WEEK 1

• The Panay Bukidnon are the culturally indigenous Visayan group of people who reside in Iloilo mountainous area of the Visayan Islands.
• The Javanese are the largest ethnic group in Indonesia.
• Sugidanon serves a storytelling purpose; deeply embedded in their culture, delivered in chant form by the Binukot.

  * Epic Narratives

  * Cultural Significance

  * Traditional Themes
• Binanog is an indigenous dance from the Philippines that features the movement of an eagle/hawk and synchronizes the pulsating movements of the feet and the hands of the lead and follow dancers.
• The Panay Bukidnon, also known as Tumandok, Suludnon, Panayanan, and Sulud; community welfare is crucial, with active participation in social and ritual events like feast and weddings fostering communal bonds.
• The Binukot tradition involves the only or most beautiful daughter of a respected family from birth until she reaches maturity.
• The Panubok is a traditional embroidery art of the Panay-Bukidnon women, named after the local term "tubok", meaning "to embroider." It is originated in the barangay of Tabon in Tapaz, Capiz, the craft features intricate designs inspired by nature and the Sugidanon epic.
• Wayang Kulit is a traditional Indonesian show puppet theater, and the term "suluk" refers to a type of performance or narrative associated with this art form.

  MATERIALS NEEDED:

  * White Cloth

  * Buffalo skin with fur

  * Electric Bulb or oil lamp

  * Bamboo Sticks
• Sulukan is delivered in chant form by Dalang (puppeteer) in Wayang Kulit; performances and guides the narratives and sets the mood.
• Takumbo or Tikumbo - parallel - stringed tube zither. It is a percussion and chordophone made of bamboo.
• Suganggang - A buzzer struck on the palm or a hand. This is made of bulo.
• Litgit - two-stringed fiddle or bowed instrument made of bulo. Abaca hemp finely braided is used as strings.
• Tulali - is a bamboo flute or aerophone made of bagakay.
• Subing - Bamboo Jaw's harp.
• Gamelan has two different types: Javanese and Balinese.

  It refers to the traditional musical ensemble in Indonesia that their orchestra mainly consists of percussion instruments such as gongs or metallophones.
• METALLOPHONES?

  > Saron - seven bronze bars, resonating frame or rancak.

  > Demung
• CRADLED GONGS?

  Bonang - collection of small gangs placed horizontally onto strings in a wooden frame or rancak, typically hit with padded sticks or tabuh.
• HANGING GONGS?

  Kempul - often played with the gong suwukan and gong ageng hanging on a single rock, at the back of the gamelan, and often played by the same player with the same mallets.
• Gambang are the xylophone-like instruments similar to Saron but with wooden bars instead of metal ones, made of a dense wood, generally teak or ironwood (kayu besi), and are mounted in a deep wooden case that serves as a resonator.
• Drums or kendhang - primary drums used in the Gamelan ensembles of Java and Bali as well as various Kulintang ensembles in other Southeast Asian Countries.