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DepEd endorses Negros art tilt

By Mary Judaline Partlow

July 10, 2019, 8:48 pm

<p><strong>NEGROS ART TILT.</strong> Negros Oriental Governor Roel Degamo (seated), poses with (from left to right) Provincial Tourism Officer Myla Mae Abellana; Dr. Salustiano Jimenez, DepEd Central Visayas regional director; Dr. Adolf Aguilar, Assistant Provincial Schools Superintendent; Anne Tiongco, Corporate Communications head of Victorias Milling Company; and Mate Espina, event coordinator of the VMC Art Contest, during a recent courtesy call on the provincial chief executive at the Provincial Capitol. VMC expects more participants to the art contest from Negros Oriental this year.<em> (Photo courtesy of Negros Oriental Capitol)</em></p>

NEGROS ART TILT. Negros Oriental Governor Roel Degamo (seated), poses with (from left to right) Provincial Tourism Officer Myla Mae Abellana; Dr. Salustiano Jimenez, DepEd Central Visayas regional director; Dr. Adolf Aguilar, Assistant Provincial Schools Superintendent; Anne Tiongco, Corporate Communications head of Victorias Milling Company; and Mate Espina, event coordinator of the VMC Art Contest, during a recent courtesy call on the provincial chief executive at the Provincial Capitol. VMC expects more participants to the art contest from Negros Oriental this year. (Photo courtesy of Negros Oriental Capitol)

DUMAGUETE CITY – Event organizers of the Negros Island-wide Victorias Milling Company (VMC) Art Contest are expecting more contestants from Negros Oriental this year following the endorsement of Governor Roel Degamo and the Department of Education (DepEd).

Event coordinator Mate Espina on Tuesday said they are optimistic that more public elementary and high schools in Negros Oriental will be sending participants to the 7th VMC Art Contest slated in September.

Last year, there was only a handful coming from Negros Oriental even though the province had consistently produced winners in different categories in recent years, she said.

Degamo and Dr. Salustiano Jimenez, regional director of the Department of Education (DepEd) in Region 7, have committed to strongly push for more participants to the art tilt.

Jimenez promised to help encourage more participants this time from the different public elementary and high schools in Negros Oriental. He will also issue a memorandum or directive to the six DepEd divisions in Negros Oriental so that all the public schools under these divisions will send at least one or two student participants in the art contest, Espina said.

Anne Tiongco, VMC Corporate Communications chief, said that during the courtesy call over the weekend with the governor, they also met with DepEd officials and Provincial Tourism Officer Myla Mae Bromo.

“We hope to be aggressive this time because when we first started the art contest, we included the tertiary level, but in recent years, we had to take that level out of the competition,” Tiongco said.

Tiongco said they wanted to focus on the children in grade school and high school in order to develop their talents and skills because "when you’re in college you already know what you want to do and what you want to become”.

The deadline for registration is on Sept. 4 with application forms and the contest mechanics available online or at the Provincial Tourism Office/Sidlakang Negros Village.

This year’s theme is “My Community” to instill among the youth and Negros at large “how our company values the community and how involving themselves in their own communities will eventually empower them to have a stake in nation-building through the arts,” the VMC said.

The on-the-spot contest for Negros Oriental participants from the elementary and high school levels is set on Sept. 14 in this city and on Sept. 21 in Bacolod City for Negros Occidental contestants.

The awards night will be held on Sept. 22 in Bacolod City. (PNA)

 

 

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