Davao pub street hosts NCCA’s ‘Musikapuloan’
In a first for Mindanao, the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) has brought the “Musikapuloan” music fest to Davao City. Philippine folk and contemporary music was celebrated in an...
View ArticleSubanen’s ‘buklog’ ritual nominated to Unesco endangered world heritage list
The National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) National Commission of the Philippines nominated the Subanen ritual...
View ArticleNegros Oriental hosts NCCA’s Dance Xchange international fest
The 2018 Dance Xchange: The Philippine International Dance Workshop and Festival will be held in Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental on April 26-30. Dance Xchange is a flagship project of the National...
View ArticleBalagtas ‘resurrected’ in NCCA-KWP literary camp
The country’s foremost poet Francisco Baltazar (Balagtas) was born in Bigaa (a town now named after him), Bulacan Province. He wrote “Florante at Laura,” with verses that strike the soul, “Orosman at...
View ArticleNCCA Gallery welcomes Santo Niño de Cebu
The National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) Gallery welcomed the pilgrim image of the Santo Nino de Cebu on April 10, at 10 a.m. The visit of the Santo Nino, the oldest Catholic icon in the...
View ArticleNCCA opens National Heritage Month in Davao
“Heritage month requires us to look back. The colonizers made us forget our memories. A person without memory is easy to subjugate. We want to celebrate our national heritage because we want to...
View ArticleNCCA holds workshops on the 7 lively arts in Siargao
In the balmy coastal town of Santa Monica is fabled Siargao Island in Surigao del Norte, with its foaming waters for surfing and seaside rock formations for diving. The National Commission for Culture...
View Article‘Seer of sea and sierra’ was a champion of Spanish heritage, Filipino culture
The last book National Artist Nick Joaquin finished was his authorized biography of Edgardo Angara, in which he called the late Senate president a “seer of sea and sierra,” an allusion perhaps to...
View Article102-year-old Kalinga tattoo master Whang-Od Oggay conferred NCCA award
The NCCA conferred the Dangal ng Haraya Award for Intangible Cultural Heritage on tattoo folk artist Apo Whang-Od Oggay—the first time the award has been given to a traditional or folk artist. The post...
View ArticleLowly ‘magkono’ driftwood of Northern Mindanao finds rebirth as sculptural...
Zachary Alcoseba gives new life to the lowly driftwood in “Stories From the River,” a one-man exhibition now running at the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) Gallery in Intramuros,...
View ArticleTanghal 2019: Empowering Visayan youths through drama
The spirit of youth animated Tanghal 2019, a flagship project of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts through its Committee on Dramatic Arts, held recently in Dumaguete City, Negros...
View ArticleWatch out for ‘Dayaw’
One-hundred thirty-one. This is the number of languages and ethno-linguistic groups in the Philippines. Each ethnic group boasts of its own unique way of life, genius, and subculture, contributing to...
View ArticleSpectacular ‘Red Lantern’ ballet coming to Manila
The famous ballet “Raise High the Red Lantern” by the National Ballet of China will be staged at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) this month. It is a spectacle with high production values....
View ArticleNCCA drafts youth in heritage campaign
The National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) wants young Filipinos all over the country to take the lead in promoting, protecting and conserving cultural heritage. The post NCCA drafts youth...
View Article2016 Dayaw gathers Asean cultural communities
The National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) opens Dayaw: Philippine International Indigenous Peoples’ Festival on Nov. 22-24, in Metro Manila with a gathering of Filipino and fellow Asean...
View ArticleSentro Rizal opens in Rome, Milan
ROME—Sentro Rizal, the overseas Philippine cultural center much like the Instituto Cervantes of Spain and Dante Alighieri Center of Italy, has opened here and in Milan, two cities with the heaviest...
View ArticleIs Filipino cuisine an endangered heritage?
Like our indigenous fabrics and oral chants and literature, Filipino cuisine is a cultural heritage that needs protection and preservation. The post Is Filipino cuisine an endangered heritage? appeared...
View ArticleRio Alma heads NCCA
National Artist for Literature Virgilio Almario has been elected the new chair of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA). His election on Thursday will go to Malacañang for...
View ArticleDPWH road-widening project threatens heritage bridges in Miag-ao, Iloilo
Spanish and American period bridges in Miag-ao, Iloilo, are under threat of being demolished due to a road-widening project along the Iloilo-Antique road by the Department of Public Works and Highways...
View ArticleFilipino artists inspired by Rizal featured in 2017 Venice Art Biennale
In an exhibit that aims to present art as witness to life, and society's ills and conflicts, two Filipino artists tapped into Rizal’s work to re-define 19th century political resistance for the 2017...
