Mangyan Heritage Center

For nine years now, the Mangyan Heritage Center has been actively promoting the Mangyans of Mindoro. Besides collecting, researching, publishing, and preserving Mangyan documents for its library, the MHC conducts workshops, festivals, lectures, and tackles issues and concerns.

The MHC traveling photo and artifact exhibit entitled, "The Mangyans of Mindoro: Myth and Meaning" has been to 26 educational institutions in the whole Philippines to continuously advocate and increase awareness of fellow Filipinos on the Mangyans and their rich cultural heritage. The host organization can also invite from a pool of Mangyan and non-Mangyan lecturers who are experts on Mangyan culture and the current situation.

At the exhibit, Mangyan girls demonstrate the oldest form of cloth making thru cotton-spinning and cloth weaving. For those interested in beaded crafts, there are workshops on bracelet making too. Interested guests can also learn to write their name in the Hanunuo-Mangyan script, one of only four remaining Pre-Hispanic Filipino writing systems that have been declared National Cultural Treasures in 1997 and inscribed in the Memory of the World Registers of UNESCO in 1999.

To interested groups, organizations and parties who wish to invite and include us in your activities, you may email us at mangyanheritage@gmail.com or call +6343 288-5318

* For 2009, the exhibit is traveling around Mindoro to address discrimination and raise more local awareness and appreciation of the richness of Mangyan culture.

* Request for lectures is subject to the availability of lecturers.