Code Orange: 2011 International Women’s Day
An intermittently rainy International Women’s Day didn’t stop women from the communities to gather and march to celebrate the victories and struggles of the women’s movement.
The march started in Cogon Shrine, this city and through the main thoroughfare of Tagbilaran, the CPG Avenue, towards “agora”, now the Tagbilaran City Square.
One of the principal issues bannered in this year’s IWD celebration is the resounding “No to Panglao Reclamation” campaign.
Other issues highlighted as well, are the fight for women’s reproductive right, pushing towards the passage of the RH Bill; violence against women; land reform; and young women’s education.
Photos: Baji Arts Exhibit Opening
In the eve of the International Women’s Day, Baji: An All-Boholana Arts Exhibit opened its doors to the Bol-anon public – unveiling the diversity of the response and creating an exuberant narrative of the baji’ng Bol-anon in words, pictures and pixels – 40 artists and over 80 artworks.
Hon. Godofreda O. Tirol, Board Member, 3rd District of Bohol and Hermogena “Nene” Lungay opened the exhibit. (full exhibit review on Monday, after it comes out in the LifestyleBohol this Sunday.)
Arts Exhibit: Mugnang Bol-anon
In celebration of the National Arts Month, Bol-anon visual artists are staging a group exhibit aptly titled: Mugnang Bol-anon (Bohol-Made) at the Lion Club’s Oak Brook Museum and Children’s Library in Tagbilaran City.
The exhibit formally opened 5pm, February 16 and will run through the whole arts month. Governor Edgar Chatto, Vice-Governor Conching Lim, and Center for Culture and Arts Development (CCAD) head Mdm. Equit Butalid, led the cutting of the ceremonial ribbon, alongside Bohol Tourism Council Chair Atty. Doy Nunag, and Bohol Arts and Cultural Heritage (BACH Council). Several Lions Club members and arts enthusiasts also showed up to support the event.
“Amigo” comes home
Bohol Republic attended the Bohol Premiere Screening of Amigo in ICM ScreenVille last night, 9 Feb 2011.
It was a single screening only here in Bohol, the film will be toured around the Philippines this arts month in what organizers dubbed “Amigo Lakbay”. A commercial release scheduled in July this year will surely bring the film back to our shores.
Today is Pres. Carlos P. Garcia Day
The late Pres. Carlos P. Garcia, the 8th President of the Philippines, is without a doubt Bohol’s most illustrious son.
R.A. 7448, in April of 1992, declared the 4th of November each year to be a special non-working holiday in the whole of Boholandia to commemorate the anniversary of the late Pres. Carlos P. Garcia. But with close inspection to the law, it didn’t in fact name November 4 as Carlos P. Garcia Day, only that it a special non-working holiday. It did however ‘designate’ Nov. 2-6 as Carlos P. Garcia Week.
But of course by all intents and purpose, today is Carlos P. Garcia Day.
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