Cultural Champions

Madrigal Singers
The Madrigal singers won the grand prize in the Florilège Vocal de Tours 2006 in Tours, France. It also won the grand prize in the 1997 European Grand Prix.

Choir
The UA&P Chorale won three golds in three separate categories - Mixed Choir, Mixed Youth Choir, and Chamber Choir - in the 23rd International Choral Festival of Preveza held in Greece in July 2005.

Loboc Choir
The Loboc Children's Choir of Bohol garnered the first prize at the 6th International Folksong Choir Festival in Barcelona, Spain.

Dancers
The 72-member Shirley Halili-Cruz School of Ballet took the overall title in the 2006 Asia-Pacific Ballet Dance competition in Singapore and brought home 23 gold trophies and 35 medals.
The group won in all five categories including neoclassical ballet, classical ballet, modern ballet, natural ballet and demi-character ballet.

Ballerina
Christine Joy Rocas won the silver medal at the 8th New York
International ballet competition.

Photographers
Filipino scuba divers Scott Tuason and Eduardo Cu Unjieng, who published the book "Anilao" won the International Prize for Underwater Images at the 27th World Festival of Underwater Images in France in November 2000.

Hiphop
A Filipino dance group won the 2006 World Hip Hop dance competition in Southern California.

Bloggers
Myla Villanueva, head of Philippine-based MDI Group, has developed BlogStar, a blogging tool used by Hollywood celebrities like Jessica and Ashlee Simpson, Wesley Snipes, Caprice, Juliette Lewis, Bam Margera, Kelly Slater, David Arquette, Nick Lachey, The Game, Alicia Silverstone, Nicky Hilton, Jack Osbourne, Tom Green, West Coast Customs, and Ryan Cabrera.

Montreal Film Fest
The Philippines-made film "Ang Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros" won the first place in the First Films World Competition at the 29th Montreal World Film Festival in Canada.