9th Tam-awan International Arts Festival to highlight indigenous cuisine and delicacies

May 26, 2019 Community Billboard

BAGUIO CITY – Tam-awan Village is on their 9th year in staging the prestigious Tam-awan International Arts Festival (TIAF) here on May 22 until 26, 2019.
Chanum Foundation, Inc. headed by Cordillera Solar Artist Jordan Mang-osan, the managing organization of Tam-awan Village, has decided to focus on celebrating the country’s indigenous cuisine and delicacies for the 9th edition of the TIAF.
The theme highlights Philippine cuisine and delicacies as the Filipinos are known for having one of the best tasting foods in the world.
Having a taste of a Filipino dish is akin to having a taste of Filipino culture. Each island and each city has its own special dish and flavour.
Ingredients locally-sourced make each dish an original and a local delicacy is produced. An example would be the coconut-enriched dishes of the Bicol region, a place with a plentiful source of coconuts
all year round.
Aside from ingredients, Filipino food often reflects the way of life and thinking of the people from each island, city and town. The “pinikpikan” of Cordillera, a chicken delicacy, is another original for the reason that all parts of the chicken are used and the broth is made even more flavourful with “etag,” a salted piece of pork that is sun-dried.
Filipino cuisine also reflects its rich historical past. There are many dishes that are deliciously influenced by the different countries from friendship to conquest. Filipino cuisine is peppered with Spanish influences and even Chinese influences Chanum Foundation, Inc. has invited speakers to discuss these particular rich influences whilst focusing on the cultural and richness of Filipino cuisine and delicacies.
Registration of participants for the activities starts at nine (9) o’clock in the morning. On the first day, Tam-awan resident artists, with other invited Baguio artists, will have an art exhibit opening at SM Baguio in the afternoon.
The entire festival has a plethora of activities that also focuses on the arts. Resident artists from Tam-awan Village Artists’ Group will facilitate art workshops on basic sketching, basic photography, monoprinting, watercolour and acrylic painting.
Jordan Mang-osan leads with a solar drawing demonstration and Clinton Aniversario with a woodcarving demonstration.
Roedil Geraldo, an artist guest from Bacolod will be conducting a terracotta workshop.
The art workshops are open to the public and local students from different schools have been invited to participate for free.
Workshops are scheduled from May 22 to May 23. Food exhibits are also conducted simultaneously with the art workshops.
On May 24, workshops will continue to be conducted throughout the day in different areas throughout the village. A food exhibit of all Filipino cuisines will also be held.
Visiting artists have been invited to showcase their local delicacies. After each workshop, film viewing is scheduled from four (4) o’clock in the afternoon to six (o’clock) in the evening on May 22 and 23.
The evening kicks off with dinner and authentic cultural performances. Performing guests are from local schools and universities, from outside of Baguio and from Japan, Daisuke Takeya.
The talks will be held on May 24 until May 25. Scheduled at two o’clock in the afternoon is Naty Sugguiyao with “Cordilleran Implements in the Modern Kitchen.”
This is followed by Candy Torres with “Rediscovering the Cordillera Culture through Food. The remaining talks will be held on May 25 after the ritual opening and registration.
The series of talks on that day will begin with Marinella Mina with “Containing Cultural Choices: What Ceramics Reveal about our Foods.” This is followed by Madonna Ma with “Chinese Influence to the Filipino Cuisine,” Jose Ricaredo Arro with “Negrense Traditional Cuisine,” and Rae Jane Dolor with “Mindanaoan Traditional Cuisine.”
Each day is activity-filled and fashioned to make a consolidated cultural and artistic experience that all artists and guests will enjoy.
(Contributed Article)