BenCab: On Baguio as a Space for Creative Communities

What makes Baguio an empowering space for creative communities? Here’s BenCab’s answer.

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00:00Well, after my divorce, I decided to move to Baguio.

00:06And it so happened that during that time, we have people, friends and artists living

00:13there.

00:14Somehow we got together and create Baguio Arts Guild, and that became an example of

00:20a community full of artists and doing things like installations, performance, paintings.

00:29That was fun.

00:31That was really good to start with.

00:35When I decided to move to the Philippines, I decided to move to Baguio because I liked

00:40the weather to begin with.

00:42And Baguio is quite rich in terms of culturally, the Cordillera, which I think is underrated.

00:51When it comes to tribal art, people think of Africa, but we have such a rich culture

00:58in terms of having those bululs and other things.