Monday, March 17, 2008 Costanilla: Holy Week heritage tour By Sam Costanilla spotlight
THE Cebu United Radio & TV Artists, Corp. (CurtaCorp) may be a new club, but it had already staged a major project, a fund-raising dinner-show last Feb. 16, the aim of which was to raise money for its medical aid program. Surprisingly, the event was a well-attended one despite the absence of Manila-based concert stars. With CurtaCorp’s surplus of fine talents, who would need non-Cebuano performers?
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CURTACORP is a nine-month-old club of retired, semi-retired and active radio and television drama writers, directors, talents, spinners and other production people. True, the club is still in its infancy, but it is already making its presence felt in the local entertainment scene, thanks to the able leadership of both founding chairman Emil Rizada Jr. and co-chairman Edgar Gutierrez. Yours truly is one of the club’s trustees and consultants.
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WHAT makes CurtaCorp a dynamic and energetic club is its monthly general assembly at the Rizadas’ Tisa residence. There, we meet every first Sunday of the month and discuss plans and activities designed to benefit all club members. As of this writing, the club already has a medical aid fund as well as a calamity assistance program.
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OUR monthly gathering is an event that we always look forward to. Aside from honoring all birthday celebrators of the month, we also hold an impromptu program that features our very own co-officers and members as entertainers themselves. Last Mar. 2, veteran drama writer/director Romy Diola, singer Linda Dajao-Sayson and Cordova Mayor Addy Sitoy came and were admitted as new CurtaCorp members. The town mayor promised to host the club’s next general membership assembly in Cordova where we will present a cultural program that the general public can freely watch. For this occasion, Mayor Addy also promised to hire Cordova’s best cook whose specialty is the town’s very famous bakasi (a kind of fish that looks like an eel) cuisine.
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ONE of the local travel and tour agencies is coming up with a very meaningful and appropriate activity for the general public in commemorating Jesus Christ’s passion. My good friend Nene Salamat e-mailed that Marist Royal Holidays Travel & Tours is offering “Visita Iglesia and Heritage Tour” as its Holy Week special event on Maundy Thursday, Mar. 20. The day-long package is actually a guided tour to eight old churches (in Pardo, Minglanilla, San Fernando, Carcar, Argao, Dalaguete, Boljoon and Oslob). What’s nice about this package is that the participants will have another experience of the rural lifestyle as well as see breathtaking sceneries along the coastal road down south.
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WITH a very affordable rate of P1,500 per person, he or she will have lunch in Oslob. Nene informed me that the assembly point is the Cebu Grand Hotel parking lot on Escario St. at 5:30 a.m. because departure time is exactly 30 minutes later. I encourage everyone to join this Lenten activity. For reservations, kindly call 2317847 or 2339772.
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IN ANSWER to Gov. Gwen Garcia’s challenge for all Cebu towns and component cities to come up with festivals, three more municipalities are now preparing theirs that they intend to launch during their respective feast days. San Fernando, Sogod and Liloan will be doing Sikuy-Sikuy, Sinugdanan and Rosquillos festivals, respectively.
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THIS pretty young singer goes to engagements in a flashy, luxury car courtesy of a local businessman who is too old to be her father. He himself drives the lady to her destinations and picks her up after her commitments as an entertainer. His wife doesn’t know about his indiscretions, of course.
