DUBAI: Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) planning to have their annual summer break in the Philippines in July now just got one more good reason to visit the Mountain Province.
Specifically, the Buscalan Village on top of the Tinglayan Municipality which was recently transformed into, what Manila Today, an online news portal described as “a visual feast of cultural stories and identity.”
Initiated by artist Archie Oclos, together with street artists, cultural workers, and art practitioners, Kris Abrigo, Bvdot, Jenn Ban, Doktor Karayom, Ralph Eya, Ilona Fiddy, Dee Jae Paeste, Kookoo Ramos, and Sim Tolentino, the collective action was “an effort to create and expand spaces of artistic expression that facilitates communal experience and interaction for the Filipino people.”
“The locals practice communal living in Buscalan. Their ways of living are rooted in their own beliefs and traditions. It is an ideal condition where people are in charge of cultivating their own culture. As artists, our work here is about bridging the gap of the traditional and the contemporary,” Manila Today quoted Oclos as saying.
Indeed, the village’s metamorphosis could yet earn it a “must-see” status for OFWs visiting places in the Philippines they had never been before.
