15 Ilocano Publications at the Living with Nature Center

 15 Ilocano Publications at the Living with Nature Center

San Vicente, Ilocos Sur

Courtesy of Mr Ariel S Tabag of Bannawag Magazine;

President of Gumil, Philippines

Dr Abe V Rotor

"Sweet, Sour, and Salty"

Poetry in Ilocano, 300 pages, with accompanying drawings and paintings made by the author, Emmanuel P Peralta Jr, to enrich the imagery of his poems and verses. The title, a trilogy of contrasting tastes, describes life in three aspects in good and trying times as he had personally experienced these as an Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW), who, after many long years, finally decided to return to his beloved homeland.

 

 

Left, Ilokano grammatically structured like the balarila of the Pilipino language, written by Nicholas L Rosal, a native of San Vicente, Ilocos Sur. The book is based on a dissertation he defended and earned him a doctorate degree in the US. His book is used as a reference of Ilocano writers and publications which include Bannawag Magazine. Right, Official Orthography Guide of the Ilocano language .

 

 

 

Anthology of award-winning articles in Ilocano in various literary forms. 

 

 

Left, the lighter side of the Ilocano language in a variety of styles published in Bannawag magazine. Right, Wisdom of the Ilocano compiled by Ariel S Tabag, a veteran Ilocano writer of Bannawag.

 

Left, "This is how we developed (sowed) the Ilocano Language," as portrayed in avantgarde on the book cover. Right, an anthology of poems and verses about love in Ilocano.

 

"Whispering," an anthology of poems and verses in Ilocano from Cagayan Valley; "Sacred scapes of Fuga Island" Ilocano translation of selected articles from the book written by Dr Ronel dela Cruz for a doctorate degree in anthropology. A bona fide Ilocano, Dr Dela Cruz is a professor and director for research at St Paul University QC. He has presented this research work about Fuga, a remote Island off the northern coast of Cagayan, on a number of invitations from universities abroad.

 

"A History of San Vicente, Ilocos Sur," written by a staff of writers and researchers headed by the late Prof. Lorenzo Mata. The book is considered "a bible" of historical facts about the municipality three kilometers west of Metro Vigan. Right, a voluminous dictionary recently published by a religious scholar, Fr George P Gelade', serves as fresh reference for Ilocanos, as well as non-Ilocanos learning the local tongue.

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Bannawag (Iloko word meaning "dawn") is the largest Ilocano Magazine since 1934 published weekly by Liwayway Publications Inc. for Ilocanos here and abroad, particularly in the US and Middle East.  The Living with Nature Center maintains a collection of Bannawag and other publications. 

The author is a columnist of Bannawag, Okeyka Apong: Dagiti Tawid a Sirib ken Adal (Our Heritage of Wisdom and Lessons).  The author extends his appreciation and thanks to Messrs. Cles B Rambaud and Ariel S Tabag for their valuable assistance in the continuing  publication of Okeyka Apong, 2009 to the present. ~

Artworks for Science, Humanities and Education

Artworks for Science, Humanities and Education (Scientific Specimens, Decoration and Teaching Aids)

Dr Abe V Rotor

"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."- Edgar Degas 

Part 1 - Living Artworks

Aesthetic and functional art should be,

bridging reason and creativity;

to capture subject and essence freely,

in the true meaning of beauty.

 

Nest - masterpiece of birds second to none,

beyond rationality and intellect of man.

 

 

Giant snail on farms and gardens, beware;

surreptitious tool of biological warfare.

 

Brain coral's indeed a benevolent host,  

shares its home to the lonely and lost.   

 

Pearl, natural or cultured, we won't know,

yet wear it ostentatiously in full view.

 

Piggy bank, alsacia version in thrifty days,

 forgotten and lost by our wasteful ways.

 

Give a second life to empty shells in art;

a masterpiece, and they'll never depart.

 

Swallowtail butterflies on the wall, 

enshrined to knowledge for all.

 

Perfect hexagons a million times over,

only the bees can create - man, never.

 

Calabash akin to gourd, upo we call.

in some dark corner a glowing ball.

 

Golden calabash in the myth of old,

 treasure chest of the rich and bold.

 

Crown of thorns tipped with rosary beads,

reminds us to renew our faith like seeds

"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way." — Georgia O'Keeffe

Part 2 - Artworks from Driftwood, Rocks ,and Recycled Materials

 

Driftwood, tree skeleton short of fossilization, 

 nature pleading for help from human destruction. 

 

  

Christmas tree version in deep philosophy,

touches man's concept of faith and democracy.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

"Art speaks where words are unable to explain."- Lori McNee