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Saturday, November 26, 2005
2nd Artist and Writers Festival in Boracay runs till Sunday
THE second of the country's first ever roving festival will be held in the island resort of Boracay, Aklan on November 25 to 27 and will be participated in by over 30 artists, writers, and cultural groups from different regions as well as foreign artist and guests.
Dubbed as the Sunrise Festival, this year's activity carries the theme "Etnik Konek: Seeking our Roots to Build our Future."
The first fetival was held November 12 to 14 last year in Cebu with the theme "Paghugpong" or "Solidarity" while host of next year's festival will Davao City.
Last year's festival had drawn over a hundred participants from all over the country and had attracted guests from South Korea, USA, Germany and Switzerland.
Organized by the Maharlika Artists and Writers Federation (Mawf), the festival seeks to project the different regional cultural artistic expressions while promoting unity among the cultural groups.
Highlights of this year's festival will be an opening parade along Boracay's main paths, exhibit of sculpture and scroll paintings, installation artworks, seminar workshops on poetry and feature writing, lectures on visual and indigenous performing arts, tribal and spiritual music, art interaction and forum, body painting, and welcoming of the sunrise in the final morning of the festival.
A capping activity will be a social service program and interaction with the Aeta community in Boracay.
Freddie Doce, president of Mawf visual arts, said this year's festival is supported by the Western Visayas Department of Tourism regional office headed by Regional Director Edwin Trompeta and will be held in coordination with the local government units of Kalibo and Aklan and the local Department of Education (DepEd) division.
Doce said the idea for the roving festival was thought of by some 30 artists and writers from different regions who have met in April 2003 in San Joaquin, Iloilo where they have held the first "meeting of the sunrise" activity.
"The Sunrise Festival is roving and will be hosted by different cultural group every year underlines the idea that all cultural groups are equal and not a single cultural group or region should dominate the others," Doce said.
Organizations that have signified their participation in the festival are Neo tribe and Maharlika of Cebu; All Dumaguete Artists of Dumaguete; Iloilo Visual Artists Association, Pugad, Maragtason, Taga-Aton, Mind Art, Circulo, Kurit Ilonggo, Baysu Langpu Society, hubon Madjaas, and Ambon of Iloilo; Bombom and Grupong Dado of Boracay; other Aklan artists and Bugtaw Akean; Rawa of Manila; Ambahan Literary Circle of Mindoro; Asug and Rasa Moda Ethno Tribal Band of Leyte.
With individual artists who are also participating are lecturers Shiela castillo of Mindoro (literary artist), Hazel Villa of Iloilo (journalist), and Dulce Cuna of Leyte (performing artist).
Participating regional culutral groups are Kaliwat of Western Visayas, Panaghugpong of Mindanao, Central Luzon Alliance Movement, Kasugbu of Eastern Visayas, kasaru of the Bicol Region, Makabayang Tagalog of the National Capitol Region, TPMI of the Ilocos Region, TCKI of the Cordillera Region, and Waray Tupong of the Waray Region.
(November 26, 2005 issue)
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