Thank you so much to Dr. Richard Pascua, Paulinian Arts Society Humanities class and SAO for Arts Appreciation Week March 2017 as a Resource Person for Arts and Culture History of Negros Oriental Daghan Salamat

1. Negros Oriental Arts & Culture
History
Josefino Tulabing Larena ,CPS,CPE,MPA

2. Negros Oriental

3. Pre Colonial Era
• Among its earliest
inhabitants were dark-
skinned natives belonging
to the Negrito ethnic
group with their unique
culture. Thus, the
Spaniards called the land
“Negros” after the black
natives whom they saw
when they first came to
the island in April 1565.

4. Mudpack Practice

5. Indigenous tradition. Babaylan is a spiritual healer, folk therapist,
wisdom-keeper and philosopher; a woman who has vast
knowledge of healing therapies

6. Daro Pottery Tradition
• Dumaguete Daro pottery

7. Spanish Period

8. Religious Procession

9. Structure during the Spanish Regime
• Campanario 1760 • Cathedral 1754-1776

10. Sipong Post Harvest Celebration

11. Santacruzan Festival

12. Art Deco Heritage Furniture Door
• The Tanguile twin panel
doors originally came from
a religious building in
Negros Oriental. It is of
the Art Deco era. Now it is
complimented with
Balayong door jams
recycled from a 1880
home, and made bigger
with door frames from a
1910 church

13. Spanish Dances

14. American Period

15. Theater Arts
• Hamlet 1920s

16. Annie –the Musical Play of St. Paul
1920s

17. Jazz Music
• Tanjay Calumpang
Orchestra
• "The Heart Blenders"
before the war. He used
to play a variety of
instruments

18. Architecture
• Capitol Building 1924 • Manuel Lajato Teves HOuse

19. Culture of Parade

20. Japanese Occupation

21. Art & Skills
• Drawing • French EMBROIDERY

22. Art & Drama
• Puppet Theatre • Kabuki Mask

23. Post War Period 1950-1970

24. Filipino literary works
• Claro Ceniza, Cesar Amigo,
Aida Rivera (Ford), Edilberto
Tiempo ,Edith Tiempo (who
was busy receiving national
literary awards), Reuben Canoy,
Ricaredo Demetillo, David
Quemada, and James
Matheson (who kept a long-
running column called "Diary") -
- but the champion of them all
is Nicator F. Tabligan Jr., whose
contributions to the literary
culture in Dumaguete spanned
more than a decade. And
nobody even remembers him
anymore.

25. Pasko sa Bais since 1948

26. St. Paul Musical Production
• Ravenal (Carlito Antolin) is
introduced to Magnolia
(Carmen Andrada) by
Capt. Andy (Braddock
Calumpang) in St. Paul
University Dumaguete's
production of Kern and
Hammerstein's Show Boat
directed by the late Fr.
James Reuter.

27. St. Paul Musical Production
• Rita Perez,
Elena
Miciano,
Carmen
Gonzalez.
Singing in the
Rain

28. Pioneer Dance Icon
• Dance Icon of Negros
Oriental Lucy Patrimonio
Jumawan
Founder of the
Foundation University
Buglas-sayaw Dance Co.
and Silliman University
Dance co

29. Music Icon
• Rosario Fe Saavedra
• Music Conductor
• Choir Leader
• Literature Teacher
• Humanities Teacher
• Spanish Language Teacher
• 60 years service to this
University

30. Pioneer Bayanihan Folk Dance
Company
• Mercy Teves- Goni
She traveled the world thru
The Bayanihan Philippine
National Folk Dance
Company is the oldest dance
company in the Philippines
Photo by : New York times

31. Fleur-de-Lis Hall

32. ERA
Martial Law

33. The Catacombs

34. Atty.David “Danny”C.Martinez
• He was the 1979 Editor,
Asian American News (L.A.);
awarded First Prize for "The
Amulet", Short Story / Don
Carlos Palanca Memorial
Awards for Literature; and a
1997 Palanca Awardee,
poetry, for "Shadow on the
Sun". He published poetry,
short stories, and essays in
Philippine Free Press and
Weekly Graphic,1964-1971

35. Edilberto K. Tiempo
• Filipino writer and
professor.
• establishing "a tradition in
excellence in creative
writing and the teaching
of literacy craft which
continues to this day“
• Fine Arts,
Drama,Graduate School in
St. Paul

36. Dr. Elsa Victoria Martinez - Coscolluela
• She is also a multi-awarded
writer. Her achievements
include winning the Carlos
Palanca Memorial Awards for
more than twenty times,the
prestigious Cultural Center
Award in playwrighting, as well
as the Philippine Free Press
Award. In 1996 she was
named National Fellow for
Drama by the University of the
Philippines Creative Writing
Center.

