Arts & Culture, History, News & Features from Metropolitan Cagayan de Oro
By Tito Mike Three Kagay-anon designers have made it as finalists to the Habi Kadayawan Luxe Wear Apparel and Fashion Accessories Design Competition, one of the flagship events of Davao City’s 38th Kadayawan Festival. Shine J. Casiño’s “Higalaay Splendor” was chosen of the ten finalists for the Apparel category, while Christopher Gomez’s “Panolong Clutch Bag” and Oscar …
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Cagayan de Oro City’s leading property developer does it again! After over three years of painstaking planning and meticulous research, Pueblo de Oro Development Corporation finally broke ground for its latest project, the Westwoods Storeys Mid-Rise, Mid-Market Condominium-in-a-Forest during a groundbreaking and tree planting ceremony held at the project site on June 30, 2023. Located in The Knoll (meaning a …
Now on exhibit at the new gallery Carmen Art District in #20 Andres Fernandez corner V. Neri Streets in Barangay Carmen Cagayan de Oro City, Coming Home is a gathering of the works of art of Kelly Ramos in a span of two decades of artmaking. This little retrospective provides a rare opportunity to see …
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Chicken Humba takes center stage this August as the Cagayan de Oro Hotel and Restaurant Association (COHARA) hosts its first ever Hala Kumbira Inter-barangay Competition at the 5th floor SM CDO Downtown Premier Event Hall on August 18, 2023 starting 1:00 pm. Competitors will be challenged to develop a recipe to promote Chicken Humba as a signature …
A small crowd of fifty gathered on May 12, 2023 to commemorate the 78th Anniversary of the Liberation of Cagayan de Oro during World War II at the Xavier University Museo de Oro with the opening program for The Road to Victory Exhibit and Lecture Series. Although the organizers invited local officials from the local …
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The long-cherished vision of an exclusive Art Hub for Cagayan de Oro’s artist community is off to a good start with the launching of The Photo Alley at the Limketkai Center on April 1st. “As a visual art, photography has the least exposure in the city, delegated to only a few weeks per year and …
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A simple concrete pouring ceremony held on Holy Wednesday is just one of the signs that Barangay Lumbia is ready to join the League of Progressive Uptown Barangays. Strategically situated in the center of twelve (12) hinterland barangays, Lumbia is leading the boom in Uptown Cagayan de Oro with no less than 58 approved residential …
North-Min Auto Dealership Inc. (NMADI), the official Isuzu dealer for the cities of Cagayan de Oro, Butuan, Dipolog and Pagadian in Mindanao, recently teamed up with Isuzu Philippines Corporation to fete its fleet customers in the NMADI Fleet Elites Awards Night held March 29, 2023 at the NMADI head office in Lapasan, Cagayan de Oro City. “We are proud that …
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Mindanao Literatures got a much needed shot in the arm with the recent launching of 3 anthologies covering over a century of its writings. TAGBO 3 From Places to Pages: Writing, Publishing, Teaching, and Studying Mindanao Literatures was hosted by the Department of English Language and Literature, and Xavier University Press at the Xavier Ateneo …
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Leaders from the government and private sectors agree that a holistic approach is needed to address the Philippines’ pressing socio-economic problems arising from climate change and environment degradation. Over 400 stakeholders from the national and local governments, private and development sectors, and the academe joined the DENR Multi-Stakeholder Forum held February 2-3, 2023 at Cagayan …
