Dateline: 23 September 2017, Pasay, PHL
The Metrobank Foundation's Cultural Heritage and Education Program Inaugural Lecture was held 23 September 2017 at Le Pavillon, Metropolitan Park in Pasay City.
Featured also at Le Pavillon were two exhibits, one of which highlighted the preservation work for the Manila Metropolitan Theater by the National Commission on Culture and the Arts.
Dateline: 16 September 2017, Malolos, Bulacan, PHL
A reunion of friends from Manila, Cebu and California hosted in Bulacan. US-based photographer Alex Tupaz visits Sari Collection's Alan Soriano for fashion editorial at the historic Barasoain Church only a few meters away from the atelier.
Assisting the mission were a UP Cebu professor for lighting and flash, and a Manila-based senior bank executive for transport and supplies.
Dateline: 15 September 2017, SMX Convention Center, Pasay City, PHL
Learned something new from the recently concluded 38th Manila International Book Fair. From Word and Life Publications, "Via Gaudiosa" or the Way of Joy, the opposite of the Via Dolorosa, Way of the Cross, or Stations of the Cross.
Bought one for each household of our extended family, who usually meet over Sunday brunch in Kawit, Cavite.
Dateline: 02 September 2017, National Museum, Manila, PHL
Started September with a seminar for a weekend destination (yay, social life). A small dose of cultural history (about Spanish missionaries) from the lecture series parallel the HOCUS exhibit, which will conclude at the end of October.
Greatest discovery however is the venue. Inside the Osmena Hall of the National Museum, "Madonna with Angels" by Francesco Riccardo Monti.