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NEW YORK --- Filipina painter Mia Herbosa is currently holding an exhibit at the Gallery at the Art Students’ League of New York, featuring “Filipina” — a portrait of her close friend, Dindin de Borja Araneta. It is part of the Juried Members’ Exhibition, showcasing many of the most successful alumnae of this prestigious organization. The Gallery is located at 215 W 57th Street, NY.
Herbosa has had also work accepted into its 108th Annual Open Exhibition at the National Arts Club, located at 15 Gramercy Park South, NY. The exhibition is sponsored by the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, one of the oldest women’s art club in the country, and was founded in 1896 in honor of Miss Wolfe, one of the country’s first art collectors and the only woman among the 106 subscribers to the founding of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The Annual Open Exhibition presents works by women artists in oil, acrylic, watercolor, pastel, graphics, and sculpture by juried admission and was not limited to members only. The exhibition is open to the public from Oct. 2 to Oct. 29, from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, 1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
Herbosa’s “Sala” is detail from her former home here in New York, an old chair, and one of her paintings hung on the wall behind it. She had a one-woman show held at the Drawing Room in Makati, Manila last April, entitled “Blessed Days, Sacred Times.”
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NEW YORK --- A 25-year-old Filipino running a website, e-group and radio program for youth in promoting youth participation and empowerment, a Pakistani young man providing self-sustainable solutions for repressed women, a 22-year-old American funding sight-restoring cataract surgeries in Ghana and a young Colombian who created an alternative local youth council are among 19 young and inspiring community leaders from 16 different countries around the world, who will each receive the 2004 Global Youth In Action Awards.
This year’s awards program concentrates on youth-initiated projects that take an innovative approach to problem-solving. Albert Einstein is remembered for stating that today’s problems cannot be solved with the same thinking that created them, and the Awards highlight new ways that youth are addressing age-old issues in their community.
The 2004 Global Youth In Action Award winners are:
Esther Mburu, 21 (Kenya), for the Yes! For Street Girls Project, which offers income-generating strategies and reproductive health education;
Jennifer Staple, 22 (USA), for Unite For Sight, with 2,500 volunteers helping local communities to improve eye health and eliminate preventable blindness.
Jean-Paul Bigirindavyi , 30 (Burundi), for the Youth Intervention for Peace Project, in an effort to support local peace-building efforts in war-torn Burundi;
Zuhra Bahman, 21 (Afghanistan/UK), for helping to establish Libraries in Kabul Schools and raising education standards for youth in the country;
Shankpal Vaishali, 27 (India), for Providing Comprehensive Reproductive and H.I.V./AIDS Services in rural communities;
Pocholo D. Gonzales, 25 (Philippines), who utilized ICTs and media to strengthen youth participation, leadership and empowerment through the Voice of the Youth Network (VOTY);
Vladimir Sequera Rodriguez, 25 (Colombia), for creating an alternative Municipal Youth Assembly to channel youth voices into local government;
Alexandra Govere (Zimbabwe, age 16) who started the Kijana Project to assist AIDS orphans in Africa and educate youth on HIV/AIDS, and;
Diego Echegoyen, 22 (El Salvador), who launched Jovenes Lideres to give youth better access to information and opportunities for action on development issues.
Honorable Mentions this year were given to:
Sisay Wagnew, 24 (Ethiopia, for the Yichalal Project; Predrag Zenovic , both 17 (Serbia and Montenegro), for the TV show “Dialogues”; Olasunkanmi Rasaq Olajide, 28 (Nigeria), for the Inter-Communal Project Resolution Project; A. R. Patil, 27 (India), for the Integrated Soil Management Through Young Farmer Field School; Daniela Rubio, 21 (Mexico), for Proyecto GEM, Mikayil Zeynalov, 22 (Azerbaijan), for the Bridge to the Future Youth Union; Peter Mugabe, 25 (Uganda), for the Immunization Program in Uganda, Jeff Lambin, 14 (USA), founder of KidsKart; Muhammad Idrees Khan, 24 (Pakistan), for “Strengthening Women Entrepreneurs through Spices Packaging”; and Stephen Schwartz, 19 (USA), for SustainUS’ Bet Campaign.
To learn more about the Global Youth in Action Awards, and this year’s winning projects, please visit www.takingitglobal.org/action/yiaa.html
The Global Youth in Action Awards recognize youth-led solutions and are a vital component of the Global Youth Action Network’s (GYAN) efforts to highlight positive ways in which young people are improving their communities. The winners were selected from a pool of 500 applicants worldwide by a committee of their peers with experience in philanthropy. The top nine winners are each awarded US$1,000 to recognize their achievements; another 10 young individuals are awarded Honorable Mentions and prizes of $100.
“When young people are recognized for the amazing contributions they make, it reinforces their value as positive agents for social change,” said GYAN executive director Benjamin Quinto, adding that the awards and positive recognition “help to shift the often negative perception of young people in adult society.” At a time when young people receive a disproportionate amount of negative media coverage, GYAN works actively to ensure that the vast array of inspiring stories from throughout today’s youth movement receive greater public awareness.
Funds for this year’s program have been provided by the Shei’rah Foundation, whose mission is to fund and support media projects that bring positive and uplifting messages to the world. The Youth In Action Awards program was initially launched by Youth In Action, a US-based not for profit corporation. With support from UNESCO’s InfoYouth Network, GYAN coordinated the distribution of the first Global Youth In Action Awards in 1999, and since then has led the global program. Funding for the program to date has been provided by Prodigy Internet, UNESCO InfoYouth Network, the New Earth Foundation and the Shei’rah Foundation.
Winners are selected on International Youth Day on Aug. 12, and applications are accepted on a rolling-basis.
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NEW YORK --- A select group of Filipino and Filipino-American community leaders have put themselves together to run as a team of candidates for president and the 13 members of the board of directors of the Philippine Independence Day Council, Inc. (PIDCI) for 2004-2-005.
Nimia Lacebal leads the group as candidate for president. Team candidates for all 13 seats of the PIDCI Board are: Sofia Abad, Ronnie Atinaja, Baby Bleza, Tony Bordamonte, Philip Carreon, Lolita Compas, Raul Estrellado, Emmanuel “Boy” Pangan, Nelsie Parrado, Ave Pimo, Gani Puertollano, Rexie Tagle, and Tambi Wycoco.
This year’s elections are historic because for the first time since its incorporation in 2001, the entire PIDCI lineup of officers will be elected at large.
The special elections are the results of PIDCI bylaws being amended twice in the last two months, first by the current Board of Directors last July 19, then by the member organizations on August 2, before finally being ratified by the membership September 16.
PIDCI is the entity that was incorporated to succeed the original Philippine Independence Day Committee (PIDC) of 13 years of planning, organizing, executing and managing New York’s celebration of the Philippine Independence Anniversary.
The ammendments removed the two classes of directors and abolished the position of overall chairperson. Under the ratified bylaws, the president takes the place of the overall chairperson and is elected by the membership at annual elections. Before the latest ammendments, the board elected the president and only half of the 14-member board was elected by the membership. As the term of the holdover half of the board ended this year, elections for the full set of PIDCI officers became imminent.
Formation of the Lacebal team was dictated by a drive from the community to institute reforms in the PIDCI that started with the membership initiative to amend the bylaws in late July.
The elections for president and the entire 13 members of the board of directors are on Saturday, October 30, at the Philippine Center at 556 Fifth Avenue, New York City, starting at 12:00 noon through 5:00 p.m.
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