St. Vincent’s Home
to hold bazaar

A charity food bazaar and rummage sale will be held by the St. Vincent’s Home on September 21-22 at its premises in Brgy. Tangub, Bacolod City, in line with the feast day of St. Vincent de Paul on September 27, its press release said.

The “Shop for a Cause” bazaar is sponsored by the Island Merchants Corporation and aims to raise funds for the launching of the ecology and wellness haven of the Home, a project of the Daughters of Charity and the Damas de la Caridad Bacolod unit, the press release also said.

St. Vincent’s Home is envisioned to be an integrated organic and wellness village for the abandoned elderly it is taking care of.

Its administrator, Sr. Asuncion Evidente, is inviting the public to visit the Home and see the products for sale, that are organic vegetables, ornamental plants, children’s dresses sewn by the Asilo de Molo, fashion jewelry and foodstuffs from establishments and private individuals, the press release said.

For more details, those interested may call the Home at 432-0011, the press release added.*

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Street children join
storytelling at library

A storytelling activity was conducted by the Negros Occidental Provincial Library and the BEED-Preschool students of Silay Institute, headed by Language and Numeracy teacher Zoena Gomelao, at the provincial library in Bacolod City recently, a press release from the Capitol said.

Provincial Librarian Joyce Deloso said 14 street children participated in the event, that featured simple but fun storytelling and art activities to help enhance the children’s creativity, imagination and self expression; to promote the importance of reading; and to reach out to the less fortunate children, the press release added.*

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Watershed summit to be held
in Kabankalan on Sept. 12-13

The first watershed summit in southern Negros Occidental will be hosted by the Diocese of Kabankalan and the Kabankalan City government Thursday and Friday at the city Sports and Cultural Center, on the theme “Living life in its fullness in harmony with the flow of our watersheds”, a press release from the Diocese said.

The event is expected to be participated in by opinion shapers and community-based water resource stewards from the fifth and sixth districts and local government units in Negros Occidental and Oriental, the press release also said.

It aims to consolidate efforts and come up with doable initiatives to protect and preserve the denuded and degraded watersheds in southwestern Negros, and to bring to fruition the efforts of the Commission on Social Action of the Diocese and its partners, the four commissions in the dioceses of Negros Island, and non-government organizations.

The summit is also supported by the Foundation for the Philippine Environment, local and national offices of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, LGUs, the Philippine National Police, Philippine Army, private and business sectors, private and public schools, churches and peoples’ organizations in Negros, the press release added.*

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Ayala Museum to launch
‘Botong’ exhibit at USLS

Ayala Museum will launch a traveling exhibition on national artist Carlos “Botong” Francisco at Museo Negrense de La Salle, University of Saint La Salle in Bacolod City, from September 13 to October 8, a press release from the museum said.

Titled “Botong Francisco: A Nation Imagined,” the exhibition will feature 25 reproductions of Botong’s paintings from institutional and private collections. A film produced by the Ayala Foundation Inc. and directed by filmmaker Peque Gallaga on Botong’s vision and artistry will also be shown at the exhibit, the press release also said.

The initiative of the Arts and Culture Division of AFI is a traveling version of the museum exhibition held December 2012 to March 2013 in celebration of Botong’s centennial birth anniversary at Ayala Museum in Makati City, the press release said.

That exhibition showcased more than 40 of Botong’s paintings, and supplemented by a short film, that captured his large-scale works and murals commissioned for public buildings, and which had been selected for inclusion in the documentary category at the 2013 Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival at the Cultural Center of the Philippines.

The holding of the exhibition in regional locations is in line with AFI’s aim of bringing art beyond the museum to new audiences outside Manila, and is supported by the Ayala Corporation, Museo Negrense de La Salle, USLS, and the Javier Lacson family, the press release also said.

For more information, those interested may contact (632) 752-8288, or email museum_inquiry@ayalamuseum.org, the press release added.*

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