Tambayayong Festival 2011 -- October is a Filipino month and Sininng Kambayoka Cultural Arts Foundation, Inc. (SKCAFI) will hold a Tambayayong Festival in the City of Carson, CA in support of our heritage month. We are inviting the public especially the Fil-Am community to participate and be a part of this celebration.
Tambayayong Festival 2011
October is a Filipino month and Sininng Kambayoka Cultural Arts Foundation, Inc. (SKCAFI) will hold a Tambayayong Festival in the City of Carson, CA in support of our heritage month. We are inviting the public especially the Fil-Am community to participate and be a part of this celebration.
TAMBAYAYONG FESTIVAL 2011, October 1-3, at the Southbay Pavilion (Carson Mall), City of Carson,California. This event is produced by the Sining Kambayoka Cultural Arts Foundation, Inc (SKCAFI) a non-profit, public benefit organization based in Norwalk, California. The event is co-produced by the Office of the Mayor Jim Dear, spearheaded by Councilman Hon. Elito Santarina of the city of Carson thru its coordinator Ms. Carolina Almeda of ADAP, and the Filipino American Press Club of Los Angeles headed by Ms. Myrna Aquitania and Mt. Pinatubo Survivor Photographer and BALITA Editor, Mr Rhony Laigo.
Tambayayong Festival 2011 is organized for the purpose of celebrating the Filipino American Heritage Month, on its 3rd year of celebration since enacted by the US Congress. Ms. Sweeney Montinola, Mktng Director of the Mall, has organized various community organizations to participate and have a day-long program of activities every saturday for the whole month of October inside the Mall. But the Tambayayong Festival 2011 is a daily activity for the whole month with it's Opening ceremony and Cutting of ribbon on Saturday, Oct. 1.
There are three major aspects/or foci of the Festival:
1) Cultural Aspect.... this is fulfilled by the coming of the Zamboanga Peninsula Delegation of the Philkippines where they brought the Tribal culture of the SUBANENS, the YAKANS, and the MAGUINDANAOS. Governor Roseller Ariosa of Pagadian City, the Subannen town of Lapuyan Mayor Hon. Daylinda Sulong, and DOT region IX Director Ms. Mary June Bugante heads the Zamboanga cultural & trade delegation. Dances and Workshops on Cultural Dances, Banig Weaving, Handicraft making, and Kulintang Playing ar offered to interested people.
2)Visual Arts Aspect .... 2.1 Mt. Pinatubo Eruption's 20th Anniversary Photo Exhibit. Time Magazine's and National Geographic's Award winning Photos of the eruption taken by the Mt Pinatubo Surviving Photographers headed by Philippine Daily Enquirer Consultant Photographer Mr. Heraldo Cabrido and more than 50 photos taken during and after the eruption will be on display. Photography Workshop is conducted to interested people. 2.2 Pilipino American Artists Guild (PAAG) Exhibit composed of known FilAm artists of Southern California such as Raffy Maniago, Mat Relox, Boi Sibug, Fenny Pangan, and Peter Calma are putting up a Gallery of no less than 4 paintings with live Portrait painting, and a Painting Workshop for interested people.
3) Bazaar ... Philippine made Products by Southern California Exhibitors,and the Tribal handicrafts from Mindanao are on display/sold in no less than 25 booths inside the mall.
This is a huge festival in scope and meaning to the promotion of Philippine Culture to mainstream america, which is the sole and ultimate goal of the SKCAFI.
Philippine-based photographers to hold ‘Mt. Pinatubo Media Survivors Photo Exhibit’ in Carson Shopping Center
Written by Debbie
Tuesday, 23 August 2011 00:02
One of Time Magazine’s ‘Great Images of the 20th Century’ on displayat Filipino Heritage Month at Southbay Pavilion
A GROUP of Filipino photojournalists, who braved and survived the eruption of the century to bring us fascinating pictures that at the same also showed the destructive power of M. Pinatubo, is coming to the U.S. for a coast-to-coast tour of the photo exhibit “20 Years After the Eruption.”
Organized by Sining Kambayoka, the Filipino American Press Club and the City of Carson, the exhibit will be staged during the Filipino Heritage Month in the Southbay Pavilion Shopping Center in the City of Carson this next month.
Through the efforts of Nick Sagmit, former photographer of Manila Bulletin and himself a Mt. Pinatubo survivor, and this newspaper outfit, the photo exhibit will feature more than 50 photographs during and after the eruption, including the award-winning shot of Albert Garcia, whose escape from hell picture won first prize in the nature category of the World Press Photographers photo contest, which incidentally was also chosen as one of the Great Images of the 20th Century by Time Magazine and “100 Best Pictures of the 20th Century” by National Geographic Magazine. To give a better perspective on the impact of Garcia’s spectacular picture, the 20th Century included two world wars, the rise and fall of many great nations of today, discoveries, inventions and scientific explorations.
Garcia’s photograph depicts of Mt. Pinatubo’s fury, fear from the volcano’s wrath, the mortality of life and its almost insignificant size compared to the energy that lies beneath our feet. Though similar eruptions occurred just a few months before Mt. Pinatubo’s – Mt. St. Helen’s in Washington and Mt. Unzen in Japan – there have been no photos as cataclysmic as the one taken by Garcia.
Aside from Garcia, who is currently the photo editor of Manila Bulletin, those who will come are Philippine Daily Inquirer Chief Photographer Ernie Sarmiento and the newspaper’s photo consultant Heraldo “Boy” Cabrido (who also serves as the man behind the exhibit). Also coming are Charie Villa of ABS-CBN, GMA7’s Online Photo Editor and Press Photographers of the Philippines President Joe Galvez and chief photographers of several newspapers and foreign news bureaus based in the Philippines. A total of 11 photographers will come to the U.S. and participate in the exhibit.
Currently, the photographers are holding a nationwide tour of the photo exhibit in the Philippines. From Manila – the last leg – the photographers will fly to the U.S. to display their photographs in the City of Carson with plans of bringing the exhibit to San Francisco, Las Vegas, Chicago and New York.
Through the invitation of Carson City Mayor Jim Dear and Filipino Carson Councilmember Elito Santarina, the Mt. Pinatubo Media Survivors will bring the photographs the U.S. and give Southern Californians a close-up look on why it was dubbed as the eruption of the century.
The month-long event in Carson, dubbed as Tambayoyong Festival 2011, will also include Filipino cultural performances, exhibits of Filipino painters and other artists, seminar workshops, forums, entertainment and bazaars.
According to Sining Kambayoka president Edgar Lopez, who along with his co-members have been working daily to organize this event that was only conceptualized last July, the event will also feature ritual dances from Philippines’ cultural minorities and presentation of ethnic traditions. Lopez said the activities will happen from the JC Penny outlet all the way up SEARS at the north end of the Southbay Pavilion.
Meanwhile, Lopez is inviting anyone who wish to take advantage of the month-long event by becoming a sponsor to get in touch with Balita Media for this rare occasion. Lopez said that just for as low as $200 a day, sponsors can get these following benefits: participation in the event where you get a table to promote your products and services, media exposure, acknowledgements during the programs, and more.
