National Games of the Philippines: 2014

Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Organize Pinoy Mini-Olympics For Your Company

Organize a Larong Pinoy Mini-Olympics Sports Fest for your company. Larong Pinoy is a favorite sports fest activity for many Filipino companies because these are games where young and old employees will be surely able to play. On top of that, beyond playing on the day of the event, the games is capable of building strong employee relationships.

The Traditional Filipino Street Games continues to be a favorite sports fest activity for local companies. Private business corporations continues to request Magna Kultura Foundation (the national proponent of the games) to organize the Larong Pinoy event as a company sports fest activity.

Over a thousand companies have held Larong Pinoy Corporate Mini-Olympic Events. Human Resource Managers have testified that a Larong Pinoy event is truly a one-of-kind activity that leave lasting impression on employees, and bring out the best in each and everyone.

Human Resource Department heads saw the Filipino Street Games as an effective instrument for employee bonding. Indeed, the games are able to make employees from different departments easily get acquainted with each other; and, like childhood playmates, the bonding experience goes beyond weeks, even months, after the event.

The Larong Pinoy Sports Fest event excites employees into doing things that they did in the childhood days, especially the elder adults. From day one, after HRD announces Larong Pinoy as the sports fest activity, the office environment become high on enthusiasm; making employees talk about the games, their childhood experience, and even practicing within the office. It brings the corporate community alive.

In the past, most companies have been doing the regular basketball, volleyball and badminton events, until Human Resource Department staff discovered the fun experience that Larong could bring; on top of the team-building capability it can offer.

Unlike Basketball or any of the usual western sports activities, Larong Pinoy is a game where everybody will be able to easily participate in. Even employees who don’t want play enjoys the event --- cheering, "jeering" and supporting the teams. Kakaiba ang Larong Pinoy.

The event is executed like a real Olympics event --- with professional officiating & tournament system with an Olympic sports music scoring ambience. Employees will be grouped into teams, with their own team captains. And competitions are conducted with matches on Patintero, Tumbang Preso, Jumping Rope, Sipang Bilangan, and various Pinoy Relay Races.

From planning to implementation, Magna Kultura executes everything with a Tournament Systems & Procedures manual, with Referees and Game Marshals, the Emcee announcement. Magna Kultura provides the Game Materials, Registration Forms, the Program Scripts, and everything that makes for an Olympic-like event ---- so that your sports committee can sit back, relax, and just play with the rest on the event day.

A Larong Pinoy company sports fest is both for young and old employees. Everyone who plays the game with their fellow- employees creates a feeling like they are childhood playmates (magkababata).

Larong Pinoy Sports Fest is a truly fun corporate-family bonding experience. And the experience goes beyond the event as employees cherish the thoughts of the games through-out the year.

Treat your employees to a Fun Team-Building Sports Fest where everybody can play: Palarong Pilipino Mini-Olympics for young & old! A Sports Fest Team Bonding Activity can be held anytime of the year. It doesn’t have to be summer. Build your corporate family into a CommuniTeam now.

FOR MORE DETAILS ABOUT THE PROGRAM, CLICKTHIS TO VIEW THE LARONG PINOY INFO SITES: http://kulturapilipinas.webs.com/corporate-mini-olympics

Or, CLICK HERE TO PREVIEW THE SPORTS FEST EVENT PLAN

TO VIEW SOME OF THE COMPANY SPORTS FEST PHOTOS, preview them at http://kulturapilipinas.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=14142715

FOR MORE DETAILS CONTACT: DICKIE AGUADO, Executive Director - MAGNA KULTURA FOUNDATION at Tel. Nos. : 514-5868 or Mobile Nos: 0917-8990025 or 0922-8990026. You may also Email: kulturapilipinas@gmail.com

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Organizing The Pinoy Games As A Team-Building Sports Fest

The Traditional Filipino Street Games is now a popular sports fest activities for Philippine corporations.

Since Y-2008, over a thousand companies have conducted Larong Pinoy sports fests. Human Resource Department heads saw it as an effective bonding activity among employees.

Magna Kultura Foundation, an arts and culture organization, has been implementing Larong Pinoy sports clinics and tournaments in schools and Barangay communities since Y-2003.

In Y-2009, private business corporations started requesting for Magna Kultura to organize the Larong Pinoy event as a company sports fest activity.

The Traditional Filipino Street Games has become an effective instrument for bridging employee relationships.

The games are able to make employees from different departments easily get acquainted with each other; and, like childhood playmates, the bonding experience goes beyond months, even years, after the event.

