Project: Suwod Ko/ Kapatid Ko Music Video

First Draft of Concept by Hobart P Savior

Suwod Ko music video presents the various aspects of worldviews and consciousness of
the select Mindanao Indigenous communities as these aspects are reflected in their divination
thru rituals; folkways and folk life; customs and traditions; environment with respect to their
attachments and affinity to nature; folklore and indigenous knowledge on farming and harvest;
folk literatures and folk arts: visual and design, music, dance, architecture, culinary arts among
others; folk sectors of women and childrens welfare in relation to the basic needs; folk
aspirations of progress, food security, resiliency, environmental protection and ancestral
domain; and the conscious handing down of their culture from one generation to another.

Thus the Suwod Ko music video aims to reclaim cultural identity and heritage making
them vital in the process of cultural understanding, awareness, protection and promotion.

The music video and its recording feature the following artists and reflect the specific
communities they (may) represent:
Singer Role Location
Bayang Barrios Babaylan All Locations
Jerry Angga and Dumaki Cultural Leader and Singer/ Mt Apo, Kidapawan City
Artist
Waway Saway Culture and Art Leader Songco, Lantapan, Bukidnon
Renan Dal-anay Young Male promise of the San Fernando, Bukidnon
Future
Gift Cerna Young Female promise of Agusan del Sur
the Future
Additional singers using
various languages for the last
portion of the song (as
mentioned by Jerry)
Actors/ Dancers Role Location
Tboli Community Lake Sebu, South Cotabato
Manobo Community Opi, Maguindanao
Obo Manobo Community Mt Apo, Kidapawan City
Tigwahanon Manobo Community San Fernando, Bukidnon
Manobo Community Agusan del Sur
Two contemporary IPs who Contemporary IPs
are career successful
individuals (1 female and 1
male)
 On Divination
It is to celebrate the folks respect and divination to beings they believe higher and
bigger than them who in ways have given them the gifts of life and death and the abundance of
the world. These divinations are actualized through various rituals and dances extending the
deeper sense of their beliefs with their God or Gods.

On Folkways and Folk life

The indigenous peoples collective nature is reflected in their daily activities and
occupations. This collective nature is also evident in the values and principles that they share
with one another bound by their customs (as these may have been made into guiding laws) and
traditions. Their practices in the aspects of family solidarity, social relations and communal
ways as they live with their fellowmen show a greater definition of who they are as a people
and as a community. Their individuality or collective sense of beliefs guides them on how they
deal with others and on how they value and protect what they have and own.

Environment as Heritage
Protection of the environment ensures and secures the communities places to live that
they call their own. Environment that provides them the resources and environment that
defines their roots, their being, their heritage, and their ancestry assure the communities their
collective memory of a place and all its past, heritage and history are stored for the members of
the community to remember, celebrate and be proud of.

The protection of their environment also reflects their deep respect and affinity to nature
as their life source as well as their spiritual dwelling.

The elements of Earth, Wind, Fire and Water must also be reflected as metaphors of life.

On Farming and Harvest

Farming and harvest and the knowledge and the vernacular technology applied are part
of the indigenous peoples worldview and consciousness. This occupation secures food and
optimizes land as a resource and what shall be reflected in terms of values, beliefs, norms and
expressions define the indigenous communities pursuit to sustainability.

Folk Arts
Indigenous peoples folk arts: Literature, Visual Art, Music, Dance, Performances,
Architecture, Clothing and Textile and Culinary Arts reflect the colors of their artistic genius,
creativity, ingenuity and deep understanding of their collective aspirations and images of life,
love, death, the divine, the mundane, worldview and consciousness and their environment.
Their designs are reflective of their landscapes and experiences. Their performances and visual
arts reflect their struggles and hopes as a people. Their narratives reflect their glorious past as
they are projected for the future. And their food reflects their gastronomic memory of taste.
Their clothes and tapestries are the dress of their consciousness and worldview. In sum, their
arts bridge their glorious past for the understanding and appreciation of their culture in the
present and gain authentic respect in the future which is void of losing ones identity.

On Women and Children

The water bearer and life giver through her womb extends love not only in terms of care
and affection but also on how a mother provides everything her child needs.
Women and their rights are protected and their roles are celebrated and actualized for
they complete the fabric of every cultural communitys family.
Children are assured of their rights to live, to be educated and to have a secured future
as they are also fostered with their culture and become responsible individuals.

On Folk Aspirations
The cultural communities of the indigenous people have to progress. This progress is
anchored on their views and practices toward sustainable future in relation to cultural
governance and development, ancestral domain, peace building, food security, education,
environmental protection, and the conscious transmission of heritage and culture to the coming
generations.

Note:

I request for a meeting on July 10, 2017? May we sit down and finalize the logistical
requirements of the project especially on the aspects of location coordination, information for
coordination, shooting schedules and travel time.

Once the concept is finalized and narrowed down to a more doable and appropriate
project, then I start writing the screenplay after also me hearing the recording.

This concept also guides the finalization of the recording of the song.

But a meeting is needed to be held.