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1st Ibaraki Philippine
Festival gathers more than 300 Filipinos
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The Ibaraki Christian Center (ICC),
organizers of the 1st Ibaraki Philippine Festival 2003.
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Held on the occasion of the Easter Sunday
last April 20, the 1st Ibaraki Philippine Festival on April
20 was hailed as a huge success with more than 300 Filipinos
from various parts of the prefecture attending. After the
ecumenical worship service in the morning organized by the
Ibaraki Christian Center (ICC), a short program and a one-day
basketball league followed. Four teams participated, namely,
Kajioka, D.J. Valdez Trading, Carenz Lovebirds and Son’s
All Star. The championship trophy for the day-long tournament
was garnered by Son’s All Star after a tightly fought
match with D.J. Valdez Trading.
The Philippine Embassy sent eight consular and labor officers
for a community outreach program in which applications for
passports, renewal, authentication and other consular procedures
were administered for the most part of the day. Consul Lilibeth
Pono headed the consular team while Labor Attache Reynaldo
Regalado led the Labor team. Representatives of the Solidarity
for Foreign Migrant Workers, a Japanese non-governmental organization
(NGO) concerned with labor problems also attended.
This first event of such scale was launched through the
sponsorship of CAP Pension Plan and Uninetwork, Inc.
Top Filipino pianist
performs in Tokyo
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(Left to right) Philippine Ambassador
Domingo Siazon, PNB Managing Director Lita Manalastas,
and Joshue Greg Zuniega.
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Top Filipino pianist Joshue Greg Zuniega performed
at the National Olympic Youth Center in Yoyogi, Tokyo, on
April 29. Organized by the Philippine Embassy, the cultural
event opened with a folk dance medley presentation of Japanese
students of Philippine Studies at the Tokyo University of
Foreign Languages.
Having trained on a scholarship grant in Moscow, Zuniega
is widely acclaimed as a pianist at home. He has held solo
performances at the PICC and in other venues in the Philippines.
Together with his twin brother, Atty. Joshue Sim Zuniega,
Greg is active in the music ministry of his church in Laguna.
In a widely acknowledged number during the evening concert,
Greg played the piano while Sim played the violin.
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