The fourth Baguio Gong Festival culminated with a day-long showcase of indigenous Cordilleran dances on October 30. In this year’s festival, more than 20 cultural groups from all over the region performed during the festival held at the Baguio Convention Center. Baguio Gong Festival and Indigenous Peoples Month Officials from the city and provincial local governments also participated. The event …

Halloween, one of the most celebrated holidays around the world. The moment you hear about the word, one would immediately think about ‘Trick or Treat,’ costumes, parties, parades and other family-friendly activity. But when and how did this start really? ‘Halloween’ Origin It all dates back 2,000 years ago. According to History, it originally is a Celtic festival called ‘Samhain’ celebrated on …

Baguio City is one of the places that Miss Universe 2017 contestants will visit when the country hosts the prestigious pageant next year. Miss Universe officials have included the Summer Capital of the Philippines in the pageant’s itinerary in January 2017.  Miss Universe In Baguio City According to Sun Star Baguio, Tourism Undersecretary Kat de Castro who mentioned that Baguio …

A typhoon is an extremely large, powerful, and destructive storm. It can take many lives if it pleases and does not pick its victims. Take typhoon Haiyan or ‘Yolanda’ for example that hit the Philippines and other countries in 2013. It is the deadliest typhoon on record killing at least 6,300 people in the Philippines alone. The aftermath was devastating enough they …

The organizers behind the National Digital Arts Awards, Brand Guerilla PH, held a press launch of the awards for Northern Luzon during PIA’s Kapihan sa Baguio October 18, in Calle Uno, Baguio City. The Baguio launch is the second of a series of regional launches for the awards, the first of which happened in Cebu a few weeks ago. Another …

A century and a year after the first law supporting cooperatives – the Act of 2508 – was signed in February 5, 1915, cooperatives in the Philippines have produced about 35 billionaire cooperatives, five of which are cooperative banks. These cooperative banks are what we call secondary cooperatives since its members are not natural persons but cooperatives as well. Primary …

On Tuesday, October 10, Baguio City celebrated the 25th Local Government Month and Barangay Day with the theme, “Pagsulong.Progreso.Pagbabago” at the Baguio Convention Center. Presidential Proclamation No. 63 recognized the important role of local government units in nation building and declared the month of October every year as Local Government Month and the 10th of October as the Local Government Day. The …

October is Indigenous Peoples Month in the Philippines which is an opportune time to recognize the contributions of the many indigenous peoples groups to the country’s culture and development. In the Cordillera Administrative Region, it also the time to showcase indigenous cultural practices as well as gather together and discuss the challenges that IPs in the region are facing. Baguio …

Cinematheque Baguio, under the auspices of the Film Development Council of the Philippines, will join the rest of the Cordillera region in celebrating Indigenous Peoples Month this October, by screening selected independent films made by filmmakers from the region. Independent films about Cordillera, by Cordillerans According to the Philippine Information Agency, among the films that will screened at the cinematheque …

Baguio is a haven for artists. Maybe it’s the cool mountain air and the nippy weather that gets their creative juices flowing. Whatever the reasons may be, one thing is true – Baguio also loves their local artists. “Pasakalye” One such evidence of support and love for local artists is the recently launched street art festival dubbed “Pasakalye,” made possible …