The thought of conducting a Larong Pinoy Sports Fest for the company thrills employees into doing things that they did in the childhood days, especially the elder adults.

From day one, after HRD announces Larong Pinoy as the sports fest activity, the office environment become high on enthusiasm; making employees talk about the games, their childhood experience, and even practicing within the office. It brings the corporate community alive.

And what's best is that the organizers, Magna Kultura Foundation, conducts it in such a way that even the HRD staff and sports committee can play on the event day without the hassle of running the company event.

In addition to the outreach advocacy programs in schools and Barangays, Magna Kultura Foundation continues to conduct sports fests for private companies as a third strategy, for reviving the Traditional Filipino Street Games back in the mainstream of society.

Magna Kultura believes that once adults get the feel of playing the games, soon they will also play it with their kids; thus, subtly making them fellow-advocates for promoting Larong Pinoy

ORGANIZE A FILIPINO SPORTS FEST FOR YOUR COMPANY. Contact Magna Kultura Foundation. Inform Magna Kultura about your sports fest plan: the scheduled date of your event, and how many employees.

Buhayin natin ang Larong Pinoy. Let adults play the game again, and make the company come alive!

FOR MORE DETAILS ABOUT THE PROGRAM, CLICK & VIEW THE SPORTS FEST PLAN THE FOLLOWING SITES: At http://kulturapilipinas.webs.com/corporate-mini-olympics

TO VIEW SOME OF THE COMPANY SPORTSFEST PHOTOS, preview them at http://kulturapilipinas.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=14142715

FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:

DICKIE AGUADO, Executive Director - MAGNA KULTURA FOUNDATION

Tel. Nos. : (02) 514-5868 / Mobile: 0917-8990025 or 0922-8990026

Or Email us: kulturapilipinas@gmail.com

Organizing Larong Pinoy Sports Fest for Private companies is among the cultural entrepreneurship approaches of Magna Kultura to revive the games among Filipino adults who use to play the games; at the same time, an advocacy to revive the Games of Our Heritage ("Laro ng Lahi") back in the mainstream of Philippine society, among children and adults.

Thursday, April 17, 2014

More Companies Are Organizing Larong Pinoy Mini-Olympics

The Traditional Filipino Games are back in the mainstream of society. At the turn of the century, the revival started in community-barangays and in schools.

Today, Filipino corporations are getting into the game; energizing employees with games that they use to play in the childhood years.

More and more Filipino corporations are organizing Palarong Pinoy sports fests. This year, over 500 organizations have discovered the fun of having a Larong Pinoy Mini-Olympics ---- with teams playing Patintero, Luksong Tinik, Luksong Lubid, Tumbang Preso, Sipang Bilangan, and other Filipino traditional street games.

Human Resource Managers have testified that a Larong Pinoy Sports Fest is truly a one-of-kind event-activity that leaves lasting impression among employees. It bonds employees like real “magkababata” (i.e., childhood friends).

Playing the Traditional Filipino Street Games has become an alternative to implementing the usual Western sports activities.

For many years, many companies have been organizing popular sports like basketball or volleyball; and usually, only younger employees get to play in the tournaments.

In Larong Pinoy games, everybody --- young and old --- were able participate in almost every type of game. It was so fun that even employees who did not play enjoyed the event, cheering, "jeering" and supporting their teams in every game. The fun is unforgettable. And best of all, employees who do not know each other become familiar with everyone.

The organizers of Palarong Pinoy events is an organization called Magna Kultura Foundation, an education-for-development NGO that has been advocating grassroots cultural activities in the Philippines. Magna Kultura revived the Traditional Filipino Street Games back into the mainstream of society with sports clinics and tournaments that are conducted in barangay communities and in schools.

In the Y-2008, HRDs of Filipino companies started calling on Magna Kultura to organize team-building activities using Larong Pinoy games as platform for bonding employees. Magna Kultura organized the company sports fests, hassle-free for the HRDs: from planning to implementation, with tournament systems & procedures, game manuals with playing rules for each and every Filipino game; and running the games with referees and game marshals. The company’s organizing committee just sat back and relaxed; playing with the rest of their fellow-employees.

Magna Kultura continues to conduct Palarong Pinoy sports fests for companies, on top of their on-going sports outreach programs in schools and barangays. Magna Kultura works with HRDs and sports committees to conduct “proudly Pinoy” games that transforms the Filipino work-force into Communi-Teams.