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Treasures from the Earth

DRAWINGS REQUESTED

Theme: Treasures from the Earth.

The 12th International Environmental Children's Drawing Contest

Sponsored by Japan Quality Assurance Organization (JQA) & The International Certification Network (Q HNet)

SUPPORTED BY THE UNICEF

Let's look out for "Treasures from the Earth"!
Flowers and grass alongside the roads, birds wheeling freely across the great arch of the sky,
animals grazing in the fields, multi colored fish swarming around coral reefs,
abundant crops of wheat and corn
rain cascaing the Earth, and the glow of the setting sun. All of these are treasures of our planet.
Let's make pictures of the "treasures from the earth" that you find in your daily lives, studies or play time.

ELIGIBILITY:Children aged 7-15

Drawing tools: freehand drawing with any type of paint, pastel, etc.

Please be sure that the drawing has been drawn personally and has not been published in other newspapers or magazines.

48 winners around the world will receive a special memorabilia

all entrants will receive a participation prize.





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The Message of God

Warren Litzman

The message of God to the unsaved world is that they believe on the Lord Jesus Christ who is offered to them in limitless grace.

The message to the saved and born-again is that they walk worthy of the calling wherewith they are called.

One of the most difficult things to do, in the Christlife, is to pinpoint exactly how every believer is to live.

It is difficult because it is not God’s intention that every believer live the same or be the same manifestation of the Christ who is in each believer. Actually, the very heart of the message of the Christ-life is that Christ will flow out of each human being differently, and because there is only one Son, God has elected that all who are created in His like ness and image should be different so that the one Son might be manifested unto Him in many various way.

This means that stereotype religion and doctrine, derived to make all believers look and act alike, are not only error but are a tremendous effrontery to the Christ who has been birthed in the believer.

It is God’s grace that has allowed Christ to come into the believer, regardless of the believer’s condition of sin and the kind of person he is. It is God’s intention that Christ shall swamp and overwhelm all that the believer previously was by the Christ-life, but by no means is the distinctiveness of that believer taken away because Christ flows out of Him. It is, as we so often say, Christ in us, as us.

Three Distinctive Position

The salvation that comes by Christ, which God accomplishes for those who believe, includes, among other things, the placing of the saved one into three distinctive positions.

First, the believer is placed into the position of a son of God. John clearly declares, “Beloved, now are we the sons of God?” (1 John 3:2.) the word now signifies thaty this is not something birthed instantaneously the moment we believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.

The second position the believer has been placed into is that of a citizen of Heaven. We cannot get away from the fact that God’s plan does not culminate on Earth, nor was it ever intended to be an earthly plan. It was God’s intention, before the foundation of the world was laid, to have children to live in His house.

We know, through the study of the Word, that the Father’s house is located in heaven. We also know that being citizens of Heaven is not purely psychological or a spiritual state, but it is a literal place of which we have been made members instantaneously at the birthing

The scripture plainly declares that all believers are strangers and sojourners on this Earth and in this world and as a result, belong as as a citizens of Heaven.

Third, we are placed as members of the family and household of God. Paul is very confident in this matter that believers are a distinctive part of the house of God, meaning His abiding place aside from this world…

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Registration & Materials Needed

CHATEAU de BRAZA

Summer Art Workshop 2011

April 15, 2011 p.m classes

R E G I S T R A T I O N

NAME:____________________________________________AGE:________________

SCHOOOL ________________________________________GRADE______________

ADDRESS______________________________________________________________

FATHER’S NAME___________________________OCCUPATION______________

MOTHER’S NAME __________________________ OCCUPATION _____________

CONTACT Nos. _____________________________ LANDLINE ________________

BROTHERS: _____________________________________AGE__________________

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FIELD OF INTEREST/S _________________________________________________

HOBBIES ______________________________________________________________

CONTACT PERSON IN CASE OF EMERGENCY

Name:__________________________________________________________________Relationship: ____________________________________________________________

Cellphone No. _______________________Tel. No. _____________________________

Temporary Receipt:

Whole Summer: Php 1,200/ 3 subject areas, Php 900/art class + 1 subject

Inclusive of instructional materials, latex paints

Down Payment: Php 600

Materials Needed: 1 notebook, pencils, 1 ballpoint

Bring your own Art Materials: Pencils: h, hb, b & ordinary, 1 big sketch pad (oslo drawing papers are provided), brushes (Chinese brushes & artist’s brush), watercolours ( guitar or prang), 4 ¼, 2 ½ , sizes illustration board

Materials use for exhibits (June 16, 2011: Araw ng Iligan)

Canvases with stretcher.

