This document summarizes folk arts from several provinces in Southern Tagalog, Philippines. Laguna province is known for wood carving and barong tagalog from Paete and Lumban towns. Angono in Rizal province is considered the Arts Town of the Philippines and was home to famous painters and musicians. Cavite province celebrates various festivals and is known for native delicacies like sapin-sapin and tilbok. Taal is believed to be founded by Datu Balensuela and Datu Dumangsil and is the cradle of Tagalog culture, producing fabrics, barong tagalog, and balisong. Lucban in Quezon province hosts the annual Pahiyas Festival in May
2. Laguna
•This lake side province is rich in natural
resources and blessed with fertile soil for
farming
•This town is dubbed as the Wood Carving
capital of the Philippines (Paete)
•Famous in making BarongTagalog (Lumban)
3. •Kayas – kind of art made by scrapping the
soft wood thriving in Sierra Madre Mountain
and make them into beautiful floral and
faunal decorations
•Taka- paper mache tecqnique
6. Rizal Province
•Angono in Rizal is the ArtsTown in
the Philippines
•Two artist hail from this town:
•Carlos Francisco (Painting)
•Lucio San Pedro (Music)
9. CAVITE
•The most populous province in the country.
•Tinis – tradition that narrates the story how
joseph and Mary found a Place to give birth
to Jesus (Kawit)
•Karakol- tradition of dancing during fiesta
celebrations
•Santacruzan
10. Native delicacies of Cavite
•Sapin-sapin- a type of delicacy made from
grounded glutinous rice,
• tilbok,
•putok,
•puto,
•kutsinta,
•lansong
11. TAAL
•believed to be founded by Datu Balensuela
and Datu Dumangsil
•Cradle ofTagalog culture
•Pinya fabrics- made from fibers of pineapple
•Barong tagalog
•Balisong
14. QUEZON
•Pahiyas Festival (Lucban)- held every May to
honor San Isidro Labrador, the patron Saint
of Farmers
•Kiping- decors that are made from ground
glutinous rice thinly coated on special leaves
and cooked over a low fire
Editor's Notes
#3: Laguna, rizal province cavite, taal, batangas, quezon
Laguna is the home province of our national hero doc jose rizal
#8: THE TOWN IS FAMOUS FOR ITS PETROGLYPHS THAT ARE AMONG THE OLDEST ARTISTIC EXPRESSIONS IN THE PHILS AND LISTED AS NATIONAL CULTURAL TEASURE. THESE PETROGLUPHS ARE SAID TO EXIXT SINCE 3000 BC
#9: A celebration conceptualized in 1980s by perdigon Vocalan. In the colonial times, the town folks makes higantes ( big Papper mache of human figures to air their sentiments about the Spanish hacienderos. The taditonal higantes is composed of a mother, father and child….measuring 4 to 5 feet tall
#12: Bornean Datus
Pinya fibers- for wedding gowns, barong formal attires
Balisong –a knife that can be folded like a fan which comes in different sizes- also kniwn as butterfly knife