Colonized by three distinct nations- Spain, Unites States of America and Japan. A remarkable culture greatly influenced by the Malays, mixed with Pre-Hispanic and non-Christian ethnicity. When will different races see it rise above the pacific?
Finally, the world recognizes the complexity of the Philippines and its culture as it has been named to be the culture capital of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) for 2010 and 2011. While Singapore was chosen to be the next cultural center of the region for years 2012 and 2013.
Being the first ever country to be given the recognition by the 10-member association of Southeast Asia, the board of ASEAN has decided to make Manila host the 4th Meeting of the ASEAN Ministers Responsible for Culture and Arts (AMCA) and the 6th Senior Officials Meeting for Culture and Arts (SOMCA) in Clark, Pampanga in March. Together with the culture ministers' meeting, the 4th ASEAN Festival for Arts will as well, take place.
With the theme: The Best of the ASEAN: From Ancestral Roots to New Artistic Routes of Expression Mobilizing Cultural Diversity for the UN-MDGs, the organization aims to achieve the Millennium Development Goals not by might but persuasion, not by force but by the liberating use of arts. To help the government eradicate the most dreaded diseases of today’s society by the feature of talents of the Asia’s best artists.
ASEAN countries will illustrate their “best” through different presentations. A book, a film, or any other production will do as long as it will make their culture be of big help in bringing the countries in Asia together in achieving the MDGs.
"Together, unified in the ASEAN region, we shall overcome and win the war against poverty and environmental degradation to assure the survival and dignified life on earth of our children and coming generations," according to presidential adviser on culture Cecile Guidote-Alvarez.
As of now, NCCA prepares a lot for the upcoming festival and events with Executive Director Cecile Guidote-Alvarez and other government sectors including the Department of Foreign Affairs, and the Department of Education leading.
National Commission for the Culture and the Arts performs the best of their part to contribute to the flourishing field of arts and in order to prove that our country is really a place of a wealthy cultural heritage to be pronounced as capital of prosperous customs.
From zarzuelas to kundiman, from komedya to folk dances. Everything sprouts from a historical background. Philippines is even more than deserving to be the cultural capital of the Pacific.
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