Cartooning for Peace in Manila

The four-day event in Manila started with a dinner with Secretary Teresita “Ging” Quintos-Deles (Presidential Advisor to the Peace Process) who familiarized the cartoonists with the political situation and the peace process in the Philippines. The following day, the cartoonist worked together with leading newspaper companies such as Manila Bulletin, Manila Times, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Philippine Star, and Tempo, which published their cartoons in their respective editorial sections. A series of conferences, master classes, interviews, and cartooning workshops in universities such as the De La Salle University, University of the Philippines and the University of Santo Tomas also took place.

Project organizer EUNIC (European Union National Institutes for Culture) is composed of Alliance Française de Manille and Goethe-Institut Philippines, along with the Delegation of the European Union, and the Embassies of Denmark, France and Switzerland in the Philippines.

Above text and pictures are courtesy of the Embassy of Switzerland, Manila

The Swiss Embassy in Manila hosts and sponsors different cultural events all year over. The Swiss Embassy’s Counselor and Deputy Head of Mission Raoul Imbach uses more than just the functions of his office to build diplomatic ties around the world; he also turns to the power of music to strengthen them. Interested as ever in the musical scene in his country of posting, Imbach has met many Filipino artists in the past two years, and in fact has composed four Filipino songs already. These are titled “Binibini,” “Hello, Eto Ako,” “Too Young;” and “In a Dream Last Night.”

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