LGU Creates a Municipal Council for Culture and
the Arts
The
Municipal Hall has been working to create a Municipal Council for Culture and
the Arts through a series of brainstorming meetings that started September 8,
2016. The Council is meant to be a policy-making body composed of retired
professors, school teachers, school officials, and municipal officers invited
to take part voluntarily in setting the direction the town will take with
regard to activities meant to promote or enhance its cultural heritage,
including artistic pursuits.
Among those
invited from the private sector were retired Pangasinan State University
professors Januario Cuchapin, Dr. Clarita Jimenez, and Dr. Annie Manalang, Bayambang
National High School Principal Mary Ann Payomo, District 1 Supervisor Candra
Penoliar, PSU professors Ramil Dacal and Rosabella Mendez, Municipal Librarian
Leonarda Allado, Library, Museum and Tourism Consultant Gloria Valenzuela, events
consultants Ayen Garcia and Jaime Siybauco, and Hermano and Hermana Mayor Cesar
and Judith Ramos.
The meeting
was moderated by Levin Uy and Councilor Mylvin Junio in his capacity as Chairman
on Education, Culture and the Arts, together with Municipal Administrator Raj
Sagarino, aided by Municipal Planning Development Coordinator Ma-lene S. Torio
as Secretary.
Two topics
discussed at length were the formulation of an executive order defining terms
and delineating tasks and the election of executive director and other
officers.
Among the
activities proposed for the year-round culture and arts activities are the
commemoration of the town’s becoming the country’s fifth capital, binasuan
dance festival, language festival (Agew na Tawir), animated Christmas display
and bazaar, most decorated house contest (also for Christmas), Laro ng Lahi,
street-dancing on town fiesta with freshwater catch as theme, etc. (PIO/Media
Affairs)
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