MANILA, Philippines — Through the Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival 2024 entry “Tumandok,” directors Richard Jeroui Salvadico and Arlie Sweet Sumagaysay are hoping to help the Ati community in Iloilo province in securing their Certificate of Ancestral Domain Title (CADT).
This second edition of the Mobile Museum Boxes book highlights the history, fabrication, and implementation of this project as we seek to establish more innovative exhibition concepts for universal access and inclusivity. In this book, we featured an intensive approach to the content of each of the boxes to provoke further interest in various scientific fields — taxonomy, systematics, and conservation biology. It is our pride to showcase the natural heritage of the Visayas in all forms of access such as literary, digital, and tangible exhibitions now situated in the National Museum Western Visayas. (from the Foreword)
Over the weekend, on July 27, the 10th edition of Sabores de Visayas was held with the usual mix of nationally or internationally renowned Filipino chefs and local chefs, some of them just emerging, in the Western Visayas region. This year’s lineup of guest chefs was stellar—Kalel Chan of the Raintree Restaurant Group, Mikel Zaguirre of Locavore (and many other F&B establishments, including the Bizarre Bar), the very first Filipino Asia’s Best Female Chef (2016) Margarita Forés, Macroasia executive chef at Asian Development Bank Panky Lopez, Patrick Go of Your Local, restaurateur, TV chef, and Manila Bulletin Lifestyle columnist Sandy Daza, and Myke “Tatung” Sarthou of Lore. They worked closely with Iloilo’s chefs, established and emerging, led by Jose Wilson Esperancilla and Maridel Uygongco of Maridel’s, a goto pastry shop in Iloilo City known to have pioneered the guava cake.
Excerpt from Iloilo, an Episode of January, 1899, and Strained Relations in Manila, Vol. 6: First Series; February 25, 1901
December 13, 1898, General Otis received a petition from certain business men in Iloilo, asking for American protection there. Next day he cabled to Washington telling of the petition, stating that the Spanish authorities were still holding out in Iloilo but would receive American troops, and asking for instructions.
December 23, those instructions arrived. The President directs that you send necessary troops to Iloilo, to pre serve the peace and protect life and property. It is most important that there should be no conflict with the insurgents. Be conciliatory, but firm. General Otis at once cabled General Rios, in command of the Spanish troops at Iloilo, that he was sending a large American force. On the 24th, General Otis heard that General Rios intended to leave Iloilo that same day. Efforts were immediately made, says General Otis, to communicate by other means with General Rios before he could evacuate the city. Lieutenant Colonel Potter was sent at once on a coasting vessel to Iloilo.
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Tuesday stressed that water development projects enhance irrigation, provide potable water, bolster food production, support energy initiatives and promote tourism.
This novel won the 1961 Stonehill Award for the Filipino novel in English, and published for the Philippine Center of International Pen by the Regal Publishing Company and incorporated in the Regal Series of Distinguished Filipino writing in English
