Pinoy Tattoo lovers join tattooing events in Tacloban City
Pinoy Tattoo lovers in region 8 and other parts of the country will be joining two separate tattooing events on May 18, 2008 at CAP Bldg. (Price Mansion) and RTR Plaza, Tacloban City.
The tattoo symposium which will be held morning of May 18 at CAP Bldg will speculate on the “Pintado” tattoo motifs of yesteryears basing on the diffusion it had from its South East Asian and Pacific neighbors such as Borneo, Samoa, Fiji, Tahiti and etc., which has a great influence on the pintado tattoo people which the Spaniards used to call.
This was disclosed by Leyte Heritage Society Visual Arts coordinator Dulce Cuna in an interview.
According to Ms. Cuna, the artists who will be attending the symposium from the academe and government sector will know more on the speculative treatise on how close Borneo, Tongan, Samoan tattoo motifs may be to the vanished “Pintado” tattoo. It will likewise teach our people in the region our history if they listen to during the symposium she added.
Ms. Cuna is also inviting bisdaks, tattoo afficionado, tattoo artists around the Visayas to attend and compete in the contest of Henna Tattooing which will be held the same day on May 18 in the afternoon at the RTR Plaza.
Artists joining the Henna Tattoo competition are advised to bring along with them henna applicator and model. The artists will be tattooing their models arms and legs.
The contest will evolve on the most artistic tattoo with Filipino or regional ethnic design, with relevance of the tattoo use to history heritage, its social impact of the motif use and the neatness of the henna application will give more weight to its contest would be winners.
Cash prices awaits the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winner of the contest with medals and certificates Ms. Cuna further said.
The tattoo events was one of the affairs adornment fun and cultural pride of Eastern Visayas under the auspices of the Filipino Heritage Commission, Leyte Heritage Society and co-organize by Kulahig.
The tattoo symposium & henna tattoo competition is in line with its Filipino Heritage month celebration wherein Her Excellency President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo declares the month of May every year as the National Heritage Month through Proclamation No. 439 signed August 11, 2003.
