Monday, October 17, 2005

Forum On Cultural Awareness Thru

Grassroots Media Set Oct. 21 In Mindanao


“Promoting Cultural Awareness Through Grassroots Media” will be the main thrust of a two-day Mindanao Cultural Forum for Media set on Oct. 21-22 in Butuan City.
Agusan del Norte Gov. John Erlpe M. Amante will speak on the “Role of LGUs in the Promotion of Culture and the Arts in the Countryside.”
A Malacanang official, Danilo A. Consumido, assistant secretary of the Office of External Affairs, Office of the President, is also slated to address the two-day event.
Alfredo G. Gabot, head of the National Commission For Culture and the Arts (NCCA), committee on communications and NCCA commissioner, will speak on the role of Media in Promoting Philippine Culture and the Arts, while Johnny P. Dayang, president of the Publishers Association of the Philippines, Inc. (PAPI) and project director, will speak about the cultural forum for media.
Armando Manaloto, an executive of the Public Relations Society of the Philippines (PRSP), will talk on cultural promotion: Media’s Corporate Social Responsibility.
Adelina M. Suemith, chief NCCA project monitoring and evaluation division and Eury Zulueta of the NCCA cultural dissemination service, are among the resource persons during the media forum. Fernando Almeda Jr., president of the Surigaonon Heritage Center Foundation, is expected to highlight Mindanao’s rich cultural heritage.
Under the auspices of PAPI and the NCCA, the cultural forum for media is a strategic convergence of Mindanao communicators to promote countryside development and national unity, according to Felix P. Villacastin, project coordinator.
Mediamen and other communicators from Mindanao provinces desiring to participate in the Butuan City gathering may contact the PAPI Community Press Center, located at Unit 206 Cityland Condo 8 in Makati, with tel. no. 8929278, call mobile no. 0920-9094-4379, or call Felix Villacastin at 091-76134444. /MP mailto:madyaas_pen@yahoo.com

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