Consulate General of the Philippines Frankfurt

Happy ASEAN Day!

Happy ASEAN Day!

The ASEAN Committee on Culture and Information (COCI) presents Break the Chain The Arts Respond to COVID-19. An Awareness Campaign, to celebrate the ASEAN Month and the 2020 Year of ASEAN Identity. The project is a compilation of video performances of traditional, folk, and classical dances from the ASEAN Member States which were specially choreographed to promote health and safety protocols like hand washing, wearing of face masks, and physical distancing.

ASEAN was formally established on 08 August 1967. The ASEAN COCI was set up in October 1978 to promote effective cooperation in the fields of culture and information for the purpose of enhancing mutual understanding and solidarity among the peoples of ASEAN as well as in furthering regional development. The national ASEAN-COCI of the Philippines is headed by the Department of Foreign Affairs, with the Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) and the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) as focal agencies for culture, while the Presidential Communications Office (PCOO), Philippine Information Agency (PIA), and People’s Television {PTV) serve as focal agencies for the information sector.

ECONOMIC DIPLOMACY WEBINAR ON FINANCIAL LITERACY, 29 AUGUST 2020

Thinking of starting your own business in the Philippines? Switzerland-based Arnel Talisayon will share his knowledge, during the Consulate’s Economic Diplomacy webinar on Financial Literacy, on the practical things that startups in the Philippines should expect. He will discuss the challenges and opportunities often encountered by overseas Filipinos and their families when engaging in a business. He will also explore other important aspects of financial education, such as retirement and social security, and attempt to answer the question: is establishing a business the ultimate goal of financial education?

Mr. Talisayon joined the Department of Foreign Affairs in 2003 and is currently assigned at the Philippine Mission in Geneva, where he handles intellectual property issues. He began teaching financial education to overseas Filipinos in 2009 while stationed at the Philippine Embassy in South Korea.

He graduated from the UP College of Business Administration in 2001, where he ranked third in his batch. He also studied Business and Economics, as a fulltime exchange student at the Meiji Gakuin University in Japan from 1998 to 1999 and was a student fellow in Communication Studies at the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore in 2001.

Join us this Saturday, August 29, at 10:30 a.m. when the Philippine Consulate General in Frankfurt streams live, here in its Facebook page, its Economic Diplomacy webinar on Financial Literacy! See you then!

[Photo courtesy of the Bureau of Immigration of the Philippines]

DFA Holds Special Free Screening of Tanghalang Pilipino’s Zarzuela “Walang Sugat”

DFA Holds Special Free Screening of Tanghalang Pilipino’s Zarzuela “Walang Sugat”: https://bit.ly/32rVNLJ

To cap the virtual celebrations of “Buwan ng Pambansang Wika” (National Language Month) and “Buwan ng Kasaysayan” (History Month) held by the Department of Foreign Affairs this August, a special free screening of the classic zarzuela, “Walang Sugat (Unwounded),” will be held from 29 to 31 August 2020 through the DFA Official Website (https://tinyurl.com/DFAZarzuela).

An initiative of the DFA Office Strategic Communications and Research – Cultural Diplomacy Division, the special screening is in cooperation with the Cultural Center of the Philippines and Tanghalang Pilipino.

The Tagalog-language zarzuela “Walang Sugat,” which was written in 1898 by Severino Reyes, the Father of Tagalog Plays and Zarzuela and more popularly known for his pen name “Lola Basyang,” was first staged in 1902 at Teatro Libertad. For this special screening, the DFA will feature the Tanghalang Pilipino production which was mounted for its 26th Season in 2012.

In this production of the timeless classic zarzuela, the story of forbidden love amid the 1896 Philippine Revolutionary movement against the Spaniards was beautifully portrayed by soprano Cris Villonco who played the character of “Julia,” and the tenor Noel Rayos who played the role of “Temyong.”

Direction was done by Carlos Siguon-Reyna and for this production, Dr. Nicanor Tiongson, Fulgencio Tolentino, and Mike Velarde added some lines to the 1898 original work of the playwright. Nonoy Froilan took charge of choreography while Chino Toledo was in charge of the musical direction.

Zarzuela is a Spanish tradition that started in Spain in the 17th century which showed the cultures of Spain through music and dance. When it was introduced in the Philippines in the 19th Century by Spanish director Alejandro Cubero, the zarzuela transformed to narrate the contemporary socio-cultural-economic and political issues through songs, dances, and lyric poetry masked in romance.

Apart from this screening, the Tanghalang Pilipino will also be holding, “Handa Awit,” a special performance of songs from their previous musicals such as “Walang Sugat” and “Noli Me Tangere The Musical” on their YouTube Channel on 31 August 2020 at 6:00 p.m.

