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PRESS RELEASE:
PRESS RELEASE:
Art Fun and Sunflowers
Thirteen (13) summers ago, an artists’ group set about the apparently unenviable attempt at bringing the fine arts to the grassroots level. The move had no fore-shadowing. It was a simple plan on the drawing board – expose the arts to as many people as possible.
With this objective in mind and in partnership with Pamplona Dos Barangay Council, the art collective Alyansang Tuklas Sining, Inc., initiated the first ever government-sponsored art workshop and exhibit in Las Pinas City. The project was dubbed Tuklas Sining Laban sa Droga, sponsored by the Sangguniang Kabataan of the locale.
For the artists, it was a newly opened channel for sharing their expertise in the visual arts with uninitiated young people from a specific marginalized community. It was a time to simplify the jargon of their craft into words that are easy-to-understand.
It was a time to inter-act with their little brothers and sisters in painting fundamentals.
Now on its 13th established season and by way of a DILG project, its life span verifies the worthiness of a cause: that the marginalized amongst us need not be strangers to the elements of art and beauty.
13thSummer of Art Fun and Sunflowers was conducted on May 24, 25 and 26, 2013 at the livelihood training center of Pamplona 2 Barangay hall. It marks this year’s edition of a program that has grown into the annual summer event at Barangay Pamplona 2, the 2nd smallest barangay in the city of Las Pinas.