May 26, 2015
SENATOR LOREN LEGARDA
Sponsorship Speech
Committee Report No. 147
(Resource Centers For Indigenous Peoples Act)
Committee Report No. 141
(An Act Declaring August 9 as National Indigenous Peoples Day)
26 May 2015 | Senate Session Hall
Mr. President,
I have the honor to seek approval of two legislative measures, namely, Senate Bill No. 2209 under Committee Report No. 147 or the Resource Centers For Indigenous Peoples Act, and Committee Report No. 141 under House Bill No. […]
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May 25, 2015
Message of Senator Loren Legarda
Launch of Philippine Textile Research Institute’s
Innovation Center for Yarns and Textiles
25 May 2015 | PTRI Compound, Bicutan, Taguig City
Allow me first to congratulate the Philippine Textile Research Institute (PTRI) for the inauguration of its spinning facility, the PTRI Innovation Center for Yarns and Textiles.
It has been my lifelong passion to explore the indigenous artistry of Filipinos told through traditional textiles. Through my visits to numerous weaving communities in the country, […]
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May 8, 2015
MESSAGE OF SENATOR LOREN LEGARDA
Vernissage of the Philippine Pavilion
56th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale
8 May 2015 | Palazzo Mora, Venice, Italy
I am thrilled that the Philippines is back in Venice after 51 years, on the year that Okwui Enwezor is curating the central exhibition. Both All The World’s Futures and Patrick Flores’ Tie A String Around the World are grounded in urgent geopolitical issues.
Art is politics; art is global politics. This year’s Philippine Pavilion […]
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April 23, 2015
Speech of Senator Loren Legarda
Joint Meeting Between Rotary Club of Manila and Rotary Club of Forbes Park
23 April 2015 | Manila Polo Club
It is with great pleasure that I take part in this gathering to encourage Rotarians to take a more active role in finding solutions to the growing social, economic and development challenges caused by environmental degradation and disasters arising from natural hazards made stronger by climate change.
We are living in a world with finite resources and yet generations […]
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April 17, 2015
MESSAGE OF PATRICK D. FLORES
Curator, Tie A String Around the World
Press Conference on the Philippine Participation in the 56th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale
15 April 2015 | DFA Building, Pasay City
In 1950 in the Philippines, the filmmaker Manuel Conde and the painter Carlos Francisco worked together to do the first film ever on Genghis Khan. Telling the tale of the conqueror’s rite of passage from warrior to overlord in the form of a metrical […]
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