WV traditional arts and crafts
Miniature boats of Buenavista,
Guimaras.
To promote traditional arts and crafts is the primary goal of the University of the Philippines in the Visayas (UPV) Center for West Visayan Studies and National Commission for Culture and the Arts. Thus, they conducted an interactive art exhibit displaying the foods and crafts of Western Visayas at the UPV Little Theater Grounds.
Different towns all over Western Visayas displayed their cultural heritages through indigenous crafts, native recipes, and others, such as: the hablon and patadyong of Miag-ao, fishing gears and traps, and butong-butong of Guimbal, bamboo crafts of Maasin, basket, bag and mat of Patnongon, Antique, nito and coconut shellcraft of Jordan and Nueva Valencia, Guimaras, linupak of Alimodian, bingka and barquillos of Molo, bolo and traditional metal art of Badiangan, miniature boat of Buenavista, Guimaras, and pottery and traditional clay art of Mandurriao.
Native linupak of Alimodian.
All of these manifests the history, culture and heritage of each town.
Dr. Henry Funtecha, director of the UPV Center for West Visayan Studies, led the two-day exhibit last March 10-11, 2009.