CENTRIO MALL, Cagayan de Oro City
The
CAGAYANLifestyle TIMES Weekly de Oro
Volume 4 | No. 19 | Cagayan de Oro City | December 19-25, 2016
The Night Stalker:
A Kagay-anon Artist in China Photo credits: Latent Action Performance Art Institute
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hina and the Philippines have long been trading partners as evidenced by relics from the Ming Dynasty which have been found even in a relatively far-off places from the empire like the Huluga site of Cagayan de Oro’s first settlement, so it’s not strange to find cultural links between the Chinese and Filipino peoples even today, the territorial issues over some islands notwithstanding.
One of Cagayan de Oro’s foremost performance artists recently had the enviable experience to spend some two weeks with his peers in a rural area of China. “The Asian Village Project, Latent Action, was an overwhelming experience for me as a participating artist. It brought me to an opportunity of sharing my performances and meeting new people from different cultures,” said Nicolas Aca, Jr., resident artist and gallery curator, of Capitol University’s Museum of Three Cultures in Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines. Longting Village in Heyang County, Weinan City, Shanxi Province is a microcosm of rural society in Guanzhong Plain, the birthplace of China’s agricultural society. This area is the repository of thousands of years of Chinese rural civilization which
is being eroded by the combined weathering of growing urbanization and capitalism. China’s traditional Confucian moral and political mores are crumbling under the stress of physical and artist/PAGE 5
Residents of Longting Village enjoying Nic Aca’s one man photo exhibit
Cagayan de Oro UCCP Centennial Marker:
A New Landmark in Thanksgiving for 100 Years of God’s Faithfulness By Mike Baños
Kagay-anon Performance Artist Nic Aca in China
There’s a new landmark in Cagayan de Oro and it’s a dedication of thanksgiving to God for his 100 years of faithfulness to the Cagayan de Oro City Church of the United Church of the Philippines (UCCP). The markers was formally unveiled last Sunday, 18 December 2016, during the church’s Centennial Celebration of
its first formal Sunday Worship held at Cine Biyay on 17 December 1916. From the 18 young volunteers who were baptized in Macabalan on September 1916 to the 64 charter members who joined the then pioneering Cagayan Evangelical Church on 20 January 1917, the see full story/PAGE 2
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