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A Glimpse of the Mangyan, the Indigenous
Peoples of Mindoro, Philippines
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Come and discover the rich Mangyan culture
and heritage and learn to write your name in the Mangyan script in a lecture to
be conducted at the Korea
Foundation Cultural
Center’s Seminar Room on
October 14, 2:00 P.M. - 4:00 P.M.
The seminar will be led Emily Catapang, a
Mangyan culture expert and executive director of the Mangyan Heritage
Center. Catapang will be joined by Ponyong Kadlos, a
traditional Mangyan poet and coordinator of the Kapulungan Para sa Lupaing Ninuno (KPLN).
The Mangyan Heritage
Center is a not-for-profit,
non-government organization promoting the Mangyan culture with various
projects. On the other hand, the KPLN is a federation of Mangyan Peoples
Organizations in Oriental Mindoro that promotes and protects the Mangyan rights
to their ancestral domain. Also KPLN
implements programs in education, livelihood, heath, conflict resolution and
capability building.
Mangyan is the collective name for the eight
indigenous peoples (IP) groups living in Mindoro
island. Estimated to be 10% of the total
population of Oriental and Occidental Mindoro, these over 100,000 Mangyans,
have eight different languages and cultural traditions.
Out of the 110 IP groups in the Philippines today, the Hanunoo and Buhid
Mangyans are two out of only three IPs in the Philippines who have retained their
original syllabary. The Buhid and Hanunoo Mangyan syllabic writing
systems have been declared as National Cultural Treasures in 1997 and inscribed
in UNESCO 's Memory of the Word Registers in 1999.
The Mangyans possess a rich and distinctive
cultural and literary heritage. They use various traditional musical
instruments during festivities, special occasions and courting: guitar, violin,
flute, gong, and Jew's harp. Using a pointed knife, Hanunoo Mangyans inscribe
poems on bamboo trees in the forests or on bamboo slats. These Ambahans express in an allegorical way,
through the use of poetic language, certain situations or characteristics
referred to by the one reciting the poem.
The Hanunoo and Buhid Mangyans weave and
embroider their own traditional attire. The Iraya and Alangan Mangyans
are skilled in weaving forest vines and rattan into elaborate
baskets. All the Mangyans love to wear accessories made of beads.
One of their sources of livelihood is their handicrafts made of forest vines,
beads and cotton.
The seminar is sponsored by
the Embassy of the Philippines,
Korea Foundation
Cultural Center,
The Ala-Ala Foundation, Mangyan
Heritage Center
and Pinoy Art Collective.
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MANGYAN
CULTURAL FESTIVAL
February
7 to 9, 2008
Jose J. Leido Memorial National High
School Gym
Calapan City, Oriental Mindoro
Read
About the Festival...
View the poster...
For more information,
contact:
Emily Catapang
mobile: +63
910 3053810
phone: (043)
288-5318 (Mindoro)
email: mangyanhc@catsi.net.ph
Featured Story:::
Bamboo
Whispers
by:
Lolita Delgado Fansler
“There is scarcely a man, and much less a
woman,
who cannot read and write in letters proper to the Island of
Manila.”
The
quote is attributed to Fr. Pedro Chirino, a noted Jesuit historian
who wrote on the early years of Spanish colonization in the
Philippines. Every Filipino today ought to be proud that in the early
1500s through 1600s, when the Spaniards established a stronghold, most
Manila inhabitants, especially women, were literate. They were using
their own script before the conquistadors arrived in the more than
7,000 islands.
Read
full article...
News Update:::
The First
PCNC-certified NGO in Mindoro
The
Mangyan Heritage Center was
recently granted a three-year certification by the Philippine Council
for NGO Certification, the self-regulating body for non-government
organizations in the country. The PCNC ensures that
non-profit
organizations meet the standards for financial management and
accountability in the service of underprivileged Filipinos.
The
MHC now enjoys a donee institution status, which allows its donors to
receive tax deductions and exempts them from paying a donor’s
tax
for their contributions.
Read
full article...
February 2007
Mangyan Cultural
Festival
Divine Word College,
Calapan, Oriental Mindoro
Education:::
Two Lectures
view
the flyer
Looking
Past the Images:
Photographs of the Mangyan People
19th-20th Century
Speaker: John L. Silva
9:30 am to 10:30 am, January 19, 2006
Ayala Museum
The Joy of Writing in the Ancient
Script of the Mangyan People
Speaker: Lolita Delgado Fansler
10:45 am to 12 noon, January 19, 2006
Ayala Museum
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KPLN GENERAL ASSEMBLY
OF 7 MANGYAN TRIBES
by: Lheila Mozenda C. Mendoza
July 3, 2006
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by: Madonna Virola
May 5, 2005
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Fr. Edwin Gariguez
February 22, 2006
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OUR NATIONAL PATRIMONY IS NOT FOR SALE!Statement
Task Force Sierra Madre and Alyansa Tigil Mina
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POSITION PAPER ON THE REVOCATION OF THE NOTICE OF
CANCELLATION OF AGLUBANG MPSA BY THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
Multi-sectoral organizations of Oriental Mindoro Pement
Task Force Sierra Madre and Alyansa Tigil Mina
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BRIEF: THE MINDORO NICKEL PROJECT
Alyansa Laban sa Mina (ALAMIN)
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by: Micky Fenix
January 12, 2006
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SENSE AND SENSIBILITY:
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by: Bambi Harper
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