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Baguio Arts Festival is one of the most renowned international arts festivals of Philippines. Artists from all over the world take part in the art festival to showcase their talent. During the fifth international Baguio Arts festival in the year 1999 the phrase creativity of the new millennium got attached to it. The arts festival of Baguio gives an overview of the arts and culture of different countries who take part in the festival. The festival is a successful event as it portrays a mixture of culture and arts. The Baguio Arts Festival was started in the year 1987 with the help of Baguio Arts Guild, whose main goal was to encourage and sharpen the latent talents of the artists of the Baguio society. Artists like Santiago Bose, Ben Cabrera graced the festival with their valuable contribution. Baguio Arts Festival is significant as it portrays collections from both performing arts and non-performing discipline. The themes are basically related to social issues. The visitor to the festival can have an idea of varied ranges like: - fine arts,
- photography,
- crafts
- film and video,
- theatre
- music
- literary arts The Baguio Arts Festival invites a large international gathering. The festival is organized into the new gallery of the Botanical Garden which is also presents a beautiful sight. The construction of the gallery resembles some of the traditional native huts having mud thatched walls. The window walls are made from old wine bottles held together by clay and plaster. The gallery has other important places like a work area for the artists and a small gift and souvenir shop. A visitor to the Baguio Arts festivals is lucky enough to have a look at the botanical garden as well as the gallery. The gallery itself is a small piece of artistic work. Philippines are thus a great tourist destination with variety of events and festivals.
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