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| The show that showcases OFW designers from the Cordilleras could be reset to next Sunday |
Tyhoon Signal No 8 which remained hoisted over Hong Kong on Sunday morning hours after Severe Tropical Cyclone Noul skirted the territory and made a landfall in the mainland, forced the cancellation or rescheduling of a number of events organized by and for Filipino migrant workers here.
Among these was
the Inabel fashion show, “Mabika” (Mountain Province, Abra, Benguet, Ifugao, Kalinga
and Apayao) which would have showcased the designs of seven overseas Filipino
workers from the region.
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| PINDUTIN ITO PARA SA DETALYE |
The Inabel show
was set to be held from 1-4pm at the OFW Global Centre at United Centre in
Admiralty.
One of the designers,
Cristina Cayat of Gan-ay ya Abel in Benguet, said that even if the Philippine
Consulate and its attached agencies reopened at 2pm, delaying the show was still
not possible as the models would have to come from Macau, when transportation
services to and from Hong Kong were still severely disrupted.
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| Basahin ang detalye! |
Cayat said the plan
was to re-schedule the show to next Sunday, Aug. 2, although arrangements for
this have yet to be finalised.
Another Consulate-led
activity, the UP Vinta (University of the Philippines Ventures for International
and Transformative Academia) program, which was scheduled to be held from 9am
to 10pm also at the OFW Centre, was also scrapped. No plans have yet been made
to reschedule the event.
The program was
meant to brief overseas Filipino workers on how UP Vinta has made higher education
more accessible to them through open and distance e-learning and flexible
learning.
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| This event was meant to explain to OFWs how they could pursue distance learning at UP |
A planned evening get-together
between the UPAA HK (University of the Philippines Alumni Association) and the
UP Vinta delegation led by UPOU Chancellor Joane Serrano was also cancelled.
One Filcom event
that did push through, though at a much later time, was the final staging of
the Filipino-led musical, “Job”, organized by Bootstrap Theatre and directed by
its founder William Elvin Manzano.
The show had been
running from Friday to Sunday for the entire month of July, and this Sunday was
its curtain call, at least for its current venue at The Hive in Kennedy Town.
The final show, which
was originally set at 2:30pm was moved to 4:30pm, to ensure both cast and crew
and the audience had enough time to get to the venue.
Lucky for the
Filipino faithful, masses at several churches also resumed in the afternoon,
primarily for St. Joseph’s Catholic Church on Garden Road in Central, where most
services are dominated by Filipinos.
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| A minor fire closed down St Jude's church for 2 weeks |
Among those who
thronged the church were parishioners, altar services, readers and the choir of
St. Jude’s in North Point which unfortunately had to close for two weeks due to
a fire that occurred in its storeroom on Saturday afternoon.
One of the reasons
the church mainstays took pains to go to St Joseph’s which is quite a distance
away, was to offer thanks because the fire at St Jude’s did not cause too much
damage, and was almost put out by the time the firemen arrived.
