The Shield The shield was lifted from a tie-dyed ikat design on an old piece of tinalak from the T’boli, in the middle of the shield are the initials of Ramon Obusan. The shield symbolizes ROFG’s attempts at protecting Philippine traditions from the onslaught of technology and modernization and the shift of values that constantly…
MISSION The Ramon Obusan Folkloric Foundation, Inc. ensures that the “Bahay ni Kuya” serves as a resource center for Philippine folk arts, traditions and performances, spearheaded by the Ramon Obusan Folkloric Group (ROFG) and the Batang ROFG. Using its repository of cultural heritage, the “Bahay ni Kuya,” through education and performances aims to preserve and…
Institutional Profile Ramon Arevalo Obusan It was in the early 60’s when a young man who was fresh out of college and assigned his first teaching job at the Fisheries School of a far-flung town in New Washington, Aklan that Ramon A. Obusan experienced an epiphany that would ultimately change the course of his life.…
