Community - Stories of Discovery

March is Women's month and every week, we will be featuring women who have inspired us to pass on Philippine traditions and heritage through their life's work.   1) Nominate a...

A pre-colonial practice up in the Sagada area was to put the coffins in caves instead of burying them in the ground. The departed were placed inside in a fetal...

The Sama-Bajau are a seafaring people, known mostly in Southeast Asia. They are often known in international media as "Sea Nomads." Many have been forced by economics to move inland...

We asked Alina Talyad (@ma_mockingbird) about her thoughts on supporting local communities and empowering indigenous communities.  "We are all still threatened by industrialization on every level, which  systemically and directly...

International Women's Day is about gender balance through a celebration of women's achievements throughout the world, in multiple avenues: cultural, artistic, social, political, environmental, economic, and/or spiritual. Starting today and the...

February 15 is International Childhood Cancer Day, which is a day devoted to honoring the resilience & courage of children and their families facing cancer. Today, we have the honor...

The design of these placemats is called "wasig", which is a design specifically revived by Agnes who looked them up in a book, asked elders how to do it and...

The Kalinga Dinayaw necklaces and the straps for the Kalinga Bracelet Beading Kits are made by working students in Kalinga. We have specifically selected these products to give them an...