Monday, September 01, 2008 VAW exhibit opens on Baguio Day
AS A fitting culmination to its poster-making competition for high school and college students, Save our Women announced the commencement of a month-long public exhibit of all entries starting on Baguio Day.
To be held at Art Haven along Assumption Road, 77 works of art from students of 22 high schools and universities in Baguio and Benguet will be showcased in the exhibit.
Through this project, Save our Women or Stop the Abuse and Violence against our Women president Patti Gallardo said they would spread awareness about domestic and intimate-relationship violence (DIV), a prevalent social and moral problem which has hurt countless girls, women and their children from all walks of life since time immemorial.
The high school poster theme was "It Shouldn't Hurt To Go Home." She said high school students were asked to show through their works domestic violence, and the abuse of mothers and their children really do have a negative effect on children and should be avoided, prevented and stopped.
In keeping with the college category theme "Real Love Does Not Hurt," Gallardo said college participants had to underscore the reality of abuse being done on women and girls in the guise of love. Their works are supposed to emphasize the need to stop DIV against women and girls at all cost.
She said the exhibit will formally open at 10 a.m. of September 1 with an "invitation only" gathering of Save our Women members and their benefactors, together with all participants and school representatives.
A closed-door judging will be done in the afternoon, after which Art Haven's doors will be opened to the public free of charge Monday to Sunday from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. until September 30 this year.
Gallardo pointed out that cash prizes will be awarded to each of the first, second and third prize winners of the high school and college categories.
Aside from those, she said two Save our Women Members' Choice awards will also be given. The prizes will be presented to the winners in their respective schools.
Another exhibit of the posters is also being planned at Bliss Café of Hotel Elizabeth in coming months.
Save our Women cordially invites the public to come and view the exhibit, revel at the artworks made by Baguio and Benguet's future artists, become aware of the issue of DIV and act positively towards ending the violence against girls, women and their children.
For more information on the exhibit, Gallardo said interested persons may contact Save our Women by calling telephone numbers (074)446-6617, (0920)576-7707, (0905)294-7828 or Art Haven at (074)446-5047. (ENO)
