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Tags: bisaya, bisrock, cebu, cebu music, cebuano, ian zafra, jude gitamondoc, missing filemon, Music, music video, smash fm 
“Insoy is now co-host with DJ Ram in Smash FM.
Andoy Calope is doing well with his acoustic poetry.
Tsinelas Association Inc. offering informal education on creative works not completely offered in the academe through charity based workshop series.
Creative Cebu and DTI had just finished its roadmapping exercise. The music sector is recognized as one of the most active and gaining better visibility.
Sonic Boom’s making occasional comebacks to Cebu.
Jude Gitamondoc is nurturing his song blogging community.
Rescue A Hero is giving out original music freebies. Undercover Grasshoppers is now doing the same.
Cattski launched their 3rd album in March this year. The Line Divides will be launching their first this month, next week.
To appreciate what’s going on in the local music circuit, the general rule here is to agree that we are all moving constantly. As to where we still have to find out. The ‘how’ factor is up to you… and us. Keep things in a learning curve and it’s going to be fine. There’ll be more to come.
The Cebu music scene is as healthy as it ever was.”
I think it’s time to go pop now. Sorry band mates. You have Jude Gitamondoc to blame.
(more pop fotos here )
CEBU’s art scene is probably one of the most alive in the country today, with local musicians, painters, filmmakers, photographers, poets, writers and other artists churning out works like their lives (not livelihood) depended on it.
They are not difficult to find. Check out places like Kukuk’s Nest, Turtle’s Nest, Handuraw, The Outpost and other similar holes and they are there, guzzling beer, discussing Kant, rehashing jokes, plotting revolutions, or simply staring at empty space.
They are many, if you consider how Cebu is just a small community. And their number is growing, with more and more artists from neighboring provinces in the Visayas coming here in search of soul mates and a place to call home.
They may not be a tight, first-name-basis community but they are a sharing group, with disciples of one form of art sharing tables with those of another form of art. They know their works complement each other, so they pass art around, like glass in a tagay session. They have a word for it: collaboration.
In many occasions, the sharing comes in the form of seminars and workshops: veterans guiding neophytes, or wannabes inspiring has-beens (it doesn’t matter) – both ensuring that the art scene lives at least a generation longer.
They may not know it, but the generosity local artists are showing to each other is what keeps Cebu’s art scene going. (By Jimi Stuart Salvador)
PHOTO BY ARCHIE UY, NU107 Cebu relaunching, july 2009
naporma na ang reading center sa colonia central elementary school sa lungsod sa tuburan. salamat sa tanang mi-donate og books ug ubang materials nga mabutang sa reading center. dako kaayo ang tabang nga inyong nahatag para sa eskuylahan ug sa mga bata.
for last wednesday’s visit to the school, tsinelas also tied up with consolacion’s our lady of joy learning center headed by mary rose villacastin maghuyop in giving reading appreciation seminar to the kids.
MORE FOTOS HERE HERE HERE.
Category: Music, Tsinelas, culture | Tags: bisaya, cebu, cebu music, cebuano, cebuano music, islands souvenirs, Tsinelas 
WHY I’M WITH LUDABI
When national televisions air prime-time shows that use mixed-up languages and vernacular, some raise a concern.
No, they are not as exacting as stern conservatives are. They too agree that language must journey with the times, albeit cautiously and consciously. They just want their language, which their forefathers used to tell their tales, to be free from whimsical bastardization.
1st Tsinelas Songwriting Workshop
A fundraising project of Tsinelas Association Inc.
Where
Sentro sa Katilingban Bldg.,
Saint Theresa’s College, Gen. Maxilom Ave., Cebu City
When
May 8, 9, 10, 2009
Topics
Melody Writing, Lyric Writing, Musical Arrangement, Recording
Speakers
Jude Gitamondoc – melody writing
Cattski Espina – lyric writing
Ian Zafra – musical arrangement
Brian Sacro – recording
Registration Fee
P1,500.00
To cover the following:
How to join
The workshop will only accommodate 25 participants on a “first come-first served” basis. An applicant confirms his participation upon full payment of the registration fee. Payment will have to be made directly to Lorenzo “Insoy” Niñal, executive director of Tsinelas, Ian Zafra, or Jude Gitamondoc. Receipts will be issued.
For more inquiries, Insoy can be reached at 0922 8243800, or at insoymada@gmail.com
Other info:
Each participant is encouraged, though not required, to bring to the workshop an original composition either in English, Tagalog or Cebuano.
Other personalities from Cebu’s music and literary scenes will be invited to perform for demonstration purposes or to interact during the open forum.
An event will be held at the Outpost for the culmination of the workshop, where participants will have the chance to perform their compositions together with the speakers. Certificates will be distributed at the event.
The workshop is not a stay-in activity. Morning session is from 9 to 12. Afternoon session is from 1 to 5. No lunch will be served.
A newspaper reader doesn’t usually expect anything big to read on a Monday. Sunday is normally a lazy day for journalists, except for some occasional landslides that for some unknown reason mostly happen on weekends, in which case the next day’s front page photos will have politicians looking mad at nature for making the lives of their constituents difficult.
“We will rebuild, we will survive. Let’s show to the world the resiliency of Cebuanos,” they would be quoted in the captions as saying, as they stand tall among ruins and debris.
But this paper’s issue last Monday (March 16) was different. Its banner story talked about the Commission on Election’s plans to make next year’s automated elections credible. Really? Credible? Wow!
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