Balagtasan Part 3

6/25/2017

Mga Kapatid,

Maraming salamat po sa pagtingkilik ninyong lahat sa “Harana, Kundiman, Balagtasan, Tula at Sayawan – Ikatlong Yugto”. Marami pong mga panauhin ang nagalak at natuwa sa kanilang mga natutunan, at sila rin ay nasiyahan sa mga bilang ng tula, balagtasan, kantahan at sayawan.

Nagpapasalamat po kami ng lubos sa ating mga kapita-pitagang mga miyembro na nagbigay ng kanilang oras as angking talento sa palatuntunan - Charen Divina Cusi, Tony Aytona, Melvin Magno, Arthur Fabian, Irene Querubin, Cee Belg, UPAABC Choir sa pamumuno ni Teacher Ruby M. Cortes, Athena Adan, at ang ating mga guro ng palatuntunan na sina Thess Reyes Zamora at Paula Aurora Nuarin. Taos-puso rin kaming nagpapasalamat kay Luis Molina Pedroso at ang kanyang maybahay na si Reah, sa tulong na iniabot din nila, pati na rin kay Leonore Lim.

Lugod kaming nagpapsalamat din sa ating miyembro na si Sony Obregon, na kabilang sa Kwantlen Polytechnic University Languages and Culture Department, na siyang nagbigay-daan sa pakikipag-ugnayan ng ating samahan sa KPU. Salamat din sa ating miyembro na si Consul Cham Guevara, at ang kanyang mga tauhan sa Philippine Consulate General sa kanilang paglathala ng mga yamang kultural ng Pilipinas.

Sabay na rin ang pasasalamat namin sa mga panauhing nagbigay din ng kanilang oras upang mapalaganap natin ang ating kultura at salita - si Rosielle Facun, G. Leni at Gng. Lettie Arboleda, Mayo Landicho, Alex Anayas, Gng Anita Aguirre-Nieveras at ang New Life Dancers ni Aida Canonigo at Irene Nazaire Aquino.
At sa ating mga tagapang-tangkilik, ang Cabalen Sweets, Quik Bite Restaurant at ang Ria Padala ni Gigi Astudillo, pati na rin ang UFCABC sa pamumuno ni G. Joel Castillo.
Sa pamamagitan ng ating palatuntunan ay nagkaroon lalo ng malawak na kaalaman ang mga taga-Vancouver tungkol sa yamang kultural ng ating bansa. Nawa'y maging magandang hakbang ito sa pagkakaisa at pagpapahalaga sa ating mga Pilipino dito sa ating lupang napiling lipatan.
Maraming maraming salamat po, at magkita po tayong muli sa susunod na taon.

Dios mabalos!

UPAABC Execom 2017-2019

The University of the Philippines Alumni Association in BC, in cooperation with The Philippine Consulate General in Vancouver, and the Languages Department of Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) presents - The Philippine Languages in Song, Serenade, Debate, Poetry and Dance – Third Chapter (“Harana, Kundiman, Balagtasan, Tula at Sayawan – Ikatlong Yugto”). The event will be held at the Melville Centre of KPU Richmond Campus on June 24, Saturday, from 2-4 PM.

This event is a first for UPAABC and KPU, and this a cultural exchange that will allow the Filipino culture and languages to be made known to Filipinos and other cultures that make up the multicultural fabric that is Canada. This is a chance to display and feature our own diverse culture to the people of Vancouver through this exchange, and do it through music, song, art and food.

Rediscover your roots with poetry, songs and dances in the different dialects, and enjoy an actual Balagtasan unfold before your very eyes!

Come join us and let's show Vancouver the rich diversity of the place we call HOME!

God bless you!

HONOUR & EXCELLENCE!
UPAABC Execom

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President's Message

Dear UPAABC Comrades,

It is 4AM, and it has taken me forever even to just give a quick notch at my keyboard to type this. I have to be stupendously honest that I have been having anxiety to even start writing. The last time I’ve been into this very same mood and situation was when I delivered a speech in front of a graduating class that asked me to become their Guest Speaker. And, yes, I have gone through the same struggle. I was only able to make out a good write up that I thought – actually -- made sense two hours before I was made to join the class upstage. Having narrated all these, I don’t think I’d be able to make the kind of sense that will satisfy your true-blue, forever-hungry-of-new-knowledge, green-and-maroon minds and souls.

But… Here it goes! On behalf of the Board, I will try and do my utmost best to deliver in the same way I have come to realize just how humble and open-minded you all were to give me this chance to serve our Isko floor with the highest post and honour– given, at first, my “reluctant” leadership behaviour—for 2023 and 2024.

To an Iskolar ng Bayan, to serve is always pleasurable. There is this indescribable tinge of mixed anticipation and excitement that comes with a bit of anxiety and gratefulness whenever the trumpet of service and calling sounds its horns. Yes, the trumpet always howls from up the mountain to make sure that everyone down in the valley hears the loudness of the message. And, sure, the whole UPAABC township never fails to grasp and decode the Morse code of “pagtatanghal” ng mga “humayong” hinubog na anak ng bayan galing sa pambansang pamantasan ng Pilipinas, ang Unibersidad ng Pilipinas.

It is of an august honour to serve as President of the University of the Philippines Alumni Association in British Columbia for years 2023 and 2024. The new Board is here not to shake and rattle. We are here to keep up because you guys have already been shaking and rattling and swinging the UPAABC wagon amid the constantly changing winds of time. We are here to uphold and respect legacies and footprints that are meant to stay, as we all are also here to work with you the necessary transformations that our organization will need to continue thriving in the next long years, as it already did for almost five golden decades now.
Allow the new Board and I to polish the specifics of our Strat Plan and Proposed Calendar of activities for 2023. Your suggestions have been heard, and we want to make sure that one and all is happy to participate in each of the mapped activities. We will retain traditions that define the UPAABC family; we will introduce exciting youngblood programs that will make this family and comradeship even more impactful.

Allow me to express the deepest, warmest accolade and respect to our President Emerita, Anita “Cookie” Aytona, and the past board for their invaluable contributions, projects, and unconditional support to the newly-boarded officers. Without you all being our mentors, who would we be today and tomorrow? Many thanks for the untiring calibrations! Without all these timely tools, how do we carry on from today until the boat is ready to sail on its own? There are no words to properly express our gratitude.

On behalf of the 2023 and 2024 Board of Directors, maligaya at malikhaing Bagong Taon! Thank you, unreservedly, in advance, for your soaring and cradling support!

Gracias,

Maribel “Bella” Balisi Bevilacqua
President, University of the Philippines Alumni Association in BC
A.D. 2023 & 2024

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