Reyna de las Estrellas Angel Evangelista (Photo Credit: Susan Sagarbarria-Corpus/Facebook)

Forum on copyright, innovation in multimedia; Flores de Mayo ng Birhen Maria Santacruzan remix

2-in-1 UST Arlets ’75 socio-cultural gigs

Visual artist, polymath, environmentalist, teacher and digital creator Bon Labora is indeed a genius.

Imagine, he was able to simultaneously hold diverse activities in one sitting.

As a professor of Arts and Design at Miriam College, he masterfully assigned his students to come up with cyber apps to contribute to the improvement or betterment of the human condition in society.

In an art exhibit and symposium combined titled “Unboxing the Filipinnovation of the Mindset” at Coco Bistro inside the Quezon City Memorial Circle, Bon presented the digital knowhow of these young students to serve their communities by inventing online programs like monitoring garbage disposal and segregation scheme in a particular village or serving menu of different artistic creations for exhibit and sale as well or identifying crime rate and prevention in a barangay.

At the same time, Dr. Ria Liza Centeno Canlas, one of the Executive Members of the newly installed National Innovation Council (NIC), talked about the vision of the agency to support not only Small and Medium Enterprise (SMEs) but also other businesses to create new ideas to come across the market.

Meanwhile, this writer discussed his innovative contributions to multimedia like his daring introduction of ambushed interviews and other novelties in entertainment writing in ABS-CBN’s “TV Patrol” and his situating celebrities and their stories in their socio-political contexts.

Book authoring and documentary filmmaking are also innovations in his turf.

Another UST Artlets ’75 collaboration was the “Flores de Mayo ng Birheng Maria,” a Mayflower Festival event jointly mounted with Dry Brush Gallery at SM North EDSA Interior Zone last Thursday.

At the Maytime occasion, an excerpt on the literary tradition of lua/luwa, a poetic form which was a vehicle in the veneration to the Blessed Virgin Mary, Queen of Flowers.

Reyna de las Estrellas Angel Evangelista at the “Flores de Maria” of the Most Holy Rosary Parish Church in Lopez, Quezon recited the lua/luwa in honor of the Lady.

Mentor Rita Arche coached Angel to the delight of spectators.

Artlets ’75 rep Susan Sagarbarria-Corpus spoke of the relationship between the merry month of May and her summer memories when she was in college at the UST Faculty of Arts and Letters from 1971 to 1975 summing up a Golden Jubilee celebration next year. (Boy Villasanta)

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