Sunday, May 11, 2008
Sugbo cultural center to open on Province's anniversary
THE Sugbo Cultural Center will no longer be a “white elephant.”
On Aug. 7, the center, located at the University of the Philippines in the Visayas Cebu College (UPVCC), will be officially opened to the public in time for the week-long celebration of the Province’s founding anniversary.
The center, which has remain idle for more than a decade, was rehabilitated to become a revenue-generating center.
It will be the first time that Cebu will have a “proper” venue for performing arts, said Capitol consultant on interior design Ian Fresnido.
Theater performances, like dance or drama, and art exhibits are expected to be showcased at the center.
“We would like to have an international level of performance at a world-class facility,” said Fresnido.
The center can accommodates 1,500 people, at par with international standards like in popular international theaters like those in Broadway.
The Provincial Engineer’s Office started rehabilitating the building this year.
The center, said Fresnido, will have a world-class lobby. There will also be offices, orchestra and balcony pits, and a rehearsal room.
Capitol is already in the process of booking performances.
The center was built during the time of former governor Vicente “Ting-ting” de la Serna, but construction was stopped during the term of former governor and now Cong. Pablo Garcia (Cebu, 2nd district), Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia’s father.
The governor already drafted plans to make the Sugbo Cultural Center useful during her first term as governor. (JGA)
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