Economic Diplomacy Webinar on Financial Literacy, 29 August 2020

The Consulate is elated to have an accomplished finance executive among its speakers during its Economic Diplomacy webinar on Financial Literacy this Saturday, August 29!

Mr. Rafael D. Consing Jr. is the Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI), one of the top port operators in the world. He has extensive experience in investment banking and global markets, corporate treasury and finance, investor relations, global corporate insurance and risk management.

Mr. Consing has assumed various roles in several leading financial institutions, including HSBC, Deutsche Bank, Bankers Trust and ING Barings. He served as Vice President and Treasurer of Aboitiz & Company, before joining ICTSI.

He is a recipient of several awards, including being recognized by the Corporate Governance Asia as Asia’s Best CFO for Investor Relations, inclusion in Institutional Investor’s All-Asia Executive Team, Best CFO in the Philippines by Alpha Southeast Asia, CFO of the Year by CFO Innovation, and Treasurer of the Year-Philippines by The Asset.

Join us this Saturday, August 29, at 10:30 a.m. when Mr. Consing will talk about possible investment outlets for your excess funds during the Consulate’s Economic Diplomacy webinar on Financial Literacy. The event will be streamed live right here at the Facebook page of the Philippine Consulate General in Frankfurt.
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Happy ASEAN Day! The Association of Southeast Asian Nations was formally established on 08 August 1967
The focal agencies for culture of the ASEAN-COCI (Committee on Culture and Information), of which the National Commission for Culture and the Arts and Cultural Center of the Philippines are part, teamed up to present this project to celebrate the ASEAN Month and 2020 Year of ASEAN Identity, “Break the Chain: The Arts Respond to COVID-19, An Awareness Campaign”. It is a compilation of video performances of traditional, folk, and classical dances from the ASEAN Member States which were especially choreographed to promote the practice of health and safety protocols like hand washing, wearing of face masks, and social distancing
This campaign was conceived to serve as a cultural component for the Philippines ASEAN-COCI’s ASEAN Month offering, Sama-Sama ASEAN: We Are One (Webinar Series on ASEAN Awareness and Identity) to raise awareness about the ASEAN community-building efforts, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. The webinar series streams every Thursday of August via the official Facebook accounts of DFA, PCOO, PIA, PTV, NCCA, and CCP.

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Maritime and Archipelagic Nation Awareness Month (MANA Mo)

Maritime And Archipelagic Nation Awareness Month (MANA Mo)
PANOORIN: Idineklara ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte ang buwan ng Setyembre bilang “Maritime and Archipelagic Nation Awareness Month” o MANA Mo. Layon ng selebrasyong ito na palawakin ang kamalayan ng publiko hinggil sa maritime and archipelagic features ng Pilipinas bilang isang maritime domain. Panoorin ito para sa karagdagang detalye.

 

PH GOVERNMENT LAUNCHES PUBLIC PORTAL ON HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE

PASAY CITY 24 August 2020 –  Pursuant to President Rodrigo R. Duterte’s directive to ensure transparency and accountability in managing and allocating resources to the intended beneficiaries, especially in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), and Office of Civil Defense (OCD) launched today the Philippine Humanitarian Assistance Registry (PHAR) website.

PHAR is the primary government website for information, inquiries, and procedures on all local and foreign humanitarian assistance to the Philippine Government, including in-kind and financial donations, and deployment of humanitarian workers for COVID-19 as well as other future pandemics and civil and natural disasters.

Information on the distribution and utilization of humanitarian assistance to the intended beneficiaries may be viewed on the website.

The PHAR initiative was presented by the DFA to the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) during its meeting on 17 August 2020.

This inter-agency effort was made under the ambit of the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council of the Philippines(NDRRMC), as the Philippine Government’s primary mechanism on disaster preparedness, relief operations and rehabilitation efforts.

The public is invited to read up on the infographics through the link below and visit the PHAR website at www.phar.gov.ph. END

The Philippines’ art sector has been hit hard by this pandemic. For the Filipino artists, the response to this virus was the genesis of a ‘new art reality’—the so called ‘pandemic art.’ But there will be challenges for them long after the rest of us return to work. Now, more stronger than ever, it is important to recognize and protect the work of our artists.
The Philippine Consulate General in Frankfurt, in partnership with Transwing Art Gallery, invites you to an opportunity to listen to the voices of the Filipino artists as they ‘envision healing and inspiration from abroad’ in their art. Join us and offer support for the Filipino artists in times of pandemic.

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