by Jen Maramba | Nov 26, 2014 | Babaylan and Community Healing, Decolonization and Filipino Identity, Events and Conference, In the News, Indigenous Education, Modern Practices, Organization Updates, Reflections and Commentaries
by Celeste Ann Castillo Llaneta in UP Forum For countless years, indigenous peoples (IPs) have lived on the fringes of society, barely mentioned even in the footnotes of history texts. The IPs, if given any attention at all, are often viewed as collateral damage in...
by Omehra | Sep 3, 2011 | Books, Talks, Papers, CDs, Websites, Decolonization and Filipino Identity, Modern Practices
Why is decolonization and indigenization important to Filipinos today? One of the reasons is that it helps Filipinos become more integrated in their own cultural identity. It also helps them become strengthened as a collective of people who are of the archipelago...
by Omehra | Aug 9, 2011 | Kapwa and Other Indigenous and Filipino Values, Modern Practices
Towards a ‘Kapwa’ Theory of Art: Multiplicity in Integrative Contemporary Practicesby Margarity Certeza GarciaPresented at: Bahaus University WeimarMasters in Public Arts and New Artistic Strategies21 February 2011Excerpt (What)…is the large percentage of...
by Omehra | Apr 22, 2010 | Babaylan and Community Healing, Events and Conference, Modern Practices
We must’ve looked a sight to the residents of sleepy Salmon Creek, off Highway 1 past Bodega Bay. A motley crew of thirty-odd participants of the Babaylan Conference that had just taken place at Sonoma University, we had come to the quiet beach with Babaylan...
by Omehra | Sep 26, 2009 | Babaylan and Community Healing, Creative Expressions, Performances, Art, Poetry, Events and Conference, Modern Practices
YA PALLABBET | ANG PAGBABALIK LOOB | THE JOURNEY HOMEBy Mila Anguluan-Coger, 09.18.09 Chanted Poem/Song at the Ritual Gathering of Sacred Music, Dance & PoetrySaturday, September 19, 2009. Berkeley, CA Intan intan… labbet tan intanIntan intan… labbet tan...
by Omehra | Sep 16, 2009 | Babaylan and Community Healing, Creative Expressions, Performances, Art, Poetry, Kapwa and Other Indigenous and Filipino Values, Modern Practices
Babaylan Mandala I-I Beginning over 400 years ago, the coming of Westerner colonizers shaped the identity of Filipinos. As the gold of our ancestors and the motherland were wrested away and loaded upon Spanish galleons to be delivered to the conquerors’ home...