View ArticleNCCA holds dance extravaganza in Isabela
The National Commission for Culture and the Arts held the Philippine International Dance Workshop and Festival, or its Dance Xchange, in Isabela province, bringing together contingents from Brazil,...
View ArticleNCCA Gallery mounts Janos Delacruz’ ‘A Visual Journal’
Janos Delacruz is the next featured artist at the National Commission for Culture and the Arts Gallery in an exhibit, “A Visual Journal…,” starting July 6. Delacruz majored in Fine Arts at University...
View ArticleNCCA now accepting proposal for 2018 grants program
The National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), led by its chair National Artist Virgilio S. Almario and executive director Rico S. Pableo Jr., is now accepting proposals for projects to be...
View ArticleNCCA mounts Budayaw international culture fest in General Santos City
The rich culture, heritage and artistry of Mindanao and Palawan will be on the spotlight as the Philippines will host the first ever Budayaw: The BIMP-EAGA Festival of Culture and the Arts, Sept. 20 to...
View ArticleNCCA’s Budayaw fest; A spectacle of Asean music and dance
A heady spectacle of music and dance. Add visual art, arts and crafts, heritage preservation, cultural exchanges and lectures, trade fairs, tourism advocacy, tribal chants, fashion, regional cuisine...
View ArticleArt fest expands artistic frontiers of Southeast Asia
Visual arts dynamism has been a key factor in re-establishing the Philippines as a cultural powerhouse in the region. Whether in art shows or auctions or even on social media, Filipino artists have...
View ArticleManilART Fair to focus on Mindanao
The 2017 edition of the ManilART Fair, a major cultural activity which brings together works by new as well as prominent artists, will focus on Mindanao, an indication that the crisis in a few areas in...
View ArticleNCCA holds Dayaw indigenous fest in Manila
October is Indigenous Peoples’ Month. The National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) celebrated the occasion with Dayaw (“to present with pride”), Indigenous Peoples’ Festival, in Manila. The...
View ArticleTurkey leads cultural diplomacy movement
Culture put in the service of diplomacy so as to ease conflicts that arise out of ethnic, religious and geopolitical rifts and rows is the focus of the Global Public Diplomacy Network (GPDNet), a...
View ArticleRomblon et al. holds ‘multi-disciplinary’ festival
The Mimaropa (Mindoro, Marinduque, Romblon and Palawan) Festival, recently held in the coastal town of Odiangan, Romblon, a province with many islands and areas with strong potential for tourism, was,...
View ArticleMet now 30 percent restored
Described in a previous re- port as in a state of “gross squalor” due to its sorry state of conservation, the Manila Metropolitan Theater (Met) has since been slowly becoming a restored cultural hub...
View Article‘Buhay na Buhay,’ new NCCA TV series on arts and culture, premieres Feb. 17
The National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) has launched a new TV documentary series on the rich and diverse cultural heritage of the Philippines. The series is aimed at imparting deeper...
View ArticleArchitecture exhibit tours nationwide on National Arts Month
February may be the month for lovers, but it is also National Arts Month (NAM), which the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) celebrates with festivities that began during the last week...
View ArticlePilita Corrales opens NCCA’s National Arts Month in Luneta
Visayan pop-music icons Pilita Corrales and Dulce top-billed this year’s formal opening of National Arts Month at Luneta Park in Manila. February is the National Arts Month (NAM) by virtue of...
View ArticleNCCA’s Sayaw Pinoy tours Visayas; Cinema Rehiyon returns to Manila
The National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), through its National Committee on Dance led by Shirley Halili-Cruz, is holding Sayaw Pinoy in connection with the 2018 National Arts Month....
View ArticleSantiago, Isabela hosts NCCA’s Philippine Visual Arts Festival
The Philippine Visual Arts Festival was launched recently in Santiago City, Isabela, with a series of workshops and lectures in mural painting, installation art and performance art, aimed at the city’s...
View ArticleLucio San Pedro honored
National Artist for Music Lucio D. San Pedro was honored during the National Arts Month (NAM) celebration in his hometown of Angono, Rizal. Angono hosted the formal opening of the Luzon leg of NAM...
View ArticleNCCA orders PPA to stop Philbanking demolition
Chairperson Virgilio Almario of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) has issued a cease-and-desist order on the Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) to stop the demolition of the...
View ArticleUniversity of San Agustin hosts NCCA’s architecture exhibit
The National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) is touring the Philippine architecture exhibit, “Loob at Labas: Talakayan at Pagpaparangya,” this March. Mounted by the NCCA National Committee...
View Article‘Pabasa’ or Lenten reading kicks off NCCA’S literary festival
To the great Anglo-American poet TS Eliot, “April is the cruelest month, breeding/Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing/Memory and desire…” But to the Philippines, April is National Literature Month...
View Article