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Karapatan ng Batang Pilipino

CHATEAU de BRAZA

Reviewees (Grade I, Grade 2, Grade 3, & Grade IV)

Subject Areas: English, Makabayan, Mathematics & Science

Accepting

Start of Review > > > > > > > > > > > April 11, 2011

End of Review > > > > > > > > > > > June 3, 2011

Check-up Test > > > > > > > > > > > May 18, 2011

Art Class Starts > > > > > > > > > > > April 15, 2011

Ends > > > > > > > > > > > June 3, 2011

Package (3 Subject Areas) > > > > > > > Php 1,200 only

CHATEAU de BRAZA

0009 Pk 9 tipanoy

Iligan City

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A CALL TO MY FELLOW ARTISTS

by Monique Wilson

The debate is no longer whether it was child abuse or not. The facts are plain to see. No one with a sense of respect for another human being can dispute that. The discourse now is how we, as Filipinos, as artists involved in the same industry that created Willy and shows like his, could have allowed this to go on for as long as it has. And what is our individual and collective participation in it?

Let’s talk honestly about our TV networks. The culprit now is TV5 – with its’ blatant lack of decency by even hiring someone like Willy Revillame – a callous, insensitive individual who preys on the needs of poor, uneducated Filipinos. They hired him for ratings and money at the expense of the integrity, dignity and self-respect of the most vulnerable in our society. Now wasn’t channel 2 guilty of the very same thing? Let’s observe very closely many other game shows and reality shows across all the networks – can we not deduce very overt similarities? That networks are propelled by greed – ratings, money? Is there really, in all honesty, a local network, that can claim they put human values above all that? I don’t think so. I turn on the television to watch local shows and I feel uncomfortable. We have news reports that are horrifyingly biased and sensationalist, we have noon- time variety shows that exploit women and insult our intelligence, we have talk shows that are intrusive, subjective and tasteless – the list goes on and on. I am not saying, of course, that all shows fall beneath our standards of human decency – there are some TV shows that go against the grain, break the boundaries and give us quality – but they are so few. Even how the networks create the demarcation lines – A and B for middle and upper class, C and D for lower class? What kind of senseless segregating is that? It’s like saying, depending on what “class” you belong to, you cannot “appreciate” certain kinds of shows. This insults me as it should insult everybody. This is one of the roots of the problem. ALL our TV networks dumb down audiences in one way or the other. They keep the lines segregated. TV, like any other cultural form – and let’s face it, TV has become our common culture in the Philippines – should be used to EDUCATE, EMPOWER, INSPIRE, AWAKEN. But when you see shows like “Willing Willie” – and many other similar shows – they do the opposite. They dumb down audiences. They disempower them by creating a mendicant society with game shows that promise “quick money”. They keep them dependent on hand- outs, instead of creating opportunities for them to build skills. There is nothing inspiring about this.

And now, we can all rant and rave, but unless we do something concrete about our rage – we will just be passive bystanders. Sometimes it does seem insurmountable and overwhelming because the problem is huge. But we can play our part. We can do just ONE thing. That is better than doing nothing at all. Whether that be creating an online petition to deliver to TV5, CRH or DSWD, or whether we boycott the sponsors of the show/s, or write letters to all our newspapers, or make your voices heard with your local congress representatives and let them know this is unacceptable to you. I think we all need to take a good, long, hard look at our local shows – and if we feel they exploit our fellow Filipinos, whether they be children or women – then we MUST boycott the sponsors that enable them. Boycotts are effective. They hit where it has a tangible monetary, economic effect. That is how apartheid South Africa crumbled. That is what is supporting the Palestinians right to self-determination with the BDS campaign now. In the process we need to look at what we ourselves value. If we expect people to treat us with respect, decency, integrity and dignity – we must INSIST and DEMAND that everyone else should be treated in the same way. And as artists, our responsibility is GREATER. We are part of this problem. When we remain silent, we allow this to continue. When we turn a blind eye, our apathy also abuses the vulnerable in our society. When we don’t demand artistic excellence in our fields and settle for mediocre entertainment, we are just as bad as the networks who just do things for profit. As artists, we must REFUSE to play. We must DEMAND more from our industry.

So this is a call to my fellow artists from television, film and theatre. Please let your voices be heard. Don’t sit on the fence because you fear you won’t be given work. It is this fear that networks also rely on to keep their machineries in place – machineries that not only lack some very basic human values, but also aesthetics. We keep saying Filipinos artists are world class – well let’s prove it now. There are international standards we must insist on when it comes to our local entertainment industry – film, theatre, tv, etc – why should we settle for anything less? We are part of the creation of our artistic culture – we must protect it and demand more for it. We must not allow it to be used for the continued exploitation of our fellow Filipinos.

Art and culture have value in our society.

They awaken minds

They nurture thought

They inspire courage

They open up compassion

They give us possibilities

They excavate the texture of humanity

They teach us humility and love

They open paths

They give us freedom to explore

They teach us how to listen

They keep us connected

They allow us to take in

They teach us to be involved

to defy

to demand

to be full

to live

to stay awake

to be present…..in the moment.

But most of all

They demand that we SERVE.

So please don’t waste these possibilities with your silence.

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