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The Balibago Integrated High School, with its dedicated Music, Arts, PE, and Health Department, stands as a beacon of cultural preservation and artistic expression.

Fostering a deep appreciation for Filipino heritage. The school's curriculum seamlessly integrates cultural and artistic studies, providing students with a dynamic and immersive learning experience.

Building on this strong foundation, Balibago Integrated High School proudly presents the project "2024 Likha: The Arts, Culture and the Young Artists." This exciting event aligns with the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) celebration of National Arts Month, themed "Ani Ng Sining, Bayang Malikhain".

To empower young minds and spark creativity, the project will provide three immersive art workshops:

Basic Folk Dance
Basic Painting
Smartphone Photography

We are looking for participants for the following art workshops:

Basic Folk Dance: Step into the rhythm of tradition with our Basic Folk Dance workshop! Explore vibrant Filipino folk dances and get your body moving.

Register Here: https://bit.ly/2024LikhaDance

Basic Painting: Unleash your inner artist with our Basic Painting workshop! Learn fundamental techniques like color mixing, brushwork, and composition.

Register Here: https://bit.ly/2024LikhaPainting

Note: Submit your recent artwork to this email [email protected] with the subject of 2024 Likha - Basic Painting Workshop. We need your artwork to identify your skill. Chosen participants will be receiving free art materials.

Smartphone Photography: Turn your phone into a pocket-sized studio with our Smartphone Photography workshop! Master composition, and lighting to capture stunning images on the go.

Register Here: https://bit.ly/2024LikhaPhotography

The deadline of registration is until February 7, 2024 (Wednesday) at 9 PM.

If you have inquiries or concerns, email us here at [email protected] or look for Miss Cherrylen Villadiego.

Today is the 1,121st anniversary of the writing of the Laguna Copperplate Inscription (LCI), the earliest known Philippine historical document found locally. A declared National Cultural Treasure, the artifact was discovered in 1989 in Lumbang, Laguna. It is now under the custody of the National Museum of the Philippines.

In 1995, the late paleographer Hector Santos converted to Gregorian calendar the date declared in this copperplate document, which is in Saka or Indian calendar, as Monday, 21 April 900 AD. It is written in Kawi, the indigenous writing system in Java, Indonesia and predated baybayin and other related indigenous scripts of the country. It is about the granting of the ruler of Dewata (now part of Butuan City) of perpetual freedom from debt to a certain family in Luzon, testified by the ruler of Tundun (now Tondo, Manila) and ruled by the court of the Kingdom of Mdang (now in Java, Indonesia).

The LCI has been decoded and interpreted a number of times. First of which was through the initiative of the late naturalized Filipino anthropologist Antoon Postma in the early 1990s who sought the knowledge of the Dutch paleographer J. Casparis on Kawi. The language used in the document could be a proto-Tondo Austronesian vernacular, as it has attributes of old Tagalog and old Malay.

Shortly after it was discovered by a sand quarryman, the LCI was bought in an auction by the National Museum of the Philippines. One day, Postma passed by the National Museum to visit some friends working there and chanced upon in a gallery the strange LCI which was then in exhibit. Postma's exposure to Dutch studies on Indonesian paleography made LCI an artifact of obscurity to the National Museum no more.

Postma's original interpretation to the place names in the LCI was these were located along the Ang*t River-Pampanga River-Manila Bay complex--Pailah in the document is the Sitio Paila, San Mateo, Norzagaray, Bulacan province (part of the headwater of Ang*t River); Puliran is the now Pulilan, Bulacan, also along Ang*t River; Binoangan is Binuangan, Obando, Bulacan; and the ruler named Bukah in the document was likely the derivation of the place name Gatbuca, a barangay in Calumpit, Bulacan where Ang*t River and Pampanga River meet (g*t was an ancient Tagalog-Kapampangan honorific title for noblemen).

Laguna historian Jaime Tiongson introduced another interesting interpretation: the context of the complex of Laguna de Bai (Lake of Bai, from which the name of the present day province of Laguna ['lake' in Spanish] was derived). Aside from the fact that the document was found in Lumbang River, which connects Laguna de Bai to the sea, Pailah was actually the archaic name of the lake town of Pila, now part of Laguna; and Puliran was the pre-Hispanic name of Laguna de Bai.

The LCI is just one of the proofs how integrated Luzon, Mindanao, Java, and India more than 600 years before the Magellan-Elcano expedition arrived to the Visayas. Indeed, we have history before the Spaniards came.

📷 Photographed by Ryan Tan

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Seeing this post? Curious what this is about? This 2021, we will commemorate the Philippine part in the achievement of science and humankind in circumnavig*ting the planet for the first time. Central in this commemoration is the 500th anniversary of the Victory at Mactan on 27 April 2021. These and more are collectively known as the 2021 Quincentennial Commemorations in the Philippines by virtue of Executive Order No. 103 (2020). Know more about the event here: 👇

🖱 About us 👉[https://nqc.gov.ph/en/about]
🎞 Watch our promotional video 👍 [https://youtu.be/ptgU1ZUgFZc]
🎧 Listen to Quincentennial Soundtrack 🤟[https://spoti.fi/3cAUIrl]
📺 Watch our lectures [https://portal.nqc.gov.ph/]☝️
🕵️‍♀️ Quincentennial activities and materials here [https://bit.ly/3dHrnKF]

NWC of the Year Awards 2020: Region IV-A Balibago Integrated High School

NWC of the Year Awards 2020: Region IV-A Balibago Integrated High School

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