La Vida Oriental Negrense

Great -grandchildren of Don Diego de la Vina  Mayor Ipe Remollo and BM Woodrow Maquiling Sr. De Molay Leon kilat Chapter Negros Oriental  Liberation Day Floral Offering  Foundation University History Class  Prof. Penn T. Larena & Councilor JV IMBO Negros Oriental History,Heritage & Arts Society NOHHAS Liberation Day Committee Members  

  September is a month full of surprises and that brought the artistic inner talent and skills to celebrate a great endeavor to present the best of them. Dumaguete visual artist, fine arts professor and entrepreneur Babbu Wenceslao, who owns the El Amigo Art Space along Silliman Ave. Friends ,Artist and guests celebrated the opening reception of Babbu Wenceslao’s solo exhibit, ASANAMO, last September 10 th in Mugna Art Gallery ASANAMO, which is vernacular for “Where are you?,” the artist's three most recent masterpieces as well as some of his best earlier creations. Congratulations. to Vincent Lopez for managing the painstaking planning that went into this incredible presentation. This month's Self Portrait exhibit is at the Shelter Gallery. From September 3 to September 25,2022, Vanessa Gaston Copeland will host her Surface Tension Art Exhibition. Vanessa Gaston Copeland abandons her professional habits as an architect and designer in favor of more irrational ways of

 

  The Order of the  Knights of Rizal, Central Visayas with the regional commander Sir Rafael Crescencio Tan,KCR , led the celebration of the 161st birth anniversary of Philippine National Hero, Dr. Jose Rizal, at Manuel Luis Quezon Park Dumaguete City Negros Oriental. Sir Dr. Henry A. Sojor, KGOR and Former Amb.Macarthur Flores Corsino ,KGOR Negrosanon Knights of Rizal with a wreath-laying ceremony. Sir Dr. Cesar P. Estrope Ph.D. KOR is our Rizal birthday speaker. This was followed by a fellowship breakfast at Joshua 1, Bethel Guest House. The Fellowship speaker is Sir Dr  Greg Elnas Baccay JD KCR. Brother Knights of the Dumaguete City and Negros Oriental Chapters attend in their KOR Barong and National medal of honor. Order of the Knights of Rizal Negros Oriental Area Sir Dr. Gerard Jude Bumanglag,KCR.led the floral offering at Tanjay City Park.  KOR Tanjay City Chapter donated an oil on canvas artwork done by our postulant  Visual Artist Hans Henry Lozada and an old b

Participants and attendees of the "Live Drawing and Day 1 Art Talk" of the Pamalandong 2 group art show at  Dakong Balay Hosted by Visual Artist  Mr. Kyle Jocson Contemporary Realism Artist and  Model/Artist Miss Maria Isabel Destacamento, together with the participants and their outputs. Students from St. Paul University Dumaguete Art A ppreciation under Mr. Penn T. Larena and Foundation University Fine Art Program  Artmovesph team headed by Visual Artist  Portia Nemeño    gives their heartfelt thanks for the encouragement and support from the Dumaguete art community and art enthusiasts!  Special Credits to  Negros Oriental History and Heritage Society  for the support as well.    Live Drawing Art Session with our Participants Art Talk with our Negrosanon Artists

  ALLTOGETHER is an all-women art exhibition committed to creating an avenue for the amplification of the female voice in our society. Although it is an identity-centered event, it veers away from reducing the artwork’s value to its creator’s gender and separates it from broader histories of art. It seeks, rather, to create a convergence of creative exchange and build a framework for productive networking among the 37 local women artists of Negros Oriental .   In celebration of International Women’s Month, to showcase the creativity of Negrosanon women in the field of Visual Arts. The exhibition was spearheaded by seasoned artist and Folk singer  Jana Jumalon of Network of Artists  in Negros Oriental (NANO)  ALLTOGETHER is an all-women art exhibition committed to creating an avenue for the amplification of the female voice in society. Visual Artist Jana Jumalon Guests of honor at the opening were Arch. Gerard Rey  Lico is a multi-awarded author of publications on Philippine archi

  Bayawan City is very well known as the Agricultural Capital of Negros Oriental and  its  Tawo-tawo Festival , also known as the  Scarecrow Festival , which the people of  Bayawan  annually celebrate on the 18th of February. Thanksgiving for a good harvest and also to give honor and praise to their city patron saint Santo Tomas Villanueva as they celebrate this festival. The Tawo-tawo Festival focuses on the great difference the tawo-tawo has brought the city after driving the crows away. Photo by : Bayawan City Culture ,Arts Heritage & Tourism Investment Promotion Office Tawo Tawo is an amazing celebration and spectacle highlighted by street dancing and showdown competitions. Empty tin cans and bamboo clappers are utilized in providing for the music. Canned music is not used during street dancing as they prefer live music provided by indigenous materials made into traditional musical instruments.  The indigenous costumes and the choreography of the dances provide for the interest