hung horizontally.

Hanunuo Mangyan

is a poet from Mansalay, Mindoro who is an advocate of preserving the traditional form of his tribe called "ambahan.

Ambahan

is a kind of poem consisting of seven-syllable lines which most of the time contains messages of love and friendship.

Federico Caballero

is a Panay-Bukidnon epic chanter who preserved his community's oral tradition by tediously documenting epics of his ancestors that are in near danger of disappearance.

Teofilo Garcia

is an Ilocano casque maker from San Quintin, Abra. He is known for crafting high quality and functional headpiece called tabungaw.

tabungaw.

that Teofilo makes is made up of native gourd called upo, Rattan, and bamboo. He combines and experiments with these materials to come up with decay resistant, elegant, and remarkable tabungaws.