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Thursday, February 05, 2004
Two exhibits, a filmfest and a cruise color the scene
By Chinggay Utzurrum
The scene
With the frequency and intensity our Queen City hosts film festivals, we could easily become the Filmfest capital of the South! Proof is another Film Fest, “The 5th Israeli Film Festival” will go onscreen starting tomorrow, Feb. 6, till Feb. 8, Sunday, at Ayala Cinema One, Theater for the Performing Arts.
Sponsored by the following: Primex, The Arts Council of Cebu, Embassy of Israel (Manila); Greenbelt Artfilm and Polistrat International, the award-winning films are:
Opening on Friday, Feb. 6 at 7 p.m. is Summer of Aviya; There will be a repeat on Saturday, (Feb. 7) at 4:30 p.m. and Sunday, (Feb. 8) at 1:30 pm.
Feb. 7, Fiction Marriage at 11 a.m.; Mike Brant at 2 p.m. Giraffes at 7 p.m. and Investigation must go on at 9:30 p.m. Feb. 8, (Sunday), Mike Brant at 11 a.m.; Desperado Square at 4 p.m., Investigation Must go on at 6:30 p.m. and finale is Besame Mucho at 9 p.m. Don’t miss this!
Admission is free, on a “first come-first served” basis, and according to theater capacity.
For more info, please call the Arts Council at telephone numbers 233-0236 and 233-0452.
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This noon, a farewell party is on schedule, as Francisco H. Licuanan III, President of Ayala Land Inc. hosts an appreciation lunch for the kind and Generous Help Friends have given the Company, over the years. We secretly think that the Big Boss is due for Retirement, and are sad that Ayala Land will lose such a brilliant executive!
Venue is Ballroom One, City Sports–Club at 12 noon.
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A full moon, a calm channel, catamaran engines purring over so quietly, an
air-conditioned passenger salon, dinner tables set with umbrella-like ferns, a ten-course dinner-buffet, an ever-flowing fountain of drinks, and the effervescent presence of the Aboitiz top honchos! Roberto, Jon, Ramon and Erramon, representing their myriad companies!
Guess? You’re right, it was an Appreciation Cruise for the Media starting with Dinner at Port, then with dessert, it was a leisurely cruise along Mactan Channel. Throughout the hour-long trip, there were more food and drinks onboard… and the party didn’t end with dropping anchor at the pier… raffle draw (huge prizes too!) and a music quartet, with vocalist Rochelle Vega, completed the evening before we said our goodbyes where more “giveaways” awaited us.. Thanks for the memory, Bobby!
Whenever the month of January rolls around, it means two things: A brand New Year and the Feast of the Santo Niño, Cebu’s Patron for all time! And to make the Feast more significant, Ayala Center-Cebu again presented a Santo Niño Exhibit, each year, more fervently-attended than the last. With the artistic touch of Lourdes Jereza of University of Southern Phils. (USP) and her team of artists, plus the support of Ayala’s Ver de la Cerna and his angels: Nonah Gacrama and Joy Polloso, the full-packed crowd milled around, to view “Sto. Niño in the Holy Eucharist,” an awe-inspiring, soul-searching collection of more than 70 sacred icons, most of them from the collection of Msgr. Cristobal E. Garcia, a devotee since way back.
The entire area was transformed into a church interior (down to the floor!) complete with a Prayer Room, dimmed to inspire intense prayer!
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Indefatigable Club woman Linda C. To, gushes with enviable pride that the Cebu delegates of Ikebana Int’t (Cebu Chapter 145), represented their city, at the 35th Annual Exhibit of Ikebana in Davao City. Notables among the many guests was Japanese Consul Seiichi Ogawa, who very gamely posed with the ladies, beside a breathtaking floral arrangement of well, what do you know, dancing lady!
(February 5, 2004 issue)
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