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What is it with Mac computers these days? We just bought a top-of-the-line G5 last summer and in less than a month it crashed. My PowerMac laptop, bought less than a year ago, suddenly wouldn't boot the other day. With mice scurrying inside my nervous system, I brought it to the shop yesterday and, today, I got the sad news: all data unrecoverable. I was stunned.

Start:	Jul 11, '08 2:00p
Location:	National Press Club Bulwagang Plaridel

The Samahang Kartunista ng Pilipinas celebrates its 30th anniversary with the launch of the SKP Roster Book featuring the works of its more than 30 members representing all major newspapers and comic books.
Main guest is cartoons and comics scholarly book author John Lent of Temple University. The occasion will also be marked by an MOA signing between SKP and NPC for a new cartoon competition, the NPC-SKP "BoyTogs" Cartoon Competiton for SKP members and students.
Pinoy merienda will be served. : )

Start:

May 31, '08 3:00p

To cap the week-long Tagaytay Multimedia Workshops and Festival is a talk on the state of comics art and industry on May 31 at 3PM at Figaro Tagaytay. Speakers are comics artists Gerry Alanguilan and Jonas Diego, and publisher Boboy Yonzon. Open to the public.

Start:

May 27, '08 08:00a

Can television today be used for something more substantive? Dodi Lacuna, public affairs head of Channel 9, talks about how we could use a powerful medium to effect social change. Open to the public. Tuesday, May 27 at 8AM at the Development Academy of the Philippines. Part of the Tagaytay Multimeida Workshops and Festival.

Start:	May 25, '08 8:00p
End:	May 31, '08

"Patawa, Pahataw" is a group exhibit featuring the strip and editorial cartoons of the members of the Samahang Kartunista ng Pilipinas, an organization marking its 30th year. Part of the ongoing Tagaytay Multimedia Workshops and Festival.

Start:	May 25, '08 1:00p
End:	May 31, '08

A two-man photography exhibit by Joey Tanedo and Boboy Yonzon, two of the gurus in the on-going Tagaytay Multimedia Workshops and Festival at the Development Academy of the Philippines, Tagaytay.

Start:	May 26, '08 8:30p
End:	May 30, '08

Open to the public. Showing of selected films Filipinas, Prosti, Hubog, Feng Shui, Dahas, Sa Kabila ng Lahat written by multi-awarded screenwriter Roy Iglesias. Every 8:30PM at the Development Academy of the Philippines, Tagaytay. Part of the Tagaytay Multimedia Workshops and Festival.

Start:	May 26, '08 08:00a
End:	May 31, '08

Intensive, hands-on training in cinematography, scriptwriting, photography, editorial design, presentation techniques, events management. All classes held at Development Academy of the Philippines Tagaytay. Part of the week-long Tagaytay Multimedia Workshops and Festival.

SYMPOSIUM (Free to the public, first come/first served)
Venue: Figaro Tagaytay, except for May 27 in DAP

The State of Animation in the Philippines            May 24  4PM
Speaker: Mimbi Eloriaga,

Making Intellectual Property Rights Earn for You        May 27  6PM
Speakers: Guia Yonzon, Vic Cruz

The Comics in the Philippines: Wakas na ba?        May 31  3PM
Speakers: Gerry Alanguilan, Jonas Diego

Making a Breakthrough in Indie-Filmmaking            June 1
Speaker: Joel David


ROY IGLESIAS FILM FESTIVAL
Featuring the internationally-acclaimed films
written by of multi-awarded Roy Iglesias  
"Hubog", "Prosti", "Dahas", "Filipinas",
"Feng Shui", "Sa Kabila Ng Lahat"                         May 25, 28, 31. June 1

PHOTO EXHIBIT:
ALINDOG NG PILIPINAS                                    May 24-June 1
By Joey Tanedo and BoboyYonzon

CARTOON AND CARICATURE EXHIBIT:
Patawa, Pahataw!
By the Samahang Kartunista ng Pilipinas            May 24-June 1




Interested parties can call CMPGAP Secretariat, (02) 8929421 ask for Owen or Jing 919-5692902

We call them the Igorots, the people of the mountains. This appellate, like Moros for Muslim Mindanaons, used to have a negative connotation referring to savage tribes that literally hunt heads. Today, they are called Cordillerans, upland dwellers who populate the cluster of land-locked provinces that straddle the mighty Cordillera range in the Philippines. These are Abra, Benguet, Kalinga, Mountain Province, Apayao, and the charming city of Baguio.

The Cordillerans that I meet are fond of relating self-deprecating jokes that tell about their tribes’ purported ignorance. But beneath the surface, they are really fiercely proud, educated, confident people. Most Igorots speak fluent English with traces of Anglican twang. Protestantism established inroads in the early 1900s into the territories of pagan warriors. For a people known for bloody tribal wars, they have magnificently initiated peace talks and bury their hatchets under the stones.

For the past decades, most provinces in the Cordillera have been ranked among the country’s 20 poorest provinces. Past governments have generally neglected these areas. Today, there is something in the air. The much maligned president, Gloria Arroyo, has imposed her will to finally fix the Halsema Highway, said to be one of the most dangerous roads in the world.  The almost 100-kilometer main artery snakes through ravines and landslides from Baguio to Bontoc, 7,000 or more feet above sea level. In many remote towns, farm-to-market roads are also now being cemented.

To some, this development may be sad news. No longer will Shangri-La towns like Sagada or Barlig be isolated. Their appeal for meditation and contemplation will forever be spoiled by busloads of tourists and traders wanting to witness hitherto least-known cultures and sites.

Today, there is also a move to reward upland dwellers for their stewardship of natural resources like watersheds and lodes of minerals. Why not? If the Arabs benefit from the fossil fuels that happen to be within the innards of their land, why not these people who have been residing in these mountains for the past centuries? We marvel at their engineering ingenuity in building rice and now vegetable terraces, but they have been struggling with poverty for decades.

As a personal commitment, I am doing a video documentary to advocate the proposition that these upland people who take care of twelve major river systems should benefit more from the natural resources. It is not a simple issue nor even an easy battle. But, thankfully, there are hydro and mining companies with sound social programs, leaders who genuinely care for their people, and a growing awareness of environmental issues in the country. In that case, it is two steps forward.