‘Tis! More fun in the Philippines!
‘Tis!
The new Department of Tourism leadership rolled out, last Friday, its newest campaign slogan which hopes to attract more tourists in the country.
The Abatan River Theater sparkles in Prague!
From one cultural capital to another, Bohol represents in an international festival dubbed the Olympics of Theater Design.
Prague, the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic, and among Europe’s traditional cultural centers, hosts many of the world’s biggest cultural events, one of them the Prague Quadrennial (PQ) of Performance Design and Space 2011 on June 16-26.
The quadrennial is the largest event of its kind in the world, with 60++ participating countries – presenting contemporary work in a variety of performance design disciplines and genres – costume, stage, light, sound design, and theatre architecture for dance, opera, drama, site specific, multi-media performances, and performance art – veritably a cultural Mecca of approaches to theatre and stage design!
In Calunasan: “the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down, is weaving when it comes up in the morning*”
It is about four o’clock on a fine Friday afternoon. Rippling gently with the soft breeze, is a huge rainbow-colored umbrella canopy that stands rather prominently in the middle of the fairgrounds semi-encircled by small nipa sheds cum exhibition kiosks, proudly displaying local hand-woven crafts of varying designs and sizes. Bags, placemats, baskets, trinkets and what-not’s made out of bamboo, buri and nito.
At one kiosk, three women are busy weaving pieces of nito and bamboo strips into what would become placemats and baskets. Rhythmic folk music played by a local kumparsa (string ensemble)wafts in the air, conflating with the buzz of excitement and anticipation from a good mix of crowd ranging from pre-schoolers dressed in Filipiniana to teeners to the leather-skinned community elders. Calunasan Norte is more than ready to receive its guests.
Prologue
