NEWS
A take on Philippines’
President Filipino paintings go
to Blacktown libraries
A BOOK, Duterte Harry
- Fire and Fury in the
Philippines, by television
correspondent Jonathan
Miller will be launched at
the Australian National
University campus in
Acton ACT on Thursday,
May 31, 2018. THREE paintings by Filipino
artist Dennis Gonzales
were officially turned over
to Blacktown City Council
at a brief ceremony on
Saturday, April 28, 2018.
The ANU-Canberra Times meet-the-
author event will be held in association with
ANU Philippines Project.
Mr Miller is a correspondent for Channel
4 News based in Bangkok, Thailand.
The book has been described as a
“revelatory biography” on Philippine
President Rodrigo Duterte’s rise to
power, and how he can be seen as “the
embodiment of populism in our time”.
A vote of thanks will be delivered at
the event by Dr Imelda Deinla, a Fellow
in the School of Regulation and Global
Governance (RegNet) and director of the
ANU Philippines Project, College of Asia and
the Pacific, ANU.
Pre-event book signing will take place
www.kalatas.com.au
BOOK COVER of Duterte Harry – Fire and Fury in the
Philippines.
5.30pm and again after the event.
The event will be held in association with
Dymocks Canberra.
Duterte Harry will be available for
purchase. n
The artworks Sa Kabukiran (In the Fields),
Laro (Play) and Kultura (Culture) highlight
various aspects of Filipino culture.
All three originals painted in acrylic on
canvass and measuring 4ft in height by 6ft in
length are now on public display on level 1 of
Blacktown’s Max Webber Library.
Officials in attendance to receive the
paintings and were part of the official
ceremony were Blacktown City Mayor
and State MP Steven Bali, Acting Head
of Post Consul Melanie Diano of the
Philippine Consulate in Sydney, Blacktown
City Councillors Carol Israel and Kathie
Collins, members of the Filipino-Australian
community.
Mr Gonzales’ mother, Sydney-based artist
Daisy Gonzales Cumming, spearheaded the
project with support from Filipino-community
organisations such as the NARRA Co-op Ltd
IN PICTURE, from left, Blacktown City Mayor Steven
Bali, Daisy Gonzales Cumming, Councillors Kathie
Collins and Carol Israel, Consul Melanie Diano, with
the painting Sa Kabukiran in the background.
and Plaza Filipino Inc, A & E Escandor, and
Invocare.
Mrs Cumming has donated paintings
which are on display at the Bulwagang Rizal of
the Philippine Consulate General in Sydney,
the National Historical Commission of the
Philippines and at the Philippine National
Commission for Culture and the Arts. n
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