Taskforce Four

Documentation and Preservation

Documents and preserves the Filipino culture, as a product of research and other activities of the FFATI. To date, it has the following finished documentation:

Audio Recordings
• Magsayaw Ka Giliw, at Umawit
• East and West
• One Moment in Time
• Anklung Reminiscenses (ongoing)

Video Recordings
recorded and telecast at Dallas Community Television on Dallas public access cable TV Channels 13B, 14B, 15B and 27A
• Island Motion
• World Choral Harmonies (University of the Philippines Concert Chorus Tour '96)
• Piano Soundboard
• Dances of the Kulintang
• Music of the Kulintang
• Drums and Shields
• Popular Manila Cuisine
• Anklung Christmas
• Yuletide Carols
• I Paint the World as I See It
• Chinese Brush Painting
• Easy Filipino Dishes
• Casting in Philippine Waters
• Community Views
• Making a Difference in Dallas
• Moving Forward Together
• Bailes de las Islas Filipinas
• Sultan Kudarat
• Traditional Dances of India
• Revathi Satyu: Indic Classical Dance
• Puppets: Strings and Things
• Puppets and Youth
• Countryside Revelry (Rural Dances of the Philippines)
• Bailes Espanoles-Europeos de las Islas Filipinas (Spanish Dances of the Philippines)
• Mountain Echoes (Mountain Tribal Dances of the Philippines)
• Mindanao Percussions (Music and Dance from Western Mindanao)
• Music and Dance from Seven Thousand Islands
• Yoga Postures
• Demystifying Yoga
• Sugar Cane Sweet (Children's cultural-educational program)
• Royal Bamboo Dances of the Sulu Seas
• 1997 Cultural Quizmaster Championship Tournament
• Timepieces From The Past
• Ollimpaxqui (Of Joyful Movement)
• Dances of Mexico
• Bulul (featuring Pat Badillo and his collection of Filipino granary gods)
• Bamboo Tinikling Dance
• Salaam Palestinian Folkloric Dance
• Music Of Hawai'i
• Hula Hawai'i
• An Evening With Pilita (Filipinos for Filipinos 1998 featuring Pilita Corrales: Asia's Queen of Song)
• coming soon! » BUGSO NG KAGITINGAN (Surge of Courage) (in Centennial celebration of Philippines' freedom from Spain)

(copies of above TV productions are available at cost)

Publications
• Philippine Primer
• Jose Rizal's Dream
• Kulintangan Libretto: Sultan Kudarat
• Weddings: Philippine Style


Read our monthly articles on the Arts and Culture Section Philippine Observer/Texas Sunrise
• "Kali Arnis"
• "Balisong: Batangas Blade, Batangas Made"
• "Kulintang: Mindanao Gongs"