37. Bobby Flores Villasis
• Authors, Poets, and
Playwright
• The Carlos Palanca
Memorial Awards for
Literature winners in the
year 1987 (rank, title of ...
First Prize: “Fiesta”
• Philippine Press first prize
• Art and Culture Icon

38. Edgar “Eddie” Sinco Romero
• He is an influential Filipino
film director, film producer and
screenwriter, considered one
of the finest in the cinema of
the Philippines.
• Romero was named National
Artist of the Philippines in
2003, and his body of work
delved into the history and
politics of his country. His 1976
film Ganito Kami Noon…Paano
Kayo Ngayon
• National Artist in Film

39. Mariant Escaño Villegas
• Mariant Escano-Villegas started
teaching dance in1973. Three
generations of Dumaguete’s girls
and boys learned their first dance
steps under her watchful eyes.
MEV took up formal ballet class with
Isham Clark in San Diego, USA and
jazz with Jun Appel. She studied the
Russian Vaganova method for ballet
under Luminitza Demutriscu, and
passed the Royal Ballet Academy of
Dance under Florence Sinclair.
The MEV Dance Studio, located
along Escano Beach Road, Brgy.
Piapi, is an institutional member of
CSTD International for ballet, jazz,
tap and ballroom.

40. 1980 Cultural Revival
• Ingata sa Siaton

41. Palihi

42. Polka Biana
• The original Polka Biana
Dancers from
Zamboanguita, Negros
Oriental.
• Polka Biana or “Polka
dedicated to Biana” was a
dance dedicated to a
Zamboanguita lady named
Biana who was fat lady.

43. Salampati Folk Dance Tanjay

44. Kuratsa de Negros Bais City
• The Kuratsa is a Filipino
traditional Dance of
Courtship where the male
approaches and courts a
lady in a form of a dance. It
depicts the courtship
between the rooster and the
hen. The Kuratsa is the
dance of courtship from the
Visayas region of the
Philippines. At barrio fiestas,
the Kuratsaserves as the
traditional courtship dance .

45. Pandanggo Dumaguetiño Folk Dance

46. Rigodon de honor Zamboaguita 1920s

47. Kasalang Dauinon

48. Daygon Vallehermoso

49. Buglasan Folk Festival 1980s

50. Josefa Villanueva Perez
• Visual Artist
• Historian
• Genealogist
• Art & Culture Icon

51. Visual Artist
• Cristina S. Taniguchi • Danilo Luces Sollesta

52. 1990s Milestone in Negrense Art &
Culture

53. Sandurot Festival was born

54. Chinese New Year

55. Dumaguete Santacruzan

56. Francisco “Boy” Villanueva

57. Women Artists in Dumaguete 90s

58. Karl Aguila

59. Paul Pfeiffer

60. 2000 -2017New Era

61. Second International Rondalla Festival

62. Guitarist Michael Dadap’s & Mathilda
Limbaga Erojo

63. Hersley-Ven Casero

64. Ramon Del Prado

65. Cultural Photography

66. Wedding Photography

67. Food Photography
• Dexter Earl Teves

68. Photo Journalism
• Urich Calumpang

69. Music
• Katrina Tiongson Saga • Prof. Ian Caballes

70. Jazz Music
• Jay Cyrus Villabito Villanueva • Louise Remata Villanueva

71. Music & Marching Band

72. Dumaguete Visayan reggae

73. Tess Lopez
• Vallehermoso” (published by
the Vallehermoso Helping
Hands Foundation) is the
author’s declaration of her
attachment to the beautiful
valley that is Vallehermoso in
Negros Oriental.
• “The currents of time have yet
to wash away the memories of
those precious summers with
my family in ‘Il Paradiso,’ our
farm house in Vallehermoso.
• Cultural Advocate, Art Patron
and Curator Vicente Lopez
Museum & Library

74. Dr. Edith L. Tiempo
• poet, fiction writer,
teacher and literary
critic was
a Filipino writer in
the English language.
• She was conferred
the National Artist
Award for Literature
in 1999.

75. Vallehermoso Helping Hand
Foundation Inc

76. Dumaguete Festival & Arts Society

77. SPUD Sandurot Champion

78. Thank you so much

79. Thank you so much
• St. Paul University Dumaguete
• St. Paul University Alumni Office
• St. Paul University Student Government
• Michael Ocampo
• Hersley-Ven Casero
• Paulinian Arts Society
• Dumaguete Festival & Arts Society Inc
• www.google.com
• www.facebook.com