Cultural Inquiry - wga

 Hello people! Today I will be blogging about the Cultural inquiry we did this week and the last few weeks that already have passed.

I will be sharing you guy the document I have made about the Masskara Festival.

Masskara festival

At first MassKara Festival started at a time of crisis and disaster in the 1980s. The World Market prices for sugar, the province's monocrop, and main source of livelihood went drastically down. Because of these, two artists thought of promoting mask making as an alternative source of income for the locals. This mask represent the one of the main festival we have in the Philippines and the province of the Negros accidental, bacolod city. It is a really fun festival that happens in bacolod. Masskara Festival was invented in Negros occidental, Bacolod city in Philippines country side. This year's Masskara Festival starts at oct. 8-27. It’s like the day of my birthday and Faye’s Birthday; My birthday is on Oct 27 and Faye’s is Oct 9 so basically it's the day of our birthday.  Many people gather in one place and spread around where they can see all of the things going around on the parade. They all stand on the side of the road where all of them can see all the performances. People who are doing the performances, dances and more all have different unique designs of masks covering their faces. For what I have seen personally I think people often include the design of our country flag and those are for example; The colour/color of our flag; red, white, blue and yellow, the sun that represents liberty and its eight rays represent the first eight provinces that revolted against Spain, The three stars that represents the three main big islands in the philippines; Luzon, Visayas and mindanao. The masskara festival is in Visayas where negros occidental is located.

Just like what I did in my mask, it represents our country flag with the yellow, blue and red colour with it, also the 8 rays of the sun on the side along with it! 

Also you might be wondering why there's two of it. Well the answer is the other one kind of broke on the mouth side and I can’t really fix it since it's already dried so I decided to do a  paper version of it. 

I also did really well on our cutural Inquiry, except for the one that I made out of clay kind of broke at the mouth part.. But good thing my mum forced me to do the paper version of it just in case it brakes. I also really enjoyed making the clay version since you have to make the shapes and stuff around it! Te be honest I should have done a smaller version so I can add more stuff in it but it's already done so I guess it was just fine.

I will be sharing you guys the doc we used to plan it our and the questions and stuff are in there.

Your Name:Kristille ann

Celebrating Our Cultures Student inquiry

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Question	Answer
What is your culture? (Māori, Pākeha, Filipino, Samoan…)	Filipino
What is the ‘cultural practice’ you are interested in?  (Eg. Art, Language, Music, Kiwiana, Kapa Haka...)	art+Festival since I will be doing a little bit of painting and crafting with the mask
What is your inquiry question?  (Eg. What is the traditional costume worn by women in Kapa Haka?)	What is the traditional mask people wear in the masskara festival?
What object (artifact) do you want to create, perform, record?  (Eg. I will make a tipare/headband)	I will be making a mask because that is what the main point of the masskara festival is having a mask covering their faces.
What materials will I use?	This is the link to the plan I made last week. I have some stuff like hot glue gun and glue stick so maybe i might just bring that, I might also buy the stickers i might need to add more life into it.   Materials and stuff

If you people are confused, basically Masskara is a mask in english so basically masskara is a tagalog version of mask.

Just like what it said in there, I made a mask that not only represent our province mask but also represent our country flag!

Here's the picture of the masskara I made.

This one is the clay mask.

And this one is with the paper version.

That's all for my blog today! Thanks for reading