Boac, Marinduque – bagamat nagkaroon ng pagbabago sa petsa ng Marinduque Culture and Arts Festival, tuloy na tuloy na ang Likhai Marinduque ngayong weekend, Nobyembre 10 hanggang 12.

Sa unang araw, ay magkakaroon ng festival parade kasama ang drum and lyre ng Marinduque National High School sa Moriones Arena sa bayan ng Boac. Kasunod nito ay mayroon ding pambungad na palatuntunan, kasama ang punong lalawigan, Hon. Presby Velasco Jr, provincial administrator Kuya Mike Velasco  at panlalawigang direktor ng Department of Trade and Industry Roniel Macatol. May pagtatanghal din ng putong ang MNHS, Pangkat Kalutang at pagpapaliwanag sa gawain ang Union Locale.

Sabay-sabay ang mga palihan, art talks at eksibit sa mga venue. Ang tampok sa ikalawang araw ay ang sabayang pagpinta mula sa painting workshop class, malayang pintahan bukas sa lahat na magpapatala at artwork exchange, may blind date rin sa artwork para sa mga kalahok at manonood ng Likhai Marinduque.

Ang Marinduque Culture an Arts Festival ay bahagi ng inisyatiba na magkaroon ng creative/cultural industry  o orange economy sa lalawigan para sa tuloy-tuloy na pag-unlad sa Marinduque. Sa pamamagitan ng Union Locale, suporta ng pamahalaang lokal ng Marinduque, DTI Marinduque, Island Innovation, MNHS at Marinduque State College kasama ang Alitaptap Artist Village, inaasahang una pa lang sa serye at palagiang gawain ang Likhai art exchange at Marinduque Creative Island Innovation.

EdM 201: socio-cultural foundation of education in Gumaca, Quezon, Celebrate Islands Week in Boac, Marinduque and PASCHR 9 in Virac, Catanduanes

August 18-20/ tayabas

Abstract

There are at least three reasons for celebration: one for national heritage month (NHM) every May of each year,  another for the 10^th edition of Celebrate Islands Week during May 10 to 17 and lastly, for the 9^th Philippine Association for the Study of Culture, History and Religion (PASCHR). Considering the three reasons, there is also one more reason to celebrate, the culmination of 3^rd reiteration of Socio-Cultural Foundations of Education at Marinduque State College (MSC) Graduate School. EdM 201 is a foundation course for every MSCian graduate student who is taking up MAEd. I first had the opportunity to handle the class in 2017 with pioneering graduate students and some who would pursue a Graduate Diploma in Cultural Education (GDCE). By 2018, MSC had its GDCE Marinduque Batch 1 with half of the teacher-scholars are from MSC and the rest from Marinduque National High School (MNHS). This was also the time for the 1^st batch of the Bachelor of Culture, Arts Education (BCAEd). It was only in 2020, during the occasion of the Marinduque centennial and slight prior the pandemic. By then, we’re able to complete one batch of GDCE and started a new batch for Mindoro and Romblon. In between the Batch 1 and 2 of GDCE, the pioneering batch of BCAEd have graduated. This brings us to the third reiteration of EdM 201 which we are holding the culmination for.

At this point, the Socio-Cultural Foundations of Education have been offered beyond MSC and now in Eastern Quezon College (EQC) in Gumaca. Like the courses that have been offered in MSC Graduate School before, there are non-negotiable and negotiable requirements. For the non-negotiable deliverables are the lesson exemplars and teaching demo. Moving from EdM201 and the wealth of experience from GDCE, in particular in CulEd 206: Local Cultural Mapping and CulEd 207: Culture-based Lesson Exemplars we’re able to draw contextualized lessons for basic, junior/ senior high school and even higher learning. On the other hand, the class also have some negotiable requirements for one reason or the other when the adult learner have difficulties with complying. During this third reiteration of EdM201, then it was introduced 120 second videos inspired by the Celebrate Islands and some pubmats for national heritage month and Ocean Decade.

Keywords: cultural education, culture-based education, local cultural mapping, lesson exemplars, island studies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyqY7YPrLCU&t=124s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-JJcVSHkgs&t=55s

https://diyaryomilenyonews.com/2023/08/08/ich-conference-and-field-school-hosted-by-royal-and-pontifical-university-this-month/

June Accomplishment 2023

May 18-20       PASCHR 9 plenary talk

May 22-23       Quezon Cultural Mapping Scoping

May 26            Mimaropa Regional Development Council

May 30            Bila-Bila Festival, likhai art exchange

May 31            Climate Justice learning session

June 1-3          danum 6 conference

June 5             DepEd SDS mtg

June 6             Sir Alfred, Mam Jessica mtg

June 8             GDCE PCEP orientation

June 9-11        Tagaytay regional press conference

June 14           Rights of Nature Ph educators pool

June 16           ALH Butterfly museum, school

June 21           National Research Council for the Philippines Division 11 Humanities

June 29-

July 2              Durungawan Marinduque leg

US-PH Library Builders Marinduque Chapter visit MSC Extramural Study Center

MSC ESC hosts visitors who donated to Book Nook

Special mention to the ff: SANDY MAKEILSKI, KATHLEEN WILSON, RUFO DE LEON, RENELYN LAMBOLOTO, JERICHO LAMBOLOTO, AILENE MONTALBAN and PATTY MAE SANTIAGO.

Thanks to US PH Library Builders for enriching the Book Nook Marinduque’s holdings.