CalligraFilipino Celebrates the Cultural Significance of Baybayin in Australia

Taipan Lucero started CalligraFilipino (Baybayin Fine Art Calligraphy) to celebrate pre-colonial writing and traditional Filipino culture (Photo courtesy of Taipan Lucero).

CANBERRA 28 August 2020 –To cap off the celebration of Buwan ng Wika (Filipino Language Month), the Philippine Embassy in Australia, with the Department of Tourism in Sydney, featured Taipan Lucero, the artist behind CalligraFilipino or Baybayin Fine Art Calligraphy.

Through Taipan Lucero’s work, he provides an artistic interpretation of Filipino pre-colonial writing with traditional Filipino cultural elements. His work has helped generate renewed interest in Baybayin, an ancestral writing system in the Philippines, among the youth.

Hear his story and view his work at the Philippine Embassy Cultural Gallery cultural.philembassy.org.au.  

The video is based on a documentary on Taipan Lucero by Shanai Monique Porras and Jov Mendoza which may be viewed at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vceVCt9GPXI&t=187s.

To learn more about Taipan’s work, visit the website of CalligraFilipino https://www.taipanlucero.com/home. END